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 658 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 175. 1855. 1851, ch. 32. of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for other purposes," on the amvlmt that may be disbursed by them, eight thousand dollars. For the coasts of California, Oregon, and Wasliington : For oil and other supplies for twenty-one lights, cleaning materials of all kinds, and transportation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, thirty-eighf thousand and twenty-four dollars and twenty-five cents. For repairs and incidental expenses ‘of twenty-one lights, and buildings connected therewith, twelve thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For salaries of forty-one keepers and assistant keepers of light·houses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, remooring,.and supplying losses of floating beacons, and buoys, and chains, and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same, under the proviso to the act of the third 1851,ch.s2. of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for other purposes," on the amount that may be disbursed by them, eight hundred dollars. Cotlhrs Patches. For continuing the construction of the light-house near Coflin’s Patches, off Dry Bank, on the Florida Reef, between Cary’s Fort Reef and Sand Key light-houses, sixty-flve thousand dollars. Minot’s Ledge. For continuing the construction of the light-house on Minot’s Ledge, one of the Cohasset rocks, Boston Bay, Massachusetts, seventy-five thousand dollars. Ship Shop,}. For continuing the construction of the light-house on Ship Shoal, Louisiana, to take the place of the lightwessel at that point, thirty thousand dollars. _ To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to replace lost light-vessel, S,§:§“°k°° to mark the dangerous New South shoals, of Nantucket, Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars. For continuing the appropriation of the third of March, eighteen Sabine Rivgp hundred and fifty-three, for a first-class light-house at the mouth of the @53- °l¤· 140- Sabine River, thirty thousand dollars. ’51“p"vr°°ks' For continuing the system of protecting human life from shipwreck as heretofore established, by life—boats and other means, on the coast of Massachusetts, the sum of ten thousand dollars; said money to be ex- B¤§¤<>¤ Humana pended by the Boston Humane Society, under the direction and control s°°‘°l‘Y‘ of the Secretary of the Treasury. For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on light-house duty, the payment of which is no longer provided for by the quartermnster’s department, five thousand and sixty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents. D5¤¤rl;2Bi•;¤ To supply deficiences in the revenue of the Post-Oflice Department, lm °° ‘ plug million one hundred and six thousand one hundred and eighty-seven 0 ars. Custom-houses. For the continuation of the custom-house at Charleston, South Carolina, two hundred thousand dollars. For the continuation of the custom-house at New Orleans, Louisiana, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.