tioned to the several surveying districts according to the exigencies of the public service

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

Intercourse with foreign nations.

For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great
Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Mexico,
and Brazil

For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places
For salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Den-
mark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, Venezuela,
New Granada, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia
For outfits of a minister to France and of a chargé d'affaires

$40,000 00

3,000, 00

72,000 00 16,000 00

54,000 00

to Denmark

*For salary of the minister resident to Turkey

6,000 00

For salary of a dragoman to the legation to Turkey
For compensation to a commissioner to the Sandwich

2,500 00

islands

3,000 00

20,000 00

30,000 00

2,000 00

500 00

For the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad
For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse
For the salary of the consul at London

For the salary of a consul at Beyrout

For the relief and protection of American seamen in for

For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office
of the American consul at London
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers
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 of an agent of
the United States at each of said places, for the above
purposes

Post Office Department.

For the service of the General Post Office for the year commencing on the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, in conformity to the act of second July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, four million five hundred and forty-five thousand dollars

1,000 00

4,545,000 00

For taking down the two old furnaces in the crypt under the rotundo, and building two new ones, cutting out the necessary flues, and doing other work connected therewith, according to a proposition of John Skirving, under date of February first, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three

For constructing two furnaces under each end of the first story of the centre of the Capitol, for warming the rooms and passages upon and above said first story, including the Congress Library room, according to the proposition of John Skirving to the chairman of the Committee on Public Buildings

For annual repairs of the Capitol, attending furnaces and water closets, lamp-lighting, oil, laborers on the Capitol grounds, tools, keeping iron pipes and wooden fences in order, attending at the western gates, gardener's salary, and top dressing for plants, for the eighteen months ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four

For annual repairs of the President's house, gardener's salary, laborers, tools, and top dressing for plants, for the eighteen months ending thirtieth June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four

$1,454 00

7,973 00

11,231 50

For the amount due for work and materials on the Treasury building, on the General Post Office, and the bridge on Pennsylvania avenue

3,734 25

7,004 44

For iron railing and gates on the lower terrace of the

Treasury building, and tripods and lamps on the block-
ing in front of the portico

For tripods, with lamps, for the blocking in front of the
General Post Office

For repairing damage to iron pipes by freshet

For materials and work for bulkhead frames and doors and windows in the cellar of the Capitol

$3,700 00

200 00

733 51

221 00

For marble basin at the fountain on the terrace of the
Capitol

120 00

For pay of James Kelly amount allowed him by the commissioners under the resolution of Congress

For preparing and publishing charts, and otherwise carrying into effect the act of August twenty-six, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, for publishing an account of the discoveries of the exploring expedition, under the supervision and direction of the Joint Committee on the Library

H. R. No. 720.

To enable the President of the United States to establish the future commercial relations between the United States and the Chinese empire, on terms of national equal reciprocity

Res. H. R. No. 30.

For continuing an additional clerk in the Second Auditor's office one year

50.44

20,000 00

40,000 00

1,000 00

S,388,936 42

H. R. No. 645.

For the support of the army and of the military academy, and for armories, arsenals, arms and munitions of war, and surveys, for the half calendar year ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and for the fiscal year beginning the first day of July, one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, and ending the thirtieth day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty-four. For pay of the army for said half calendar year And for said fiscal year

$258,737 92

For commutation of officers' subsistence for said half cal

1,313,370 00

endar year

And for said fiscal year

149,173 40

And for said fiscal year

For commutation of forage for officers' horses for said half calendar year

461,868 00

31,760 56

For payments in lieu of clothing for discharged soldiers

101,035 00

And for said fiscal year

and officers' servants, for said half calendar year

29,415 00

For subsistence in kind for said fiscal year

58,830 00

495,465 60

For clothing, camp, and garrison equipage, for said fiscal

For regular supplies in the quartermaster's department for
said half calendar year
And for said fiscal year

For barracks, quarters, and storehouses, embracing the re-
pairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, storehouses,
and hospitals; the erection of temporary cantonments,
and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon; the pur-
chase of tools and materials and of furniture for the bar-
rack rooms, rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for
troops, where there are no public buildings for their ac-
commodation, of storehouses for the safe keeping of sub-
sistence, clothing, and other military supplies, and of
grounds for summer cantonments and encampments for
military practice, for said half calendar year
And for said fiscal year

;

For arrearages for completing the quarters and barracks
at Fort Severn, Maryland
For the incidental expenses of the Quartermaster's depart
ment, consisting of postage on public letters and packets,
expenses of courts martial and courts of inquiry, includ-
ing the additional compensation to judge advocates,
members, and witnesses; extra pay to soldiers under the
act of March second, eighteen hundred and nineteen
expenses of expresses and of the interment of non-com-
missioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers; compen-
sation of clerks in the offices of the quartermasters and
assistant quartermasters, at posts where their duties can-
not be performed without such aid, and of temporary
agents in charge of dismantled works; and to such
wagon and forage masters as it may be necessary to
employ under the act of the fifth of July, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-eight; expenditures necessary to
keep the regiments of dragoons and the four companies of
light artillery complete, including the purchase of horses
to supply the place of those which may be lost and be-
come unfit for the service, and the erection of stables, for
said fiscal year -

For transportation of officers' baggage, when travelling on
duty without troops, for said fiscal year
For transportation of troops and supplies, viz: Transport-
ation of the army and baggage, freight and ferriages,
purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons,
and boats, for purposes of transportation or garrison use;
drayage and cartage; hire of teamsters; transportation
of funds for the Pay department; expense of transport
vessels, and of procuring water at such posts as from their
situations require it; transportation of clothing from the
depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of
subsistence from the places of purchase and delivery,
under contracts, to such points as the circumstances of
the service may require; of ordnance, ordnance stores,
and small arms, from the foundries and armories, to the

$30,000 00 195,000 00

45,000 00 105,000 00

9,029 53

115,000 00

50,000 00

arsenals, fortifications, and frontier posts, for said fiscal year

For the current expenses of ordnance service for the said
fiscal year
For armaments of fortifications, including compensation of
a competent person to superintend the manufacture of
cannon, for the said fiscal year

For ordnance and ordnance stores for the said fiscal year For manufacture of arms at national armories for the said fiscal year

$170,000 00

80,000'00

100,000 00 75,000 00

300,000 00

For repairs, improvements, and new machinery, at Springfield armory, for the said fiscal year

26,500 00

For repairs, improvements, and new machinery, at Harper's
Ferry armory, for the said fiscal year
For arsenals for the said fiscal year

30,500 00

90,000 00

For purchase of saltpetre and brimstone for the said fiscal year

40,000 00

32,000 00

For completing the principal buildings of the arsenal at
Charleston, South Carolina, for the said fiscal year
For expenses of preparing drawings of artillery for the said
fiscal year
For surveys in reference to the military defences of the
frontier, inland and Atlantic, for the said fiscal year, in-
cluding a survey of the direct communication from
Albemarle sound to the Atlantic ocean, with a view to
reopen a ship channel

1,200 00

15,000 00

And for the said fiscal year

For military and geographical surveys west of the Mississippi for the said half calendar year

.5,000 00

year

And for the said fiscal
For continuing the meteorological observations at the mil-
itary posts of the United States, under the direction of
the Surgeon General, for said fiscal year

For the continuation of improvements on the Missouri,
(Mississippi, Ohio, and Arkansas rivers, for said half year
And for said fiscal year

For the support of the military academy for the half calendar year and for the fiscal year aforesaid:

For continuation of the surveys of the Northern and Northwestern lakes of the United States for the said fiscal year For medical and hospital department for the said half calendar year

15,000 00

30,000 00

9,509 00 25,000 00

2,000 00

50,000 00 100,000 00

And for the said fiscal year.

For pay of officers, instructers, cadets, and musicians, for said half calendar year

30,232 00

60,464 00

For commutation of subsistence for said half calendar year
And for the said fiscal year

19,873 80

And for said fiscal year

For commutation of forage for officers' horses for said half calendar year

40,077 00

2,592 00

5,184 00

For commutation of clothing for officers' servants for said