James Madison Papers

Transfer of Naval Appropriations, 1 June 1814 (Abstract)

Transfer of Naval Appropriations, 1 June 1814 (Abstract)

§ Transfer of Naval Appropriations. 1 June 1814. “In pursuance of the authority vested in the President of the United States, by the Act of Congress, approved on the 18th. day of April, 1814, entitled ‘An Act making additional Appropriations for the year one thousand eight hundred and fourteen,’1 I do hereby direct that, out of the balance of the appropriation for building Seventy fours and Frigates, remaining unexpended at the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and thirteen, there be applied the sum of six hundred and twenty five thousand dollars to defray the expenses which have been or may be incurred in Building and equipping Vessels of War on Lakes Ontario & Champlain.”

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, Letters Sent to the Treasury Department); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, LSP). First letterbook copy 1 p.

1U.S. Statutes at Large, description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends 3:139.

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