Statement of the Total cost of the Dry Dock at Boston, Massachusetts. Expenditures on the Dry Dock at Gosport, Virginia, to the 31st of Oct 1833. Office 1,788 911 959 87 2,748 78 Tools 16,286 22 17,849 49 34.135 71 Iron, nails, &c. 11,155 29 11,155 29 Driving machine 1,024 43 Lighters, boats, &c. 6,260 30 Coffer dam 23,532 84 Pier wharves 10,972 50 Pine timber, plank, &c. 6,639 05 6,639 05 Blacksmith's shop 5.557 17 Miscellaneous 35,010 55 Cob wharves 4,042 42 9,980 17 14,022 59 Stables 10,027 96 2,750 39 12,778 35 Surveys and plans of navy yards 1,057 69 2,302 57 3,360 26 Foundation of dock 64,097 46 Draining 13,341 97 20,461 49 33,803 46 Excavation 2,744 76 Masonry of dock 248,972 83 201,816 79 450,789 62 Carpenter's shop Superintendence Turning gates 1,035 45 31,256 88 22,588 43 Banking up 1,745 72 9,693 00 11,438 72 Wells and tunnel 13,762 02 Great engine house 17,796 12 16,105 85 33,901 97 Great steam engine and pumps 26,271 68 1,673 54 27,9.5 22 Floating gate 11,103 19 13,018 35 24,121 54 Removing coffer dam 8,134 81 8,134 81 Total cost, to 31st Oct. 1833. 465,712 05 477,964 68 943,676 73 NAVY PENSIONS. Number of Pensioners on the Nary Pension roll from each State, respectirely, other than those authorized to be placed upon it by the act of 28th June, 1832. 2342122 Connecticut New Hampshire 79 South Carolina.. Louisiana ................ Number of Pension ers on the Navy Pension roll under the act of 28th Maine.................................... Massachusetts ........ June, 1832. District of Columbia..... Virginia.... New York... Georgia... 131 Maryland................. 16. The number of pensioners under the act of 23d April, 1800, for long and faithful services, is, from New Jersey 1; Pennsylvania 2; Maryland 2. Making the whole number of pensioners on the roll 298. The number of Pensioners on the Privateer Pension roll is-From the State of Maine 3; Massachusetts 15; New York 9; Pennsylvania 1; Maryland 5. Whole number at this time on the roll 33. An ACT for the relief of Widows and Orphans of the Officers and Seamen who were lost in the United States' Schooner, the Sylph. [Approved, March 2, 1833.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That, the widows, if any such there be, and in case there be no widow, the child or children, and if there be no child, then the parents or parent, and, if there be no parent, then the brothers and sisters, of the officers and seamen who were in the service of the United States, and lost in the schooner Sylph, shall be entitled to, and receive, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sum equal to six months' pay of their respective deceased relatives aforesaid, in addition to the pay due to the said deceased on the fifteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, to which day the arrears of pay due the deceased shall be allowed and paid by the accounting officers of the Navy Department. ....... ... Officers and Crew of Sylph, Foundered at Sea, August 15, 1831. H. E.V. Robinson, Lt. Commanding Samuel Abbott, Seaman............... Wm. C. Selden, acting Lieutenant John Maccabee, Seaman .......... John A. Coyle, Midshipman.......John Bland, ordinary Seaman... L. W. P. Summers, Midshipman... Thomas Barrott, ordinary Seaman.. John Holmes, Seaman, Charles Burrows, Boy... William Barnes, Seaman...... Alfred Hearsey, Boy... John Chears, Seaman.............. James Bell, Cook John H. Rosche, Seaman.... ...... An Act in addition to the Act for the gradual improvement of the Navy of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for the gradual improvement of the Navy of the United States, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, annually, for six years, from and after the third day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, when the present appropriation expires. SEC 2. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, autho.ized and empowered to cause the abovementioned appropriation to be applied, as directed and prescribed by the act of the third of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, to which this is in addition, the provisions whereof are hereby, continued in force for the term abovementioned, and to be applied also to the purchase of other necessary materials as well as timber suitable for the construction of vessels of war. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the provisions now in force on the subject of the live oak growing on the public lands, it shall be the duty of all collectors of the customs within the Territory of Florida, and the States of Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, before allowing a clearance to any vessel laden in whole or in part with live oak timber, to ascertain satisfactorily that such timber was cut from private lands, or, if from public ones, by consent of the Navy Department. And it is hereby, made the duty of all officers of the customs, and of the land officers within said Territory and States, to cause prosecutions to be seasonably instituted against all persons known to be guilty of depredations on, or injuries to, the live oak growing on the public lands. [Approved March 2, 1833.] An act to amend an act entitled "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution " Be it enacted, &c. That the second section of the act entitled, "An act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the revolution," approved June 7, 1832, shall not be construed to embrace invalid pensioners; and that the pensions of invalid soldiers shall not be deducted from the amount receivable by them under the said act. (See Vol. XI. p. 232.) [Approved February 9, 1833.] A Resolution in relation to the execution of the act supplementary to the "Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution." (Vol. XI. p. 232.) [Approved March 2, 1833.] Resolved, &c. That in the execution of the act supplementary to the "Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved June 7, 1832, wherever it shall be made to appear that any applicant for a pension under said ac, entered the army of the Revolu tion, in pursuance of a contract with the Government, made previous to April 11, 1833, and continued in service until after that period, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of War to compute the period of any such applicaut's service, from the time he then entered the army, and until the date of the defiitive treaty of peace, and to allow him a pension accordingly. Statement exhibiting the Amount expended during each year, from 1789 to 1831 under the following heads, on account of the Naval Establishment of the United States, viz. I Pay Rations, and Clothing. II. Repairs of Vessels. III Contingent Expenses. IV. Building Ships. Preserving and Procuring Timber, Guns, and permanent equipments; (including the whole expenditures on account of the Navy un il 1801, inclusive.) V. Marine Barracks, Docks, Rail Ways, and Navy Yards. Year. I. Pay. &c. II. Repairs of vessels. III. Contin- 1V. Building V. Marine barracas. 644,802 18 333,093 28 83,145 00 661,024 01 873,654 00 210,000 00 70,000 00 1808 762,378 80 195,000 00 89,035 00 1809 1,582,758 80 595,000 00 190,000 00 1810 1,207,453 80 270,790 40 105,000 00 1811 1,352,566 39 450,000 00 128,000 00 1812 1,591,502, 20 300,000 00 185,000 00 1,882,359 95 1813 1,939,100 10 700,000 00 328,000 00 3,479,500 00 1814 3,420,900 00 970,000 00 810,000 00 2,110,390 60 1815 3,703,539 67 1,132,776 85 853,708 002,969,975 73 1816 1,894.223 00 300,000 00 460,000 00 1,254,055 30 1817 1,701,971 00 325,000 00 350,000 00 928,627 49 1818 1,586,660 38 300,000 00 229,444 27 637,200 80210,389 55 1819 1,763,690 27 459,717 20 246,695 42 1,163,256 21 209,281 32 1820 2,179,103 49 429,906 40 191,971 67 1,331,360 71255,647,73 1821 1,712,439 01 378,261 10 67,472 33 871,156 78 289,863 84 1822 1,597.046 99 146,556 92 102,511 95 376,749 95 1,593 17 1823 1,336,745 86 399,174 85 163,742 34 377,448 70 111,938 90 1824 1,707,364 66 404,151 00 261,599 30 317,133 89154,637 89 1825 1,731,082 81 388,164 78276,128 73 492,922 58 125,606 74 1826 1,738,997 81 485,970 85 242,909 18 1,447,570 22 274,562 03 1827 2,223,946 63 417,365 55 251,084 50 1,079,959 60 257,548 55 1828 2,194,116 00 543,788 11 275,431 82 705,374 06 156,520, 37 1829 1,974,514 62 470,945 68 277,605 14 411,527 24 152,852 49 1830 1,645,172 18 567,130 00 381,205 35 493,567 25 130,434 41 1831 2.136,834 96 628,719 37307,132 74 493,201 50 249,871 16 REPORT OF THE POSTMASTER GENERAL. GENERAL POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, Nov. 30, 1833 To the President of the United States : SIR: When, in 1829, the functions of this department devolved upon me, the annual transportation of the mail amounted to 13,700,000 miles. The contracts then in existence, with the other expenses of the department, had, within the year ending the 30th June, 1829, diminished its surplus revenue $101,256 03; and those contracts were still in force from one to four years in prospect. The surplus available revenue had been reduced to the nominal amount of. But it has subsequently been ascertained, that there had been expeuses incurred for transportation performed prior to the 1st July, 1829, which were not embraced in that account, to the amount of Which reduced the real surplus to $230,849 07 64,248 76 $166 600 31 The annual transportation of the mail was, on the 1st July, 1833, 26,854,485 miles. The annual amount of the transportation of the mail in stages and steamboats, on the 1st of July, 1829, was 6,507,818 miles The annual amount of the transportation of the mail in stages and steamboats, on the 1st of July, 1833, was 18,322,576 miles. The expense of transporting the mail for the year ending 30th June, 1829, was $1,153,646 21. The expense of transporting the mail for the year ending 30th June, 1833, was $1,894,688 08. The gross amount of postages constituting the revenues of the departnent, was, for the year ending 30th June, 1829, $1,707,418 42.. The gross amount of postages for the year ending 30th June, 1933, was $2,616,538 27. The incidental expenses of the department for the year ending 30th June, 1829, amounted to $69,249 08. The incidental expenses of the department for the year ending 30th June, 1833, amounted $87,701 61. The number of post offices in the United States on the 1st of July, 1829, was 8,004. On the 1st of July, 1833, the number of post offices in the United States was 10,127. The increase of the annual transportation of the mail within the four years ending the 30th June, 1833, is 13,154,485 miles, nearly equal to the whole amount of transportation in 1829. The increase of the annual amount of postages within the same period is $909,119 85, and the whole amount is more than the double of what it was in 1825. The average expense of transporting the mail in 1829, was eight cents and four tenths of a cent per mile. The average expense of transporting the mail in 1833, is seven cents) and fifty-seven hundredths of a cent per mile; making a difference in the rate per mile, of eighty-three hundredths of a cent, equal, for the whole |