Thomas Jefferson Papers

Notes on Navy Appropriations for 1803

Notes on Navy Appropriations for 1803

[on or after 18 Jan. 1803]

6. frigates & 1. schooner in commission
including repairs & contingencies
} 476,874.86
7. frigates in ordinary (includ. rep. & conting.) 100,042.34.
half pay to officers not in service 14,136.  
 
Genl. contingencies (exclusive of those for vessels)
viz. store rent, commissions, freight, travelg. exp. of officers.
} 40,000  
631,053.20
Stores, military & naval ordnance 15,000.  
74. gun ships 114,425.  
Navy yards, docks 48,741.37
Marine corps  90,780.43
900,000.  
exclusive of deficiencies of 1802 181,849.09
Pay of officers & seamen & subsistence of officers 283,993.  
Provisions 157,360.20
Hospital & medical account 7,700.  
Contingt acct. viz D
 repairs & contingens. of vessels in commn 79,000.
  do. of 7. vessels in ordinary 63,000 
 general contingencies as @ contra 40,000  182,000    
631,053.201
D   
2. frigates in commn. 4. months (@75,000 pr. ann.) 50,000   
2. do. 6. 75,000   
1. do. 1. year 75,000   
the Enterprise 1. year 30,000   
3. others of 16. guns. building 72,000   
8 months in commn. (@ 30,000)  60,000   
362,000   
7. frigates in ordinary (includg. repairs & contingencies) 100,042.34
half pay of officers not in service 14,136.  
Genl. contingencies, viz store rent, commns, freight, travellg  10,000.  
486,178.34
631,053.20
Saving 144,874.86
Marine corps  90,780.43
235,655.29
for other expences in the event of war, or danger of it, with any of the Barbary powers, other than Tripoli [2. frigates]6 mo.]  75,000   
561,178.34
Stores and ordnance  15,000— 114,425 
the 74. gun ships 114,425  48,741.37
Navy yards, docks  48,741.37 178,166.37
739,344.71
Deficiencies of 1802. 181,849.09

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 128:22142); undated, but apparently prepared after receipt of Gallatin to TJ, 18 Jan. (see note 1); entirely in TJ’s hand; with notes written on recto and verso; brackets in original.

frigates in commn.: with this entry, TJ begins his notes on the verso in which he calculates savings in several categories for the navy. TJ’s notes on the recto are taken from Gallatin’s letter to him of 18 Jan.

1TJ’s notes to this point are based on Gallatin’s 18 Jan. letter.

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