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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.

		D
In actual service.	2. frigates	209,807.36
In actual service.	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
				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 (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States … 1789 to March 3, 1845, Boston, 1855–56, 8 vols. description ends , 2:249).

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Cite as: “Notes on Reducing Navy Expenses, 10 October 1803,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-41-02-0373. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 41, 11 July–15 November 1803, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 496–497.]

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