Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1846-11-13

examining and reporting the condition OF each,
two thousand dollars;
For supenntendent's commissions, at two
and half per centum, ten thousand thirty
eight dollars and seventy-seven cents.
Surveys of Public Lands.
For salary of an assistant surveyor, to sur
vey private claims in Florida, under the d.
rection and supervision of the surveyor gen.
egal in Florida, one thousand dollars
For salary of an assistant surveyor, to have
charge and oversight of the resurveys in the
Greensburg Gate ST. Helena) district, Louisi-
ana, under the direction and supervision OF
the surveyor general of Louisiana, one thou
sand dollars;
For pay of chain carriers, markers, trans
portatiOn, provisions, &C., one thousand i've
hundred dollars;
Fer surveying the public lands, to be appor-
toned TO the several districts according to the
exigeacies of the public service, one hundred
and ten thousand dollars;
For surveying the copper region of Michi-
gan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, with reference to
mines and minerals, thirty thousand dollars;
For the correction of erroneous and defec-
tive surveys west of Saginaw bay, in Mchi-
gan, at rate not exceeding six dollars per
mile, FIVE thousand eight hundred and eighty
dollars;
For detached surveys in Missouri, at rate
not exceeding five dollars per mile, on account
OF difficulties in surveying lakes, swamps, &C.,
four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars;
For the survey of towns and villages in
Missouri, named in the act of twenty-sixth
May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, in
Guiding office work, in addition to the balance
OF the appropriation of the third March, elgh-
teen hundred and forty-three, for that object,
two thousand dollars;
For surveying that part of Arkansas where,
in consequence of local attraction, the ordina-
Ty compass cannot be used, at a rate not eX-
ceeding eight dollars per mile, four thousand
eight hundred dollars;
For surveys at augmented rates, in Louisl-
ana, three thousand seven hundred and four
dollars;
For surveys in the Greensburg district
Louisiana, now in the course Of execution, in
addition to former appropriations, twenty thou
sand four hundred dollars;
For retracing old lines in the district west
OF Pearl river, to supply Deficiencies now exis-
ting in those surveys, at five dollars and sew
en- dollars per mile, in addition to balance oil
appropriations for same object, of the third
March, eighteen hundred and forty three
eighteen thousand one hundred and thirteen
dollars;
Intercourse Nth Foreign Nations.
For salaries OF ministers to Great Britain
France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Mexico, and
Brazil, siXty-thTee thousand dollars;
For salaries of secretaries of legation to the
same places, fourteen Thousand dollars;
For outfit OF a minister to Great Britain
nine thousand dollars;
For salaries of charges des affairs to Portu
gal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Bel
GUM, Chill, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela
Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos Ayres, fifty
eight thousand five hundred dollars;
For salary of minister residentto Turkey
six thousand dollars;
For salary of dragoman to the legation tt
Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For the salary OF a commissioner to resid
in China, five thousand dollars: Provided, NJ
part Of this sum shall be paid unless the sai
commissioner actually resides in China;
For the salary of secretary and a Chimes
interpreter, two thousand five hundred dol
lars;
For contingent expenses Of all the mission
abroad, thirty thousand dollars;
For contingent expenses OF foreign inter
course, thirty thousand dollars;
For salary of the consul at London, tw
thousand dollars;
For clerk hire, Office rent, and other expen
ses of the office OF the consul at London, tw
thousand eight hundred dollars;
For compensation of commissioner to tn
Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars;
For Interpreters, guards, and other expense
OF the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna
and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars;
For pay in full to Benjamin E. Greene fc
services while employed in Mexico, as charg
d'aftaires, three thousand dollars;
For the relief and protection of American
seamen in foreign countries, seventy five thou
sand dollars;
For carrying into effect the acts for the SUI
preston OF the slave trade, including the SUI
port OF recaptured Africans, and their remoY;
to their country, twenty-five thousand do
lars;
For completing the maps, specifications an
astronomical computations of the line of bour
Diary between the United States and the Brl
ish provinces, heretofore run and established
or run and marked by the joint commissioner
under the treaty of Washington, twenty thou
sand dollars, and for transmitting to the IT
spectiye States, whose boundaries are effecte
thereby, authentic copies thereof.
Sec. 2. 44nd be 1t further enacted, That
addition to the assistant appraisers, author
zed by law at the port Of New York, thel
may be appointed in the mode now prescribe
by law, one additional assistant appraiser
said port, at a salary, as heretofore establish
ed, OF fifteen hundred dollars per annum,
be paid out of any money in the Treasury NJ
Otherwise appropriated ProUtded, Said salar
shall not commence, or appointment take e
feet, prior TO the thirtieth November next, an
in appraising all goods at any port of the [
nited States, heretofore subjected to specif
duties, but upon which ad valorem duties Al
imposed by the act of the thirtieth of July las
entitled g An act reducing the duty on impor
and for other purposes" reference shall
had to values and invoices of similar goo;
imported during the last fiscal year, und
such general and uniform regulations for Il
prevention of fraud Or undervaluation as sha
be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treas1
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Sec. 3. and be 1t further enacted, That
shall be lawful 3ior the respective heads Of d
partments to continue in service during Il
current fiscal year the officers and persons, al
al the salaries and compensations authorize
IN the act approved twenty-siXth of Angus
one thousand eight hundred and forty-tw
entitled Sc An act legalizing and making appr
priations for such necessary objects as ha7
been usually included in the general appropl
alton bills without authority of law, and to f
and provide for certain incidental expenses
the departments and officers of the Cover
ment, and for other purposes and also t
clerks authorized to be EMPLOYED in the off