Chapter 175.
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Chap. 175. 1846.95 ForAnnual examination. expenses incurred by superintendents in visiting their light-houses annually, and examining and reporting the condition of each, two thousand dollars. ForSuperintendents’ commissions. superintendents’ commissions, at two and a half per centum, ten thousand thirty-eight dollars and seventy-seven cents. *Surveys of Public Lands.*—ForSurveys.Assistant surveyor in Florida. salary of an assistant surveyor, to survey the private claims in Florida, under the direction and super-vision of the surveyor-general in Florida, one thousand dollars.
ForAssistant surveyor in Louisiana. salary of an assistant surveyor, to have charge and oversight of the resurveys in the Greensburg (late St. Helena) district, Louisiana, under the direction and supervision of the surveyor-general of Louisiana, one thousand dollars. ForPay of chain-carriers, &c. pay of chain-carriers, markers, transportation, provisions, &c., one thousand five hundred dollars. ForSurveying public lands. surveying the public lands, to be apportioned to the several districts according to the exigencies of the public service, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
ForSurveying the copper region. surveying the copper region of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa, with reference to mines and minerals, thirty thousand dollars. ForSurveys in Michigan. the correction of erroneous and defective surveys west of Saganaw Bay, in Michigan, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, five thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. ForMissouri. detached surveys in Missouri, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile, on account of difficulties in surveying lakes, swamps, &c., four thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
For1843, ch. 100. the survey of towns and villages in Missouri, named in the act of twenty-sixth of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, including office work, in addition to the balance of the appropriation of the third March, eighteen hundred and forty-three, for that object, two thousand dollars. ForArkansas. surveying that part of Arkansas where, in consequence of local attraction, the ordinary compass cannot be used, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, four thousand eight hundred dollars.
ForLouisiana. surveys at augmented rates, in Louisiana, three thousand seven hundred and four dollars. For surveys in the Greensburg district, Louisiana, now in the course of execution, in addition to former appropriations, twenty thousand four hundred dollars. ForRetracing old lines west of Pearl River. retracing old lines in the district west of Pearl River, to supply deficiencies now existing in those surveys, at five dollars and seven dollars per mile, in addition to balance of appropriations for same object, of the third March,1843, ch. 100. eighteen hundred and forty-three, eighteen thousand one hundred and thirteen dollars. *Intercourse with Foreign Nations.*—ForForeign intercourse.Ministers. salaries of ministers to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, sixty-three thousand dollars.
ForSecretaries of legation. salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars. ForOutfit of minister to Great Britain. outfit of a minister to Great Britain, nine thousand dollars. ForChargés des affaires. salaries of *chargés des affaires* to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela, Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos Ayres, fifty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. ForMinister to Turkey. salary of a minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars.
ForDragoman. salary of a dragoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars. ForCommissioner to China. the salary of a commissioner to reside in China, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* No part of this sum shall be paid unless the said commissioner actually resides in China. 96TWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. 96. ForSecretary and Chinese interpreter. the salary of a secretary and Chinese interpreter, two thousand five hundred dollars. ForContingencies. contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars.
ForContingent expenses of foreign intercourse. contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars. ForConsul at London. salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars. ForContingencies. clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars. ForCommissioner to Sandwich Islands. compensation of commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars. ForInterpreters, guards, &c., at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria. interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars.
ForPayment of balance due B. E. Green. payment in full to Benjamin E. Green for services while employed in Mexico, as *chargé d’affaires,* three thousand dollars. ForAmerican seamen in foreign countries. the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars. ForSuppression of slave trade. carrying into effect the acts for the suppression of the slave trade, including the support of recaptured Africans, and their removal to their country, twenty-five thousand dollars.
ForMaps, specifications, &c., of N. E. boundary. completing the maps, specifications, and astronomical computations of the line of boundary between the United States and the British provinces, heretofore run and established, or run and marked by the joint commissioners, under the treaty of Washington, twenty thousand dollars, and for transmitting to the respective States, whose boundaries are affected thereby, authentic copies thereof. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That,Additional appraiser at New York authorized. in addition to the assistant appraisers authorized by law at the port of New York, there may be appointed, in the mode now prescribed by law, one additional assistant appraiser at said port, at a salary, as heretofore established, of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, to be paid out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:Proviso, as to salary.Appraisement of goods at custom-house, how made.Ante, p. 42. *Provided,* said salary shall not commence, or appointment take effect, prior to the thirtieth of November next, and in appraising all goods, at any port of the United States, heretofore subjected to specific duties, but upon which *ad valorem* duties are imposed by the act of the thirtieth of July last, entitled “An Act reducing the Duty on Imports, and for other Purposes,” reference shall be had to values and invoices of similar goods imported during the last fiscal year, under such general and uniform regulations for the prevention of fraud or undervaluation as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatHeads of departments may continue officers authorized by acts of 1842, ch. 202, and 1844, ch. 105. it shall be lawful for the respective heads of departments to continue in service during the cur-rent fiscal year the officers and persons, and at the salaries and compensations, authorized in the act approved twenty-sixth of August, one thousand eight hundred and fortytwo, entitled “An Act legalizing and making Appropriations for such necessary Objects as have been usually included in the General Appropriation Bills without Authority of Law, and to fix and provide for certain incidental Expenses of the Departments and Officers of the Government, and for other Purposes,” and also the clerks authorized to be employed in the office of the first comptroller of the treasury by the act of June seventeenth, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four, entitled “An Act making Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the fiscal Year ending the thirtieth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and for other Purposes;” and also the clerk in the office of the second auditor, authorized by the same act: *Provided,*Proviso.
That nothing in this section shall be construed to authorizeTWENTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 176. 1846.97 the employment of any clerks in the statistical branch of the treasury department. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* ThatSo much of lino between Michigan and Wisconsin as lies between the sources of Brulé and Montreal Rivers, to be surveyed.Ante, p. 56. the surveyor-general north-west of the Ohio, under the direction of the President, be, and hereby is, required to cause to be surveyed, marked, and designated, so much of the line between Michigan and Wisconsin as lies between the source of Brulé River and the source of Montreal River, as defined by the “Act to enable the People of Wisconsin Territory to form a Constitution and State Government, and for the Admission of such Slate into the Union;” and the expense of such survey shall be paid, upon the certificate of the said surveyor-general, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, not exceeding one thousand dollars.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* ThatRepeal of § 4 of general appropriation act of 1845, ch. 71. the fourth section of the act, entitled “An Act making Appropriations for the civil and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, and for other Purposes,” passed third March, eighteen hundred and forty-five, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Approved, August 10, 1846.