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For alterations and repairs of the Capitol and incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars;

For lighting lamps and keeping in order the public grounds around the Capitol, the iron waterpipes, and wooden fences, six thousand three hundred and six dollars;

For attendance on the western gates of the Capitol, five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents;

For removing a lighthouse on Goat island, being the balance of former appropriations carried to the surplus fund, eight thousand seven hundred and six dollars and seventy-five cents;

For deepening the straight channel of the east pass to Appalachicola, Florida, being the balance of an appropriation transferred to this improvement, and since carried to the surplus fund, nine thousand nine hundred dollars;

For improving the harbor of Saybrook, by removing the bar at the mouth of Connecticut river, being the balance of an appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fifteen thousand seven hundred and ten dollars;

For an outfit of a charge d’affaires to Holland, four thousand five hundred dollars;

For completing the warehouse at Baltimore, thirty thousand dollars;

For the balance due on account of the first volume of the Documentary History of the United States, five thousand six hundred and two dollars; and the Secretary of State is hereby authorized to deliver to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, three hundred and sixty-eight copies of said work, to be distributed to each of the members of the House of Representatives of the twenty-third, twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth Congresses, who are not entitled to receive the same under former resolutions or acts of Congress.

For the balance due H. Randall for a lot of ground upon which the engine-house of the Union Fire Company has been erected, three hundred dollars;

For surveying the public lands in the State of Illinois, and for surveys not yet completed, twelve thousand dollars;

For repairs of the custom-house at Key West, one thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For the third payment to Luigi Persico, under the contract with him or a group of statues for the Capitol, four thousand dollars;

For the third payment to the artists engaged in executing paintings for the rotundo of the Capitol, eight thousand dollars;

For engraving a chart of the bay and harbor of New York, five thousand dollars;

For paying the clerks in the custom-house at Philadelphia, the arrears of their salaries from eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, so as to make the same equal to what they received in the last mentioned year, on the same principle as has been applied at New York, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary;

For procuring such books and papers relating to Spanish grants of land, formerly belonging to the late Spanish surveyors in the Territories of Orleans or Florida, as may be useful to protect the interests of the United States, and to be expended only with the approbation of the Secretaries of the State and Treasury Departments, after an inspection and examination of said books and papers by a competent person or persons, at the General Land Office, a sum not exceeding twenty thousand dollars;

For support of the United States Penitentiary in the city of Washington for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, including the pay of officers and agents, rations, clothing, beds and bedding, hospital stores and medicines, repairs to buildings, fuel, raw materials to be