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 THIRTY-—THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 242. 1854. 565 To enable the Secretary of State to defray the expense of releasing Crewufthe from captivity among the Indians of Queen Charlottds Island, the crew Q“°°” Ohm h and passengers of the American sloop Georgiaua., fifteen thousand dollars, ]°t°°` U or so much thereof as may be necessary; To defray expenses incurred, and to be incurred, in complying with C9mm*>P¢m ` the resolution of the House of Representatives of the fourteenth of De- S°"°‘“i°“‘ cember, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, calling for a statement of the privileges and restrictions of the commercial intercourse of the United States with all foreign nations, and a. table exhibiting e comparative statement between the tariff of other nations and that of the United States, ten thousand dollars; To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the persons employed to Guard M Sw protect the property and persons of citizens of the United States at Sun J““"‘ J nan de Nicaragua, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary to defray the expenses so incurred; For the payment of James B. Holmans for services rendered as Score- J. B. Iiolmnm. tary of Legation at Santiago, in the discharge of clerical duties left unperformed by his predecessors, five hundred dollars. Expenses of the Collection of Revenue from Lands.-- collection of To meet the expenses of collecting the revenue from the sale of umd revenue. public lands in the several land States, and Territory of Minnesota, in addition to the balances of former appropriations: For salaries and commissions of registers of land-offices and receivers of public moneys, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ; For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public moneys, fifty thousand dollars; For incidental expenses of the several land-odiees, including new offices, not heretofore provided for, forty thousand dollars ; For salaries of registers and receivers in Oregon and Washington Territories, or so much thereof as may be necessary, per mt of seventeenth of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, nine thousand dollars; For office rent, fuel, and labor, for said offices, four thousand dollars ; For iron safes for receivers, and for books, stationery, and furniture, three thousand dollars. Survey of the Public Lands. —- For surveying the public lands, (exclu- Lam] gm-Vey,. sive of California and Oregon,) including island surveys in the interior and all other special and diiiicult surveys demanding augmented rates, to be applied and apportioned to the several districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, including expenses of selecting swamp lands, and the compensation and expenses to surveyor to locate private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balances of all former appropriations for the same objects, one hundred and ten thousand dollars; For continuing the examinations and corrections of old, imperfect, and defective surveys in the lower peninsula of Michigan, north of the third correction parallel, and east and west of the meridian, being forty-eight townships, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, twenty thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; For the correction of erroneous and defective lines of the public and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at 2. rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, three thousand five hundred dollars; For preparing the unfinished records of public and private surveys to be transferred to the State authorities under the provisions of the act of 1840, mac. the twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, in those districts where the surveys are about being completed, fifteen thousand dollars ; For resurveys and examinations of the survey of the public lands in those States, where the offices of the surveyors-general have been or shall be closed under the acts of the twelfth of June, one thousand eight hun-