12/05/1805
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"The portion actually completed has rendered the situation of the persons confined much more comfortable and secure than it has been heretofore."
"Their services to be compensated are from the 1st day of June last."
"I now lay before Congress the annual account of the fund established for defraying the contingent charges of Government."
"A single article of $1,440, paid for bringing home 72 seamen discharged in foreign ports from vessels sold abroad, is the only expenditure from that fund."