"An act to provide revenue from imports, and to change and modify existing laws imposing duties on imports, and for other purposes," contrary to the terms of the treaty of commerce and navigation of first May, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, between Prussia and the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For refunding certain duties collected under the tariff act of eighteen hundred and forty-two, above mentioned, contrary to the terms of the treaty of twentieth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, between the Hanseatic Republics of Lubec, Bremen, and Hamburg, and the United States, five thousand dollars.

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

Light-house

For supplying light-houses, containing two thousand five establishment. hundred and ninety-four lamps, with oil, tube-glasses, wicks, Supplies. buff-skins, whiting, and cotton cloth; transportation, and other expenses on the same; and for keeping the lighting apparatus in repair, one hundred and thirteen thousand four hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-four cents;

For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting, and improvements of light-houses, and buildings connected there- Repairs, &c. with, sixty-five thousand four hundred and fifty-five dollars and ten cents;

For salaries of two hundred and thirty-eight keepers, and Keepers. sixteen assistant keepers of light houses, (seventeen of them charged with double, and two with triple lights,) including also the salary of an inspector of lights on the upper lakes, and superintendent on lake Michigan, one hundred and one thousand five hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirtythree cents;

For salaries of thirty keepers of floating lights, sixteen Floating lights. thousand dollars.

For seamen's wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty float

ing lights, sixty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty-nine dollars and forty-eight cents;

For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supply- Buoys, &c. ing the losses of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-three cents.

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

For superintendents' commissions, at two and a half per Superintendcentum, nine thousand eight hundred and twelve dollars and ents' commiseighty-two cents.

SURVEYS OF PUBLIC LANDS.

sions.

For salary of an assistant surveyor, to have charge and Assistant Sur

veyor inGreens- oversight of the re-surveys in the Greensburg district, (late burg district. St. Helena,) under the direction and supervision of the Surveyor General of Louisiana, one thousand dollars;

Assistant Sur

For salary of an assistant surveyor, to survey the private veyor, &c., in claims in Florida, under the direction and supervision of the Surveyor General of Florida, one thousand dollars;

Florida.

Chain-carriers,

&c.

Surveying.

Surveying public lands.

Surveying copper regions.

Detached veys.

sur

Surveys in Mis

souri.

Surveying in
Arkansas.

Surveying in

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

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

For surveying the public lands, including incidental expenses, to be apportioned to the several districts according to the exigencies of the public service, one hundred thousand dollars;

For surveying the copper regions of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, with reference to mines and minerals, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, fifty thousand dollars;

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

For surveys of towns and villages in Missouri, named in the act of twenty-sixth May, eighteen hundred and twentyfour, including office rent, two thousand dollars;

For surveying in 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, nine hundred dollars;

For surveying the islands in the Mississippi, Arkansas, Mississippi, &c. White, Red, Black, and St. Francis rivers, and detached fractional townships in Arkansas, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, three thousand dollars;

Surveys at augmented rates.

Surveying in
Louisiana.

Foreign Inter

course.

Ministers.

Secretaries legation.

Dragoman.

of

For surveys at augmented rates, in Louisiana, sixteen thousand six hundred and ninety dollars;

For surveying the public lands in the State of Louisiana to meet the liabilities of the Surveyor General's office, on contracts now in the course of execution, twenty-one thousand 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 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;

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

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

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars;

penses.

don.

For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars; Consul at LonFor clerk-hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the consul of the United States at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars;

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, ten Barbary powers thousand dollars;

Commissioner

For salary of a commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, to Sandwich three thousand dollars;

Islands.

For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consu- Interpreters, lates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, one thou- &c., at Constansand five hundred dollars;

tinople, &c.

at China.

For salary of a commissioner to reside in China, five thou- Commissioner sand dollars; For salary of secretary to commissioner to reside in China, Secretary. and Chinese interpreter, two thousand five hundred dollars;

And also to make up the difference between the salary of said secretary, and that of a chargé des affaires during the time the said secretary has acted as chargé des affaires, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose, the compensation herein allowed to be in full for the services of the said secretary, as acting chargé des affaires of the United States in China, down to the arrival of A. H. Everett at Canton; and for all other public services rendered at any previous period, to the Government of the United States, or to any officer, agent, or citizen thereof in the capacity of interpreter, translator, or otherwise.

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

men.

ate.

For outfit of a minister to Mexico, nine thousand dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following Contingent sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the ser- fund of the Seavice of the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, under the following heads, viz: For the contingent fund of the Senate, to enable its Secretary to comply with their resolutions passed February eighteenth, and February twentieth, for the purchase of certain books therein named, forty-five thousand dollars.

For additional salary to the Surveyor General of Wiscon- Surveyor Gensin and Iowa, from first of July, eighteen hundred and forty-eral Wisconsin. six, to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven,

five hundred dollars.

Surveyor Gen. For additional salary to the Surveyor General of Arkansas, eral of Arkansas from first July, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, five hundred dollars.

District judge

of Texas.

District attor

For salary of the district judge of Texas, from twentyninth May, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars and thirty cents.

For salaries of the district attorney and marshal of Texas, ney and marshal from twenty-ninth May, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, four hundred and thirty-six dollars and twenty-six cents.

of Texas.

Assistant treasurers at New York, &c.

Additional clerks.

Additional sala

ers of the mints,

&c.

For salaries of the assistant treasurers at New York, Boston, Charleston, and St. Louis, from sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, ten thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For salaries of ten additional clerks, from sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, seven thousand two hundred and seventeen dollars and thirty-nine cents.

For additional salaries of treasurers of the mint at Philaries of treasur- delphia and branch mint at New Orleans, from sixth August, eighteen hundred and forty-six, to the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, nine hundred and two dollars and seventeen cents: Provided, That the salaries of the assistant treasurers and their clerks, the additional salaries of the treasurers of the mint, shall commence only from the day on which they respectively entered upon the discharge of the duties of their several offices.

Proviso.

Renewal of di

For the renewal of diplomatic intercourse with Mexico, plomatic inter- with a view to the termination of hostilities in the event that course with Mexico. the government of that republic shall consent to enter upon negotiations, fifty thousand dollars.

Chargé d'af

For outfit of chargé d'affaires to Peru, four thousand five faires to Peru. hundred dollars.

Outstanding For outstanding claims for the late mission to China, to claims for mis- be settled by the Secretary of State upon principles of equity and justice, a sum not exceeding seven thousand seven hundred dollars.

sion to China.

Commissioner

For deficiency in the appropriations for the salary of the to Sandwich Isl- late commissioner to the Sandwich islands, four thousand two hundred and eight dollars and thirty-three cents.

ands.

Pennsylvania

avenue.

New York custom-house.

For deficiency of appropriations for repairs of Pennsyl vania avenue, one thousand nine hundred and fifteen dollars and twenty-nine cents.

For deficiency of former appropriations for articles furnished for the New York custom-house, by Wenman and Wyckoff, five hundred and thirty-three dollars and eighty-six cents.

For extra clerk hire and copying in the office of the Sec- Extra clerk hire retary of State, including preparing indices to the papers of and indices of the Confederation and of Washington, during the current Washington papers. fiscal year, two thousand dollars.

For compensation to special agents to examine books, ac- Special agents counts, and money on hand in the several depositories under to examine books, &c. the act of August sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-six, nineteen hundred dollars.

For roof to the building adjoining and belonging to the Roof to buildtreasury building, five hundred dollars. ing, &c. For the expenses of procuring and issuing certificates of Certificates of stock in the several loans heretofore authorized, for blank stocks. stock, and dividend books, and other expenses attending the issue and transfer of the evidences of public debt, including the certificates of scrip authorized by the act of eleventh February, eighteen hundred and forty-seven, twenty thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses, including stationery, blank Contingent exbooks, &c., in the office of the Second Auditor, two hun-penses. dred and ninety-five dollars.

Auditor.

For compensation of two clerks in the office of the Fourth Office of 4th Auditor, at one thousand dollars per annum, two thousand dollars.

For reappropriation of this sum for the compensation of Meteorologist. the meteorologist-the same having been omitted by mistake

in the enrolment of the civil and diplomatic bill of the last session, two thousand dollars.

For deficiency in the appropriation for completing the Maps, specifi maps, specifications, and astronomical computations of the cations, &c. line of boundary between the United States and the British provinces, six thousand [dollars.]

ry Department.

For rent, repairs, watching, and incidental expenses of Rent, repairs, such buildings as may be indispensably necessary for the &c. for Treasu use of the Treasury Department, the Secretary of the Treasury being hereby authorized to obtain the same, twenty-five hundred dollars per annum, to .commence from the passage of this act.

For repairs to the wharf at the Penitentiary, six hundred Penitentiary. dollars.

For settling the claims of the late republic of Texas, ac- Republic of cording to principles of justice and equity, for disarming Texas. a body of Texan troops under the command of Colonel Snively, and for entering the custom-house at Bryarly's landing, and taking certain goods therefrom, a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars; the account to be settled by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Department.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of Ritchie & Heiss the Treasury be instructed to pay to Ritchie and Heiss, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the