Morris complains that since he has no place to store clothing, he has not been able to compare it to the invoice until the present time. He finds a difference of 132 shirts--100 private's shirts and 32 sergeant's shirts--more than the invoice shows.
Miller apologizes for irregularities in accounts, submitted them at the request of General Wilkins. Also asks that his separate accounts be examined soon.
Routine correspondence concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline and routine instructions and correspondence concerning Army supplies, quarters, and pay
"...we are in great want of a supply of recruiting money unless some is immediately forwarded we shall be obliged to desist from recruiting--as the officers have no money of their own to advance, they nor their recruits have received a farthing of pay since we left Tennessee 1st April and they are laboring under great disadvantge for the want of it."
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Hamilton discusses the requirements for building the huts needed for winter quarters. He specifies the dimensions for huts for privates, non-commissioned officers, captains, regimental staff, subalterns, lieutenant colonels, and majors.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers.
Certification of payment; $46.44 to Private Carrington Smith, detachment of infantry stationed at Niagara New York, for pay and subsistence, some for period traveling from Niagara to place of residence.
Simmons notes the impropriety of LtCol. Smith's authorization of advance rations for officers as well as his excessive reliance on contracted articles (instead of public stores).
Simmons informs Miller of defects in the accounts he submitted. These accounts include disbursements made in the Quartermaster Department for the Northampton expedition (John Fries Rebellion).
As he prepares his estimate of the expenses of the War Department for the ensuing year, Lewis requires the following from Hodgdon: an estimate of Hodgdon's salary as Superintendent of Military Stores; the clerks employed in his office; the amount of stationery, wood, and contingent expenses; the number of laborers and their pay; the amount of rents for stores;
