Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmar requests increased salary to compensate for the high expenses at his post. Reminds him that Harmar has no desire to take advantage of public service but seeks only reimbursement.
Captain Frederick Frye has observed that a quantity of soldiers' clothing, some arms, and a box of musket cartridges have been left in Boston. McHenry wants them put on board a vessel bound for Philadelphia and addressed to Samuel Hodgdon.
Simmons certifies that $73 is due a detachment of the First Sub Legion stationed at West Point for the service of the Ordnance Department, being their pay for March 1796.
Simmons certifies that $23.07 is due Joseph Walcutt, late a private in Captain Jonathan Heart's Company 1st Regiment, being his pay from January 1 to June 23, 1791, the day of his discharge.
Simmons certifies that $116.60 is due Captain Thomas Lewis, being his pay and subsistence, and the subsistence of his waiter, for March and April 1796.
Cited in Fleming to Simmons, 05/23/1796.
[Receipt rolls for Ordnance Detachment enclosed. Due to want of monies, Fleming cannot pay members of the public money owed them for pay from January through March.]
"Estimate of expenditures on account of the United States, in aid, and on account of the Armorers employed at Springfield in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in making public arms from the first of April to the first of May 1796."
Edmund Quincy, Clerk at Portsmouth NH Shipyard, transmits returns for month of April 1796, along with James Hackett, constructor, receipt for articles delivered him.
Ames has been deprived of the satisfaction of receiving the money needed to pay the workmen who expected their pay on the first of April. Such delays will decrease the public credit and prevent keeping the hands at work
Acknowledges the receipt of a receipt to be credited to Matthews account on the books of the War Department Accountants Office and the receipt of his account for acting as War Department agent.
Simmons certifies that $1,124 is due Joseph Francis Morgan for his pay as a temporary engineer from August 1, 1795 to May 7, 1796, the day his service expires.
Simmons certifies that $563.58 is due David Jones, Chaplain in the Army of the US, being the balance of his account for pay and forage from June 1795 through March 1796.
Simmons certifies that $212.12 is due John Matthews, Supervisor of Georgia, being the amount of his account for commissions of one percent of monies paid and received from the War Dept. from Sept. 17, 1793 to Oct. 19, 1795.
