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TWENTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 92. 1834.

Civil and diplo-matic expensesof government.

1352, ch. 180.1833, ch. 84.

mitted against the United States , and for the safe keeping of prisoners,two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by special acts of Con-gress, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars.

For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating-lights, beacons,buoys and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, keepers’ sala-ries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, two hundredand fifty-one thousand seven hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents.

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

For surveying the public lands, and for establishing a permanent andconspicuous land-mark on the line dividing the states of Indiana andIllinois at some suitable point near Lake Michigan , in addition to the un-expended balance of former appropriations, sixty thousand dollars.

For surveying a portion of the public lands in the south-western partof the state of Missouri , to which the Indian title was extinguished ineighteen hundred and thirty-two, twenty thousand dollars.

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

For compensation to the recorder, two commissioners, and translators,for the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri , per act ofninth July, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, which act, and a supple-mental act of second March, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, arehereby continued in force for one year from the first of October next,including an unexpended balance of former appropriations of eight hun-dred and ninety-two dollars and seventy-two cents, the sum of five thou-sand one hundred and seven dollars and twenty-eight cents.

For contingent expenses and office rent of said board, five hundreddollars.

For contingent expenses of said board for eighteen hundred andthirty-four, including compensation to the agent employed to conveyannual report of the board to the seat of government, including alsoexpenses incurred by commissioners in taking testimony, and for pay-ment of balances of claims admitted in due course of settlement atthe treasury, one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars andsixty-two cents.

For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, onethousand two hundred dollars.

For registers for ships and vessels, and lists of crews, two thousandthree hundred 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 salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain ,France, Spain, and Russia , thirty-six thousand dollars.

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

For the salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Denmark ,Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru ,Mexico, Central America , and New Granada, fifty-eight thousand fivehundred dollars.

For the 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 a minister of the United States to Russia , and a chargedes affaires to Buenos Ayres, Chili and Brazil , twenty-two thousand fivehundred dollars.