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Letter from the secretary of the Navy, transmitting sundry statements, in relation to the expenditure of appropriations, to reward the officers and crews of certain vessels for captures made during the late war with Great Britain. : December 17, 1818. Read, and ordered to lie upon the table.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Department of the Treasury. Fourth Auditor's Office.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 49821.
- House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 15th Congress, 2nd session, no. 42.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Navy--Accounting.
- United States.
- United States. Navy.
- Accounting.
- Prizes (Property captured at sea)--United States.
- Prizes (Property captured at sea).
- History.
- United States--History--War of 1812--Prizes, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 87 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered folded leaf ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington City [D.C.]: : Printed by E. De Krafft., 1819.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- At head of title, in square brackets: 42.
- Letter of transmittal addressed to the speaker of the House of Representatives.
- Report dated "Treasury Department, Fourth Auditor's Office, 21st November, 1818" and signed on p. 6: Constant Freeman, 4th auditor.
- Error in paging: p. 20 misnumbered 10.
- Last page blank.
- "Statement ... exhibiting the amount of moneys appropriated by Congress, for rewarding the officers and crews of sundry vessels for captures made during the late war; the names of the prize agents, to whom the amounts were advanced; the amount expended by them, and the balances remaining in their hands unexpended ..."--folded leaf.
- Report includes statements (p. 7-86) from agents George S. Wise, Jr., Samuel Hambleton and George Beall, Jr. showing the names and ranks of seamen who received prize money for captures while serving on the Wasp, and at the Lake Erie and Lake Champlain stations; as well as a report (p. 87) from Charles Biddle showing the total amount disbursed to the crew of the Hornet.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 49821).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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