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Statement of the annual expenses of the army proper, consisting of the following appropriations, viz: pay, subsistence, forage, clothing, bounties and premiums, expenses of recruiting, hospital department, contingencies, quartermaster's department, and. military academy, (building excepted,) during the years 1818, 1819 and to the 30th November, 1820, inclusive.

Deduct the estimated increased disbursements, under regular heads of appropriation, on account of the Seminole war

Reduction in consequence of the improved organization

2,691,088 55

1,057,356 46

100,000.00

957,356 46

NOTES. For other items of expenditure than those in the subsistence, purchasing, and medical and hospital departments, see the body of the re.

572

Total.

544

6,391

port. In addition to the appropriation for the ser-
vice of the militia, the Seminole war caused an in-Officers
crease of disbursements, under some of the regular Privates 12,036
heads of appropriation, the exact amount of which exclusiveof staff exclusive of
cannot be ascertained, without dissecting most of engineers, and staff and en-
the accounts of the disbursements in that quarter, bombadiers.
during its operation. The principal increase of
disbursements, was on the account of subsistence.
It is believed that the sum proposed to be deduct-
ed, is ample.

gineers,

832

544 11,261 18,200 exclusive of exclusive staff engi- of staff enneers, ord-gineers, nancework Lordnance, men, and and artil. troops of ery train artillery train.

Front of each battalion.

288 files on two 128 files of 192 files on three
ranks, besides two ranks, ranks, besides 48 files
72 files of flank besides 32 of flank companies.
companies. files of flank
companies.

The year 1818 is assumed instead of 1817, the year preceding the present organization of the staff of the army. It would have been desirable to have formed the table on the data, to be furnished by that year, but, on examination, it was found that some items of expenditure, growing out of the late war, were so blended with the current expenditure of that year, as to render the separation im N. B.-It is a received principle in tactics, that possible, without great labor and much time. It the force of a battalion should never pass 200 files, is believed, however, that, could the current ex- exclusive of its flank companies, which act sepapenditure of 1817 be ascertained, the result would|rately. be not less favourable. It is proper to observe, that, although the act modifying the staff, as it is now organized, passed in April 1818, it did not go into operation so as to produce any material effect on the disbursement, until after the termination of that year.

The full effect of the present organization, it is believed, is not yet experienced; as it requires considerable time to carry into perfect operation a sys. tem which comprehends so great an extent of de. tail. As far as can be judged by the estimates for 1821, the disbursements for that year will show a still more favorable result than that of this year.

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Statement showing the saving of expenditure by the
proposed organization of the army.

Pay for officers and men; subsistence
for officers; forage for officers, and
clothing for officers' servants,
Subsistence department,
Quartermaster's department,
Clothing department,
Bounties, premiums, and recruiting,
Medical department,

419,702 70

194,595 76 € 100,000 153,650

25,296 11,960

Total amount of saving by the pro- $905,204 46 posed organization,

Is a larger table, shewing 1st, the present organi- NOTE-The estimate of saving, is made on the zation and force of the army; 2d, the proposed basis of the expenditure of 1820, and on the suporganization at its minimum, 3d, the proposed position of the rank and file of the army, under the organization raised to its maximum, but without existing organization, and that which is proposed, doubling the battalions, or augmenting the num- not being full by one sixth. Should a reduction be ber of officers; 4th, the maximum to which it can made, as proposed, the actual appropriation of the be raised, is case of necessity, by doubling the next year, under the various heads, must be deterbattalions and officers of infantry. The follow-mined by the principles which have governed in ing are the totals:"

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The artillery cannot, like the infantry, have the number of its officers and companies augmented on a sudden. Its force, when its forty-five companies are raised to their maximum, cannot, therefore, be augmented, nor pass the number in the last table. The number of matrosses may be increased, if ab. solutely required, bu, by recurring to the preceding table, it will be seen, that the present forty-five companies, at one hundred men each, can serve ninety guns in the field, and 1,800 in forts and batteries.

Officers 297
Privates 7,065

forming the general estimates for that year, and may differ, in some respects, from the saving above calculated. As the ranks would be neariy full in the first year after the reduction, some allowance would have to be made on that account.

Army and Navy.

Extracts from the report of the secretary of the
treasury in pursuance of a resolution of the
house of representatives of the 28th ult. direct.
ing a report of the "amount of moneys drawn
from the treasury of the U. S. by the war and
navy departments, respectively, from the 30th
of Dec. 1819 to the 13th Nov. 1820," &c.
Amount of money's drawn from the treasury of the
United States, by the war department, from the
30th of December, 1819, to the 18th of November,
1820, designating the amount drawn under each
respective appropriation.
Pay of the army:

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200,014 49

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Infantry and Riflemen.

297 3,366

Medical and hospital department
Bounties and premiums
Contingent expenses
Quartermaster's department

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Arrearages military establishment Prize money to officers, &c. of the garri. son of Ft. Bowyer

Indian department

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Half pay pensions to widows and orphans:

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405,362 01 cieties therein mentioned, as also the Baltimore li 150,000 00brary company, we have sent to the department of state of the United States two copies of Kilty's com70 12 pilation of the laws of this state, and two copies of 100,000 00 the new compilation; to each of the literary socie. 196,672 47 ties in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts we have 341,936 31 transmitted one set of each compilation of said laws, 2,766,440 00 and to the Baltimore library company one set of the last compilation; the receipt of all the above. mentioned books has been acknowledged to this department, with the expression of thanks to the legislature for the same.

100,000 00 $6,129,743 40 Treasury department, Register's office, Dec. 5, 1820. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register. Amount of moneys drawn from the treasury of the United States by the navy department, from the 30th of December, 1819, to the 13th of November, 1820, designating the amount drawn under each respective appropriation. Pay of the navy :

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Under the resolution relative to the total or par tial extinguishment of the loans made to this state, in the years eighteen hundred and seventeen and eighteen, by the Farmers' bank of Maryland and sundry banks in Baltimore, we, having received information from the treasurer that the finances of the state, independent of the debt due from the $1,262,420 general government, on account of disbursements 456,587 of moneys by the state, for purposes of defence 44,850 during the late war, were adequate, after leaving 251,000 a sufficient surplus in the treasury for ordinary purposes, to discharge and satisfy the loans due to 7,500 the banks in Baltimore, principal and interest, pass 20,000 ed an order that the treasurer should, without de485,200 lay, extinguish the said loans by payment of the 580,000 principal, and interest due thereon, amounting, in 60,000 the whole, to the sum of thirty one-thousand and 165,000 sixty dollars. No part of the loan due to the Far 3,000 mers' bank of Maryland has been discharged; the officers of that institution preferring that the mo2,000 neys which could be spared out of the treasury, 177,228 should be applied in the manner abovementioned; 27,205 and that payment of the debt due by the state to 20,000 them, should be postponed to a future period.

Surveys of ports and harbors
Surveying certain parts of the coast of
North Carolina
Pay of the marine corps
Clothing do.

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3,561,990 Treasury department, Register's office, Dec. 5, 1820. JOSEPH NOURSE, Register.

Legislature of Maryland.

EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATION.
IN COUNCIL, ANNAPOLIS, December 4, 1820.
Gentlemen of the senate, and

The resolution directing the executive to have printed and distributed four hundred copies of the election laws of the justices of the levy court, has been complied with, and the proportion sent to each County was regulated by the number of districts; that is to say-one copy was sent to each judge of every election district. Finding the number of copies directed to be printed more than sufficient to supply the judges of elections, we sent three to each county, and there are now in this department twenty-five copies, of which no disposition has been made.

Gentlemen of the house of delegates, The time having arrived, when you are assem For the information of the people, the law relabled for the performance of your legislative duties, tive to the stay of executions has been printed in we avail ourselves of the earliest period to lay be- such, and so many, of the public newspapers, as we fore you an account of such proceedings as have deemed sufficient to give it general publicity, and been adopted by us, in relation to the several sub-an authenticated copy furnishd to the clerk of each jects to which our attention has been directed by the legislature at its last session.

of the county courts of the state.

In pursuance of the resolution relative to the purIn executing the resolution relative to the claim chase of an engine and hose, for the security and of Richard Lockerman, we determined, upon a full protection of the public property at the seat of goand particular investigation of the nature and value vernment, we ordered the treasurer to pay to the of the services rendered, for which compensation mayor of the city the sum of one thousand dollars, was asked, that he was entitled to the sum of one which has been appropriated to the abovementionhundred dollars. This we deemed a sufficient re-ed purpose as far as it would suffice; the residue of muneration for the work done by him, which ought the purchase money, according to the tenor of the to have been performed by his predecessor in of resolution, has been furnished by the corpora fice, who has since paid the same into the treasury, tion. without the compulsion of legal process, which was directed to be issued against him in the event of his failing so to do.

Nothing has been done under the resolution hav, ing reference to state debtors, no application having been made to this department for the benefit there

Copies of the resolution of the legislature, concerning the purchase of a suitable portion of ter ritory on the African coast, as a settlement for suc free people of color as may be willing to go thith' and the supply of the means by the general gove ment for their transportation, and alsa copies o resolution relative to the claims of the survivin Conformably to the resolutions directing the ficers engaged in the service of their country transmission of certain books to the secretary of ing the war for our independence, have bee state of the United States, and certain literary so- i as directed, to our representatives and te

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the congress of the United States, communicating to them the desire of the general assembly, that their best exertions should be used for the purpose of obtaining such laudable and important objects.

The resolution requesting the governor and council to direct the district attorney for Baltimore city court, to take immediately such legal measures as he may deem necessary to enforce the execution of the provisions of the act laying a tax on brokers and lottery office keepers, has been duly attended to, and the said attorney instructed accordingly.

pose of putting the whole of those deemed worthy of repairs in complete order

During the late war, it was deemed necessary by the executive authority of the state, to appoint an agent to reside in Baltimore, whose duty it was made to take care of the arms entrusted to his eus tody, and to deliver out the same as occasion might require. Since the termination of hostilities, the agency has been continued, though for a time with out salary, but as the militia of Baltimore are fully supplied with arms, and those there deposited will be taken care of by the armorers at Fredericktown, In pursuance of the resolution respecting the and at the seat of government, and the salary of elaims of the agents employed in the collection of the late agent at Baltimore, and the expense of the public arms, we investigated the several ac-storage will be thereby saved to the state, we have counts exhibited by them, and paid Benjamin Pin- dispensed with his further services, and have caus dle the balance due him for collecting and delivered the arms to be placed in the armories in Fredc. ing arms to the armorer at Annapolis, amounting to ricktown and this ity.

Under the resolution relative to the appointment of commissioners, to view and inspect the United States' turnpike road running through Alleghany county, we haveffilled up the vacancies, occasioned by the resignation of two of the former commissioners, with the names of Jesse Tomlinson and George M'Cullock, esquires, who have not yet made any report of their proceedings to this department.

one hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty cents; We have forwarded to the governor of Pennsyl to Alemby Jump, fer collecting and delivering arms vania, a copy of the law incorporating the Octorara to the armorer at Easton, the balance of his account navigation company, and have caused the several amounting to the sum of four hundred and thirty- acts of assembly repealing certain parts of the connine dollars and fifty cents, including fifty-six dol-stitution and form of government to be duly pub. lars and fifty cents, for arms delivered by him to lished; also the act empowering the judges of elec the amorer at Easton, in 1819, and to col. Richard tions to administer oaths, in any enquiries which Waters the balance of his claim, amounting to the they may deem necessary touching the right of sum of seventy three dollars and twenty-five cents, suffrage of any person offering to vote. for collecting and delivering arms to the agent at Baltimore. There being a balance of five hundred and forty dollars due to the state from Henry Way, man, of the sum of one thousand dollars advanced to him, after crediting him with compensation for the arms he had collected, and not being able to bring him to a final settlement otherwise than by compulsion, we directed that suit should be instituted against him, which accordingly has been done. As the eight thousand dollars appropriated to the purpose of collecting the public arms have been expended, except the above balance due from Henry Wayman, we have directed the several agents to stop the further execution of their functions. Whether an additional appropriation shall be made for the purpose of collecting such as are still in the hands of the militia, it is for the wisdom of the legislature to determine. We will farther remark upon this subject, that, when the debt due from Henry Wayman shall have been recovered, it will refund to the state the several sums paid to the other agents under the resolution of the last general assembly, except a balance of sixty four dollars and twenty five cents.

We deem it proper now, to draw the attention of the general assembly to the situation of the claims of this state upon the government of the United States, for moneys disbursed during the late war, for purposes of defence against the common ene. my. The national authorities have assumed the reimbursement to the state of the sum of one hundred and fifty-six thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven dollars sixty-seven and a half cents, expended in the payment of the militia, so far as the necessary vouchers for the same should be presented; for that sum, in the first instance, the requiste vouchers were produced according to the views of the third auditor of the war department, except a balance of twenty thousand nine hundred and eighteen dollars and fourteen cents, which was suspended for want of such proof as h he deemed necessary

In virtue of the resolution authorizing and empowering the governor and council to cause the arms and accoutrements in the several arsenals on the Western and Eastern shores to be cleaned and Of the sum of one hundred and thirty-six thou repaired, under the direction of this department, sand nine hundred and ninety-five dollars ninetywe have caused the number of two thousand six seven and three quarter cents, expended for rahundred and seventy to be cleaned and put in com- tions and other necessary purposes, the reimburseplete order, and four hundred and seventy to be ment of which to the state has been assumed by repaired; the sum appropriated by the legislature the general government upon the production of not being adequate to defray the expense incurred proper vouchers, all was allowed except the sum in effecting the object of this resolution, there re of eighty-eight thousand six hundred and seventy- mains due to the armorer at Annapolis for his ser- seven dollars, which was suspended by the third vices, the sum of four hundred and seventy-two auditor to the department of war, until the vouch Jollars, and fifty cents, to pay which, a further ap-ers required should be transmitted; and the fur ropriation will be necessary. There are still in ther sum of eleven thousand eight hundred and e said arsenal one thousand one hundred and forty eight dollars and forty-three cents, which was sent seven stand of arms which want cleaning, rejected as inadmissible upon principle. Since the in eleven hundred and twenty-five wanting re-suspension of these two sums, a letter has been As there are also eight hundred and seven received from the above-mentioned officer, com. nin which are in such bad order as not to be worth municating the information that he has audited the teriing, we would submit to the general assem- accounts, and that according to his report there is

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e propriety of anthorizing the sale of them, a balance due the state of ninety-four thousand Officeraking a further appropriation for the pur-seven hundred and ten dollars and twenty-ong

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cents, which report has been laid before the se- hand of an awakening Providence during the last cond comptroller of the treasury for revision. The year, and the earth has been unusually liberal state has received on account the sum of one hun- throughout our state, in the product of the most dred and eighty thousand dollars, and the sum of necessary and indispensable articles of our home fifteen thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars consumption. This bountiful dispensation of an and twenty-five cents has been rejected as inad- all wise and good Providence has considerably missible upon principle; which item is formed in mitigated the pressure of our pecuniary difficul part by the sums rejected in the account for the ties, arising from the depressed state of our foreign payment of the militia, and the account for the commerce and from other local causes. In aid of purchase of rations and other articles. Thus it ap- this dispensation, alike advantageous to the inpears that of the entire claim of the state against dividual interests of the people, and the comthe general government, there remains only the mercial prosperity of our state, we respectfully sum of nineteen thousand two hundred and eighty-beg leave to recommend to our fellow-citizens a three dollars and forty-six cents which has not been laudable spirit of economy in all their expenditures, allowed. Entertaining a high and well merited and the encouragement of those manufacturing inconfidence in the head of the war departinent, and terests established throughout our land, which can believing that he feels every disposition to do us only exist and flourish by the fostering support of ample justice, we cherish the flattering expecta-the community at large. tion, that nearly all if not the whole of our larms Upon the subject of internal improvement we will ultimately be allowed.-Acounts of other ex- would only remark, that while sister states by penditures during the late war, have been placed the means or creating and increasing the facilities in the hands of the states' agent, which he will pre- of navigation, and transportation by land, and by sent to the general government for allowance and calling into action all their physical advantages, payment; so far as the payment thereof may be are endeavoring to draw within their bosoms the deemed right and proper. wealth of the extremities of the union, we ought To Mr. Pinkney, the clerk of this department, not to be unmindful of the great benefits which much praise is due for the great industry and abili-are to be derived from the adoption of such a ty with which he has drawn light out of darkness, policy. As connected with this consideration, we and extracted system from chaos, in so arranging take the liberty of calling the attention of the ge. the vouchers and proofs of some of our claims neral assembly to a subject of great importance beretofore suspended as to obviate the objections to the interest of our state. It is generally under of the accounting officer, and render them ulti-stood to be in the contemplation of the govern mately admissible; it was a work of great labor and ment of the United States, to establish at this place, difficulty on account of the confusion in which a depot for provisions and other articles neces they were involved, and could only have been ac-sary for naval purposes; this alone would be of complished by unwearied perseverance, untiring great benefit and importance, if not to the whole, efforts, and a warin feeling of devotedness to the certainly to a very large portion of our state, by interests of the state. opening an additional market for vending such Of the great importance of education, and a ge-articles as the public wants might require: but if neral diffusion of knowledge in a government like an object of still higher importance, which has for ours, you (gentlemen) are no doubt deeply sensi- some time occupied the public mind, could be ble; for in proportion as the structure of a govern- obtained; if the constituted authorities of the union ment gives weight to publie opinion, it is essential should deem this a proper place for the establishthat public opinion should be enlightened." Un-ment of a naval depot, where our ships and veș der this impression you will no doubt take especial care, as far as our resources are adequate, to foster the interests of science, by cherishing and supporting literary institutions for the cultivation and improvement of the human mind; for under every form of government, the intellectual wealth of a nation is of great and primary importance to the Under this impression, the legislature, a session advancement of its happiness, prosperity and wel-or two since, authorised the expenditure of twentyfive thousand dollars, for the purpose of removing We congratulate the general assembly upon the an impediment to the entrance into Severn river, happy posture of our foreign relations, and upon arising from a bar which has been formed some the general union of opinion and harmony of senti.little distance from its mouth. The restriction ment at home, in relation to the ability, integrity imposed upon the executive in this resolution, is and patriotism with which our internal and ex- of such a nature as to prevent any measures being ternal affairs have been conducted. The general taken towards the accomplishment of this im prevalence of such opinions, and such sentiments, portant object, until such assurances are received is the highest reward, which our able and virtuous in relation to the establishment of a naval depot, chief magistrate, and those associated with him at this place, in the event of the bar being removin the management of our national concerns, can ed, as perhaps, it would be difficult, if not impossi receive at the hands of a free and enlightened peo-ble, to obtain. Whether this restriction ought to ple; standing upon this high and exalted eminence be qualified or altogether removed, or what other in popular opinion, scarcely a speck of party has been visible in his re-election to office.

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sels of war would rendezvous when wanting repairs, or not engaged in actual service, or on foreign voyages, it would be to our interest, and prosperity a great and splendid acquisition, which, so far from being local in its effects, would be sensibly felt în every vein and artery of our state.

measures upon this subject should be adopted, it is submitted to the better judgment of the legisla. It is an abundant source of gratitude to Almighty ture to determine. We will only add, that in the God, that during the current year, we have been execution of this important duty, and every other assailed but by a small portion of those calamities trust, committed to our care, we have done what and misfortunes which so frequently fall to the in our judgments we conceived to be best calculatlot of suffering humanity. Our principal com-ed to conserve the general interest of the state--mercial city has been happily free from the dread-and if the course which has been pursued should ful visitation with which it was afflicted by the not meet the approbation and sanction of all, the

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