The North-Carolina standard., 1849-07-11

Eebts. seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty
dollars
For seamen's wages repairs and supplies for thlr-
ty three floating lights, eighty-four thousand three
hundred and eghty-six dollars and siXty-fve cents
For expenses of weighing, moorlng, cleansing,
and supplying losses of beacons, buoys chains, ana
sinkers twenty nine thousand six hundred and sew
enty seven dollars and forty-six cents
For expenses incurred by superintendent In visit
ing loht houses annually, and examining and report
ing their condition, two thousand dollars;
For superntendent's commissions, at two ana
half per cent on the four hundred and sxtysx thou
sand nine hundred and thirty doars and eight cents,
appropriated above for light house purposes eleven
thousand six hundred and seventy three dollars ana
TWENTY-FIVE cents. And the provso contained In the
act making appropriations for the civil and diplomat
ic expenses of the Government for the year ending
the thrtieth day of June eighteen hundred and forty
nine, and for other purposes approved August tWeIth
eighteen hundred and forty eight, which proVIso is
in The following Words " Provided, That no part OF
the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid to any per-
son who receives salary an officer OF the customs;
and from and after the first day OF Jniy' elghI cen
hundred and fortyn ne, the said SAID disbursements
shall be made by the collectors of the customs with
out compensation is hereby repealed.
For completing the lighthouse Brandywine
shoal Delaware bay, twenty-nine thousand eight
hundred and two dollars and sixty-one cents;
For completing the lighthouse on Carystort reef,
coast of Florida thirtyone thousand live hundred and
ninety dollars and seventy-six cents;
To paw the balance due to EbeneZer Warner, tor
constructing the lighthouse at White Fish point, on
lake Superior, three thousand two hundred and nlne-
ty-eight dollars;
For Illuminating apparatus for the lighthouse at
Minots rock, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, four
thousand FIVE hundred dollars;
For the reimbursement of the New Y ork, ProvI-
dence, and Boston Railroad Company, and the New
Jersey Steam Navigation Company, tor their exPen-
ses in maintaining light-boat on Eel Grass shoals,
in Fishers, island sound, from the month of NoVem-
Der, in the year eighteen hundred and hiry-seVen,
to the present time, ten thousand four hundred and
seven dollars.
HOSPITALS.
For completion of marine hospital at Pittsburg,
eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars
For completion of marine hospital at. Louisville,
eleven thousand six hundred and sIxty-seVen dol
lars;
For completion of marine hospitals at Cleveland,
six thousand six hundred and sixty-seven dollars;
For completion of marine hospital at Chicago,
twenty thousand dollars;
For completion of marine hospital at Paducah,
twenty thousand dollars; I
For completion of marine hospital at Natchez,
twenty thousand dollars;
For completion of marine hospital at Napoleon,
Arkansas, twenty thousand dollars;
For the purpose of erecting marine hospital at or
near ST. Louis, Missouri, in addition to the ten
thousand dollars heretofore appropriated by the act
approved August third, eighteen hundred and forty
eight for the object twenty thousand dollars,
to be expended only when the Government shall |
have obtained bona fde title to the site. And for
the purchase of said site the thousand dollars
heretofore appropriated by the act aloreSaiu: OF So
much thereof as is Necessary, shall be applied; i
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to col
lcct fact and information in relation marine hos
pitfalls and the marine hospital fund, and to report to
Congress what alterations are necessary and Practl-
cable in the administration of the same, one thous-
and dollars
SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS.
For surveying the public lands, in addition to the
unexpended balance of former appropriations, viz:
For surveying the public lands, including incden-
tai expenses, to be apportioned to the several dis
tricts, according to the exigencies OF the public ser
vice, the part to be applied to the surveys Of the
mineral regions of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa,
in the location of private claims in Florida be dis
bursed at augmented rates. one hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars;
For surveys in the southern part of Missouri, east
of the meridian, at five dollars per mile account
of the difficulties in executing surveys in that
ton of the State, owing to lakes swamps, and mar
shes, four thousand dollars;
For the correction of erroneous and defective sur
yeys, in small and detached Portions in Illinois and
Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile
thousand two hundred dollars;
For completing surveys of the towns and villages
in Missouri, named in the acts of eighteen hundred
and twevs and eighteen hundred and enty-four
including Office work, two thousand dollars;
For completing certain surveys in Arkansas, at
the increased rates, in consequence of the peculiar
difficulties attending the execution of them, eight
hundred and fifty dollars.
INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
For salaries of the ministers of the United States
TO Great Britain, France, Russia. Prussia, Spain,
Brazil, and Mexico, slxty-three thousand dollars {;
and for outfits of said minister's sixtythree thous-
and dollars much thereof as may be necessary;
For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the
same places, fourteen thousand dollars;
For salary of minister resident to Turkey, six
thousand dollars;
For salary of the dragoman to the legation to Tur-
key, two thousand five hundred dollars;
For the outfit of minister to the Germanc Con-
federation, nine thousand dollars
For wears salary for the said minister.
thousand dollars;
For years salary for a secretary of legation to
'the said mission, two thousand dollars
For outfit for minister to the government of Ch-
ii, nine thousand dollars; =
For salary of said minister nine thousand dollars
For Abraham Rencher, late charge d'affaires to
Portugal, such sum as the Secretary of State, upon
adjusting his claim, shall allow for his unavoidable
detention abroad from second January, eighteen hun
dred and fortyeght, to the sixteenth September fol-
lowing Provided, such shall not exceed the |
of his official salary;
For salaries of charges deS affaires to Portugal,
Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Ma
Piles, Sardinia, the Papal States, Chill, Peru, New
Grenada, Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guate-
maa, and Ecuador seventy-six thousand five hun !
dred dollars and for outfits for said charges des af
faires, seveuty-six thousand five hundred dollars or
much thereof as may be necessary;
For contingent expenses cf foreign intercourse, |
thirty thousand dollars
For expenses OF intercourse with the Barbdry
Powers nine thousand dollars;
For salary of the consul at London, two thousand
dollars;
For salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich |
Islands, three thousand dollars;
For payment of the salary of the commissioner to
the Sandwich Islands, from the commencement of
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