[80] Up to this time and afterwards, until the year 1798, there was no Naval Department, or Secretary of the Navy, and the marine, as well as the land force, was under the charge of the Secretary of War—which accounts for the appropriations of the two branches of the service appearing in the same bill.
[81] 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.