Acknowledges receipt of a receipt of Captain Cornelius Lyman. Informs Shoemaker that the man who gave him a power of attorney to receive his pay previously sold the pay to someone else.
Encloses several letters for the edification of Capt. Guion on the ongoing diplomatic situation regarding the U.S.-Spanish Florida border region, and enjoins him to keep the peace and care for his command.
Captain Lyman's trunk received, but Lyman did not make any provision to pay for the receipt. Therefore Craig paid for its delivery and now enclosed receipt for reimbursement.
Acknowledges receipt of the muster and pay rolls of Captain Russell Bissell and the accounts of pay of Lieut. Charles Martin and Ensign Nicholas Rosecrantz that will be credited on the books of the War Department accountants office
Acknowledges receipts for bounty paid to recruits. Explains accounting procedures for bounty pay and the reenlistment of "old soldiers" (men who previously served in the Army). Advises Marschalk that he will receive pay authorized him as a deranged Captain from Nicholas Fish, federal supervisor at New York.
Advises Fish that he will receive money from the Treasurer of the U. S. that he is to pay to Lieutenant Andrew Marschalk for his pay and subsistence owed to him as a deranged officer (demoted, apparently in an Army reorganization)
Notification that his account for pay has been approved and that he will receive his pay from Joshua Wentworth, federal supervisor at Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Advises Wentworth that he will receive money from the Treasurer of the U. S. that he is to pay to Edmund H. Quincy, Superintendent of the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Navy Yard for his salary.
Certification that $421.84 is due Andrew Marschalk, late a captain in the Army of the US, being six months pay and subsistence allowed him by the the Act of Congress of March 3, 1797.
Certification that $100 is due Edmund H. Quincy, Superintendent of the Navy Yard at Portsmouth New Hampshire, being his salary from April through June 1797.
