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hts, seventeen thousand eight hundred and fifty

cents;
4 For expenses of weighing, moorlng, cleansing
anu supplying losses Of beacons, buoys, chains and
sinkeTs, twcnty-nine thousand six hundred and sew
\ enty-seven dollars and forty-si cents;
For expenses incurred by superintendent in Wis
ting light houses annually and examining and re-
porting their condition, two thousand dollars;
4 For superintendent Commission, at two and
half per cent, tire four hun ired and siXty-sis
thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars and eight
cents, appropriated above for lighthouse purposes
teleyen thous and six hundred and seventythree dol
lers and twenty-five cents. And the provIso con
tanned in the act making appropriations for the civil
and diplomatic expenses Of the government for the
year ending the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hun
dred and forty nine, and for other proposes,
Led August twelfth, eighteen hundred and forty-eight
which proviso is IN the following words: stProvi
4 ded, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated
shall be paid to any person who receives salary as
an officer Of the customs; and from and after the
FIRST day of July, eighteen hundred and forty nine
! the said disbursement shall be made by the col
lcctors of the customs without compensation, is
hereby repealed
i For completing the lighthouse on Brandywint
i shoal, Delaware bay, twenty-nine thousand eigh
hundred and two dollars and sixty-one cents;
/ For completing the light house I'm Carysfor reef
coast of Flor da, hirty thousand five hundrd ant
ninety dollars and seveHty-six cents;
! To pay the balance due to Ebenzer Warner, fol
construction the lighthouse at White Fish point,
1 lake. superior, three thousand two hundred ant
/ nnety-eight dollars;
i For Illuminating apparatus for the light house al
j Nnocs rock. Boston harbor, Massachusetts, four
il thousand five hundred dollars;
| For the reimbursement of the New York Provi-
i dence, and Boston Railroad Company, and the New
Jersey steam Navigation Company, for their expen
SEES in maintaining light-boat on Eel Grass shoals
lii Fishers Island sound, from the month of Noven.
ber in the year eighteen hundred and thifty-seyen
to the present time, ten Thousand four hundred and
i seven dollars;
i For completion Of marine hospital as Pittshurr
| eleven thousand six hundred and slxty-seyen dol
h lars;
I Tor completion Of marine hospital at Louisville
eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-seyen dol
/ lars;
I For completion OF marine hospital at Cleveland
six thousand six hundred and sixty-seyen dollars
For completion Of marine hospital at Chicago
twenty Thousand dollars;
/ For completion of Marine hospital at Paducah
i For completion of marine hospital at Nachez
twenty thousand dollars;
! For completion Of marine hospital at Napoleon
Arkansas, twenty thousand dollars;
/ For purpose of erecting marine hospital at or
near st. Louis, Missouri, in addition to the ten
thousand dollars heretofore appropriated By the
approved August third, eighteen hundred and forty
eight, for the same object twenty thousand dollars
to be expended only when the government shall have
obtained a bona fdc tile to ,he site. And for tho
purchase of said site, the ten thousand dollars here
oore appropriated by the act aforesaid or much
thereof as is necessary, shall be applied;
/ To enable the Secretary ofthe Treasury to collect
facts and information in relation to marine hospital
fund, and to report to Congress what alterations
necessary and practicable in the administration OF
the same, one thousand dollars.
| SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS.
For surveying the public lands, in addition TO the
unexpendea balance of former appropriations, viz:
For surveying the public lands. including Incl.
dental expenses, to be appropriated 10 the several
districts, according 10 the exigences of the public
service the part 10 be applied to the surveys Of the
mlDcra! regions OF Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa,
in the location of private claims in Florida, to be
dishurscd II augmented rates, hundred and fif-
I teen thousand dollars;
| For surveys in the southern part OF of Missouri,
east Of the meridian at FIVE dollars per mile, on
count OF the difficulties in executing surveys in that
section Of the State. owing TO lakes swamps, and
marshes four thousand dollars;
For the correction OF erroneous and detective
surveys, III small and detached portions, in Illinois
ana missouri, at rate not exceeding SIX dollars per
mile, one Thousand two hundred dollars;
| For completing surveys of the towns and yages
IN MISSOURI, named in the acts of eighteen hundred
ana Twelve ard eighteen hundred nd twenty four,
including office work. two thousand dollars:
For completing certain surveys in Arkansas, at
me increased rates. in consequence of the peculiar
difficulties attending the execution of them, eight
! hundred aud fifty dollars;
I INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
|
to Great Britain, France Russia, Prussia, Spain Bra
I'll, and Mexico, sixty three Thousand dollars; and
Tor outfits of said ministers, sixty three thousand
dollars, or so 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 doIlars
| For salary Of the dragoman to the legation OF
| Turks, two thousand five hundred dollars;
| For the outfit Of minister to the Ciermauic Con-
! federrton' nine Thousand dollars;
! For one years salary for the said minister, nine
/ thousand 6oIlars
For outfit ola minister to the government OF Chill,
| nine thousand dollars;
For salary of said minister nine thousand dollars;
/ Fol Abraham Rcncheer, late charged d'atfaiFe 10
Portugal, such the Secretary of State, upon
adjusting claim. shall allow for his unavoidable
detention abroad from second January, eighteen
hundred and oryeight, to the sixteenth September
following: Provided such sum Shall not exceed The
rate of his Official salary;
For salaries of charges dcs affaires to Portugal
| Austria, Denmark, Sweden. Holland, Belgium
Naples safdinra the Papal states, Chilli, Peru New
Grenada, Nenezue!a, Buenos Ayres, Bail ia, Guate-
mala, and Ecuador. seventy-six thousand five hun.
dollars and for outfits for charges des affairs.
enty-Six thousand five hundred dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary;
! For contingent expenses Of foreign intercourse
thirty thoHsand dollars;
/ For expenses CT intercourse with the Barbary
/ Powers, nine t1ous nd dollars;
For salary Of the consul at London, two thousand
! dollars;
/ For salary OF The commissioner to the Sandwisl
Il Island, three thousand dollars;
i For payment Of salary ofthc commissioners to the
sandwish Islands, from the commencement of the
salary CT Mr.. Eames TO the termination Of that Of
Mr.. Ten Eyck. so much as is necessary of the sun
Of fifteen hundred dollars;
For interpreters. guards, and other expenses o.
the consulaies at ConStantinople, Smyrna, AieXan
dria, one Thousand fee hundred dollars:
For salary OF the commissioners reside III China
including additional compensation under The ac
of eleventh August, eighteen hundred ard forty
eight, six thousand dollars;
| For compensation to reter Parker, Secretary
legation and Chinese Interpreter at Canton for has
services as charge des afarcs Of the United State
at said place, from the twenty eighth day of June
eighteen hundred and forty-seven, TO the twenty
hrst day OF August, eighteen hundred and forty
eight being the interval between the death OF Alex
andcr Everett. late commissioner at Canton, and the
actual arrival Of John w. Davis, the present com
missioner, after the rate of four thousand FIVE HIM
: dred dollars per annum, (dedncting his salary as
such secretary, and two thousand dollars already
paid him towards said service) the SUM OF tive
hundred and ninety-fve dollars and nnety-twt
= cents; " ..
For the salary Of the Interpreter and secretary tt
said mission, two thousand five hundred dollars
For buoys and near the bar of Nassau river an'
on the coasts Of Georgia and Florida, in the neigh
n horhood thereof, one thousand dollars;
II For compensation to the consuls at the five Chi
t nese ports viz: Kwangchow, Annoy, F,tchow, Nln5
: pc, and Shanghai, FIVE thousand dollars;
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