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witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, and for defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, two hundred thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, two thousand and fifty dollars.

For the report and maintenance of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, one hundred and seventeen thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and eighty-five cents.

For procuring and placing three buoys on the bar near the port of Georgetown, South Carolina, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, three hundred dollars.

For building a lighthouse on Baker’s Island, near Mount Desert, in the state of Maine, in addition to the appropriation of two thousand five hundred dollars, made on the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, one thousand three hundred dollars.

For placing a buoy at the mouth of Scuppernong river, in North Carolina, in addition to the appropriation of forty dollars, made on the twenty-sixth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, one hundred and forty dollars.

For placing a buoy at the entrance of Beaufort, in North Carolina, eight hundred dollars.

For the payment of balances due to officers of the old internal revenue and direct tax, being the amount carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, eight thousand one hundred and thirty-six dollars and fourteen cents.

For the public buildings in Washington city, for the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, eighty thousand dollars.

For repairs made to the fire engine and hose, for the use of the public buildings, and for keeping the same in repair, one hundred and ten dollars.

For improving the Capitol square, one thousand dollars.

For paving the foorway in front of the public grounds on the south side of the Pennsylvania avenue, between the Capitol and the navy office, and for placing stone steps at the several entrances of the navy office, six thousand one hundred and sixty-one dollars and ninety-seven cents.

For levelling, graduating, and improving the President’s square, five thousand dollars.

For stationery and books, for the offices of the commissioners of loans, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For bringing to the seat of government the votes for President and Vice President of the United States, three thousand three hundred dollars.

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

For surveying the public lands of the United States, including the services of three commissioners and a surveyor, appointed to value the lands between Roberts’ and Ludlow’s lines, in the state of Ohio, one hundred and fourteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-two dollars and sixty cents.

For the salaries of the registers and receivers of land offices, forty-two thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the ministers at London, Paris, St. Petersburg, and Madris and the chargé des affaires at Stockholm, in the Netherlands, and at Lisbon, forty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.

For outfits of ministers to London and Madris, and for chargé des affaires at Lisbon and at Paris, twenty-seven thousand dollars.