Certification that $1837.69 is due Major Constant Freeman of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers, being his pay, subsistence, and forage from May 11, 1795, the date of his acceptance, through April 1797.
Certification that $584.55 is due Joseph Cranch, being the amount of his account for repairing and cleaning arms and finding materials for the same at West Point, New York, through April 1797.
Certification that $15.68 is due the estate of David Clifford, late a soldier in Captain Nichols' Company of Artillerists and Engineers, being the balance due him per Abstract D. No. 450 for October 1796 and the balance of bounty due him at the time of his death on December 13, 1796.
Discusses the likely need to hold a session of Congress to pass resolutions relating to the defense of trade and the coast against French depredations.
Enclosed is a warrant with muster and pay rolls and a receipt for $3,815.46 being the pay and forage for the Fourth Regiment for November and December 1796.
The Treasurer has provided the sum of $225 to be paid to Augustus DeGrasse, Engineer at Charleston, being his compensation through March 1797 and enclosed is his receipt.
Admits treatment of Pinckney was insulting, but further negotiations with France were possible without harming the Nations image due to the European nation's long history of humiliating policy.
Trade policy with England should be used as outline for treaty with France.
War Office forwards draught of inboard work of Algerine frigate; rooms are fully laid off. Give master joiner necessary information relative to stations. Draught of officer's berths forthcoming. Mr Francis has sent vessel laden with rigging and stores to Portsmouth New Hampshire.
Having made a request for a statement of all materials and stores purchased on account of the frigate building at Boston, Secretary of War McHenry reprimands naval agent Henry Jackson for non compliance. He notes that when public servants neglect to carry out their orders, every part of the business suffers. Closes by stating he wishes to enforce a speedy compliance to every clause of instructions given.
The Quartermaster General has appointed Hodgdon his agent in Philadelphia. Enclosed is a list of the articles wanted for the sloop "Detroit" that should be forwarded to Detroit as soon as possible.
Document, discusses whether or not the United States should send another minister to France, after the ill treatment Mr. Pinckney received from the Directorate.
A letter from the chiefs and warriors of the Cherokees to the President of the United States (written down by three interpreters). Four Nations seek protection from Z. Cox and his followers from settling on the land given to the Indians.
