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For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.

For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia: also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and preceding years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecutions for offences committed against the United States, and for the safe-keeping of prisoners, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

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

For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, one hundred and ninety-three thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars.

For building lighthouses on little Watt’s island, Maryland; on Clay island, Maryland; at the entrance of Roanoke Sound, in North Carolina; at or near Choctaw Point, in Alabama; and near St. Mark’s harbour, in Florida, twenty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars, being the amount of balances of moneys heretofore appropriated to the said objects; which said several balances are hereby re-appropriated to the several objects specifically.

For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where there are no sales, two thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.

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

For allowance to assistant counsel and district attorney, under the, dated twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, including contingencies, eight thousand dollars, including the unexpended balance of the last year’s appropriation for the same objects.

For the third payment to Luigi Persico, for statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars.

For alterations and improvements in the executive buildings, and painting the same, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For surveying the public lands, including the amount of arrearages due for the last year, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands, and Colombia, fifty-four thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, twelve thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the chargé des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, and Guatemala, forty thousand five hundred dollars.

For outfit of the present minister to Russia, nine thousand dollars.

For outfits of the chargé des affaires at Peru, Chili, Brazil, and Guatemala, eighteen thousand dollars.

For the outfit and salary of a chargé d’affaires, for the salary of a drogoman at Constantinople; and for the contingent expenses of the legation, thirty-six thousand five hundred dollars, to wit: For the outfit of a chargé d’affaires, four thousand five hundred dollars; for salary of