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For expenses attending the preparation of the results and account of the exploring expedition for the publication thereof ordered by Congress, twenty thousand dollars.

For the support and maintenance of the penitentiary in the District of Columbia, six thousand six hundred and ninety dollars and eighty-four cents.

To make good a deficiency in the eighteen months ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-three, and estimated deficiency in the year ending on the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-four, in the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, as established by the, [two,] [sic] fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For carrying on the work of the new custom-house building at Boston, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims, not otherwise provided for, as shall be admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, six thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended in the payment of any claims for finishing and furnishing the new custom-house in the city of New York.

Light-house Establishment.―For supplying the light-houses, containing two thousand six hundred and seventy-eight lamps, with oil, tube glasses, wicks, buffskins, whiting, and cotton cloth, transportation, and keeping apparatus in order, fifty-two thousand five hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifteen cents.

For repairs, refitting, and improvements of light-houses and buildings connected therewith, thirty-eight thousand six hundred and thirty-three dollars and one cent.

For compensation of two hundred and thirty-six keepers of light-houses, eighteen of them being charged with double lights, and one with three, forty-six thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars.

For compensation of thirty keepers of floating lights, eight thousand dollars.

For seamans’ wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights, thirty-one thousand five hundred and thirty-six dollars and fourteen cents.

For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, ten thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars and fourteen cents.

For expenses of examining annually and reporting the condition of the light-houses, four thousand dollars.

For superintendents’ commissions, at two and one half per cent., four thousand eight hundred and four dollars and seventy-three cents.

Intercourse with Foreign Nations.―For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, thirty-six thousand dollars.

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

For salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, Venezuela, New Grenada, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia, twenty-seven thousand dollars.

For salary of the minister resident to Turkey, three thousand dollars.

For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

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

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

For the salary of the consul at London, one thousand dollars.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, twenty-five thousand dollars.