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           OF

THE UNITED STATES.
           January 10, 1817
Read, and ordered to be printed for the use
             of the Senate.
               Treasury Department,
                           January 9th, 1817.
Sir,
    In obedience to the resolution of the Senate of
the 19th ult. relative to the  administration of the    .-   ■*
lund for the relief of sick and. disabled seamen, I         *■
have the honour to transmit the  papers marked A          1
and B.
  From the first  it will appear that the fund ap-
propriated for that object has been more than equal
to the demands which  have  been made  upon it,
notwithstanding the great dimunition of  the fund
during the years  1813, 1814, & 18.5.
       I have the honour to be,
           Your most obedient, and
                 Very humble servant,
                      WM. H. CRAWFORD.
The honourable John Gaillard,     ?>     V
         President of  the Senate jwb. tern.
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                      (A.)

                   A VIEW

    the means, at present in operation, for affording
   relief to the sick and disabled seamen of the United
   States.

               Portsmouth, JY. H.
                                  Amount expended in
                                    the year 18i5.
 The sick seamen are boarded in private
   houses,  and attended  by physicians
   paid at the customary rates,      .      $79 03
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                Portland, Maine.

 Seamen boarded  in  private houses, at
   two and three dollars a week,     ,     282 88

                   . Bbston.

A hospital built, and supported at  the
   expense of the United States, with a
   surgeon,,,who is paid $1,000 a year,
   a steward, who  is paid.$500 a  year,
   with a matron, nurse, cooks, &c.     4,840 14

                  Providence^

Sick seamen boarded  in  private houses
   and  attended by a physician' by  con-
   tract, for $200  a year, including ne-
   cessary medicines,       .       .     340 01
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                  'Newport.

Sick seamen furnished with board at the
  alms-house, at $3  12| per week, the
  physicians' attendance, medicines, hos-
  pital stores, clothing, &e. are a sepa-
  rate charge,       .      «       •    232  $0

                 JYew'London..

Sick seamen boarded in  private houses,
  at $2 50 and $3 a week, a physician
  attends the whojie and furnishes medi-
  cines' by contract, for  $200 a year,    630  9,9

                  Middletown.

Seamen boarded  at private  houses, at
  two and three dollars a week, physi-
  cians' charges separate,        .       $0  6.1

                   New-York.

The seamen  are  received in the New-
  York hospital, where all expenses are
  borne,  except  funeral charges, clo-
  thing, and the pay of a superintend-
  ent of seamen, at $250 a year, for 83
  a week for each  seaman;  for insane
  seamen, an additional charge of$l 50
  a week is made,      .       .      6,530  06

                 Philadelphia.

The sick seamen are received in the
  Pennsylvania  hospital,  and all ex- 
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   penses are borne, except those for in-
   terment and  clothing, for  $3 50 a
   week  for each seaman,      .        7,239 16

                   Baltimore.

 The sick seamen are received at the city
   hospital,  cost of  support  averages
   about  50 cents a day per man, exclu-
   sive of expense for interment and clo-
   thing,        .      # .       .       11,367 14

                   Norfolk.

 A hospital, purchased and supported by
   the Unite1?! States', with a physician at
   an annual salary of $840 dollars, an
   assistant at $600,  a steward, nurse,
   &c.  Provisions for the sick, are  fur-
   nished by  a purveyor, at 25 cenis a
   day for each seamen,        .         4,836 60

                Camden, N. C.

 Sick seamen boarjded in private houses,
   at two and three dollars a week; the
   physicians paid separately,      .      724 65

                   Edenton.

Same, as the last—board three dollars
   a week/       .              .       357 48

                Beaufort, N C.

Same  as  the last*-board four dollars a
   week*  -           .              .    83 $3 
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               Washington, N C.

Same as the last—board two dollars and
  fifty cenfs and three dollars a week,     53  78

               Wilmington, N. C.

Sick  seamen, same as the last—board
  $3 50 a week,       .        .448  Tl

                   Charleston.

The nett amount collected in the port is
  paid to the city  treasurer, the corpo-     *
  ration  engaging  to receive and sup- .,jjj-)f^
  ply such seamen  as are objects of re- "^
  lief, from this fund,       .       .    400  11

                   Savannah.

Sick seamen  are received in the  Savan-
  nah Hospital, and furnished with ev-
  ery thing,  at the rate of $ 4 50, a
  week,  each,          .       .       1,147  21

                  New-Orleans.

The sick  seamen are received in the hos-
  ptal of the charity, and there supplied
  with what is  necessary, except medi-
  cal attendance, at the rate of 7.5 cents
  a  day, each; a  surgeon is paid  by
  the United States, at the rate of 1,000 '
  dollars a year,       .       .       3,976  61

                     Total, Dollars,  43,651  55 
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STATEMENT
Of moneys collected for the Relief Sick and Disabled
  Seamen, and the amount expended in relation there-
  to, from the Year 1802, to 1815, inclusive.

t
                   Moneys Collected.
h the Tear........1802 109,954  56
              1803  54,933  21
              1804
              1805
              1806
              1807
              1808
              1809
              1810
              1811
              1812
              1813
              1814
              1815
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i
58,210  98
58,005  98
66,820  01
61,474  47
36,515  44
74,192  42
54,309  31
54,586  34
42,421  46
21,789  57
10,280  73
28,306  16
Moneys Expended
     250  00
  31,087  36
  84,027  50
  59,828  41
  53,281  98
  65,571  51
  60,883  14
  70,901  75
  36,793  60
  57,109  08
  57,723  11
  53,376  87
  45,226  50
  43,651  55
Total.......Dollars......731,800 65   719,212 38
 Total amount*of moneys collected,  731,800^65
 From  which  deduct amount of mo-
   neys expended,   .  .  ,   .  .   .719,212 38

                         Balance,  12,588 27
•   In addition to the moneys received
.by the collectors for the years 1813,
 1814,  and 1815, there was appropri-
 ated by Congress 20,000 dollars in 
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                  Brought forward,   12,588 27
aid of the fund for each of  those
years,.........  .   60,000 00

By which it would  appear that there
   is a balance remaining,  of   .  .  $ 72,588 27

           Treasury Department
    Register's Office, December 30, 1816.

               JOSEPH NOURSE, Register. 
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                    .  <B.)

 Copy.

         Treasury Department, May 2\th, 1799.

 Sir,
     I herewith transmit a copy  of an act of Con-
 gress, passed on the second oT March  last, enti-
 tled " i^n act in  addition to an act for the relief of
 sick and disabled seamen."
   It was hoped  that an, arrangement could have
 been formed^before this time for the establishment
 of permanent hospitals.  Itappears, however, that
 tliis subject has been placed by the act of the last
 session " to regulate thejiiedical  establishment,"
 under  the immediate superintendence of the phy-
 sician-general; jthe object of this communication is
 therefore confined to a provision for the  temporary
 relief'and suppojt of sick and disabled seamen in
 public  and  private service.
   For the present, and until experience shall have
 shoWn'thc ex^edie^cy of a  different arrangement,
 the moneys cojlected in the States of Pennsylvania
 and Delaware, and in the western districts of New-
 Jersey, will, be expended under your direction, at
 or near Philadelphia;  and  accordingly  the  sums
 collected at the out-ports, will, fron* time to time,
be placed "in your hands in pursuance of special
 directions, of which you will be advised.
  The persons entitled to relief from the fund, are
officers, seamen,  and  marines of the navy of the
 United States, and masters, manners, and seamen
employed in private or merchant vessels.
  I think proper to mention that there may be 
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some danger of a diversion  of the fund for the
maintenance of persons who  ought, to be relieved
as paupers under municipal regulations.  As abu-
ses of tins khid, if practised  to any considerable
extent,  will defeat the humane iutenjjgfrs of .Con-
gress, in the establishment of permanent hospitals,
for the support of disabled seamen, this ought to
be carefully prevented.
   It is, however, the object  of the law, that the
expenditure of the fund for temporary relief should
be made at the hospitals, pr  ojther proper  institu-
tions now*4fitablished jri, the ports of the  United
States.   You'will, of course, endeavour to fix, by
precise  agreements, the conditions kupon  whfch
the sjck ami! disabled  sfeamen  shouldjlbe received
and supplied with vvjjatever  the||lhecessit!es may
require, and will transmit 'the'copies of the con-
tracts wlfich may. be formed »to this office. "In ca-
ses where agreements cannot  be made, you will
pursue  estaijiished  usages respecting  similar ex-
penditures, observing all possible economy. • " .
   It is ri;;t expected that you should  personalty
superintend the details of expenditure ;  an agree-
ment, therefore, vvith some individual or corpora-
tion tha't the  fiMd shall  be^P^pe'Uy applied, ap-*
pears to be indispensable*)?. .Ffie^,acc»unls'must he
rendered to  voifcat  'least quarterly,*!1! sported by
siich vouchers as;are  usual,  anfck as circumstances
will adiii^'of^beihgjtaken ;  wbi^, after"eftftmina-
tion. will £e ic.id out of the monev's Ih your  hands.
   You  will bo pleased to keep ali your aflcounfs oT
receipts'and^cNpcndilirfYs for this fund distinct
Irom  your o'l^er accounts.  t  The  quarterly ab-
stracts of tlr;  futfcharc to be rendered agreeably to
the C-ovin prescribed bythe letter o^tiio comptiqf-
J,-r of the Treasury, daled the"19th of September,
IT')*!:  tijc quar^-'i'v accounts of Expenditure are 
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.to be rendered  agreeably to  the  .subjoined  form,
and the  whole regularly  introduced  into  an
account current, which is to  be transmitted every
quarter.
         I am, very respectfully, Sir,
                Your obedient servant.

George Lattimer, esq.
  Collector of Philadelphia. 
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