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expense of stationery, office rent, and other contingent expenses of the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, two thousand dollars.

For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of state, treasury, war, and navy, and of the general post-office, not exceeding, for each department respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act, intituled “,” thirteen thousand two hundred and sixty-nine dollars.

For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two associate judges of the district of Columbia; to the attorney-general, and to the judge of the district of Orleans, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.

For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars.

For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, East and West Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, eight hundred and sixty dollars.

For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and seven, to the fourth of March one thousand eight hundred and eight, ninety-eight thousand dollars.

For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars, and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, eighty-three thousand nine hundred and sixty-one dollars and eight cents.

For erecting a lighthouse on St. Simon’s island, in Georgia, the former appropriation of seven thousand dollars for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, nineteen thousand dollars.

For erecting lighthouses at the mouth of the Mississippi river, and at or near the pitch of Cape Look-out, in North Carolina, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated by law for those objects, the balance of a former appropriation for those objects, of twenty-four thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars and ninety-six cents, having been carried to the surplus fund, fifty-five thousand dollars.

For erecting a lighthouse on Whitehead, at the entrance of Penobscot bay, the former appropriation for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, two thousand two hundred and five dollars and eighty cents.

For the erection of beacons in the harbor of New York, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses incurred in surveying the coast of North Carolina, between Cape Hatteras and Cape Fear, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, one thousand three hundred dollars.

For compensating the commissioners in the aforesaid service for the loss of their effects incident to the service, on board the revenue cutters