JM Estimate for the service of the year, 1 October 1807

Department of State, October 1st: 1807.

Estimate for the service of the year 1808

Foreign Intercourse.

Salaries of three Ministers viz, To London, Paris & Madrid, a 9.000	}	27,000		}
Ditto for their 3 Secretaries a 1350.		4,050
Contingent expenses of those Missions		2,000
Contingencies of foreign Intercourse		20,000

					53,050.
Barbary Intercourse.
Salary of the Consul General at Algiers	}	4.000		}
Do. of the Consuls at Morocco, Tunis, & Tripoli a 2,000 each	}	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 appropriations, an 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 at 2000 each		6,000		}
Compensation to Proctors for prosecuting Prize Causes	}	6,167		}	12,167

					170,217
Salaries in the Department of State.
Of the Secretary of State		5,000		}
Of his Clerks, agreeably to the Act of the 21st April 1806	}	7,150
Of his Messenger		410			12,560.

Contingencies of the Department of State.
For printing & distributing 10,000 Copies of the laws of the 1st. 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

					14,450

					$197,227

James Madison.

DNA: RG 59—DL—Domestic Letters.

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