Letter from the Secretary of War, to the Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, containing observations on the appropriations for the military service of the United States, for the years 1817, and 1818. January 14, 1818. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House, on the bill making appropriations for the payment of the arrearages which have been incurred for the support of the military establishment of the United States, previous to 1st January, 1817. [electronic resource]