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For furniture of the President’s house, twenty thousand dollars;

For the taxes on the arsenal near Philadelphia, for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and eighteen hundred and thirty-six, one thousand four hundred and fifty dollars and fifty cents;

For the salaries of the registers and receivers of land offices where there are no sales, including one thousand seven hundred and six dollars and thirty-four cents, carried to the surplus fund, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For the construction of the Treasury building, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in addition to the amount unexpended in eighteen hundred and thirty-six, two hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars;

For the construction of the Patent Office, in addition to former appropriations, one hundred thousand dollars;

For surveying unfinished portions of townships, islands, and lakes, in Arkansas, at the rate of six dollars per mile, six thousand dollars;

For compensation to George Watterston, for his services in preparing a statement of the persons imprisoned for debt in this District, since one thousand eight hundred and twenty, under a resolution of the House of Representatives, six hundred dollars;

For building a light-house at or near Michigan City, being an amount heretofore appropriated for the same purpose, and carried to the surplus fund, five thousand dollars;

For rebuilding the lazaretto and wharf near the city of Baltimore, thirty thousand dollars;

For arrearages for the expenses of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wisconsin, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, fifteen thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars and sixteen cents;

For the expenses of the same, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, thirty-six thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars;

For an outfit and salary of a chargé d’affaires to Naples, nine thousand dollars;

For lighting lamps and superintendent of the public grounds around the capitol, five thousand one hundred and sixty-four dollars.

To enable the President to cause the southwestern boundary line of the United States to be run, the following sums, viz:

For the salary of a commissioner, two thousand five hundred dollars;

For the salary of a surveyor, two thousand dollars; and for contingencies, including the purchase of necessary instruments, wages to attendants, and other expenses, ten thousand dollars; Provided, That said commissioner and surveyor be appointed with the advice and consent of the Senate;

For exploring and surveying the north and east boundary line of the United States, where the same has not already been surveyed, and establishing monuments thereon, agreeably to the definitive treaty of peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-three, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States, twenty thousand dollars;

For enlarging the public stable at the capitol, and the erection of a shed for the protection of the tools, implements and materials, twelve hundred dollars;

For completing the improvements commenced, by extending the capitol square west, forty thousand dollars;

For alterations and repairs of the President’s house, and for