McHenry authorizes the allowance of all reasonable expenses incurred by Joseph Williams, paymaster of the armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, or on journeys relative to the business of the armory.
Forwards a letter from the President including a petition for the pardon of John Sylvester. Prepared a report concerning the merits of the case. Requests signatures to return to the President.
Reports returns communicated to Secretary of War. Reports delivery of suits last fall to Decius Wadsworth for recruiting, but they may still be in store. No artillery coats on hand. Lists cost for soldiers' cockade and pewter eagles.
Refers to letter from Capt. Irish. Reports that Col. Stevens is not allowed to retire and that negotiations are being made for his salary. Refers to bill for Capt. Lyman and 2 or 3 recent deaths, causing some alarm, although it probably wasn't yellow fever.
Negotiation of compensation, Lyman's returns enclosed in last letter. Alarm related to three Indian deaths has subsided, yellow fever not linked to death.
Certification of payment; $1387.26 to Elisha Hall as late Secretary to the commissioners appointed to hold a treaty in the year 1798 with the Cherokee Nation of Indians.
Certification of payment; $10.60 for retained rations to Ensign Robert Thomas, in Captain Jonathan Carsons Company, 1st Regiment Philadelphia Militia, commanded by Colonel Francis Gurney, ordered out to suppress an insurrection in the Western Counties of Pennsylvania 1794.
Swan's letter with enclosures has arrived. They Pay Master General has not yet arrived in Philadelphia, and so Swan's accounts will be suspended until he has a chance to examine them.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers
