Enclosed letter from S. Morris and accounts for rent of a room by engineer and for the payment of a matron who attended sick soldiers at Fort McHenry. Addressed Simmons requirement for supporting vouchers and noted that he did not address the bill of the matron. McHenry believed all charges were just and should be paid.
Enclosed are the returns of the Armory and Military Departments for the last quarter of 1799. Williams asks that if they are found right, the deliveries and expenditures should be passed to his credit. If the muskets and bayonets received from private factories and deposited in the public magazines are to be reinspected by the Superintendent of the Armory, directions for doing so should be forwarded.
Refers to the correspondence with contractor Elisha Brown about arms fabrication for the use of the public in Rhode Island and at Attleborough in Massachusetts. The War Department agent at that place should receive from the contractors the arms that should be deposited according to their contracts so long as they are accompnied by the proper certificates signed by Capt. Decius Wadsworth or Joseph Morgan.
Simmons discusses claims for pay made by members of the 1st U.S. Regiment with the Secretary at War. Simmons states that no claims can be verified because the regimental paymaster has no rendered his account.
In reference to the expenditures made on the fortifications at New Port, Simmons submits an exhibit of the prices charged by Archibald Crary for bricks and lime.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
It was decided b/w Wilkinson and Pinckney that troops should be marched to Harper's Ferry. Some discrepancies over which regiments were under Pinckney's command. Requests directions. Discussed pay and rations and allocation for various ranking officers. Enraged certain officers receive disparate quantities.
Certification of payment; $381.78 to John Elliott of Wilmington Delaware for rations and quartermaster stores furnished recruits under Major Jonathan Cass.
