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plan of John Skirving, dated July twentieth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, two thousand four hundred and twelve dollars; To replace the oil intended for the use of the Government, Oil destroyed which was destroyed by the recent fire at Nantucket, fourteen by fire at Nanthousand dollars;

tucket.

for the Presi

house

For annual repairs of President's House, gardener's salary, Contingencies laborers and cartage, tools, wire, twine, leather, nails, stakes, dent's manure, and straw for garden and plants, trees for President's and grounds. grounds, Fountain square, Lafayette square, and Pennslyvania avenue, repairs of fence at Fountain square, Lafayette square, and President's garden, three thousand two hundred and seventy-seven dollars.

For replacing platforms on the dome, and repairing balusters, (including materials and work,) repairing hatchway, door and frame, (including steps and plastering in dome,) furnishing and repairing step ladders and platforms on the different roofs,furnishing two double window frames and sash (including painting and glazing) in open courts, white-washing walls in the open courts, containing about twenty-five hundred square yards, four hundred and ninety dollars and seventy-five cents.

And for the removal of the building over the statue of Wash- Statue of Washington, and erecting an iron fence around the same, one thou-ington. sand dollars;

For repairs of Congressional burial ground, rendered ne, Congressional cessary by the late freshet, five hundred dollars;

burying ground.

For repairs of the road leading from the Capitol square to the Congressional burial ground, rendered necessary by the late heavy rains, to be expended under the direction of the Commis-missioner of Public Buildings, one thousand five hundred dol

lars;

be distributed

And the sum of two hundred dollars, being a portion of the Balance of an unexpended balance of an appropriation of one hundred thou- appropriation to sand dollars, made on the twenty-seventh of April, eighteen among the cap-hundred and sixteen, to be distributed among the captors of tors of certain Algerine vescertain Algerine vessels which were restored to the Dey of Al- sels. giers, which balance has been carried to the account of the surplus fund, be, and the same is hereby reappropriated, for the benefit of such of the captors as have not yet received their shares of the said fund, or their representatives;

him.

due

To pay F. Gardner, late acting United States naval store- F. Gardner for keeper to the African squadron, from the twenty-fourth of Au- balance gust, eighteen hundred and forty-four, when Floyd Waggaman ceased to receive a salary, until December ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-four, when Francis Alexander proceeded to the post, three months and fifteen days, at fifteen hundred dollars per annum, four hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty

cents;

To pay the legal representatives of Thomas H. Storm, for a balance due to him as agent for prisoners at Barbadoes, two thousand two hundred and seventy-four dollars and twenty-six cents;

Thomas H.

Storm, for balance due him.

Penitentiary.

Insane paupers.

For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the District of Columbia, eleven thousand six hundred and eleven dollars and forty-six cents;

For support, clothing, and medical treatment of insane persons of the District of Columbia, including four additional insane paupers ordered by the court to be sent to the hospital, five thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars and forty-five cents. For continuing the publication of the works of the Explorworks of Explo ing Expedition, including the printing of charts, the pay of the ring Expedition scientific corps, and the salary of the horticulturist, thirty thousand dollars;

Continuing publication of

4th and 5th in

Mexican indem

nity.

For paying the principal and interest of the fourth and fifth stalments of instalments of the Mexican indemnities due in April and July, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-four, the sum of three hundred and twenty thousand dollars: Provided, The claimants, each for himself, shall relinquish to the United States his right to said instalments: Provided further, That each of the claimants shall agree to take in payment the scrip of a stock bearing interest at five per cent., payable in five years:

Proviso.

Refunding to

ed by him.

For refunding to James Buchanan, late her Britannic MajesBritish Consul ty's consul at the city of New York, moneys disbursed by him, and for compensating him for services performed in respect to the slaver Catharine, condemned and sold at the suit of the Uni. ted States, the sum of two thousand one hundred and forty-four dollars and seventy-five cents;

Preparing for publication

For reducing and preparing for publication, under a resolution of the Senate, plans and drawings, made by the officers of plans and draw the Topographical Bureau, for the improvement of harbors, rivers, &c., four thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars.

ings.

Patent Office.

Light houses.
Supplies.

Repairs.

Keepers.

PATENT OFFICE.

For the purchase of such scientific works as are necessary for the use of the Patent Office, twelve hundred and fifty dollars; to be paid for out of the patent fund.

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

For supplying light-houses, containing two thousand five hundred and seventy-seven lamps, with oil, tube glasses, buffskins, whiting, and cotton cloth, expenses of transportation, and for keeping the lighting apparatus in repair, one hundred and twelve thousand eight hundred and eighty-three dollars and sixty four cents;

For repairs, ineidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of light houses and buildings connected therewith, sixty-seven thousand seventy-seven dollars and ninety-nine cents;

For salaries of two hundred and thirty-six keepers and sixteen assistant keepers of light-houses, (seventeen of them charged with double and two with triple lights,) one hundred thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars and thirty-three cents;

For salaries of thirty keepers of floating lights, sixteen thou. Floating lights. sand dollars;

For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floatinglights, eighty-one thousand seven hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-two cents;

For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying Beacons,buoys, the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-six &c. thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and sixty-nine

cents;

For procuring, locating, and mooring buoys at such places as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, and where he shall deem them to be necessary for the safety of navigation, five thousand dollars;

For expenses of rebuilding the Cape Florida light-house, Florida, thirteen thousand dollars;

For expenses of rebuilding Martinicus Rock light-house, Maine, eleven thousand dollars;

For the maintenance of the light on the Delaware breakwater, including four hundred dollars for the salary of keeper, eight hundred dollars;

Rebuilding light-houses.

nation.

For expenses incurred by superintendents in visiting their Annual examilight-houses annually, and examining and reporting the condition of each, two thousand dollars;

For superintendents' commissions, at two and a half per Superinten. centum, ten thousand thirty-eight dollars and seventy-seven dents' commis

cents.

SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS.

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For salary of an assistant surveyor, to survey the private Assistant Sur claims in Florida, under the direction and supervision of the veyor in Florida surveyor general in Florida, one thousand dollars;

For salary of an assistant surveyor, to have charge and over- Assis't Surveysight of the resurveys in the Greensburg (late St. Helena) dis. or in Louisiana. trict, Louisiana, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor general of Louisiana, one thousand dollars;

For pay of chain carriers, markers, transportation, provisions, Pay of chain.. &c., one thousand five hundred dollars;

carriers, &c.

lic lands.

For surveying the public lands, to be apportioned to the sev- Surveying pub. eral districts according to the exigencies of the public service, one hundred and ten thousand dollars;

For surveying the copper region of Michigan, Wisconsin, Surveying the and Iowa, with reference to mines and minerals, thirty thou- copper region. sand dollars;

For the correction of erroneous and defective surveys west Surveys in— of Saganaw bay, in Michigan, at a rate not exceeding six dol- Michigan. lars per mile, five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;

For detached surveys in Missouri, at a rate not exceeding Missouri. five dollars per mile, on account of difficulties in surveying lakes, swamps, &c., four thousand one hundred and fifty dol

lars;

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Secretaries of

Legation.

Outfit of Minis

For the survey of towns and villages in Missouri, named in the act of twenty-sixth May, eighteen hundred and twentyfour, including office work, in addition to the balance of the appropriation of the third March, eighteen hundred and fortythree, for that object, two thousand dollars;

For surveying that part of Arkansas where, in consequence of local attraction, the ordinary compass cannot be used, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, four thousand eight hundred dollars;

For surveys at augmented rates, in Louisiana, three thousand seven hundred and four dollars;

For surveys in the Greensburg district, Louisiana, now in the course of execution, in addition to former appropriations, twenty thousand four hundred dollars;

For retracing old lines in the district west of Pearl river, to supply deficiencies now existing in those surveys, at five dollars and seven dollars per mile, in addition to balance of appropriations for same object, of the third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, eighteen thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars.

INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.

For salaries of ministers to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, sixty-three thousand dollars;

For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars;

For outfit of a minister to Great Britain, nine thousand dol

ter to Great lars;

Britain.

Charges des

affaires.

Minister to

Turkey.

Dragoman.

to China.

For salaries of chargés des affaires to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela, Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos Ayres, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars;

For salary of a minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars;

For salary of a dragoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars;

Commissioner For the salary of a commissioner to reside in China, five thousand dollars: Provided, No part of this sum shall be paid unless the said commissioner actually resides in China;

Secretary and For the salary of a secretary and Chinese interpreter, two Chinese Inter-thousand five hundred dollars;

preter. Contingencies.

Contingent ex

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars;

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thoupenses of for sand dollars; eign intercourse

Consul at Lon. don.

Contingencies.

Commissioner to Sandwich Islands.

For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars; For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars; For compensation of commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars;

For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates Interpreters, at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, fifteen hundred guards, &c. at dollars;

Constantinople,
Smyrna and
Alexandria.

For payment in full to Benjamin E. Green for services Payment of while employed in Mexico, as chargé d'affaires, three thousand balance due B. dollars;

E. Green.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign American seacountries, seventy-five thousand dollars; men in foreign

countries.

For carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the Suppression of slave trade, including the support of recaptured Africans, and slave trade. their removal to their country, twenty-five thousand dollars;

tions, &c. of N.

For completing the maps, specifications, and astronomical Maps, specifica computations of the line of boundary between the United States E. boundary. and the British provinces, heretofore run and established, or run and marked by the joint commissioners, under the treaty of Washington, twenty thousand dollars, and for transmitting to the respective States, whose boundaries are effected thereby, authentic copies thereof.

praiser at New

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the Additional ap assistant appraisers, authorized by law at the port of New York, York authoriz there may be appointed in the mode now prescribed by law, ed. one additional assistant appraiser at said port, at a salary, as heretofore established, of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, said salary shall not commence, or ap- Proviso. pointment take effect, prior to the thirtieth of November next, and in appraising all goods at any port of the United States, heretofore subjected to specific duties, but upon which ad valorem duties are imposed by the act of the thirtieth of July last, entitled "An act reducing the duty on imports and for other purposes," reference shall be had to values and invoices of similar goods imported during the last fiscal year, under such general and uniform regulations for the prevention of fraud or undervaluation as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.

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1842, and

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful Heads of Defor the respective heads of departments to continue in service partment may during the current fiscal year the officers and persons, and at cers authorized the salaries and compensations authorized in the act approved by act of Aug. twenty-sixth of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-June 17, 1844. two, entitled "An act legalizing and making appropriations for such necessary objects as have been usually included in the general appropriation bills without authority of law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental expenses of the departments

and officers of the Government, and for other purposes," and *See vol. 10 also the clerks authorized to be employed in the office of the P. 297. First Comptroller of the Treasury by the act of June seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and for

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