State journal & flag., 1846-12-04

Fof expenses OF rounding MarilnicuS ROCK
light>house, Maine, eleven thousand dollars
For the maintenance of tue lights on the
Delaware break water, including four hundred
dollars for the salary Of keeper, eight hundred
dolrs;
For expenses incurred by superlntendents
in visiting their lighthouse annually, and ex>
amaminng and reporting the condition of each,
two thousand dollars;
For superintendent commissions, at two
aud half per centum, ten thousand thirty
ell ut dollars and seventy.seven cents.
SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS.
For sa larv of an assistant S nrveyor, to sur.
vey the private claims in Forida, under the d.
rection and supervision of the surveyor gene.
raj in Florida, one thousand dollars;
For salary of an assistant surveyor, to have
churge and oversight of the fesurveys in the
Greensburg Gate ST Helena) district Louisiana,
under the direction and supervision of the SUI
veyor general OF Louisiana, one thousand dol
lars;
For pay of chain carriers, markers, transport
tation, provisions, &C., one thousand five hun.
drcd dollars
For surveying the public lands, to he APP
portloned to the several districts according 10
the exigencies of the public service, one hun.
drod and ten thousand dollars;
For surveying the coper region of Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Iowa, with reference to mines
and minerals, thirty thousand. dollars
For the correction Of erroneous and defective
surveys west of Seganaw bay, in Michigan, at
a rate not exceeding siA dollars per mile, FIVE
thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars
For de ached surveys in Missouri at a rate
not exceeding five dollars per mile on account
OF difficulties IN surveying lakes, swamDs, &C.,
four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars ;
For the survey Of towns aud villages in Mis-
souri, named in the act of twenty. slxth MAY,
eighteen hundred and twenty -four, including
office work, in addition to the balance of the
appropriation of the third March, eighteen hun
dred and forty three, for that object, two thou
sand dollars;
For surveying that part of Arkansas where,
in consequence of local attraction the ordinary
compass, cannot be used, at rate not exceed
ing eight dollars per mile, four thousand eight
hundred dolars
For surveys at augmented rates. in Louisia-
ne, three thousand seven hundred and four dol
lars;
For surveys in The Greensbnrg district, Lou,
isiana, now in the course Of execution, in ad
diton to former appropriations, twenty thou
sand four hundred dollars;
For retracing old lines, in the district west OF
Pearl river, to supply Deficiencies now existing
in those surveys, at five dollars and seven doll
lars per mile, IN addition to balance of approprl-
atoms for same object, of the third March,
eighteen hundred and forty three, aighteen thou
sand one hundred and thirteen dollars.
INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN Ma
TIONS.
For salaries of ministers to Great Britain.
France, Russia, Prussia, Span, Mexico, and
Brazil, sixty three thousand dollars;
For salaries of secretaries Of legation TO the
same places, fourteen thousand dollars
For outfit of minister 10 Great Britain,
nine thousand dollars;
For salaries of charges des affaires to Por-
tugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland
Belgium, Chill, Peru, New Grencda, Venezeu-
Ia, Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos Ayres, fifty
eight thousand five hundred dollars
For salary of minister resident to Turkey,
six thousand dollars,
For salary of dragoman to the legation to
Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For the salary of commissioner to reside in
China, five thousand dollars Propided, Nc
part of this sum shall be paid unless the said
commissioner actually resides in China
For the salary of secretary and Chinese
interpreter, two thousand five hundred dollars;
t
abroad, thirty thousand dollars;
For contingent expenses OF foreign inter-
course, thirty thousand dollars
For salary to the consul at London, two thou
sand dollars
For clerk hire office rent ard other expen-
ses Of the office of the consul at London two
thousand dollars
For compensation of commissioner to the
Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars;
For interpreters, guards, and other expenses
of the consulates at Conslantnople, Smyrna,
and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars
For payment in full to Benjamin f.. Green
for services while employed in MexIco,as charge
dallairs, three thousand dollars;
For the relief and protection of American sea.
men in foreign countries, seventy-fiye thousand
dollars;
For carrying into effect the acts for the sup
preston of the slave trade, including he sup.
port of recaptured Africans, and their removal
to their country, TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars
For completing the maps, specifications, and
astronomical computations of the line OF bOun
dairy between the United States and the British
provinces, heretofore run and established, or rnr
AID marked by the joint commissioners, under
the treaty of Washington, twenty thousand dol
lars, and fer transmitting to the respective
otates, whose DounuarleS are eHecteu Thereby
authentic copies thereof.
SEC. 2. Andbe IL further enacted, That, il
addition to the assistant appraisers, authorized
by law at the port of New York, there may b.
appointed in The mode now prescribed by law
one additional assistant appraiser at said port, a
a salary, as heretofore established, of flleel
| hundred dollars per annum, To be paid out OF an,
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri
ated PROVIDED, said salary shall not commence
or appointment take effect, prior to the thlrtlell
of November next, and in appraisng all goods
at any port of the United States, heretofore sub
iected to specific duties. but upon which ad va
| loren duties are imposed by the act Of the thr
tieth of July last, entitled "An act reducing thu
duty on imports ana for other purposes" refer
ence shall be had 10 values and invoices OF sim
| liar goods imported during the last fiscal year
under such general and uniform regulations 10
the prevention OF fraud or differentiation a
shall be p. escribed by the Secretary OF tn
| Treasury.
! SEC. 3. And be il further enacted, That i
shall be lawful for the respe Give heads OF de
partments to continue 10 service during the cur
rent fiscal year the officers and persons, and a
the salaries and colnpensatons authoriz ID IN the
act approved lwenty-sixth Of August, one thou
sand eight hundred and forty-two, ent tied IAN
act lega!izing and making appropriations OF
such necessary objects as have been usually IN