TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 54.

1833.

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ceding years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of suits in whichthe United States are concerned; and of prosecutions for offences com-mitted against the United States , and for the safe-keeping of prisoners,two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and presentgovernments, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, bea-cons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers’salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, two hun-dred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

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

For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balanceof former appropriations, seventy thousand dollars.

For completing the survey of the Choctaw cession in Mississippi andAlabama , sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars.

For surveys of private land claims in Florida , eight thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the district attorney, agent, and assistant council,and contingent expenses in Florida , five thousand dollars.

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

For the fifth payment to Luigi Persico, for two colossal statues for theCapitol, four thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain ,Frauce, Spain, Russia, and Colombia , forty-two thousand seven hundredand twenty-five dollars.

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

For the salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Swe-den, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru ,Mexico, Central America, Naples, and Colombia , sixty thousand sevenhundred and twenty-five dollars.

For salary of the drogoman to the legation of the United States toTurkey , and for contingent expenses of that legation, six thousand fivehundred dollars.

For outfits of the charges des affaires of the United States to GreatBritain, Central America, and Colombia , thirteen thousand five hundreddollars.

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousanddollars.

For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris , fourthousand dollars.

For the expenses of intercourse with the Mediterranean powers, twen-ty-four thousand four hundred dollars.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,thirty thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousanddollars.

To satisfy a claim presented by his majesty, the king of Sweden , onaccount of injuries sustained by subjects of the said government in theisland of St. Bartholomews, by an illegal act of the commanding officerof the United States’ sloop of war Erie , in the year one thousand eighthundred and twenty-three, five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dol-lars and sixty-six cents.

Von. IV.—79

Pensions.

Lighthouses.

Miscellaneous.

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