Certification of payment; $485.54 to a Company, 1st Regiment Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Jay New York under command of Captain Nehemiah Freeman, for pay and subsistence.
Simmons informs Smith that soldiers disabled during the War for Independence were not authorized by Congress to received land for service. Simmons makes reference to the Act of Congress dated 16 September 1796.
Forwards to Foncin a letter sent to the Baltimore Naval Committee confirming the continued construction of Fort McHenry on the plan Foncin had submitted.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
Acknowledges Hamilton's letter of "the 9th Instant." Lists the amounts of fuel and other supplies "for which a compensation, in money was allowed, to the British troops, in the barracks, and when quartered on the Inhabitants in this city, Schenectady, and the vicinity."