Joseph Smith Letter 2 July 1852
Bureau of Yards & Docks
2 July 1852
Captain,
The statement of balance of Naval Appropriations, shows a balance in the treasury to the credit of Magazine at Norfolk of two thousand four hundred twenty two dollars and forty seven cents on the 1st instant; you will go on therefore until this sum is expanded, applying so much thereof as may be necessary to pay for the Bricks yet due under the contract with Pendergast for the Magazine, and the residue so far as it will go, to labor and the same. The Bureau does not see why the work on the Magazine was suspended before all the funds applicable to that object have been exhausted.
Respectfully,
yr ob st,
Jos Smith
Capt. S. L. Breese
Norfolk
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National Archives, Record Group 71 Records of the Bureau of Yards and Docks
Records of the Office of the Chief of Bureau, 1820 - 1946.
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