Certification of payment; $224.75 Isaac Williams, late an Indian interpreter and Deputy Superintendant in the Northwestern Territory, for furnishing supplies to sundry Indians, express hire, and balance of pay.
Mr. Harris engaged the additional stores from Mr. West and will inform Hodgdon how much he is charging for rent. Miller engaged one from Thomas Allison to store the goods for six months at a rate of $700 per annum.
Major Craig discusses clothing issues with Samuel Hodgdon. Craig also mentions that he is thinking of resigning from the service due to unresolved compensation.
Major Lewis Toussard expounds on the educational needs of the School of Artillerists and Engineers, specifically including instruction on the designing of structures and landscapes. Suggests the same idea for the school of the Navy.
Secretary McHenry acknowledges to General Hamilton that in ordinary cases, when no pressing exigencies require the contrary, the sanction of the Executive may not be necessary for certain operations.
Routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army recruiting and routine instructions and correspondence concerning the organization of individual regiments.
Certification of payment; $15.50 to Private John Sweeten in a troop of Dragoons under command of Captain James Taylor, for sundry articles of clothing.
