To James Madison from John Armstrong, 1 November 1813
From John Armstrong
War Department, November 1. 1813.
Sir,
I have the honor to inform you that the existing appropriations applicable to the Quarter master’s Department, to Subsistence and to Arsenals, Magazines & Armories, are nearly exhausted, and to request that you will be pleased to direct the sum of two hundred & eighty thousand dollars appropriated for the purchas of Horses ⅌ act of 21. Feby 1812 to be transferred to the Quarter master’s Department—the sum of one hundred thousand dollars for the Ordnance Department, to Arsenals, Magazines & Armories; and four hundred thousand dollars from the Pay of the Army, to Subsistence. I have &ca.
Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 107, LSP). In the left margin is a copy of JM’s 1 Nov. 1813 note to William Jones, acting secretary of the Treasury, directing that the transfers be made: “In pursuance of an act of the 3 of March 1809, entitled ‘an act further to amend the several Acts, for the establishment of the Treasury, War and Navy Departments.’”