Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-09-08
BY AUTHORITY.

| AN ACT making Appropriations for sundry Civil l Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the 39th of June, 1859. | Be it enacted, etc. That the following sums be- and the same are hereby, appropriated for the ob- ects hereafter expressed for the fiscal year ending | the 30th June. 1859, viz: | nHrrey ot the CodSt.--For continuing the survey of the Atlantic and Gulf Coast of the United States, 1 (incuding compensation to superintendent and as shtants and eXcudlng pay and emoluments of oh- cers of the army and navy and petty officers and men of the navy employed the work,) $25O,- | 900.
 For continuing the survey of the western coast of | tho United States. Sl30 900.
 For continuing the survey of the Florida reefs and keys (excluding pay and emoluments of officers of the army and navy, and petty officers and men of | tie navy employed on the work S+"000
 For running line to connect the triangulaton on the Atlantic with that on the Gulf of Mexico, across the Florida peninsula, *l0,00O
 For repairs of the Crawford Madison, Mason, and George NJ. Bache, and other sailing vessels used in | the coast survey, Sl0,000
 For pay and raons of engineers for seven steamers used in the hydrography of the coast survey, no longer supplied by the Navy Department. sl2, 800: | PfOrided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may make such allowances to the officers and men of the army and navy, while employed on coast survey vice. for subsistence, in addition to their compensa ton he may deem necessary, not exceeding the authorized by the treasury regulation of the l1th May, lS44.
 To supply deficiency in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, $50 900.
 LiglttOuse Establ5stjnent.-For the Atlantic, gulf, and lake coasts, viz:
 For supplying 556 light houses and beacon lights with oil, glass -chimneys, wcks, chamois skins po | fishing powder whiting, and cleaning materials transportation and other necessary expenses of the same, repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, Sl3S.724 45.
 For repairs and incidental expenses, reftting and Improvements of all the light houses and buildings connected herewith, Sl732s9 2l. For salaries of ell keepers of light houses and l light beacons and their assistants, S60 ,000
 For salaries of 52 keepers of light vessels, s20 2O6 57.
 For seamens wages repairs supplies and inciden- tai expenses of 52 ight-vessels SlS5,l99 50.
 For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting repair l ing reInoorng, and supplying losses of buoys and day beacons and for chains and snkers for the same and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, SS2- l 22S IS.
 Flr te Gusts of Cazitonia, Oregon, and Hl1sA- | iagt0n.-For oil and other supplies for 24 lights, cleaning materials of all kinds, and transportation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps and ma chinery in repair, publishing notices to mariners of | changes of aids to navigation, Sl 4729 I. | For repairs. and incidental expenses of 24 lights, and buildings connected herewith, s24, ,563. For maintenance of the vessel provided for by the act of 18th August 1856, for inspection and trans ! portation purposes, S3o,0OO
 For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serv ing on light house duty, the payment of which is 10 1 meat, S7 ,034 05.
 For compensation of two superintendents for the e-s saving stations the coast of Long Island and | New Jersey S3,000
 | For compensation of 54 keepers of stations, at | $2O0 each, SlG,So0.
 For contingencies for life saving apparatus on the coast of the United States, Sl3,000.
 For the purchase of the best self fighting life boat to be placed at each of the 2s life saving stations | the coast of New Jersey, $6,440. | For the purchase of the best life boats, to be ap | proved by the Treasury Department, for on the coast of Long Island, $lG,ooo. For procuring two additional improved metallic | boats metallic life car. and necessary harness lines and other suitable articles, to be used under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury in saving life. in of marine disaster of Galveston station, Texas, sloo00. .Swgey of Me Pab1ic Ldnds.--For surveying the public ands (excusve of California, Oregon. Wash | ingon. New Mexico, Kansas. Nebraska, and Utah ) including incidental expenses and island surveys in the interior. and all other special and difficult sur veys demanding augmented rates, to be apporioned and applied to the several surveying districts, cording to the .exigences of the public service, in cluding expenses of selecting swamp lands, and the compensation and expenses to survey or to locate private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to tbe unexpended balances of all former appropriations, S40,do0.
 For correcting erroneous and defective lines of pub lie and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri at rate not exceeding s6 % per mile, Sl,oo0. l For surveying in Louisiana, at augmented rates now authorized by law, S9.0o0.
 For surveying the public lands and private land claims in California. inclu ling office expenses nci dent to the survey of claims, and to be dsbursed at the rates prescribed by law for the different kinds oi 1 work $l0o,009
 Forcontinuing the survey of base, meridian, stand ard parallels, township and section lines, in New l Mexico $250o0. 6 For surveying such of the private claimsin New Mexico shall have been confrmedb by Congress in cluding expenses incurred by the surveyor general | in adjudicatiIig the same, $l50e0
 For surveying the necessary base, meridian, stand ard parallels, township and section lines in Kansas and Nebraska, also outlines of Indian reservations I $l00,000.
 For preparing the unfinished records of public and private surveys to be transferred to the State au- thorities under the provisonsof the of 18th June lS4o p those districts where the surveys are about being completed. Slo.o0o. kss's,- For resurveys and examinations of the surveys of the public lands in those States where the offices of the surveyors general have been, shall be- closed under the acts of the l2th June 1S40 and 22d Jan