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beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of lamps, oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs, improvements, and contingent expenses, three hundred and fifty-six thousand eight hundred and sixty-three dollars;

For survey of the coast of the United States, including the compensation of the superintendent and assistants, ninety thousand dollars;

For completing the public warehouse at Baltimore, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For completing surveys in Alabama, according to the provision in the appropriation act of third March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, twenty-five thousand dollars;

For surveys in Missouri, in the towns named in the, six thousand dollars;

For the compensation to two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars;

For salaries of ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, and Prussia, forty-five thousand dollars;

For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, ten thousand dollars;

For salaries of the charges des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Turkey, Belgium, Brazil, Chili, Peru, Central America, New Grenada, and Venezuela, and for an outfit to a charge d’affaires to Peru, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars;

For salary of the drogoman, and for contingent expenses of the legation to Turkey, six thousand five hundred dollars;

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

For salaries of the consuls of the United States at London and Paris, four thousand dollars;

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars;

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, forty thousand dollars;

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, fifteen thousand dollars;

For clerk-hire, office-rent, stationery, and other expenses, in the office of the American consul in London, per, two thousand eight hundred dollars;

For interpreters, guards, and other expenses incidental to the consulates in the Turkish dominions, five thousand five hundred dollars;

For salary of the principal and two assistant librarians; pay of the messenger, and for contingent expenses of the library, four thousand two hundred and ten dollars;

For the purchase of books for the library of Congress, five thousand dollars;

For registers for ships and vessels and lists of crews, four thousand dollars;

For compensation to a person employed in making an abstract of the pension laws, and in preparing the papers of Congress, under the resolution of the House of Representatives of the ninth of October, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, five hundred dollars;

For carrying into effect the fourth article of the treaty with Spain, three thousand dollars;

For alterations and repairs of the Capitol, and incidental expenses, six thousand three hundred and thirty-one dollars;

For filling up the street in front of the carpenter’s shop, and conducting water to the public stables, five hundred and fifty dollars;

For lighting lamps and superintendent of public grounds around the Capitol, five thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars;

For extending Capitol square west, and improving the same south of