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 222 THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 108. 1857. Belfast. For grading and fencing grounds of the new custom-house at Belfast, Maine, ive thousand dollars. For the purpose of adding an additional story to the custom-house and Petersburgh. post-office building at Petersburgh, Virginia, twenty thousand dollars : Provided That no part of the said sum of money hereby appropriated shall be expended for the construction of a portico to said building. Hospitals. For finishing, repairing, refitting, and refiirnishing the marine hospital At Paducah. at Paducah, Kentucky, five thousand dollars. Evansville. For fencing and grading the site of the marine hospital at Evansville, Indiana, and for erecting stable, supplying water for kitchen and other Hxtures of same, five thousand five hundred dollars. For fencing and grading the grounds belonging to the marine hospital P¤¤U¤¤d- at Portland, Maine, and for introducing water, erecting stables, removing and repairing old building, for pest—h0use, and putting in kitchen-ranges, sixteen thousand dollars. tatlgggggf °$· Lighthouse Establishment.-For supplying five hundred and eleven light- ' houses and beacon-lights with oil, glass chimneys, wicks, chamois skins, polishing powder, whiting and cleaning materials, transportation and other necessary expenses of the same, repairing and keeping in repair the lighting apparatus, two hundred and ninety-three thousand three hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty-ilve cents. For repairs and incidental expenses, refitting and improvements of all the lighthouses and buildings connected therewith. one hundred and seventy-three thousand two hundred and eighty-nine dollars and twenty- one cents. For salaries of five hundred and forty-three keepers of lighthouses and light—beacons and their assistants, two hundred and seventeen thousand two hundred dollars. For salaries of fifty-two keepers of light-vessels, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of fifty- two light-vessels, one hundred and ninety-nine thousand five hundred and eightymine dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of buoys and day-beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, one hundred and seven thousand two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights, and other aids to navigation, two thousand 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 third March, 1851, ch. 32. eighteen hundred and fifty-one, entitled "An act making appropriations Vol. ix. p. 608. 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 thousand dollars. For Pwiic For the Uoasts of Oalwsmia, Oregon. and Washington.—For oil and "°“°°` other supplies for twenty-three 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, forty-Eve thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and seventy- live cents. For repairs and incidental expenses of twenty-three lights, and buildings connected therewith, twenty-four thousand five hundred and sixty- three dollars. _ For salaries of forty-six keepers and assistant keepers of lighthouses, at an average not exceeding eight hundred dollars per annum, thirty-six thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, remooring, and supplying