To Thomas Jefferson from the Navy Department, 13 December 1804
From the Navy Department
[13 Dec. 1804]
Annual expence of keeping a gun boat in a state of readiness to
receive her crew.
1 | lieutenant commanding | 892 |
1 | gunner | 386 |
1 | midshipman | 301 |
2 | able seamen | 288 |
provisions | 160 | |
Contingencies | 120 | |
$2147 |
RC (DLC: TJ Papers, 145:25271); undated; in a clerk’s hand; endorsed as a letter from the Navy Department of 13 Dec. and “gunboats.”