James Madison Papers

Estimate for the Service of the Year 1807, 20 November 1806

Estimate for the Service of the Year 1807

Dept. of State Novr. 20. 1806

Foreign Intercourse.

Salaries of three Ministers, viz. to London, Paris & Madrid @ $9,000 is $27,000  }
Do. for their 3 Secretaries @ 1,350 4,050 
Contingent expenses of those missions 2,000 
Contingencies of Foreign Intercourse 20,000 
$53,000  [sic]
Barbary Intercourse.

Salary of the Consul at Algiers $4,000 
Do. of the Consuls at Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli @ $2,000 } 6,000  }
Their Contingent expenses 4,000 
14,000 
For the difference between the cost of the articles in which the annuity to Algiers is payable and the difference between the permanent appropriation & annual charge of 36,000  }
Contingent expense of Barbary Intercourse 50,000  86,000 
Seamen.

For the relief of distressed seamen 5,000 
Captures.

Salaries of Agents at London, Paris & Madrid for superintending claims on account of captures @ $2000 } 6,000 
Salaries in the Department of State.

Of the Secretary of State 5,000  }
Of his Clerks agreeably to the Act of 21 April 1806 7,150 
Of his Messenger 410  12,560 
$176,560 
 
Contingencies of the Department of State.

For printing and distributing 10,000 copies of the laws of the 2nd Session of the 9 Congress } 4,250  }
For printing the Laws in Newspapers 4,000.
Fuel and 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 
Messilanies 500 
Special Messengers charged with dispatches 2,000 
$14,450 
*Amot. brot. from the other side 176,500 
Dollars 191,010 

James Madison.

Letterbook copy (DNA: RG 59, DL, vol. 15).

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