Southern shield., 1850-11-30

five hundred and fifty dollars.
 For the outstanding liabilities of the sur veying department in the Greensburg dis trict, Louisiana, three thousand two hundred and twelve dollars.
 For proposed surveys in Louisiana, ex elusive of the Greensburg district, and in cuding office work, seventeen thousand dollars.
 For proposed surveys, including office work, in the Greensburg district, Louisiana seventeen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
 For the mineral land service, to carry ou the requirements of the acts of the first ant third of March, eighteen hundred and forty seven, to wit:
 For compensation of geologists, assistan geologists, iaborers; packmen, &c., and in cidental expenses attending the geoio9lca examination and survey of the mineral land' lin Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, twenty thousand dollars.
 For running and marking the northern boundary of the State of Iowa, contorma blv to the act of the third of March, eigh, teen hundred and forty mine, fifteen thousand dollars.
 For running and marking the meridian boundary between Wisconsin ana Mihie- sota, six hundred dollars.
 For refunding to the surveying aPproPfa- ton the amount transferred theretrom, o' the application of the Commissioner ot th' General Land Office, by the Secretary o the Treasury, to the contingent fund of tha office, for the service of the fiscal year end ing thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred anC forty nine, for the payment of outstanding liabilities of that fund, contracted by tn, General Land Office, before the fourth Q March, eighteen hundred and forty-nine beyond the amount appropriated for tha year, and to be carried to the credit of tht general surveying fund, thirteen thousand seven hundred and seventeen dollars ant forty-six cents.
 INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.
 For salaries of the ministers of tho United States to Great Britain, France Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, anC Chii, seventy-two thousand dollars.
 For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, sixteen thousand dollars
 For salary of minister resident 10 Turkey six thousand dollars.
 For salary of the dragoman to the lega ton to Turkey, two thousand five hundre( dollars.
 For salary of an assistant dragoman, anc secretary, to the legation to Turkey, fifteel hundred dollars.
 For outfit of charges des affaires to Por tugal, New Grenada, Guatemala, and Ecua dor, eighteen thousand dollars.
 For salary and outfit to charge des afaire To Nicaragua, nine thousand dollars.
 For salaries of charges des affares L Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Hol land, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papa States, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala an Ecuador, seventy-two thousand dollars.- And for compensation to Alexander Ham melt, for his services as charge des affaire lat Naples, from the twentieth of May, eigh teen hundred and forty-seven, to the twenty first of June, eighteen hundred and forty eight, four thousand eight hundred an dollars.
 For contingent expenses of all the mis sions abroad, forty thousand dollars
 For contingent expenses of foreign inter course, thirty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with tn Barbary Powers, nine thousand dollars. For salary of the consul at London, tw thousand dollars. To defray the expense of aspecial agent to the three republics ( Venezuela, New Grenada, and Ecuador, { claim of those governments, respectively lthe several amounts due from each of ther on claims of citizens of the United State against the former government of Columbi; two thousand dollars. For salary of the commissioner to th Sandwich Island, three thousand dollars. To Anthony Ten Eyck, for salary an contingent expenses as Commissioner t the Sandwich Islands, for the year endin December thirty-first, eighteen hundred an forty-nn three thousand nine hundred an ltwenty-two dollars and eighty-seven cent To Charles Flames, for additional comper Isation as late Commissioner to the Sandwic Islands, in pursuance of the recommends ton of the Department of State, thre thousand dollars. For interpreters, guards, and other e, Ipenses of the consulates at Constantinopl, Smyrna, and Alexandria, one thousand fv hundred dollars.
 For the expenses of the agent of tn Sublime Porte, ten thousand dollars, to b |disbursed under the direction of the Secrt tary of State.
 For office rent of the consul at Basic, i Switzerland, one hundred dollars. For salary of commissioner to reside China, including the additional compensate under the act of the eleventh of Angus eighteen hundred and forty-eight, six thol |sand dollars.
 For salary of the interpreter and secrets ry to said mission, two thousand five hur dred dollars.
 For compensation of the consuls at tn