Re Estimate for the service of the year, 20 November 1806
Dept. of State Novr. 20, 1806
Estimate for the service of the year 1807.
| Foreign Intercourse. | ||||
| Salaries of three Ministers, viz. to London, | ||||
| Paris & Madrid @ $9,000 is | $27,000 | } | ||
| D⟨o⟩: for their 3 Secretaries @ 1,350 | 4,050 | |||
| Contingent expenses of those Missions | 2,000 | |||
| Contingencies of Foreign Intercourse | 20,000 | |||
| $53,000 | ||||
| Barbary Intercourse. | ||||
| Salary of the Consul at Algiers | $4,000 | |||
| Do. of the Consul at Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli @ $2,000 | } | 6,000 | } | |
| Their Contingent expenses | 4,000 | 14,000 | ||
| For the difference between the cost of the articles in which the annuity to Algiers is payable and the difference between the permanent appropriation & annual charge of | 36,000 | } | ||
| Contingent expense of Barbary Intercourse | 50,000 | 86,000 | ||
| Seamen. | ||||
| For the relief of distressed seamen | 5,000 | |||
| Captures. | ||||
| Salaries of Agents at London, Paris & Madrid for superintending claims on account of captures @ $2000 | } | 6,000 | ||
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Salaries in the Department of State. |
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| of the Secretary of State | 5,000 | } | ||
| Of his Clerks agreeably to the Act of 21 April 1806 | 7,150 | |||
| Of his Messenger | 410 | 12,560 | ||
| $176,560 | ||||
| Contingencies of the Department of State. | ||||
| For printing and distributing 10,000 copies of the laws of the 2nd. Session of the 9 Congress | } | 4,250 | } | |
| For printing the Laws in Newspapers | 4,000 | |||
| Fuel and Candles | 200 | |||
| Newspapers for the office & Public Agents abroad | 150 | |||
| Mediterranean Passports | 1,350 | |||
| Blank, Personal passports, patents, circulars &c | 1,000 | |||
| Purchasing Books | 400 | |||
| Stationery | 600 | |||
| Messilanies | 500 | |||
| Special Messengers charged with dispatches | 2,000 | |||
| $14,450 | ||||
| * Amot. Brot. from the other side | 176,560 | |||
| Dollars 191,010 | ||||
James Madison.
DNA: RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.