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SUBMITTED BY THE
Chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs,
IN RELATION TO
THE BILL IN ADDITION TO AN ACT
ESTABLISHING
          April 15, 1824.
Printed by order of the Senate of the United States
    WASHINGTON:


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                              Navy Department, March, 1824.

     Sir: In answer to the Resolution of the House of Representatives,
   of the 20th January, that "the Commissioners of Navy Hospitals be
   directed to report to this House the amount of the sums which they
   have received and expended  by virtue of the act, entitled ** An act
   establishing Navy Hospitals," the balance  remaining in their hands
   on the 31st of December, 1823,  designating the sum which has been
   'absorbed in the pay of the Navy,'  and which is due to the Hos-
   pital Fund;'"  and what measures they have  adopted, to carry into
   effect the provisions of said act;" we have the honor to enclose a copy
   of* letter from the Fourth Auditor of the Treasury, marked A, with
   a statement of the accounts in the Auditor's Office, marked B, shew-
   ing the receipts and disbursements of said fund,  up to the 31st De-
   cember, 1823.
     The law, separating the Naval from the Marine  Hospital Fund,
   was passed on the 26th February, 1811.  On that day a balance  of
   & 3,782 86, standing to the credit of the Marine Hospital Fund, was
   carried to the credit of the Naval  Hospital Fund.  This sum, with
   the deductions authorized by law, from  the pay of the officers, sea-
   men,  and marines, constitutes the whole of the Naval Hospital  Fund.
   These deductions have be*n  regularly made, whenever the officers,
   seamen,  and marines, have received their pay, and the sums .so de-
   ducted, have been left in  the " Pay of the Navy," which is, of course,
   responsible  for them.  They were not, in  the first instance, drawn
   from the " Pay of the Navy" at the times in  which they accrued, in
   consequence of the war,  which succeeded the passage of the law, and
   were left in the  same situation for several years afterwards.
     By the  report made on the 29th October, 1823, it appears, that
   the balance to the credit of the Fund at that time,  was & 117,074 34j
   since  which, the deductions from the pay of the officers, seamen, aud
   marines, and for which the " Pay of the Navy" is responsible, have
   amounted to  §2,638 61; making the Navy  Hospital Fund, on the
"  31st  December, 1823,  amount to SI 19.712 95, exclusive of the
   amount which has been under the control of the Commissioners.
     After the establishment of the fund in February, 1811, and  before
   the 30th September, 1821, the  expenditures  by the  Commissioners
   amounted to §10,652  85; since that time, there has been drawn and
   placed in the hands  of the Treasurer of the United States, subject to
   the orders of the Commissioners, §43,335 87; and in  September,
   1823, §18,000 were paid for a  site for  a Naval  Hospital, near the
   Navy Yard, at Charlestons,  Mass.  These three sums added to-
   gether, make §7l,9bS 72, which, added to the sum of §119,712 95,
   for which the «• pay of the Navy" is responsible, makes §191,701 67,
   being the whole amount  of money which has accrued to the land since
   .its establishment.

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   From this  statement, it will  be perceived  that the only  funds
 which the Commissioners can immediately control for the  objects of
 the law, are  those in the hands of  the Treasurer, viz: §43,335  87.
 The debt due from  the  ** pay  of the Navy," can only be paid  as
 halances of the appropriations for  that object  shall  remain at  the
 end of the year; and  as these appropriations  are  founded  upon esti-
 mates, calculated with great care  and accuracy, and are barely ade-
 quate to accomplish their object, it is manifest that it  will  be a long
 time before the fund  is repaid, and  the Commissioners will have the
 control of all the means which properly belong to it.   The  delay will
 greatly postpone the accomplishment of the benevolent purposes of
 the law creating the  fund, and do injustice to those who  have con-
 tributed to it, and who, by the delay, will be deprived  of its benefits.
   With a view to avoid  the difficulties which have heretofore existed
 on this subject, an order has been given to the Fourth  Auditor of the
 Treasury, to make out, at the end of each quarter, from the returns
 of the disbursing officers, a statement of all moneys accruing to  the
 Naval Hospital Fund during the quarter, and give a regular certifi-
 cate of the amount, that a warrant  may be issued for the  same, in
 favor of the Agent of the Fund.  By this means  it  will, at the end
 of each quarter, receive all the money to which it is entitled, and  the
 "pay of the Navy" will not become any further indebted to it.
  In  September, 1823,  the  Commissioners  purchased a site for a
 Hospital, adjoining the Navy Yard at Charlestown, Mass.  for which
 they paid §18,000, and have made  a contract for another  site, near
the Navy Yard at Brooklyn,  N. Y.   These are all  " the  measures
they have adopted to  carry into effect the provisions of the act."
                          Respectfully,  &c.
                                   SAML. L.  SOUTHARD.
To the Honorable the Speaker
      Of the House of Representatives, 
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                            A,

        Treasury Department,
               Fourth Auditor's Office, 26th January, 1824.

  Sir: In obedience to the request contained in your letter of the 21st
inst. enclosing a resolution of the House of Representatives, relative
to the " Naval Hospital Fund," I have the honor to report:
  That, from the 26th February, 1811, to the 31st December, 1823,
there has been passed to the credit of said fund, on the books of this
office, and those of the Accountant of the Navy, the
sum of........§187,918 81
To which must be added,  a balance standing to the
  credit of the " Marine Hospital Fund," on the 26th
  February,  1811,  and carried to the  credit of the
  " Naval Hospital Fund,"      -    -    -           3,782 86
                                                   191,701 67
From this sum, is to be deducted amount of
  expenditures, to 30th September, 1821,  10,652 85
Moneys drawn, and placed in the hands of
  the Treasurer of the United States,      43,335 87
Money drawn,  in September, 1823, for the
  payment of land purchased for a Naval
  Hospital site at Boston      -    -    18,000 00
                                       ---------71,988 72
§ 119,712 95
  Leaving a balance, to the  credit of the " Naval Hospital Fund,"
on the books of this office, on the Slst December, 1823, of one hun-
dred and nineteen thousand   seven hundred and twelve dollars, and
ninety -five cents, the whole of which has been absorbed in the " Pay
of  the Navy," and for which the appropriation for that object is
responsible.
               I have the honor to be, Sir,
                   W ith great respect, your obedient serv't.
                               CONST. FREEMAN, Auditor.
The Hon. Samuel L.  Southard,
               Secretary of the Navy. 
Br.
To balance dueN. H. Fund,
B.
Navy Hospital Fund.
Oi
Cr.
§119,712 95TV
By balance standing at the credit of the
  Navy Hospital Fund, on the 1st day
  of October, 1823, per report trans-
  mitted 29th October, 1823,
By  amount carried to the credit of said
  fund, from the 1st day of October to
  the 31st day of December, 1823,   -
By balance brought down,
§117,074 S4-&
2,638  61
,119,712 95T\
19,712 95/^
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Treasury Department,

            Fourth Auditor's Office, 26th January, 1824.
CONST. FREEMAN, Auditor.