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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1831.
Pensions.
Lighthouses,&c.
Lighthouses.
Registers andreceivers.
Keepers ofarchives.
Commissionersof loans.
Assistantcounsel, &c. forFlorida landclaims.
1828, ch. 70.
Luigi Persico.
Executive
buildings.
Surveying ofpublic lands.
Diplomatic ex-penses.
For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the SupremeCourt , one thousand dollars.
For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as grantedby law, including those in the several territories, eleven thousand threehundred dollars.
For defraying the expenses of the Supreme , circuit, and district courtsof the United States, including the District of Columbia : also, forjurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties,and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, andpreceding years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of suits inwhich the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offencescommitted against the United States , and for the safe-keeping of prison-ers, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and presentgovernments, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights,beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers’salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, one hun-dred and ninety-three thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars.
For building lighthouses on little Watt’s island, Maryland ; on Clayisland, Maryland; at the entrance of Roanoke Sound, in North Caro-lina; at or near Choctaw Point, in Alabama ; and near St. Mark’s har-bour, in Florida , twenty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars, being theamount of balances of moneys heretofore appropriated to the said objects;which said several balances are hereby re-appropriated to the severalobjects specifically.
For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where thereare no sales, two thousand dollars.
For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida , onethousand dollars.
For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, fivehundred dollars.
For allowance to assistant counsel and district attorney, under theact supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement ofprivate land claims in Florida , dated twenty-third of May, one thousandeight hundred and twenty-eight, including contingencies, eight thousanddollars, including the unexpended balance of the last year’s appropria-tion for the same objects.
For the third payment to Luigi Persico, for statues for the Capitol, fourthousand dollars.
For alterations and improvements in the executive buildings, andpainting the same, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For surveying the public lands, including the amount of arrearagesdue for the last year, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain ,France, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands, and Colombia , fifty-four thou-sand dollars.
For the salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, twelvethousand dollars.
For the salaries of the charge des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Swe-den, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, and Guatemala , fortythousand five hundred dollars.
For outfit of the present minister to Russia , nine thousand dollars.
For outfits of the charge des affaires at Peru, Chili, Brazil, and Gua-temala , eighteen thousand dollars.
For the outfit and salary of a charge d’affaires, for the salary of adrogoman at Constantinople ; and for the contingent expenses of thelegation, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars, to wit: For the outfitof a charge d’affaires, four thousand five hundred dollars; for salary of