The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-09-04
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out Of the patent fund :
LIGHTHOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.
n, For supplying lighthouses, contain
w ing two thousand Ave hundred and
seventy-seyen lamps, with oil, tube
glasses, buffskins, whiting, and
90 eotton-eloth, expenses of transport
tation, and for keeping the lighting
90 apparatus in repair
For repairs, incidental expenses, re-
fitting, and Improvements Of light
houses and buildings connected
Herewith
For salaries of two hundred and thir-
90 ty-six keepers and sixteen assist.
D 00 ant keepers of lighthouses, (seyen-
teen Of them charged with double,
90 and two with triple lights) :
For salaries Of thirty keepers Of float
ing lights :
w For seamen's wages, repairs, and
supplies Of thirty floating lights =
0 90 For weighing, mooring, cleansing
=. repairing, and supplying the los.
0 % OF beacons, buoys, chains, and
sinkers :
For procuring, locating, and moor
0 % ing buoys at such places as the
Secretary Of the Treasury may
eesignaie, and where he shall doeun
0 90 them 10 be necessary for the safety
Of navigation
For expenses Of rebuilding the Caps
D 90 Florida Lighthouse, Florida
For expenses Of rebuilding Martini
0 0O Gus rock lighthouse, Maine
For the maintenance Of the light on
the Delaware breakwuter, includ.
Q w ing four hundred dollars for III,
salary ofkeeper
For expenses incurred by superin-
tendents in visiting their light
houses annually, and examining
3 AZ and reporting the condition Of each
For superintendents' commissions,
at two and half per centum
SURVEYS or PUBLIC LANDS
For salary Of an assistant surveyor,
"a 10 survey the private claims In
Florida, under the direction and sd
peryison of the surveyor general
in Florida
80 For salary Of an assistant surveyor,
to have charge and oversight Of the
resuryeys in the Greensburg (late
ST. Helena) district, louisiana, un-
der the direction and supervision OF
the surveyor general Of louisiana .
For pay Of chain carriers, markers,
trans portation, provisions, &c. =
For surveying the public lands, to be
apportioned TO the several districts
according TO the exigencies Of the
public service
For surveying the copper region OF
Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa,
with reference to mines and mine
rails .
For the correction Of erroneous and
w defective surveys west of Saginaw
bay, in Michigan, at a rate not ex-
ceeding six dollars per mile
For-detached surveys in Missouri, at
w rate not exceeding FIVE dollars per
mile, on account of difficulties in
surveying lakes, swamps, &c. =
W For the survey oftowns and villages in
Missouri, named in the act OF TWEEN
ty-sixth May, eighteen hundred
and twenty -four, including Office
work, in addition to the balance Of
w the appropriation of the third
March, eighteen hundred and forty
three, for that object =
For surveying that part Of Arkansas
w where, in consequence of local at
traction, the ordinary compass can
not be used, at rate not exceed
ing eight dollars per mile =
For surveys at augmented rates, in
Louisiana #E - =
For surveys in the Greensburg dis
tdct, Louisiana, now in the course
Of execution, in addition TO former
appropriations -
90 For retracing old lines in the district
west of Pearl river, to supply def
ciencies now existing in those sur
veys, at five dollars and seven dol
lars per mile, in addition to balance
Of appropriations for same object,
Of the third March, eighteen hun
dred and forty-three =
INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN Ma,
.....f TONS. ..
For salaries Of ministers to Great
Britain, France, Russia, Prussia,
Spain, Mexico, and Brazil :
49, For salaries of secretaries of legation
/, 10 to the same places =
For outfit Of a minister to Great
Britain --.st =
For salaries of charges des affaires to
w Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Swe-
den, Holland, Belgium, Chilli,
Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela,
oo Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos
Ayres =, -
For salary of a minister resident to
Turkey :
For salary ola dragoman to the lega-
ton to Turkey
For the salary Of commissioner to
% reside in China :
For the salary Of secretary and
Chinese interpreter
For contingent expenses of all the
missions abroad :
For contingent expenses Of foreign
intercourse :
For salary of the consul at London
For clerk hire, Office rent, and other
expenses of the Office ofthe consul
at London !" 81
For compensation Of commissioner
to the Sandwich islands =
For interpreters, guards, and other
expenses Of the consulates at Con-
m stantinople, Smyrna, and Alexan-
w dria 10
For payment in full to Benjamin e.
Green for services while employed
in Mexico, as charge des affaires
For the relief and protection Of Amer
lean seamen in foreign countries :
For carrying into effect the acts for
the suppression Of tho slave trade,
including the support Of recaptur-
ed Africans, and their removal to
their country = .,n#-E 88t 49,
50 For completing the maps, specifca-
tons, and astronomical compute
tons Of the line OF boundary be-
tween the United States and the
70 British provinces, heretofore run
and established, or run and marked
Il by the joint commissioners, under
40 the treaty Of Washington, and for
transmitting to the respective
States, whose boundaries are af-
fected thereby, authentic copies
thereof "l#H- =
=. And in addition to the assistant APP
70 praisers authorized by law at tho