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For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars.

For the third payment to John Trumbull, for paintings, agreeably to his contract with the Secretary of State, made in pursuance of a resolution of Congress, of the sixth of February, one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, six thousand dollars.

For salaries to the ministers of the United States, at London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Rio Janeiro, and Madrid; with the salaries of their several secretaries of Legation, and the salary of a chargé des affaires at Stockholm and the Hague; and for the salaries for the late ministers at Madrid and Rio Janeiro, during six months of the year one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and for the usual allowance of three months’ salary to those ministers, payable on their return home; seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For outfits to a minister to St. Petersburg, nine thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of those missions, ten thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.

For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, forty-two thousand dollars.

For the expenses, during the present year, for carrying into effect the fifth, sixth, and seventh, articles of the treaty of peace, concluded with his Britannic majesty, on the twenty-fourth of December, one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, including the compensation of the commissioners and surveyors, and an agent appointed under the fifth article of the said treaty, and their contingent expenses, forty-seven thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-two cents.

For the purpose of holding treaties with the Creek and Cherokee tribes of Indians, for the extinguishment of the Indian title to all the lands within the state of Georgia, pursuant to the fourth condition of the first article of the Articles of Agreement and Cession, concluded between the United States and the state of Georgia, on the twenty-fourth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, the sum of thirty thousand dollars. And for the purpose of procuring a further extinguishment of Indian title within the territory of Michigan, the sum of twenty thousand dollars.

For the purpose of negotiating a treaty of treaties with the Indians in the state of Mississippi, for the extinguishment of their title to lands in that state, twenty thousand dollars.

For salaries of the agents for claims, on account of spoliations, and for seamen, at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, eighty thousand dollars.

For the payment of a balance due to M. Poirey, ascertained and settled under the, the sum of three thousand four hundred and eighty-six dollars.

For the payment of a balance due M. De Vienne, ascertained and settled under the, nine hundred and ninety-five dollars and forty cents.

. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations hereinbefore made, shall be paid out of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

, April 11, 1820.