Lt. Shepard of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers asks Simmons again to transmit to him arrearages of pay and subsistence due him since the acceptance of his appointment on March 13 to June 30, 1799.
Cranch wants to know what the gunsmiths of Philadelphia charge for the individual parts of the muskets they repair. If he should be required to repair more arms at West Point, should he charge for each stand of arms of for each article? Respecting swivel bands, should he charge for the band and swivel or for the band only?
Encloses an abstract of articles purchased by Joshua Orne - Agent of Fortifications for Marblehead - for the amount of which he will receive credit on the books of the office.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
Mentions deluge of applications for regimental chaplains and surgeons; asks for McHenry's statement of policy on this. Also asks for a list of the surgeon applicants for Col. Rice's regiment; and for policy on appointing of regimental surgeons vs. hospital surgeons.
Trumbull acknowledges receipt of the findings of the land survey done in preparation for Connecticut's ceding two plots of land to the U.S. for the construction of forts to protect a harbor [New London, Connecticut]; Trumbull encloses the deeds to the plots.
Has examined statement concerning stoppage of men. Under examination with the accountant. Has presented cost for sending military stores to Richmond. The Secretary of War has asked the Quartermaster General to pay the requested amount to Hodgdon immediately. Asks that he forward the vouchers
Certification of payment; $10.10 for retained rations to Lieutenant David McCale, in Captain Benjamin Ashmeads Company, 1st Regiment Philadelphia Militia, commanded by Colonel Francis Gurney, ordered out to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania 1794.
