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 department has been created for checking the delivery and returns of tores, medicines, and necearies of every urgeon in the navy, as well as of the urgeons and agents of hopitals at home and abroad.

The relief thus afforded to the Navy Board, by removing the tranport buines from under their control, till left their etablihment unequal to providing for the widely extended operations of this war, which rendered a coniderable increae to it abolutely indipenable. The number of commiioners of the navy was found altogether unequal to checking the expenditure in its various branches, providing at the ame time for a firt and cloe examination of accompts, as well of the receipt and expenditure of tores as of cah; epecially as, on foreign tations in particular, opportunities were afforded for abues to an immene extent, from the want (of a uperlntending and controling authority on the pot: the bet remedy for which it was conceived would be the appointment of reident commiioners at certain places abroad, where there had been none before. On the whole, between 1798 and 1809, there were added eleven principal officers and commiioners of the navy at home, including thoe