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-------------- STATUTES AT LARGE. | DATE. | AMOUNT APPROPRIATED. ----------------------+----------------------+--------------
--------- VOL. PAGE | | III. 533-4 | March 3, 1819 | $100,000 " 764 | " 3, 1823 | 50,000 IV. 141 | " 14, 1826 | 32,000 " 208 | March 2, 1827 | / 36,710 | | \ 20,000 " 302 | May 24, 1828 | 30,000 " 354 | March 2, 1829 | 16,000 " 462 | " 2, 1831 | 16,000 " 615 | Feb. 20, 1833 | 5,000 " 671 | Jan. 24, 1834 | 5,000 V. 157-8 | March 3, 1837 | 11,413.57 " 501 | Aug. 4, 1842 | 10,543.42 " 615 | March 3, 1843 | 5,000 IX. 96 | Aug. 10, 1846 | 25,000 XI. 90 | " 18, 1856 | 8,000 " 227 | March 3, 1857 | 8,000 " 404 | " 3, 1859 | 75,000 XII. 21 | May 26, 1860 | 40,000 " 132 | Feb. 19, 1861 | 900,000 " 219 | March 2, 1861 | 900,000 " 639 | Feb. 4, 1863 | 17,000 XIII. 424 | Jan. 24, 1865 | 17,000 XIV. 226 | July 25, 1866 | 17,000 " 415 | Feb. 28, 1867 | 17,000 XV. 58 | March 30, 1868 | 12,500 " 321 | March 3, 1869 | 12,500 ----------------------+----------------------+--------------
--------- Total, 50 years $2,386,666.99 Minus surpluses re-appropriated (approximate) 48,666.99? -------------- $2,338,000 Cost of squadron, 1843-58, @ $384,500 per year (House Exec. Doc., 31 Cong. 1 sess. IX. No. 73) 5,767,500 Returning slaves on “Wildfire” (Statutes at Large, XII. 41) 250,000 Approximate cost of squadron, 1858-66, probably not less than $500,000 per year 4,000,000? --------------- Approximate money cost of suppressing the slave-trade $12,355,500?
Cf. Kendall’s Report: Senate Doc., 21 Cong. 2 sess. I. No. 1, pp. 211-8; Amer. State Papers, Naval, III. No. 429 E.; also Reports of the Secretaries of the Navy from 1819 to 1860.
