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and including a deficiency in the existing appropriation of three thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-six cents, to pay for work already completed and returned, five thousand eight hundred dollars.

For completing and retracing of certain old surveys in the State of Mississippi, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, in addition to the unexpended balance of the, for the survey of private land claims, and connecting the same with the adjacent public lands, south of the thirty-first degree of latitude, at the same rate, eleven thousand one hundred dollars.

For completing the surveys in Missouri, in the towns named in the, in addition to the unexpended balance of the , for a similar object, and including office work, four thousand dollars.

For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several surveying districts according to the exigencies of the public service, forty thousand dollars.

For the survey of small detached tracts situated in Illinois and Missouri, principally in the military district in Illinois, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, and including office work, three thousand dollars.

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

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

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

For outfits of a minister to France, and of a chargé d’affaires to Denmark, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

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

For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to a commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars.

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

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

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

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, fifty thousand dollars.

For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the American consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, fifteen thousand dollars.

For defraying the expenses attending the conveyance and forwarding, by land, and of the receipt and delivery, of mails, letters and despatches at and between Chagres and Panama, including the compensation to an agent of the United States at each of said places for the above purposes, one thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State.

Post Office Department.―For the service of the General Post Office for the year commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and