JM Estimate for the service of year, 29 October 1808
Dept. of State, October 29th. 1808.
Estimate for the service of the year 1809.
| Foreign Intercourse. | |||
| Salaries of three Ministers, vizt: | } | Dollars. | |
| To London, Paris, & Madrid @ 9,000 | 27,000 | ||
| Ditto of their Secretaries a 1.350. | 4,050. | ||
| Contingent expenses of those Missions | 2,000. | ||
| Contingencies of Foreign Intercourse | 25,000. | ||
| $58,050 | |||
| Barbary Intercourse. | |||
| Salary for the Consul General At Algiers | 4,000 | ||
| Do. Of the Consuls at Morocco, Tunis & Tripoli @ 2,000, each | 6.000 | ||
| Their Contingent expenses | 4,000 | ||
| 14,000 | |||
| For the difference between the cost of Articles in which the annuity to Algiers is payable, and the difference between the permanent appropriation & annual charge of | $36,000 | ||
| Contingent expenses of Barbary Intercourse | 50.000 | ||
| Seamen. | |||
| For the relief of distressed Seamen | 5,000 | ||
| Captures. | |||
| Salaries of Agents at London, Paris, & Madrid for Superintending Claims on account of Captures @ 2,000, Dollars each | 6,000 | ||
| Salaries in the Department of State. | |||
| Of the Secretary of State | 5,000 | ||
| Of his Clerks agreeably to the Act of the 21 April 1806. | } | 7.150 | |
| Additional sum required in consequence of an increase of business in the Department | } | 1,000 | |
| Of his Messenger | 410. | ||
| 13,560. | |||
| Contingencies of the Department of State. | |||
| For printing & distributing 10,000, copies of the Laws of the 2d. Session of the 10th. Congress | 4,250 | ||
| For printing the Laws in Newspapers | 4,000 | ||
| Fuel & 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. | ||
| Miscellanies | 500. | ||
| Special Messengers charged with Dispatches | } | 2,000 | |
| Total amt. | Dollars 197,060. | ||
James Madison.
DNA: RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.

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