Notifies Kalteisen that his "receipt roll" has been examined and his accounted credited and that Daniel Stevens will provide him the money for the pay of his soldiers in accordance with his pay rolls
Simmons certifies that $45.20 is due Lieutenant Robert Lee, being the balance of his account for pay and subsistence through April 1796, payable to Robert Gray.
Simmons certifies that $465.02 is due Captain Michael Kalteisen, Ensign Robert Torram, and the men under Captain Kalteisen's command, being their pay for March and April 1796.
Notifies Stevens that he will receive money from the Treasurer that he is to pay to Captain Michael Kalteisen for the pay of his men at Fort Johnson, S.C.
Although he questions the merits of the complaints by the French Directory regarding John Parish as Consul at Hamburgh, Hamilton recommends that Parish be superseded with a kind letter to him. It is not worth antagonizing the French government over such a trivial matter.
Sends Wayne a copy of the Attorney General's decision on Wayne's (financial) claim for acting as Indian treaty commissioner and requests his account for the claim.
Naval Constructor Cheeseman is to provide a statement of live oak frigate timbers moulded and dressed in the navy yard at New York. Distinguish by name and mark with "x" those bolted on the frames.
Naval Constructor Stodder is to provide a list of live oak timbers required to complete frame of frigate at Baltimore in order to take measures to provide such from navy yards at New York and Norfolk. Pickering expresses wish to complete frigate construction by end of year. Therefore, prosecute with dispatch.
McHenry informs Governor-General Lord Dorchester in Canada that, according to the second article in the Treaty of Amity, U.S. detachments are being sent to the posts at Oswego and Niagara and the current occupants have orders for evacuation. McHenry stresses that he desires friendly relations with Britain.
Discussed intelligence on people seeking to coerce residents of Western counties to secede from the Union to form a separate foreign power. Gives physical descriptions of each man believed to be involved in seditious activities, advised capture and imprisonment.
Capt. Lewis is asked by James McHenry and George Washington to deliver a letter to Governor-General Lord Dorchester in Canada. Lewis is to inform Lord Dorchester that detachments of U.S. troops are in motion to take possession of the posts at Oswego and Niagara and that they have orders to evacuate, based on the terms of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce (Jay Treaty). Lewis is to immediately return to Philadelphia after delivering the order, and as part of a detachment from West Point, will proceed to march to Oswego and Niagara.
