Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1848-11-17

necessary, 10 be employed in TRANSFERRING
field notes of surveys for the purpose of pre-
serving them at the seat of government. and
for other purposes, twenty two thousand nine
hundred and fifty dollars
For detached surveys in the southern part
OF Missouri, at rate not exceeding five dol
lars per mile, on account of the difficulties in
surveying lakes and swamps, four thousand
dollars.
For correction of erroneous and defective
surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at rate not
exceeding six dollars per mile, one thousand
two hundred dollars.
For retracing in the State of Mississippi, to
supply lost field notes, and for the location of
private claims, two thousand four hundred
dollars.
For the location of private claims and COR
recton of surveys in Louisiana, exclusive of
For salaries OF secretaries of legation 10 the
same places, twelve thousand dollars.
For salary of minister resident to Turkey,
six thousand dollars.
For salary of the dragoman to the legation
to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars
For salaries of the charges des atfalres TO
Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland.
Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States,
Chill, Peru, New Granada, Venezuela, Buenos
Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Ecuador, sew
enty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions
abroad, thirty thousand dollars
For contingent expenses of foreign inter-
course, thirty thousand dollars.
For intercourse with the Barbary Powers,
nine thousand dollars.
For the salary of consul general at Alex
andria, three thousand dollars.
For paying John Hogan twelve hundred and
fifty dollars for services and expenditures as
political agent in ST. Domingo, and in full sat-
isfacton of all his claims for extra expen-
ses and services in the years eighteen hundred
and forty-two and eighteen hundred and forty
three.
the Greensburg district, fourteen thousand
two hundred and thirty dollars.
For retracing in the State of Alabama, 10
supply field notes destroyed by fire, six thous-
and and fifty dollars.
For additional compensation to certain de-
puties, as set forth in the report of the survey
or general of Florida, three thousand dollars.
For mineral land service, to carry out the
requirements of the acts of the first and third
March, eighteen hundred and forty seven. viz
For compensation OF geologists, assistant
biologists, laborers, packmen, and incidental
expenses attending the geological examination
and survey of the mineral lands in Michigan,
Wisconsin, and Iowa, including the amount
required for the third and fourth quarters oil
the year ending the thrtieth of June, eighteen
hundred and forty-eight, forty thousand dol
lars.
! For compensation of agent, assistant agent
and incidental expenses in collecting the rents
required by the leases and permits issued IL
minors and others in Michigan and Wiscon
sin, three thousand four hundred dollars
Intercourse With Foreign Nations
salaries of the ministers of the United States
TO Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia
Spain, and Brazil, fifty-four thousand dollars
and for outfit of said minister to Russia, nine
thousand dollars
For salary of consul at London, two thou
sand dollars.
For salary of the commissioner to the Sand
witch islands, three thousand dollars
For paying Joshua Dodge, late special to-
bacco agent of the United States to the various
governments of Europe, four thousand five
hundred dollars, in full compensation for his
ses incurred by him during the period of his
three missions as said special tobacco agent
and for services rendered to the tobacco inter
est of the United States
For paying John Randolph Clay, late sec.
rotary of legation to ST. Petersburgh, on &C.
count of his services as charge d'atfairs at said
court, from the twenty seventh day of Janu.
airy, eighteen hundred and forty six, to The
eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred
and forty-seven, after the rate of four thou.
sand five hundred dollars per annum, deduct
ing his pay as secretary of legation at tive
5 thousand dollars per annum, the sum of thre
thousand Eine hundred and ten dollars an,
; seventy-six cents: Provided, The Secretar,
: of State shall be satisfied that the service wa
performed, and is still unpaid for.
For paying Eben Richie Dorr, for diploma
, tic services at the republic of Chill, from tn
seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred an
foriy-four until the nineteenth day of August
eighteen hundred and forty five, five thousan
two hundred and sixty-two dollars
For paying Jacob L. Martin, late secretar
of legation of the United States at Paris, 70
t his services as charge daffaires OF tue Unite
S States near the French government, from fiji
teenth day of September, eighteen hundred an
: forty six TO the first day of July, eighteen
e hundred and forty-seven, being the time inter
! vening between the recall of our late minister
Mr. King, and the arrival of Mr. Rush, afte
the rate of four thousand five hundred dollar
per annum. (deducting his pay as secretary G
] legatIon,) the sum of two thousand one hun
e dred and ninety three dollars
For compensation to William M Blackfori
as charge d'atfaires 10 the republic of Ne,
Granada, the sum of one thousand one hun
dred and twenty-five dollars, being the usua
, return allowance to charge des afaires to fol-
e elgn courts.
, For compensation TO Stanhope Provost, con
sui of the United States at Lima, for diploma
l tic services rendered in the absence of tn
charges d'affaires from that country, the sun
of one thousand eight hundred dollars.
For paying Peter Parker secretary of Lega
ton and Chinese interpreter at Canton, for hi
services as charge daffaires of the Unitet
!, States at said place, from the twenty -eghtl
! day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-sev
en- to the twenty-eighth day of June, eighteel
hundred and forty-eight, being The interval be
!. tween the death of Alexander H. Everett, lat
commissioner at Canton, and the probable al
d rival of the present commissioner, John w
r Davis. esq, after the rate of four thousan
:, five hundred dollars per annum. (after deduc
d ling his salary as such secretary,) the sum @
t two thousand dollars.
For paying A. T. Donnett, for services a
; acting charge d'affares to Portugal, from nine