2. Regulations for receiving, preserving, issuing, and strictly accounting for the expenditure of materials and stores of all kinds, and in every Department of the Service, within The United States. 3. Regulations for surveying and authenticating the actual state and condition of all the Ships and Vessels of the Navy, and of all the materials and stores of every species, reported to be decayed, damaged, or defective; and for directing the repair, conversion, sale, or other disposition of the same, as the nature of the case may require. 4. A more perfect system of General Regulations for the Naval Service, at Sea and on the Lakes. 5. General Regulations for the Flotilla, or Force employed in Harbour defence, adapted to the peculiar nature of that Service. 6. Uniform Regulations for the Navy Yards, or Arsenals, and Depôts of stores and materials. 7. Regulations for the Cruizing Ships and Vessels of the Navy, while in port; for the Recruiting Service; and for the Officers of the Navy, while on shore, on duty, or on furlough; in order to ascertain the actual state and local situation of all the Officers. S. A system of detailed Regulations for the Naval Hospitals, and Medical Department of the Navy, within The United States. 9. An entire and new system of Regulations for the conduct of Pursers in the Navy, accurately defining their duties; securing a more strict accountability; limiting their emoluments by a fixed and reasonable standard; and protecting the Seamen of the Navy from the undue advantages which may be practised with impunity, under the present System. 10. Regulations for ascertaining, by examination, the moral character and professional qualifications of all the Officers of the Navy, below the grade of a Master-Commandant, classing them in the scale of their several merits; and of the pretensions of those who may be selected for promotion, as well as of the Candidates for Warrant Appointments in the Navy. All which Regulations, when approved by the President of The United States, shall be established and obeyed, until revoked by the same authority. The duties and details of service, proposed to be assigned to the several Inspectors of the Navy, may be classed as follows: 1st Class. Comprehending the general Correspondence of the Board, and preparation of all the Reports, Estimates, and Statements, required by the Department; and the communication of such propositions and information to the Secretary of the Navy, as the Board may deem interesting; and also the general charge and direction of the Flotilla Service on the New Orleans' Station. 2nd Class. Comprehending the general Military Correspondence with all the Officers of the Navy; the Roll of the Officers of the Navy, and Record of their services, merits, and qualifications, to be kept on the files of the Board; Orders for Courts of Inquiry and Courts-Martial, and the preparation of all the Documents and Statements connected with these objects; also the general charge and direction of the Flotilla Service on the Southern Stations, viz., Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Norfolk. 3rd Class. Comprehending the direction of Ordnance and Transportation; the general superintendence of the boundaries, laboratories, armouries, and other works connected with the Naval Ordnance Department, and the inspection and proof of arms, ammunition, &c. The direction of the transportation of all Persons, stores, and provisions of the Navy, by land and water; and the general charge and direction of the Flotilla Service in the Patapsco and Delaware, and New York. 4th Class. Comprehending the victualling, sustenance, including Pursers', medical, and hospital stores; also the general charge and direction of the Flotilla Service, on all the Naval Stations from New York eastward, and on Lake Champlain. 5th Class. Comprehending the supply of hemp, yarns, cordage, sail duck, iron and other metals, anchors, and all other equipments and materials required for the Service, except those which are included in the foregoing classes, and in the Constructor's Department; and also the general charge and direction of the Service on Lake Ontario, and the Upper Lakes. The superintendence and direction of these 5 Classes of objects would be distributed among the 5 Inspectors. The Department of Construction, under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy, and of the Board of Inspectors, would prepare all the drafts, plans, and instructions, for the building of all the Vessels of the Navy; construct the models, and, when approved, direct and superintend, under the control of the Board of Iuspectors, the building and repairing of the Ships, Vessels, Boats, the formation of masts, spars, &c., and the contracting for procuring all the materials of wood, and of copper, in pigs, bolts, and sheets, necessary for the supply of the Navy; construct from the lines, in the mould left, all the moulds requisite for moulding and bevelling the timber in the forest, under the direction of skilful Persons to be employed by the Coustructor for that purpose, and superintend the construction of wharves, ships, workshops, and engines, required in building and] repairing Ships of War. It is a copious subject, in which it is difficult to combine brevity with perspicuity. My aim has been to provide a practical, efficient, and economical System, with as much individual and collective responsibility as may be attainable; and I feel a persuasion that the result would not greatly disappoint the estimate I have formed: the wisdom of the Senate will better appreciate its merits. I have the honour to be, with the highest respect, Sir, your obedient Servant, The Hon. the President of the Senate. W. JONES. REPORT of the Secretary of the Treasury to Congress, transmitting a Statement of the Exports of The United States, for the Year ending 30th September, 1812.11th February, 1813. SIR, Treasury Department, 11th February, 1813. I HAVE the honour to transmit a Statement of the Exports of The United States, during the Year ending the 30th of September, 1812, amounting, in articles of Domestic Produce and Manufacture, to......... ...... 30,032,109 And, in articles of Foreign Produce and Manufacture, to ... 8,495,127 Dollars, 38,527,236 Which Articles appear to have been exported to the following Countries, viz.: Domestic. Foreign. To the Dominions of Spain and Portugal ......16,743,046 1,944,324 Great Britain................................. 9,887,450 704,382 France, Italy, & Holland 573,478 2,570,012 To all other Countries, or not distinctly stated 2,828,135 3,276,409 Dollars, 30,032,109 8,495,127 I have the honour to be, &c., ALBERT GALLATIN. The Hon. the Speaker of the House of Representatives. |