Commandant Samuel L. Breese Letter 24 June 1852
Commandants Office
Navy Yard Gosport
June 21st 1852
Sir,
I have received your letter of the 23rd inst. in relation to the Magazine and Keepers House at Fort Norfolk.
It is to be regretted that the sum necessary to complete the Magazine will not be included in the appropriation for the ensuing year. The cause of the omission in the last estimate from the Yard was no oversight. The item was left out, as I am informed by direction of my predecessor who in consequence of a change in the plan of the building by the Bureau called attention to the insufficiency of the sum allotted for it, in his letter of April 23d 1851. And again on the 25th April 51 having forwarded a schedule of the additional materials required, with estimates of the additional sum that would be wanted for its completion in accordance with the plan as altered, he deemed it unnecessary to include the amount in the general estimates. It appears that these additional materials were included in the contract, but no provision has yet been made for the additional sums.
I am Very Respectfully,
your obedient servant,
Sam. L. Breese
Captain
Comm Joseph Smith
Chief of the Bureau of Yards & Docks
Washington
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Letters Recieved from Commandants of Navy Yards -- Norfolk
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Box No. 157, Entry 5