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Notes on Reducing Navy Expenses, 10 October 1803
Notes on Reducing Navy Expenses
[ca. 10 Oct. 1803]
Navy estimate Oct. 1803.
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In actual service. | 2. frigates | 209,807.36 | ||
5. small vessels | 185,158.19 | 394,965.55 | ||
In ordinary. | 11. frigates | 180,845.17 | ||
Pay of officers on shore | 27,500. | 208,345.17 | ||
Contingencies | 40,000. | |||
Ordnance & stores | 15,000. | |||
Marine corps | 90,780.43 | |||
Navy yards | 30,908.85 | |||
780,000. | ||||
from which a reduction is needed of | 180,000. | |||
600,000. |
Six months of half the force is ¼ of the whole | 98,740. | ||
Repairs & contingencies | |||
last year’s report | 182,000 | ||
this year’s do. | 257,000 | 75,000. | |
Ordnance & stores | 5,000. | ||
Navy yards | 10,000. | ||
188,740 | |||
Deduct ¼ repairg actl. force | 24,625. | ||
164,115 |
Actual service. | Proposed estimate | |||||||
Contingencies including |
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Provisions | Pay | Medical | repairs | |||||
1. frigate | 44. guns | 6. mo. | 17,247 | 25,483 | 625 | 18,000. | ||
1. do. | 36. | 12. do. | 29,806 | 44,293 | 1125 | 12,800 | ||
1. brig | 16. | 6. mo. | 5,267 | 9,086 | 325 | 3,500 | ||
1. do. | 16. | 12. | 10,534. | 18,172 | 650. | 7,600 | ||
1. Schooner | 14. | 6. mo. | 3,961 | 5,310 | 250 | 2,500 | ||
2. do. | 12. | 17,844 | 21,240 | 1000. | 10,000. | |||
Ordinary. | 6. frigates | 44. &. 36. | 13,792. | 20,616 | 300 | 54,000. | ||
5. do. | 32. | 10,597. | 15,740 | 250 | 45,000 | |||
General contingencies | 30,000. | |||||||
Half pay | 20,000 | |||||||
Provisions | 109,016 | 109,016 | ||||||
Pay | 179,940 | 179,940 | ||||||
Medical | 4,525 | 4,525 | ||||||
Contingencies & repairs | 172,800 | 172,800 | ||||||
Ordnance | 10,000. | |||||||
Navy yards | 21,000. | |||||||
Ordinary of 1. frigate & 2 small vessels 6. months | 12,000. | |||||||
Marine corps | 90,760 | |||||||
599,061 |
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 136:23476); undated; entirely in TJ’s hand.
last year’s report: for navy estimates for 1803, see Vol. 39:344-7, 348-50, 376-9. The navy appropriation act for 1804, passed by Congress on 31 Jan. 1804, contained a total appropriation of $650,000 ( , 2:249).