[US House Report]. Navy Contracts, &c. for 1830.

Published by 21st Congress, Washington DC, 1831

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Removed, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 23 pages, some foxing. 21st Congress, 2d Session. Doc. No. 42. Letter from the Secretary of the Navy, transmitting A statement of purchases and contracts made by the Commissioners of the Navy during the year 1830.This document will give you insight into how the US Navy operated in 1830. It lists, in detail, every purchase and every contract for all of the goods used in the Navy. It gives you the name of the contractors in the ports of Portsmouth, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, Norfolk, and lists all of the goods purchased in those ports. Everything from paints and oils, groceries, Navy bread, Navy beef, Navy pork, cordage, clothing, mattresses, copper, canvas, timber, chanslwey, stationary (an amazing amount of paper), and contracts for firewood, fresh beef & vegetables, charcoal, cutlasses and scabbards (1,000 each), hay, logs, pistols, etc., etc., etc.Also, Freight of Stores for the United States' Squadrons, for ship Benjamin Morgan, brig Leavitts, ship Henry Thompson, brig James Ramsay, ship London, ship Italy, and ship General Hand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: [US House Report]. Navy Contracts, &c. for 1830.
• Publisher: 21st Congress, Washington DC
• Publication Date: 1831
• Binding: Pamphlet
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Americana