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TWENTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 2. 1842.

Exploring ex-pedition.

Penitentiaryof D. C.

Sick and dis-abled seamen.

1802, ch. 51.

Custom-houseat Boston .

Miscellaneous

claims.

Proviso.

Light-house

establishment.

Light-houses.

Floating lights,

&.C.

Buoys, &,c.

Annual exa-mination.

Superintend-ents’ commis-sions.

Foreign inter-course.

Ministers.

Secretaries ofLegation.

Charges desaffaires.

Minister toTurkey.Drogoman .

Expenses ofmissions, dec.

Consul atLondon .

Relief, &c. ofAm. seamen.

For expenses attending the preparation of the results and accountof the exploring expedition for the publication thereof ordered by Con-gress, twenty thousand dollars.

For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary of the Districtof Columbia , six thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-four cents.

To make good a deficiency in the eighteen months ending the thir-tieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and estimated deficiencyin the year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as estab-lished by the act of the third of May, eighteen hundred and three, [two,]fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For carrying on the work of the new custom-house building at Bos-ton , twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise pro-vided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the trea-sury, six thousand dollars : Provided, That no part of this appropria-tion shall be expended in the payment of any claims for finishing andfurnishing the new custom-house in the city of New York .

Light-house Establishment .—For supplying the light-houses, con-taining two thousand six hundred and seventy-eight lamps, with oil,tube glasses, wicks, buffskins, whiting, and cotton cloth, transportation,and keeping apparatus in order, fifty-two thousand five hundred andninety-five dollars and fifteen cents.

For repairs, refitting, and improvements of light-houses, and build-ings connected therewith, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars and one cent.

For compensation of two hundred and thirty-six keepers of light-houses, eighteen of them being charged with double lights, and one withthree, forty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars.

For compensation of thirty keepers of floating lights, eight thousanddollars.

For seamens’ wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights,thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirty-six dollars and fourteencents.

For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the lossof beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, ten thousand four hundred andfifty-six dollars and fourteen cents.

For expenses of examining annually and reporting the condition ofthe light-houses, four thousand dollars.

For superintendents’ commissions, at two and one half per cent., tourthousand eight hundred and four dollars and seventy-three cents.

Intercourse with Foreign Nations .—For salaries of the ministers ofthe United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria ,Spain, Mexico, and Brazil , thirty-six thousand dollars.

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

For salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Swe-den, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, Venezuela, New Grenada, Texas ,Naples, and Sardinia , twenty-seven thousand dollars.

For salary of the minister resident to Turkey, three thousand dollars.

For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, one thousandtwo hundred and fifty dollars.

For the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifteen thou-sand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, fifteen thousanddollars.

For the salary of the consul at London , one thousand dollars.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign coun-tries, twenty-five thousand dollars.