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years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of such 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, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, one thousand three 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, two hundred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

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

For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, seventy thousand dollars.

For completing the survey of the Choctaw cession in Mississippi, and Alabama, sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars.

For surveys of private land claims in Florida, eight thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the district attorney, agent, and assistant council, and contingent expenses in Florida, five thousand dollars.

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

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

For the fifth payment to Luigi Persico, for two colossal statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, and Colombia, forty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.

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

For the salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Chili, Peru, Mexico, Central America, Naples, and Colombia, sixty thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For salary of the drogoman to the legation of the United States to Turkey, and for contingent expenses of that legation, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For outfits of the chargés des affaires of the United States to Great Britain, Central America, and Colombia, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars.

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

For the expenses of intercourse with the Mediterranean powers, twenty-four thousand four hundred dollars.

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

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

To satisfy a claim presented by his majesty, the king of Sweden, on account of injuries sustained by subjects of the said government in the island of St. Bartholomews, by an illegal act of the commanding officer of the United States’ sloop or war Erie, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, five thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.