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 426 THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 82. 1859. beacons, and their assistants, one hundred and ninety-three thousand three hundred and nine dollars and fifty-nine cents. For salaries of tit'ty-two keepers of light-vessels, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-three cents. For seamen’s wages, repairs, supplies, and incidental expenses of fifty- two light-vessels, one hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and eighteen dollars and thirteen cents. For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, rc-mooring, 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 thousand dollars. For commissions, at two and a halt' per centum, to such superintendents 185], ch. 32, § 5. as are entitled to the same under the proviso to act third March, eighteen VOL iX· P- 618- hundred and fifty-one, on the amount that may be disbursed by them, in addition to available balance, one thousand eight hundred and sixteen dollars and sixty-seven dollars. For the Coasts of Oalyomla, Oregon, and Was}zlngton.—For expenses of raising, cleaning, painting, repairing, re-mooring, and supplying losses of buoys and day beacons, and for chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, ten thousand dollars. _Minot’s Ledge For continuing the construction of the light-house on Minot’s Ledge, one L‘gh”‘h°“S°— of the Cohasset rocks, Boston bay, Massachusetts, being one half of the amount remaining to be appropriated to complete the work according to the original estimate, forty-seven thousand and ninety dollars and thirty-six cents. Army otneers For commutation of fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving g3g;$m`h°“S“ on light-house duty, the payment of which is no longer provided for by the quartermaster’s department, two thousand three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and forty-one cents. Life stations For compensation ot" two superintendents for the life-saving stations on md b°=**S· the coast of Long Island and New Jersey, three thousand dollars. For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations, at two hundred dollars each, eight thousand four hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty-three cents. For the best life-boat, to be placed at each of the twenty-eight life-saving stations on the coast of New Jersey, six thousand four hundred and forty dollars, and so much money as was appropriated at the last session of Congress for this purpose as remains unexpended is hereby directed to be carried to the surplus fund. For repairing the life-saving stations on the coast of Long Island and New Jersey, two thousand dollars. Lmd S¤\‘V6Y5· Survey of the Public Lands.-—For surveying the public lands, (exclusive of Calitbrnia, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, and Utah,) including incidental expenses and island surveys in the interior, and all other special and difficult surveys demanding augmented rates, to be apportioned and applied to the several surveying districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, including expenses of selecting swamp lands and the compensation and expenses to survey or to locate private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balances of all _ _ former appropriations, sixty thousand dollars. C"hf°"m“· For surveying the public lands and private land claims in California, including office expenses incident to the survey of claims, and to be dis bursed at the rates prescribed by law for the diH`erent kinds of work, forty-three thousand dollars. New Mexico. For continuing the survey of base, meridian, standard parallels, township, and section lines in New Mexico, twenty thousand dollars. Kansas and Ne- For surveying the necessary base, meridian, standard parallels, townb‘””k“· ship, and section lines in Kansas and Nebraska, also outlines of Indian reservations, including liabilities incurred in the years eighteen hundred