Doctor Joseph Strong, the Principal Surgeon and Superintendent of the Hospital Department during the Expedition to Southhampton, should be entitled to compensation in addition to his pay as a Surgeon. McHenry is asked what the added amount should be so that the Paymaster can act accordingly.
Quotes from a "letter from Colonel Hall of the 10th instant" and states: "...In the commencement of similar operations, a good zeal will occasion some wondering which must be sanctioned as to the past and checked as to the future. I recommend that provisions be made for reimbursement."
Hamilton reviews the legal procedures for rendering the death sentence in a General Court-Martial. He refers specifically to the case of Sergeant Richard Hunt who had been sentenced to death by a Court-Martial on April 16, 1799.
Routine correspondence concerning the appointment, transfer, promotion, discharge, desertion, leave, and assignment of individual officers and soldiers and concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline.
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 and concerning courts-martial and infractions of military discipline.
Received abstract of articles purchased by Ebenezer Stevens for the War Department in New York. Refers to artillery coats for Lemuel Gates from contractor Edmund Winchester.
Certification of payment; $79.61 to detachment 1st Regiment of Infantry at West Point under direction of George Fleming, Ordnance and Military Storekeeper.
Certification of payment; $698.26 to detachment 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Jay, New York under command of Captain Walter L. Cochran.
Certification of payment; $698.26 pay to detachment 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers stationed at Fort Jay under command of Captain Walter L. Cochran.
Certification of payment; $83.45 to Captain Theodore Meminger, 2d Regiment Artillerists and Engineers, for subsistence and expenses pursuing deserters.
Connecticut is preparing to cede land to the U.S. for the construction of two forts, Trumbull & Griswold. McHenry transmits the findings of a survey of the land in question, by Captain Decius Wadsworth. The report gives a precise qualitative description of the boundaries of each site; McHenry asks that the land cession now be put in motion.
