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TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 74. 1832.

Pensions.

Lighting pub-lic grounds, &c.

Lighthouses,

&c.

1829, ch. 25.

1829, ch. 25.

1829, ch. 25.

Registers andreceivers.

Survey ofpublic lands.

Keepers ofarchives.

Census.

Miscellaneous

claims.

Commissionersof loans.

Ships’ registers.

Luigi Persico.

Ministers.

Secretaries oflegation.

Charges.

and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, 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 five hundred and fifty dollars.

For expense of lighting the lamps in the Capitol square, seven hun-dred and fifty dollars.

For improving the grounds round the President’s house, including thegardener’s salary, three thousand dollars.

For alterations and repairs in the President’s house, three hundreddollars.

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, two hun-dred and five thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight dollars.

For building a lighthouse on or near one of the islands called TheBrothers at the Narrows, in Long Island Sound, New York , being theamount of an appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fundon the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, fivethousand dollars.

For placing eight buoys at proper sites between the city of Albany and a point opposite Red Hook, New York , being the amount of anappropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-firstof December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, five hundred dollars.

For erecting a beacon near the Charleston lighthouse, in order tomark the entrance into the channel commonly known as Lawford’s chan-nel, South Carolina , being the amount of an appropriation for that object,carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first December, eighteen hun-dred and thirty-one, six hundred dollars.

For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where thereare no sales, two thousand dollars.

For surveying the public lands, one hundred and sixty thousand dol-lars, viz : For the survey of the Choctaw cession in Mississippi , eightythousand dollars; and for the survey of other public lands, eighty thou-sand dollars; and a further sum for the survey of the lands ceded by theCreeks to the United States , fifty thousand dollars.

For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida , onethousand dollars.

For the revision of all former statements of the enumeration of theinhabitants of the United States and their territories, being a balancedue D. Green, for printing the abstract of said revision, two hundred andtwenty-nine dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the UnitedStates , not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admittedin due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars.

For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, fivehundred dollars.

For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, four thousanddollars.

For the fourth payment to Luigi Persico, for two colossal statues forthe Capitol, four thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain ,France, Spain, Russia, and Colombia , forty-five thousand dollars.

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

For the salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Swe-den, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru ,