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one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight, and including a deficiencyin the existing appropriation of three thousand three hundred andseventeen dollars and seventy-six cents, to pay for work already com-pleted and returned, five thousand eight hundred dollars.

For completing the retracing of certain old surveys in the State ofMississippi , at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, in additionto the unexpended balance of the appropriation of May eight, one thou-sand eight hundred and forty, for the survey of private land claims, andconnecting the same with the adjacent public lands, south of the thirty-first degree of latitude, at the same rate, eleven thousand one hundreddollars.

For completing the surveys in Missouri , in the towns named in theact of May twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four,in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of Marchthird, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, for a similar object,and including office work, four thousand dollars.

For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balanceof former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several surveying dis-tricts according to the exigencies of the public service, forty thousanddollars.

For the survey of small detached tracts situated in Illinois and Mis-souri, principally in the military district of Illinois , at a rate not exceed-ing six dollars per mile, and including office work, three thousand dol-lars.

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

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

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

For outfits of a minister to France, and of a charge d’affaires to Den-mark , thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

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

For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousandfive hundred dollars.

For compensation to a commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, threethousand dollars.

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

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousanddollars.

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

For the salary of a consul at Beyroot, five hundred dollars.

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

For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of theAmerican consul at London , two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, fifteen thou-sand dollars.

For defraying the expenses attending the conveyance and forwarding,by land, and of the receipt and delivery, of mails, letters and despatchesat and between Chagres and Panama , including the compensation to anagent of the United States at each of said places for the above purposes,one thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secre-tary of State.

Post Office Department .—For the service of the General Post Officefor the year commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and

Mississippi .1840, ch. 22.

Missouri .1824, ch. 184.1841, ch. 25.

The severaldistricts.

Illinois andMissouri .

Foreign inter-course.

Ministers.

Secretaries oflegation.

Charges desaffaires.

Outfits.

Minister toTurkey.

Drogoman .

Commissionerto the Sandwichislands.

Contingent

expenses.

Consul at Lon-don .

Consul at Bey-root.

American sea-men abroad.

Consulate atLondon .

Barbary pow-ers.

Transmissionof letters be-tween Chagresand Panama .

Post OfficeDepartment.Act of July 2,1836, ch. 270.