Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1847-04-30
TERMS: % so i'm advance.
WHOLE NO. 1877.

For payment for one thousand copies of the
seventh and eighth volumes of the statutes at
large of the United States, seven thousand
dollars
For continuing the publication OF the works
OF the exploring expedition. including the
printing OF the charts, the pay of the seien-
THO corps, salary of the horticulturst, and
care of the collections, fifteen thousand dollars.
For refunding certain duties collected under
the act of thirtieth August, eighteen hundred
and forty two. entitled " An act to provide re-
venue from imports, and to change and modi
ty existing laws imposing duties on imports,
and for other purposes contrary to the terms
OF the treaty OF commerce and navigation of
first May, eighteen hundred and twenty eight
r between Prussia and the United States, TWEEN
ty-tive thousand dollars.
For refunding certain duties collected I'M
der the tariff act Of eighteen hundred and fer
' ty-two above mentioned, contrary to the terms
: OF the treaty of twentieth December, eighteen
: hundred and twenty-seven, between the Ham
seattle Republics of Lubec, Bremen, and Ham,
D burg, and the United States, five thousand dol
:, lars.
e Light House EstabliShment-For supply
!, ing light houses, containing two thousand five
hundred and'ninety-four lamps, with oil, tube
e glasses, wlcks, butf-skins, whiting, and cotton
: cloth; transportation, and other expenses on
: the same; and Tor keeping the lighting appa-
ratuS IN repair, one hundred and thirteen
r thousand four hundrad and seventy-eight dol
: lars and sixty -four cents;
b For repairs and incidental expenses, reft-
n ting, and improvements of light-hou and
buildings connected Herewith, sxty-five thous,
: and four hundred and ffty-tive dollars and
0 ten cents;
S For salaries of two hundred and thirty
/, eight keepers and sixteen assistant keepers
# OF light houses, Seventeen of them charged
r with double, and two with triple lights, }
:, including also the salary of an inspector of
e lights on the upper lakes, and superintendent
on lake Michigan, one hundred and one thous-
/ and five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and
d thirty-three cents;
l. For salaries of thirty keepers of floating
lights. sixteen thousand dollars.
= For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies
It of thirty floating lights, sixty mine thousand
l. SIX hundred and sixty-nine dollars and for
J. ty-eight cents;
l. For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repair.
n ing, and supplying the losses of beacons
Re buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty -four thous
4 and three hundred and seventy-one dollars anc
m forty three cents.
er For expenses incurred by superintendent.
+ in visiting their lighthouses annually, ant
I'd examining and reporting the condition OF each
III two thousand dollars
For superintendent commissions, at two
s. and half per centum, nine thousand eigh
hundred and twelve dollars and eighty two
lp cents.
Of Surveys Of public lands-For salary of al
a. assistant surveyor, 10 have charged and over.
S sight OF the re-surveys in the Greensburg dis
I'd district, Gate St. Helena,) under the direction
oil and supervision of the Surveyor General O
Is, Louisiana, one thousand dollars;
Mt For salary of an assistant surveyor, to sur
S; vey the private claims in Florida, under tn
d, direction and supervision of the Surveyo
tie General of Florida, one thousand dollars;
e. For pay OF chaln-carriers, markers, trans
On portation, provisions, &C., one thousand fv
al hundred dollars;
IN ForsuTeyng, in addition 10 the unexpen
of ded balances OF former appropriations, viz:
MT For surveying the public lands, including
a incidental expenses, to be apportioned to tn
ia several districts according TO the exigences o
k :; the public service. one hundred thousand dol
x; lars;
d. For surveying the copper regions of Mich
h. gan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, with reference II
mines AMI minerals, at rate not exceeding 81
he dollars per mile, fifty thousand dollars;
of For detached surveys in Missouri, at
nd rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, on &C
he count OF the difficulties in surveying lakes
" swamp, &c, four thousand five hundred dol
lars;
or For surveys of towns and villages in Mis-
he souri,, named in the act of twenty-siXth May
ZEE eighteen hundred and twentY-four, includin
70 Office rent, two thousand dollars;
For surveying in that part of Arkansa
e where, in consequence of local attraction, III
Is, ordinary compass cannot be used, at raj
for not exceeding eight dollars per mile, nine hun
en- dred dollars;
irs For surveying the islands in the Mississippi
tie Arkansas, White, Red Black, and st. Franc
nd rivers, and detached fractional townships
nd Arkansas at rate not exceeding six dollar
per mile, three thousand dollars;
IS For surveys at augmented rates, in Lousi;
in ma, sixteen thousand six hundred and ninet
to dollars
he For surveying the public lands in the Sta
IS of Louisiana to meet the liabilities of the Su
veyor Generals office, on contracts now
in the course of execution, twenty -one thousan
a dollars.
ng Intercourse Nth Foreign Nations.-For sa
or aries of ministers to Great Britain, Franc
are Russia, Prussia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazi
M siXty-three thousand dollars;
ion For salaries of secretaries OF legation TO ii
re- same places, fourteen thousand dollars;
an For salary of minister resident to Turke
lCh SIX thousand dollars;
ion For salary CT dragoman to the legation
sa- Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars !;
of For salaries of charges des affares to Pc
in tugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Hollan
ed, Belgium, Chill, Peru, New Grenada, Ven
re- zuela, Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos Ayre
i'm fifty eight thousand five hundred dollars;
in For contingent expenses of all the mission
gu abroad, thirty thousand dollars;
For contingent expenses of foreign inte
Pc course, thirty thousand dollars;
zen For salary of the consul at London, tv
oil thousand dollars;
For clerk hire, office rent, and other expe
emf ses of the office of the consul of the Unit
es- States at London, two thousand eight hundr
ade dollars;
ou- For expenses OF intercourse with the Ba
barry powers, ten thousand dollars;
ent For salary of a commissioner to the San
oia, witch Islands. three thousand dollars
For interpreters, guards, and other expens
ing of the consuIates at Constantinople, Smyrn
H. and Alexandra, one thousand five hundr
-ith dollars;
So For salary of commissioner to reside
cen China, five thousand dollars;
rs ; For salary Of secretary to commissioner
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