SAMUEL SMITH Autograph Letter Signed S Smith as Representati

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SAMUEL SMITH. Autograph Letter Signed, "S. Smith," as Representative, to unnamed recipients ("Dear Sirs"), sending in the text of the letter the beginning of a draft of a bill objecting to the rapid increase in allocations for the Navy. 1 page, 4to; short closed tears at side edges, folds. "Capitol Hill" [Washington], 18 November 1820

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"In perfect confidence I submit the following proposition--and should be obliged by your preparing a Bill in conformity:

"On the 16 April 1816 an Act passed appropriating for the gradual increase of the Navy one million pr. annum for 8 years . . . . It appears to me that it is not necessary at this time of extreme difficulty to progress so fast . . . ."

Samuel Smith (1752-1839) served in the Continental Army throughout the War, later repeatedly elected to both the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate, 1816-33.

From the Collection of William Wheeler III.