Note 81 — FOURTH CONGRESS.—FIRST SESSION. (continued 11)

The whole sum appropriated for the Military and Naval Establishments of the year, was, $1,318,873—the strength of the army being 3000 men, and the debate is given as an instance of the closeness with which appropriations were scrutinized in the early ages of the Government, and also as showing the expense of maintaining troops in the north-west—then as far off (time and cost considered) as our Pacific possessions now are.