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For compensation to the District Attorneys and Marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several Territories, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;

For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court and the 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-seven 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, three hundred and thirty thousand dollars;

For expenses of printing the records of the Supreme Court, three thousand dollars;

For the payment of pensions granted by special acts of Congress, one thousand and fifty dollars;

For the support and maintenance of light-houses, floating-lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs, improvements, and contingent expenses, two hundred and ninety-eight thousand and fifty-five dollars;

For a bell, and fixing the same on the light-house at Cove point in the Chesapeake bay, being the amount of an appropriation for that purpose, which will be carried to the surplus fund, one thousand two hundred dollars;

For a light-house at the mouth of Chefuncte river, being the amount of a former appropriation for that object, which will be carried to the surplus fund, five thousand dollars;

For two small beacon-lights on Cockspur island, at the mouth of Savannah river, including four thousand dollars already appropriated, which will be carried to the surplus fund, seven thousand dollars;

For survey of the coast of the United States including arrears of compensation and expenses of the superintendent, estimating his compensation at three thousand dollars per annum, and his expenses at the same rate from August second eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and including also, such additional payment to the army and navy officers employed upon the survey for their past services and expenses as the President may decide to be just and proper, sixty thousand dollars;

For completing the public warehouse at Baltimore, fifty thousand dollars;

For the custom-house at Boston, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;

For refunding duties on railroad iron to the Lexington and Ohio Railroad Company, imported in eighteen hundred and thirty-two and eighteen hundred and thirty-three, per, one thousand nine hundred and eighty-four dollars;

For expense in relation to the relief of certain insolvent debtors of the United States, three thousand dollars;

For deficiency in the fund for the relief of the sick and disabled seamen as established by, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For the compensation to two keepers of 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 admitted in due course of settlement at the Treasury, twelve thousand dollars;

For an addition to the existing unexpended balances of appropriation for surveys of the public lands, to be duly apportioned to the several districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars;