Secretary of the Navy business, 1831 - 1834

Contents are primarily letters documenting naval officer appointments and orders issued. Other letters document naval budget decisions, military deployment and supply. Several letters document the Jackson administration's opposition to the Second U.S. Bank. Of note is an 1833 letter to the Commander of the Philadelphia Naval Yard approving the hiring of "colored persons" as seamen and a portion of an 1831 document signed by Woodbury and Andrew Jackson.