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• Recommending Individuals for Army and Navy Appointments, Etc.

  Routine correspondence recommending individuals for Army and Navy appointments and routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• Cited Letter

  Cited in Rice to Hamilton, 05/27/1800.

• Possession of My Quarters

  Hamilton informs Smith that one of his secretaries, Ethan Brown, will take possession of his quarters at camp and a Subaltern's guard should be at those quarters on Wednesday next.
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  Six Troops of Light Dragoons

  Hamilton indicates he will take steps to immediately comply with the President's orders to reduce twelve regiments, but inquires on any directives relative to the status of the six troops of Light Dragoons.

• [General Orders] Reduction in Force

  These are the General Orders. to be implemented by June 15, regarding the discharge of officers and men who had been appointed or enlisted under the act to augment the Army, not to include Engineers, Inspectors of Artillery, and Inspectors of Fortifications.
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  Extract of Contract with Griffith James McRee and Daniel Wheaton for Rations

  Extract from contract made with Griffith J. McRee and Daniel Wheaton for supplying rations in North Carolina.
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  Request for Decision on Case of Double Rations

  Simmons sent second letter requesting decision on case of double rations issued an officer, Brigadier General Wilkinson.
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  Hodgdon Appointed Byers' Attorney

  Byers of Springfield in the County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts appoints Samuel Hodgdon of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania his true and lawful attorney to act in his behalf respecting such sums of money due him according to a contract with the Secretary of War James McHenry or his successor. Included are rations, provisions, and wood for the armorers employed at Springfield by the United States.

• Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• Administration of Individual Officers and Soldiers

  Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.

• Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• Courts-Martial and Infractions of Military Discipline

  Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline.

• Letter from the Paymaster General of the Army

  In pursuance of the act of May 14th, twelve additional regiments of Infantry and additional cavalry officers will be discharged by June 15. The law entitles them to three months pay. Swan wants to know if he should muster the men to pay them all at once, rather than try to pay them once they have been discharged and gone home. The money could be advanced to Regimental Paymasters, who can identify the men by the muster, make the payment, fill out the rolls and close the business.
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  Payment to William Moffett for Specie for Pay of Troops in Tennessee

  Henley makes payment of $1000 to William Moffett to be appropriated for paying regular troops under Lieutenant Colonel Butler, commanding in Tennessee.
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  Payment George Sears for Expenditures for Fortifications at Baltimore Harbor

  Robert Gilmer, chairman of naval committee, makes payment of $10,000 to George Sears for expenditures on account of fortifications for defense of harbor at Baltimore.
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  Request for Instructions Regarding the Replacement of Provisional Purveyor With Permanent One

  Mentions reading in newspapers that Israel Whelen has been appointed Purveyor of Public Supplies; as Williams has been acting provisionally in this post, but Whelen has not yet received his commission, Williams asks for instructions on how to proceed.
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  Request for Instructions Regarding the Replacement of Provisional Purveyor With Permanent One

  Mentions reading in newspapers that Israel Whelen has been appointed Purveyor of Public Supplies; as Williams has been acting provisionally in this post, but Whelen has not yet received his commission, Williams asks for instructions on how to proceed.

• Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• Letters of Enclosure

  Routine letters of enclosure.

• Army Supplies, Quarters, and Pay

  Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay.

• Preparations for My Arrival

  Hamilton informs Ogden that his baggage is being sent with a servant to Elisabeth Town and Ogden should take measures to send them immediately to camp. The horse that Ogden had offered should be waiting for Hamilton at Powles Hook.