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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 29. 1842.
Expenses ofissuing Treasu-ry notes.
Light-houseestablishment.Light-houses.
Floating lights,&c.
Buoys, &c.
Light-house atGoat Island.
Foreign inter-course.Ministers.
Secretaries ofLegation.
Charges desaffaires.
Outfits.
Expenses offoreign inter-course.
For expenses incident to the issue of Treasury notes heretofore au-thorized, two thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appro-priation be applied, and no compensation shall be made to any officerwhose salary is established by law, for preparing, signing, or issuingsaid Treasury notes.
Light-house Establishment. —No. 181. For supplying light-houses,containing two thousand six hundred and fifty-two lamps, with oil, tube-glasses, wicks, buff-skins, whiting and cotton cloth, transportation andkeeping the apparatus in order, one hundred and sixteen thousand sevenhundred and thirty-five dollars and ninety-six cents.
No. 182. For repairs, refitting, and improvements of light-houses,and buildings connected therewith, one hundred and twenty-five thou-sand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and eighty-two cents.
No. 183. For salaries of two hundred and thirty-six keepers of light-houses, (seventeen of them being charged with two lights each, and onewith three,) ninety-four thousand thirty-eight dollars and thirty-threecents.
No. 184. For salaries of thirty keepers of floating lights, fifteen thou-sand eight hundred dollars.
No. 185. For seamen’s wages, repairs, and supplies to thirty floatinglights, sixty-seven thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars andeighteen cents.
No. 186. For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplyingthe loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-five thousandfour hundred and ninety-nine dollars and twelve cents.
No. 187. For expenses of examining annually the condition of thelight-houses, four thousand dollars; and for superintendents’ commis-sions, at two and a half per cent., eleven thousand two hundred andfifteen dollars.
No. 188. For completing the dike (from Goat Island, Newport, RhodeIsland ) and removing the light to the new light-house, thirteen thousanddollars.
Intercourse with Foreign Nations. —No. 189. For salaries of theministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia , Prus-sia, Austria, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil , seventy-two thousand dollars.
No. 190. For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places,sixteen thousand dollars.
No. 191. For salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Den-mark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, Venezuela, New Grenada ,Texas, Naples, and Sardinia , fifty-four thousand dollars.
No. 192. For outfits of charges des affaires to Sweden, Belgium, NewGrenada, and Holland , eighteen thousand dollars.
No. 193. For salary of the minister resident to Turkey , six thousanddollars.
No. 194. For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey , twothousand five hundred dollars.
No. 195. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thou-sand dollars: Provided, That such portion of the appropriations forforeign missions as shall remain unexpended by reason of reduction ordiscontinuance of missions, (if any should be made,) may be applied tothe payment of such allowances as shall become necessary in conse-quence of such reduction or discontinuance.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousanddollars.
No. 196. For salary of the consul at London , two thousand dollars.
No 197. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreigncountries, thirty-five thousand dollars.
No. 198. For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the officeof [thejconsul at London , two thousand eight hundred dollars.