TWENTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess.I. Ch.22. 1840.

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For completing the custom-house building at New York , one hun-dred and eighteen thousand seven hundred and forty-three dollars;

For the construction of a new custom-house at Boston , one hun-dred and twenty-one thousand dollars;

For repairing the public works at Staten Island , twenty-nine thou-sand seven hundred and twenty dollars;

For repairs of the custom-house building at New Bedford , five hun-dred dollars;

For repairs of the custom-house building at New London , one thou-sand seven hundred dollars;

For repairs of the marine hospital at Norfolk , four thousand dol-lars ;

For the payment of expenses incurred by the collector of New York ,under the act of seventh July, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, toremit the duties upon certain goods destroyed by fire at the late confla-gration at the city of New York , one thousand three hundred and fiftydollars;

For salaries of the Ministers of the United States to Great Britain ,France, Spain, Russia, Prussia, Austria, and Mexico , sixty-three thou-sand dollars : Provided, That the sum of nine thousand dollars, or suchpart thereof as may be necessary, may be applied to the outfit and salaryof a Charge d’Affaires to Spain in lieu of a Minister ;

For salaries of the Secretaries of Legation to the same places, four-teen thousand dollars;

For salary of the Minister Resident of the United States to Turkey ,six thousand dollars;

For salaries of the Charges des Affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Swe-den, Holland, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, New Granada, Venezuela ,Texas, Naples, and Sardinia , fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars;

For contingent expenses of all the Missions abroad, thirty thousanddollars;

For outfits for a Minister to Russia, and of Charge d’Affaires to Sar-dinia , thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of the Consuls of the United States at London and Paris ,four thousand dollars; and twelve thousand dollars for the expenses andsalaries of diplomatic agents to be employed under the direction of thePresident of the United States, in attending to the Tobacco interest ofthe United States, in Europe ;

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign coun-tries, forty thousand dollars;

For clerk hire, office rent, stationery, and other expenses in the officeof the American Consul at London , per act of January nineteenth, eigh-teen hundred and thirty-six, two thousand eight hundred dollars;

For interpreters, guards, and other expenses incident to the consu-lates in the Turkish dominions, five thousand five hundred dollars;

For salary of the principal and two assistant Librarians, pay ofthe messenger, and for contingent expenses of the Library, four thou-sand three hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents;

For the purchase of books for the Library of Congress, five thousanddollars;

For compensation to William Gibbs McNeill, being an excess of ex-penditure over and above the appropriation for surveys made under hisdirection of the East pass of the Appalachicola Bay, one hundred andfifty dollars and twenty-nine cents;

For the payment of certain certificates, being part of the balance ofa former appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund, De-cember thirty-first, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, fifty dollars;

For the service of the General Post Office, for the year eighteen hun-dred and forty, in conformity to the act of second of July, eighteen hun-

Custom-houseat New York .

Custom-houseat Boston .

Public worksat Staten island .

Custom-houseat N. Bedford.

Custom-houseat N. London.

Marine hospi-tal at Norfolk .

Expenses un-der act to remitcertain duties,1838, ch. 174.

Ministers.

Secretaries oflegation.

Minister toTurkey .

Charges desaffaires.

Expenses ofmissions.

Outfits.

Consuls atLondon andParis .

Tobacco

agents.

Relief, &c. ofAm. seamen.

Office of con-sul at London .

1836, ch. 2.

Consulates inTurkish domin-ions.

Library ofCongress.

Purchase ofbooks.

W.G.McNeill.

Payment ofcertificates.

General PostOffice.