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the office of the First Comptroller and the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, eight hundred dollars.

For paying balance of expenses, in full, for negotiating the loans authorized by the acts of, and , ten thousand dollars.

Patent Office.―For the purchase of such scientific books as are necessary for the use of the Patent Office, to be paid out of the patent fund, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For the collection of agricultural statistics, and for other agricultural purposes, to be paid out of the patent fund, two thousand dollars.

To defray the expenses of taking care of and preserving the botanical and horticultural specimens brought home by the squadron of the Exploring Expedition under the direction and control of the Joint Committee on the Library, twelve hundred dollars.

For the removal of the statue of Washington, from its present position, and permanently placing the same on a proper pedestal, and covering it temporarily in the enclosed and cultivated public grounds east of the Capitol, directly in front of the main entrance and steps of the east front of the Capitol, as suggested in the report of the Joint Committee on the Library, and in the letter of Mr. Greenough, dated February third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, referred to and reported by said committee in connection with the memorial of Horatio Greenough, under the direction and supervision of the said Greenough, the sum of five thousand dollars.

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, one hundred and five thousand one hundred and ninety dollars and thirty cents.

To reimburse the Chamber of Commerce at Philadelphia, the expense incurred by them in continuing the light on the breakwater near Cape Henlopen, a sum not exceeding eight hundred dollars.

For repairs, refitting, and improvements of light-houses, and building connected therewith, ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-two cents.

For compensation of two hundred and thirty-six keepers of lighthouses, eighteen of them being charged with double lights, and one with three, ninety-three thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars.

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

For seamen’s wages, repairs, and supplies of thirty floating lights, sixty-six thousand four hundred and twenty dollars and eighty-four cents.

For weighing, mooring, cleansing, repairing, and supplying the loss of beacons, buoys, chains, and sinkers, twenty-four thousand six hundred and thirteen dollars and sixty-four cents.

For rebuilding the beacon at Black Rock, Connecticut, ten thousand dollars.

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., ten thousand two hundred and fifty dollars and eighty-five cents.

For the completion of the repairs of the Potomac bridge, three thousand five hundred dollars.

Surveys of Public Lands.―For completing the survey of private land claims in Alabama, and their connection with the adjacent public lands, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, being in addition to the appropriation made for a similar object by the ,