floating lights, seventy-nine thousand two hundred and sixtyfive dollars and two cents.

For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying Beacons, buoys, loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, thirty-three thousand four hundred and sixty-six dollars and twenty-eight

&c.

Annual examination

sions.

Superintend

cents.

Fo expenses of superintendents in visting [visiting] the light houses annually, and examining and reporting the condition of each, two thousand dollars.

For superintendents' commissions on four hundred and ents' commis sixty-five thousand seven hundred and thirteen dollars and ninety-two cents, at two and a half per cent., eleven thousand six hundred and forty dollars and thirty-five cents: Provided, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be paid to any person who receives a 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 collectors of the customs without compensation. For completing the light-house on Minot's rock, Boston harbor, Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars.

Light-houses boat, beacon, &c.,

sea-wall, light

viz :

Boston harbor.

Black Rock, Connecticut.

Monroe, Mich.

Wangoshance.

Carysfort reef, Florida.

Sand Key, Flor. ida.

Bartlett's reef.

Haven,

New Comecticut.

Construction

and equipment of

For completing the sea wall for the protection of the lighthouse on Fairweather island, near Black Rock, Connecticut, five thousand dollars.

For completing the construction of a light house at Monroe, Michigan, three thousand five hundred and twenty-two dollars.

For completing the construction of a light-house at Wangoshance, Michigan, thirty eight thousand three hundred and sixty five dollars and forty-two cents.

For completing the construction of a light-house at Carys. fort reef, Florida, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-four cents.

For completing the construction of a light house on Sand Key, Florida, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-four cents; said sum of thirty-nine thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars and seventy-four cents, and the sum of twenty thousand dollars appropriated by the act of third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, for a screw-pile light-house on said Key, are hereby authorized to be applied, under the superintendence of the Topographical Bureau, to the erection of a cheap and durable structure adapted to the locality, anything in said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

For a light-boat to be stationed on Bartlett's reef, Long Island sound, twelve thousand dollars.

For the erection of a beacon light on the southwest ledge in the harbor of New Haven, Connecticut, (in addition to the one thousand dollars heretofore appropriated,) five thousand dollars, or for the removal of said ledge, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem best.

For the construction and equipment of six revenue cutsix revenue cutters, the sum of ninety thousand dollars; the said sum to be

ters.

expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the construction and equipment of the said revenue cutters; and it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury, before commencing the construction of any revenue cutter, to give public notice, for at least thirty days, in two or more public newspapers published at the city of Washington, and in such other papers published at maritime places, where ship-building is carred on, as he may deem expedient; inviting proposals for materials for, and building, said revenue cutters, to be constructed under the superintendence and direction of an officer of the revenue survice; and after opening the proposals, it shall be the duty of said Secretary to enter into a contract with the lowest responsible bidder or bidders therefor.

SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS.

For surveying, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, viz:

Surveys.

Surveying pub

For surveying the public lands, including incidental ex- lic lands, inclu penses, to be apportioned to the several districts according to ding incidental the exigencies of the public service-the part to be applied expenses, viz: to the surveys of the mineral regions of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, and to the location of private claims in Florida, to be disbursed at augmented rates-one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

For surveying in Florida, under act of June twenty-eighth, Florida. eighteen hundred and forty-eight, directing certain surveys in the State of Florida, fifteen thousand dollars.

For carrying into effect the act of first July, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, for the relief of the bona fide settlers under the acts for the armed occupation and settlement of a part of the Territory of Florida, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Clerks in offices of surveyors gen

For clerks in the offices of the surveyors general, to be ap. portioned to them according to the exigencies of the public eral." service, and, if necessary, to be employed in transcribing fieldnotes of surveys for the purpose of preserving them at the seat of government, and for other purposes, twenty-two thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For detached surveys in the southern part of Missouri, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, on account of the difficulties in surveying lakes and swamps, four thousand dollars.

For correction of erroneous and defective surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For retracing in the State of Mississippi, to supply lost field-notes, and for the location of private claims, two thousand four hundred dollars.

Missouri.

Mississippi.

For the location of private claims and correction of surveys Louisiana. in Louisiana, exclusive of the Greensburg district, fourteen

thousand two hundred and thirty dollars.

Alabama.

Additional compensation to deputies in Florida.

Mineral land

service.

Geologists, la

borers, packmen,

penses.

For retracing in the State of Alabama, to supply field-notes destroyed by fire, six thousand and fifty dollars.

For additional compensation to certain deputies, as set forth in the report of the surveyor general of Florida, three thousand dollars.

For mineral land service, to carry out the requirements of the acts of the first and third March, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, viz:

For compensation of geologists, assistant geologists, laborand incidental ex. ers, packmen, and incidental expenses attending the geological examination and survey of the mineral lands in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, including the amount required for the third and fourth quarters of the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, forty thousand dollars.

For compensation of agent, assistant agent, and incidental expenses in collecting the rents required by the leases and permits issued to minors and others in Michigan and Wisconsin, three thousand four hundred dollars.

INTERCOURSE WITH FOREIGN NATIONS.

For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, and Brazil, fifty-four thousand dollars; and for outfit of said minister to Russia, nine thousand dollars.

For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places, twelve thousand dollars.

For salary of minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars.

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

For salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia, the Papal States, Chili, Peru, New Granada, Venezuela, Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala, and Ecuador, seventy-six thousand five hundred dollars.

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

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thou

penses of foreign sand dollars.

intercourse.

Consul general at Alexandria.

John Hogan for

cal agent in St. Domingo.

For intercourse with the Barbary Powers, nine thousand dollars.

For the salary of a consul general at Alexandria, three thousand dollars.

For paying John Hogan twelve hundred and fifty dollars services as politi: for services and expenditures as political agent in St. Domingo, and in full satisfaction of all his claims for extra expenses and services in the years eighteen hundred and forty-two and eighteen hundred and forty-three.

Consul at Lon. don.

Commissioner to Sandwich islands.

For salary of consul at London, two thousand dollars.

For salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich islands, three thousand dollars.

For paying Joshua Dodge, late special tobacco agent of the United States to the various governments of Europe, four thousand five hundred dollars, in full compensation for his services, and for contingent and other expenses incurred by him during the period of his three missions as said special tobacco agent, and for services rendered to the tobacco interest of the United States.

For paying John Randolph Clay, late secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, on account of his services as chargé des affaires at said court, from the twenty-seventh day of January, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the eighteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, after the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, deducting his pay as secretary of legation at two thousand dollars per annum, the sum of three thousand nine hundred and ten dollars and seventy six cents: Provided, The Secretary of State shall be satisfied that the service was performed, and is still unpaid for.

For paying Eben Ritchie Dorr for diplomatic services at the republic of Chili, from the seventeenth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, until the nineteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and forty-five, five thousand two hundred and sixty two dollars.

For paying Jacob L. Martin, late secretary of legation of the United States at Paris, for his services as chargé des affaires of the United States near the French government, from fif. teenth day of September, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the first day of July, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, being the time intervening between the recall of our late minister, Mr. King, and the arrival of Mr. Rush, after the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, (deducting his pay as secretary of legation,) the sum of two thousand one hundred and ninety-three dollars.

ford.

For compensation to William M. Blackford, as chargé Wm. M. Blackd'affaires to the republic of New Granada, the sum of one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars, being the usual return allowance to chargé d'affaires to foreign courts.

Stanhope Pre

For compensation to Stanhope Prevost, consul of the United States at Lima, for diplomatic services rendered in the vost. absence of the chargé d'affaires from that country, the sum of one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For paying Peter Parker, secretary of legation and Chinese interpreter at Canton, for his services as chargé des affaires of the United States at said place, from the twenty-eighth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, to the twentyeighth day of June, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, being the interval between the death of Alexander H. Everett, late commissioner at Canton, and the probable arrival of the *present commissioner, John W. Davis, esq., after the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, (after deduct ing his salary as such secretary,) the sum of two thousand dollars.

Peter Parker.

A. T. Donnett.

Joseph Graham

Brent as special

ers of despatches

guay.

For paying A. T. Donnett, for services as acting chargé des affaires to Portugal, from nineteenth April to twentyfourth December, eighteen hundred and forty-one, three thousand and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-six cents.

For paying to Joseph Graham the sum of one thousand and George Lee four hundred and sixty dollars, and to George Lee Brent the agents and bear sum of two thousand one hundred and fifteen dollars, in full from Buenos compensation for their services and expenses as special Ayres to Para agents and bearers of despatches from Buenos Ayres to Paraguay, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-six, on a mission instituted by the chargé d'affaires of the United States at Buenos Ayres, to offer the mediation of the United States to adjust and settle hostilities then pending between the Argentine confederation and the State or Province of Paraguay. For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consuConstantinople, lates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, one thouAlexandria. sand five hundred dollars.

Interpreters, guards, &c., at

Smyrna, and

to China.

Interpreter and

secretary.

Relief of American seamen.

Contingencies

"

For salary of a commissioner to reside in China, five thousand dollars.

For salary of the interpreter and secretary to the said mission, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of consulate at of the consul of the United States at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

London.

Boundary line

and

For the expenses of running and marking the boundary line between the Uni- between the United States and Mexico, and paying the salaries of the officers of the commission, a sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars.

ted States Mexico.

Consul at Beyroot.

Payments to the

Indians.

For salary of the consul at Beyroot, five hundred dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the third section. of the "act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven, and for other purposes," approved the tenth of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-six, be, and the same is hereby, revived and continued in force for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That inasmuch as it is Creek nation of claimed by the Creek nation of Indians that a balance of one hundred and forty-one thousand and fifty-five dollars and ninety-one cents, being the remainder of the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars agreed to be paid in liquidation of the claims of the citizens of Georgia, to be ascertained and allowed by the arbitrament and award of the President of the United States, under the fourth article of the treaty of the eighth of January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, to belong to them, and the said sum of one hundred and forty-one thousand and fifty-five dollars and ninety-one cents is intended as a compromise of said claim: And inasmuch as it is a matter of doubt whether the obligation of the United States