Kansas weekly herald., 1855-08-25

and hundred ffty-seven dollars and thirty-two
cents.
For expenses Of visiting and inspecting lights,
and other aids to navigation, two thousand dol
lars.
| For commissions, at two and half per cen
tum, to such superintendent as are entitled to
the same, under the proviso to the act Of third
of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty
one, entitled Gan act making appropriations for
the civil and diplomatic expenses of government
for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and ffty-two, and for other purposes" on
the amount that may be disbursed by them,
eight thousand dollars.
| For the coasts of California, Oregon, and Wash
ington:
For oil and other supplies for twenty-one
lights, cleaning materials Of all kinds, and trans
lportation Of the same, expenses of keeping
lamps and machinery in repair, publishing no.
tices to mariners of changes of aids to naviga-
tion, thirty ght thousand and twenty-four dol
lars and twenty-five cents.
| For repairs and incidental expenses of TWEEN
ty-one lights, and buildings connected Herewith,
twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars
| For salaries OF forty-one keepers and assis-
tant keepers of lighthouses, at an average not
exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum,
thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing,
remooring, and supplying losses of floating bea-
cons, and buoys, and chains, and sinkers for the
same, and for coloring and numbering all the
buoys, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
For commissions, at two and half per CEN
tum, to such superintendent as are entitled to
the same, under the proyiso to the act of the
third of March, one thousand eight hundi ed and
hfty-one, entitled ''An act making appropria-
tions for the civil and diplomatic expenses Of
government for the year ending June thirtieth, /,
eighteen hundred and ffty-two, and for other
purposes" on the amount that may be disbursed
by them, eight hundred dollars.
For continuing the construction of the light
house near Coftn's Patches, off Dry Bank, on
the Florida Reef, between Cary's Fort Reef and
Sand Key lighthouses, sixty-fve thousand dol
| lars.
For continuing the construction OF the light
house on Minot's Ledge, one Of the Cohasset
rocks, Boston Bay, Massachusetts, seventy-fve
| thousand dollars.
For continuing the construction of the light
house on Ship Shoal, Louisiana, to take the
place of the light-vessel at that point, thirty
thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to re-
place lost light-vessel, to mark the dangerous
New South shoals, off Nantucket, Massachu-
sets, thirty thousand dollars.
| For continuing the appropriation of the third
of March, eighteen hundred and ffty-three, for
irst-class lighthouse at the mouth of the Sa-
bine River, thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the system of protecting hu-
man life from shipwreck as heretofore estab-
lished, by life-boats and other means; on the
coast OF Massachusetts,, the sum Of ten thousand
| dollars said money to be expended by the Bos-
control of the Secretary of the Treasury.
| For fuel and quarters of officers Of the army
serving on lighthouse duty, the payment of
which is no longer provided for by the quarter
masters department. five thousand and sixty
three dollars and sixty-seven cents.
| To supply DEFICIENCIES in the revenue of the
| Post-Ofhce Department, one million one hum
| dred and six thousand one hundred and eighty
seven dollars.
| For the continution Of the custom-house at
Charleston, South Carolina, two hundred thous-
and dollars.
| For the continuation of the custom-house at
New Orleans, Louisiana, two hundred and
seventy-ive thousand dollars.
| To complete the custom-house at Bath,
Maine, ten thousand dollars.
| For the completion of the custom-house at
Mobile with granite facing, in place of brick,
ninety-fve thousand dollars.
| Intercourse lcith Foreign Nations.--For salar-
les of ENJOYS extraordinary and ministers pleni-
potentiary of the United States, two hundred
and sixty-seVen thousand five hundred dollars.
| For salaries of secretaries of legation, forty
| four thousand five hundred dollars.
For salary of the commissioner to the Sand
wich Islands, six thousand dollars.
For the dragoman to the mission to Turkey,
| two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the Interpreter to the mission to China,
two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the salaries of consuls of the United
States, two hundred and seyenty-one thousand
seven hundred and fifty dellars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions
abroad, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
| ninety-six thousand five hundred and forty-three
dollars and seventy-fve cents.
For contingent expenses Of foreign inter-
course, sixty thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary
powers, six thousand dollars.
For Office rent of the commercial agent at ST.
Martin, from the twelfth of November, eighteen
hundred and ffty-two, to the end of the present
fiscal year, at the rate Of one hundred dollars
per annum, two hundred and sixty-three dollars
and thirty-three cents, the same being allowed
because of unexpected losses sustained at said
consulate.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby
authorized and directed to pay to James Keenan,
consul at Hong Kong, in China, the sum of five
hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-eighE
cents, expended by him for the relief of Ameri-
can citizens shipwrecked in Chinese waters in
August last Prorided, That the account and
vouchers shall be filed in the Office of the Secre-
tary of State, and the claim be first approved by
him.
For the relief and protection of American
seamen in foreign countries, one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars.
For expenses which may be incurred in ac-
knoWledging the services of the masters and
crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens and
vessels OF the United States from shipwreck,
two thousand dollars: Prorided, That the same
shall be expended under the direction of the
President of the United States.
For the purchase of blank books, stationery,
arms of the United States, presses, and flags,
and for the payment of postages for the consuls
of the United States, ten thousand dollars.
For compensation of consul general, to re-
side at Simoda, in japan, at the rate of five thous
and dollars per annum, three thousand seven
hundred and fifty dollars.
To reimburse Commodore M. C. Perry, of
the United States navy, the extraordinary ex-
penses incurred by him on his recent mission to |
japan, and as a consideration for his eminent
public service in efecting treaty of amity and
commerce with that power, twenty thousand
dollars, to be received in full Of all expenses or
other charges incurred by him on that mission.