The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-14

/ efs ana sixteen assistant keepers OF lighthouses,
(seventeen Of them charged with double, and two
with triple lights one hundred thousand Ave hun
dred and lightweight dollars and hlrty-three cents
| For salaries Of thirty keepers Of floating lights,
sixteen thousand dollars;
I For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies Of thiT-
| ~ floating lights, elghty-one thousand seven hun
dred and eleven dollars and slxty-two cents;
! For weighing moOring, cleansing, repairing, and
supplying the loss Of beacons, buoys, chains, and
slnkers, twenty-slx thousand four hundred and
Ihrty-one dollars and slxty'nlne cents;
| For procuring, locating and moorlng buoys at
such places as the Secretary Of The Treasury may
designate, and where he shall deem them to be ne
Cessary for the safety OF navigation, i've thousand
dqllaTs;
For expenses of rebuilding the Cape Florida light
house, Florida, thirteen thousand dollars;
For expenses Of rebuilding Martnicus rock light
house, Maine, eleven thousand dollars
For the maintenance Of the light on the Delaware
breakwatsr, including four hundred dollars for the
salary Of keeper, eight hundred dollars;
For expenses incurred by superintendents in Wis.
ting their lighthouses annually, and examining
and reporting the condition OF each, two thousand
dollars;
i For supeTintendents' commissions, at two and
half per eentum, ten thousand thirty-eight dollars
and seyenty-seyen cents.
/ SURVEYS or PUBLIC LANDS.
For salary Of assistant surveyor, 10 survey the
private claims in Florida, under the direction and
supervision Of the surveyor general IN Florida one
thousand dollars;
For salary of an assistant surveyor to have charge
and oversight OF the resuTyeys m the GreensbuTg
(ate ST. Heena) district, Louisiana, under the d.
recIon and supervision Of the surveyor general Of
Louisiana, one thousand dollars;
Fer pay OF chain carriers, markers, transporta-
ton, provisions, DC, ono thousand hve hundred
dollars
n For surveying the public lands, to be apportioned
the several districts according to the exgences Of
the ubc service, one hundred and ten thousand
[ dollars;
For surveying the copper region OF Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Iowa, with reference TO mines and
minerals, thirty thousand dollars;
For the correction Of erroneous and defective sur
veys west Of Saginaw bay, in Michigan, at a rate
not exceeding ak dollars per mile, FIVE thousand
eight hundred asd eighty dollars;
ii For detached surveys in Missouri, at a rate not
exceeding five dollars per mile on account Of diff
culues in surveying lakes, swamps, &c, four thou
sand one hundred and fifty dollarsI
For the survey Of towns and villages in Missouri,
named in the act Of tventy-sixth May, eighteen
hundred and twenty four, including oice-work, in
addition to the balance Of the appropriation Of the
third March, eighteen hundred and forty.hree, for
, that object, two thousand dollars;
For surveying that part of Arkansas where, in
consequence Of local attraction, the ordinary COM
pass cannot be used at rate not exceeding eight
dollars per mile, four thousand eight hundred dol.
lars;
For surveys at augmented rates, in louisiana,
three thousand seven hundred and four dollars
For surveys in the Greensburg district Louis
ana now in the course Of execution, in addition to
former appropriations, twenty thousand four hundred
, dollars;
For retraeing old lines in the district west OF
Pearl river, to supply deficiencies now existing in
those surveys, al Ave dollars and dollars per
mile, in addition to balance Of appropriations for
same object, Of the third March, eighteen hundred
e. IL. oh al h,,,
thirteen dollars.
/ INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
For salaries Of ministers to Great Britain France,
Russia Prussia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil sixty
three thousand dollars;
For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same
places, fourteen thousand dollars;
For outfit Of minister to Great Britain, nine
thousand dollars
For salaries Of charges des affaires TO Portugal
, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium
Chill, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela, Naples, Sar.
DINA, and Buenos Ayres, htyeight thousand five
hundred dollars
For salary of minister resident TO Turkey, six
I thousand dolsrsi
For salary ola dragoman TO the legation TO Tur.
key, two thousand Ave hundred dollars;
, For the salary OF commissioner to reside in
China FIVE thousand dollars Provided No part Of
this sum shall be paid unless the said commissioner
, actually resides in China;
e For the salary of a secretary and Chinese inter
} prefer, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For contingent expenses Of all the missions abroad
thirty thousand dollars;
For contingent expenses Of foreign intercourse
5 thirty thousand dollars;
For salary of the consul at London, two Thousand
!, dollars;
For clerk hire, Office rent, and other expenses
the office Of the consul al London two thousand eigh
I hundred dollars;
For compensation of commissioner to the Sand
wr n islands three thousand dollars:
For interpreters, guards, and other expenses o.
the consulates at Constantnople Smyrna, and Alex
andra, fifteen hundred dollars;
> For payment in full to Benjamin E. Green fol
services while employed in Mexico, charge daft
fairs three thousand dollars;
ii For the relief aad protection of American seamer
: in foreign countries seventy-hve thousand dollars;
For carrying into effect the acts for the suppress
sion of the slave trade, including the support Of
captured Africans and their removal to their coun.
a try, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For completing the maps, specifications, and as
Economical computations of the line of boundary be-
: tween the United States and tne British provinces
n heretofore run and established, run and marked
by the joint commission RS, under the treaty OF
e Washington, twenty thousand dollars, and foi
transmitting to the respective States, whose bounda
g res affected thereby, authentic copies thereof
SEC. 2. find be il further enacted, That in addition
to the assistant appraisers authorized by law at the
l. port Of New York, there may be appointed in the
mode now prescribed py law, one auuluonai ASSIST
ant appraiser at said port, at salary, heretofore
esta blshed, of fifteen hundred dollars per annum
to be paid out of any money in the treasury moi
otherwise appropriated: Prouided said salary shal
u not commence, or appointment take effect, prior
= to the hrtieth Of November next, and in apprais.
ing all goods, at any port of the United Staes here
tofore subjected to specific duties, but upon which
!, ad valorem duties are imposed by the act of the
thirteth of July last, entitled "An act reducing the
duty imports and for other purposes" reference
shall be had to values and invoices Of similar goods
imported during the last fiscal year, under such
general and uniform regulations for the prevention
Of fraud or differentiation shall be prescribed by
y the Secretary Of the Treasury.
SEC. g. Aad be il further enacted, That it shall be
lawful for the respective heads Of departments to
continue in service during the current fiscal year the
officers and persons, and at the salaries and compen
sations authorized in the act approved twenty-sixth
: Of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty
two, entitled "An act legalzing and making appro
priatons for such necessary objects as have been
usually included in the general appropriation bills
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