Transfer of Naval Appropriations, 6 July 1815 (Abstract)

§ Transfer of Naval Appropriations. 6 July 1815. “In pursuance of the authority vested in the President of the United States, by the act of Congress passed on the 3d of March, 1809, entitled “An Act further to amend the several Acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments,”1 I do hereby direct, that out of the Appropriation for The Purchase of Timber, there be applied three hundred thousand dollars to Building Seventy fours and Frigates.”

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, Letters Sent to the Treasury Department); letterbook copy (DNA: RG 45, LSP). First letterbook copy 1 p. JM made similar transfers of naval appropriations on 19 Aug., 26 Aug., and 14 Sept. 1815 (DNA: RG 45, Letters Sent to the Treasury Department).

1. The act authorized the president to make such transfers “during the recess of Congress,” which in 1815 occurred between 4 Mar. and 4 Dec. (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins The Public Statutes at Large of the United States of America … (17 vols.; Boston, 1848–73). description ends , 2:535–36; 3:143, 251).

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Title: Transfer of Naval Appropriations, 6 July 1815 (Abstract)
Author: Madison, James
Date: 6 July 1815

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Cite as: “Transfer of Naval Appropriations, 6 July 1815 (Abstract),” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-09-02-0441. [Original source: The Papers of James Madison, Presidential Series, vol. 9, 19 February 1815–12 October 1815, ed. Angela Kreider, J. C. A. Stagg, Mary Parke Johnson, and Anne Mandeville Colony. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018, p. 452.]