Certification that $542.70 is due a detachment of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers at Mud Island Fort under the command of Major Lewis Tousard, being for the pay and forage of the commissioned officers, and the pay of the non-commissioned officers and Privates, for July 1798.
In cases where services performed by an officer are extra, expenses are to be allowed according to what has been allowed other officers under similar circumstances.
A. Hamilton provided glowing recommendation for distant cousin Robert Hamilton. Due to his status as "foreigner", A. Hamilton requested an appointment to Lieut. in U.S. Navy in lieu of Captain.
Writing from New York to William Simmon, Wilson enclosed a letter for his brother who has arrived with his family at Fort Mifflin and is to perform a quarantine. His situation cannot be a pleasant one, so Simmons is asked to render him any service in his power.
Enclosed is Lt. Fergus's receipts for $200 paid him for the recruiting service. McRea has received no pay since he left Philadelphia, having received an advance through January 1798. He would like to have transmitted the pay due him.
Enclosed are the statements of the pay and subsistence due Dayton for the months of June and July 1798 together with the contractor's certificate regarding rations drawn from him during that time.
Alexander Hamilton recommends his first cousin, Robert Hamilton, as a Navy Lieutenant, with experience at sea in the West Indies since the age of 14. Alexander Hamilton considers the appointment "a peripheral favour to myself."
Among other matters, Hodgdon instructs Ames to sell all useless gun barrels, ramrods, and bayonets, but if there is any possibility of public use they should be retained. Money earned from the sale of such items should be credited to the public.
Certification that $19.35 is due David Royal, late a private in Captain Thomas Pasteur's Company 1st Regiment of Infantry, being his pay from 1 November 1797 to 26 March 1798, the date his enlistment expired.
Certification that $73.55 is due a detachment of recruits at New Brunswick New Jersey under the command of Ensign William R. Boote, being his and their pay for July 1798.
Certification that $55.20 is due David Hale, late a lieutenant in the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being for his pay and subsistence from 1 May to 9 June 1798, the day of his resignation, and the premium due him for enlisting two recruits.
Certification that $81.18 is due Lt. Samuel C. Vance of the 3rd US Regiment, being his pay for July 1798, his subsistence at Pittsburgh for June and July, and the bounty for reenlisting one soldier.
Certification that forty dollars is due Capt. Staats Morris of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being the balance of his pay for May through July 1798.
