JM Estimate for the service of year, 29 October 1808
Dept. of State, October 29th. 1808.
Estimate for the service of the year 1809.
Foreign Intercourse. | |||
Salaries of three Ministers, vizt: | } | Dollars. | |
To London, Paris, & Madrid @ 9,000 | 27,000 | ||
Ditto of their Secretaries a 1.350. | 4,050. | ||
Contingent expenses of those Missions | 2,000. | ||
Contingencies of Foreign Intercourse | 25,000. | ||
$58,050 | |||
Barbary Intercourse. | |||
Salary for the Consul General At Algiers | 4,000 | ||
Do. Of the Consuls at Morocco, Tunis & Tripoli @ 2,000, each | 6.000 | ||
Their Contingent expenses | 4,000 | ||
14,000 | |||
For the difference between the cost of Articles in which the annuity to Algiers is payable, and the difference between the permanent appropriation & annual charge of | $36,000 | ||
Contingent expenses of Barbary Intercourse | 50.000 | ||
Seamen. | |||
For the relief of distressed Seamen | 5,000 | ||
Captures. | |||
Salaries of Agents at London, Paris, & Madrid for Superintending Claims on account of Captures @ 2,000, Dollars each | 6,000 | ||
Salaries in the Department of State. | |||
Of the Secretary of State | 5,000 | ||
Of his Clerks agreeably to the Act of the 21 April 1806. | } | 7.150 | |
Additional sum required in consequence of an increase of business in the Department | } | 1,000 | |
Of his Messenger | 410. | ||
13,560. | |||
Contingencies of the Department of State. | |||
For printing & distributing 10,000, copies of the Laws of the 2d. Session of the 10th. Congress | 4,250 | ||
For printing the Laws in Newspapers | 4,000 | ||
Fuel & 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. | ||
Miscellanies | 500. | ||
Special Messengers charged with Dispatches | } | 2,000 | |
Total amt. | Dollars 197,060. | ||
James Madison.
DNA: RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.