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- GLC#
- GLC05997
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 7 March 1866
- Author/Creator
- Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878
- Title
- to James Wilson Grimes
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 2 p. : docket ; Height: 33.3 cm, Width: 21.3 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Written in secretarial hand and signed by Secretary of the Navy Welles to Grimes, U.S. Senator from Iowa who chaired the Committee on Naval Affairs. Wants to "invite your attention" to the estimate submitted last November to provide for the deficiency in the appropriation for the re-establishment of the Naval Academy at Annapolis and its support for the fiscal year starting 30 June 1866. Says it appears to have been overlooked. Says the money is needed badly because it has already been expended or obligations incurred to spend it. Also wants 20,000 dollars to erect a building at the academy for the department of steam engineering. Says the department is newly introduced and highly important. Says no exact estimates on the building can be given, but that it will not be over 20,000 dollars. Claims only as much as is needed will be used.
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