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To refund to the Newcastle and Frenchtown Turnpike and Railr road company certain duties paid by them upon iron imported for the construction of their railroad

For the support of the army for For the pay of the army For the subsistence of officers For forage of officers' horses For clothing for officers' servants

For payments in lieu of clothing to discharged soldiers

For subsistence, exclusive of that of officers

For clothing of the army, camp and garrison equipage, cooking utensils, and hospital furniture For the medical and hospital department

For the regular supplies furnished by the quartermaster's department, consisting of fuel, forage, straw, stationary, and printing, For barracks, quarters, storehouses,

embracing the repairs and enlargement of barracks, quarters, store-houses, and hospitals, at the several posts; the erection of teinporary cantonments at such posts

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expenses of expresses from the frontier posts, of the necessary articles for the interment of noncommissioned officers and soldiers; hire of laborers, compensation to clerks in the offices of quartermasters & assistant quartermasters at posts where their duties cannot be performed withGo ont such aid, and to temporary agents in charge of dismantled works, and in the performance of other duties; expenditures necessary to keep the two regiments of dragoons complete, including the purchase of horses to supply the place of those which may be $1,091,193 000 lost and become unfit for service, 347,749 00 and the erection of additional stables

as shall be occupied during the year, and of gun-houses for the protection of cannon at the forts on the seaboard; the purchase of the necessary tools and materials for the objects wanted, and of the authorized furniture for the barrack rooms; rent of quarters for officers, of barracks for troops at posts where there are no public buildings for their accommodation, of store-houses for the safe keeping of subsistence, clothing, &c., and of grounds for summer cantonments, encampments, and military practice For the allowance made to officers for the transportation of their baggage, when travelling on duty without troops

For the transportation of troops. and supplies, viz: transportation of the army, including the bag. gage of troops when moving either by land or water; freight and ferriages; purchase or hire of horses, mules, oxen, carts, wagons, and boats, for the purpose of transportation, or for the use of garrison; drayage and cartage at the several posts; hire

of teamsters, transportation of funds for the pay department; expense of sailing a public transport between the posts on the Gulf of Mexico, and of procuring water at such posts as from their situation, require it; the transportation of clothing from the depot at Philadelphia to the stations of the troops; of subsistence from the places of purchase, and the points of delivery under contracts, to such places as the circumstances of the service may require it to be sent; of ordnance from the foundries and arsenals to the fortifications and frontier posts, and of lead from the western mines to the several arsenals, the sum of For the incidental expenses of the quartermaster's department consisting of postage on public letters and packets; expenses of te courts martial and courts of in

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H. R. 89.

For certain fortifications of the United States, for the
year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
For Fort Warren, Boston harbor
For the preservation of Castle
island, and repairs of Fort Inde-
pendence, Boston harbor

For Fort Adams, Rhode Island
For fortifications at New London
harbor, Connecticut

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For Fort Schuyler, East river, New York

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For Fort Delaware, Delaware river For Fort McHenry, Redoubt Wood, and Covington battery, near Baltimore

100,000 00

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For Fort Monroe, Virginia For Fort Calhoun, Virginia

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Georgia

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right to the bridge across Mill creek, at Fort Monroe For securing the site of Fort Caswell, Oak island, North Carolina For repairs of the old fort at the Barancas, Pensacola

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poses, viz: for the freight and transportation of materials and stores of every description; for wharfage and dockag; storage and rent; travelling expenses of officers and transportation of seamen; house rent for pursers when attached to yards and stations where no house is provided; for funeral expenses; for commissions, clerk hire, office rent, stationary, and fuel to navy agents; for premiums and incidental expenses of recruiting; for apprehending des rters; for compensation to judge advocates; for per diem allowance to persons attending courts martial and courts of inquiry; for printing and stationary of every descrip. tion, and for working the lithographic press; for books, maps, charts, mathematical and nautical instruments, chronometers, models, and drawings; for the purchase and repair of fire engines and machinery, and for the repair of steam engines; for the pur. chase and maintenance of oxen and horses, and for carts, timber wheels, and workmen's tools of every description; for postage of letters on public service; for pilotage and towing ships of war: for cabin furniture of vessels in commission; taxes and assessments on public property; for assistance rendered to vessels in

distress; for incidental labor at navy yards, not applicable to any other appropriation; for coal and other fuel, and for candles and oil; for repairs of magazines or powder-houses; for preparing moulds for ships to be built, and for no other purpose whatever For contingent expenses for objects not hereinbefore enuinerated For pay of the officers, non-conmissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and subsistence of the officers of the marine corps For provisions for the non-coinmis. sioned officers, musicians, and privates serving on shore, servants and washerwomen For clothing

For fuel

For keeping the present barracks in repair until new ones can be erected, and for the rent of temporary barracks at New York For transportation of officers, noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, and expenses of recruiting

For medicines, hospital stores, surgical instruments, and pay of

matron

For contingent expenses of said corps, freight, ferriage,toll, wharf. age, and cartage, per diem allowance for attending courts of inquiry, compensation to judge advocates, house rent where there are no public quarters assigned, incidental labor in the quartermaster's department, expenses of burying deceased persons belonging to the marine corps, printing, stationary, fo. rage, postage on public letters,ex · penses in pursuing deserters, candles and oil for the different stations, straw for the men, barrack furniture, bed sacks, spades, axes, shovels, picks, and carpenters's tools

For military stores, pay of armorers keeping arms in repair, drums, fifes, flags, accoutrements, and ordnance stores For erecting and furnishing a new hospital building, and for a dwelling for an assistant surgeon; for the repairs of the present building, and for all expenses upon the dependencies near Pensacola

For erecting a sea-wall to protect the shore, for enclosing the hos

pital grounds, for completing the basement of south wing, and for all other expenses upon the dependencies of the hospital near Norfolk

For graduating and enclosing the grounds about the naval asylum near Philadelphia, and for all other expenses upon the budding and its dependencies For extending the hospital building near Brooklyn, New York, for enclosing the grounds, and for ail other expenses upon its depen

dencies

For completing the present hospital building near Boston, and for all expenses upon its dependencies For repairing the enclosure, and for the sea-wall of the magazine upon Ellis's island, in the harbor of New York

For repairing the magazine, filling house, wharf, and railway, at Norfolk, Virginia

For building a wall round the maga. zine at Pensacola

For the purpose of completing con. tracts now existing, or which may be hereafter made, according to the provisions of the act of the 2d of March, 1833

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For the Florida Indians

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For fixtures, furniture, and other incidental expenses at the naval asylum at Philadelphia

H. R. 226.

For the payment of the revolutionary and other pen. sioners of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight. For the revolutionary pensioners, under the several acts other than those of the fifteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight; the seventh of June, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two; and the fourth of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six For the invalid pensioners, under

various laws

For half-pay pensions, payable through the office of the third auditor

H. R. 269.

For the Sacs, Fexes, Sionx, Iowas, Omabas, Ottoes, and Missourias

For the Ottoes and Missourias
For the Kanzas
For the Osages

For the Kickapoos

For various miscellaneous expenses, viz:

$2,058,532 62 Tocomplete payments for sul scrip

For the current and contingent expenses of the Indian department, viz:

For the pay of the superintendent
of Indian affairs at St. Louis, and
the several Indian agents, as pro-
vided by the acts of June 30,
1834, and of March 3, 1837
For pay of sub-agents, authorized
by act of June 30, 1834
For the pay of interpreters, as au-
thorized by the same act
For presents to Indians, authorized
by the same act

For the purchase of provisions for
Indians, at the distribution of
annuities, while on visits of busi-
ness with the superintendents and
agents, and when assembled on
public business
For the necessary buildings re-
quired at the several agencies,
and repairs thereof

$16,500 00

13,000 00

9,300 00 5,000 00

tion to "Indian Biography" For expenses of casting dies and striking off medals for Indians For expenses of mission of A. P. Chouteau among the wild tribes of the southwest, including bis outfit, and the expenditures growing out of and connected with bringing on deputations of said tribes, which he has been author. ized to do

For deficiency in the appropria tion of 1834 for running the bounbary line between the Choctaw 3 and Chickasaw's

For cost of sundry articles of provisions furnished to the Seneca, Seneca and Shawnee, and Osage Indians, while in a destitute condition, in 1834, by the commissioners west, &c., as per statement rendered and on file in the office of the second auditor, to reimburse the appropriation for Indian annuities, out of which the same was paid For expenses of delegations of Iowas, Yancton Sioux, and Sacs and Foxes of Missouri, who visited this and the northern cities in 1837, by invitation, including the usual presents and contingent expenditures For expenses of delegations of Paw. nees, Ottoes and Missourias, and Omahas, who visited this and the northern cities in 1837, by invi1,000 00 tation, including the usual pre

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sents and contingent expendi tures

For expenses of delegations of not exceeding three Choctaws, three Creeks, and five Osages, who have obtained permission to visit this city, including the usual presents and contingent expendi tures

For the value of buiklings of the Miamies, on the land ceded by them in the treaty of October 23, 1834

For carrying into effect the treaties with the Chippewas of Sagzi. naw, of 14th January and 20th December, 1837, and January 23,

1833

For carrying into effect the treaty with the Chippewas of the Mississippi, of July 29, 1837 For carrying into effect the treaty with the Sioux of the Mississip pi, of September 29, 1837, as ratified by the senate

For carrying into effect the treaty with the Sacs and Foxes of the Mississippi, of October 21, 1937, as ratified by the senate For carrying into effect the treaty with the Sics and Foxes of the Missouri, of October 21, 1837 For carrying into effect the treaty with the Yanetons and Santee Soux, of October 21. 1837 For carrying into effect the treaty with the Winnebagoes, of November 1, 1337

For carrying into effect the treaty with the lowas, of November 23, 1337

To the Osages, for interest at five per cent. on $69,120, being the value of 54 sections of land set apart by the treaty of 1825 for education purposes, & for which they have agreed to accept $2 per acre, as authorised by the senate in its resolution of the 19th of January last; which resolution also provides for the investment of the amount

To the Delawares, for interest at five per cent. on $46,080, being the value of 36 sections of land set apart by the treaty of 1932 for education purposes, and for which they have agreed to accept $2 per acre, as authorised by the senate in its resolution of the 19th January last; which resolution also provides for the investment of the amount For holding a treaty with the Creeks, for the purpose of adjusting their claims for property and improve. ments abandoned or lost in consequence of their emigration west of the Mississippi For payment of the amount of depredations committed by the Osage and Camanche Indians on the property of the Choctaw In. dians

For expense of holding a treaty with the Wyandot Indians of the state of Ohio

For the payment of the expense of the delegation from the Seneca Indians. who visited Washington to protest against the ratification of a late treaty entered into with then by a commissioner acting under the authority of the United States

For the expenses of the delegation of the Senecas who visited Wash. ington to urge the ratification of the late treaty with them and the other New York Indians, and the expenses of negotiating that treaty with the Senecas and the other bands of New York Indians, including all the expenses incident thereto For the expenses of submitting again to those Indians the treaty amended, ratified, &c. by the

senate

For holding a treaty with the Osages, for the extinguishment

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202,500 00

184,350 00

To Henry L. Ellsworth,
forfifty-four days' servi-

ces as commissioner 430
To Allen Hamilton, for se-
venteen day' services as
secretary
102

To defray the expenses of an ex. ploring party of Miami Indians

253,250 00 For affording temporary subsistence to such Indians west of the Mississippi who, by reason of their recent emigration, or the territorial arrangements incident to the policy of setting apart a portion of the public domain west of the Mississippi, for the resi dence of all the tribes east of that river, as are unable to subsist themselves, and for the expenses attending the distribution of the same

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For certain harbors, and for the removal of obstructions in and at the mouths of certain rivers, and for other purposes, during the year 1938. For continuing the improvement of

the harbor of Chicago, Illinois For continuing the construction of a harbor at Michigan city, Indiana For continuing the construction of a pier or breakwater at the mouth of the river Saint Joseph Micligan For the continuation of the works at the harbor near the mouth of the river Raisin, Michigan For continuing the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Black river, in Jefferson county, state of New York For coutinuing the improvement of the harbor at Whitehall, in the state of New York For continuing the improvement of the channel at the mouth of Genesee river, in the state of New York

For preventing and suppressing Indian hostilities for For continuing the improvement of 1538, and for arrearages for 1837. For the suppression of Indian bostilities for the year 1838

H. R. 676.

For forage for the horses of the dra goons, volunteers, officers, and in The service of the trains For freight or transportation of military supplies sent into Florida and the Cherokee country For wagons, carts, ambulances, and harness, and for boats and lighters For the transportation of supplies from the principal depots to the points of consumption including the hire of steainboats and other vessels, and the expense of public steamers and transport schoon

ers

For the hire of a corps of inechan. ics, laborers, inule-drivers, teamsters, wagon-masters, and other assistants

For transportation, and other expenses of four thousand volunteers

2,000 00 For miscellaneous and contingent charges of all kinds, not embraced under the foregoing heads For drafts lying over, and arrear. ages for services and supplies in Florida and the Cherokee cointry

825 00

1,500 00

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9,500 00

4,000 00

For pay of four thousand volunteers, for 1833, including $153,415 arrearages for 1837 For subsistence for militia, volunteers, and friendly Indians For the purchase of powder and other materials for cartridges, together with the repairs of guncarriages, small-arms, and accon tremer.ts

For tents, knapsacks, and other supplies furnished by the clothing bureau

For correcting an error in paying the Indians employed in the pub lic service in Florida For all objects specified in the third article of the supplementary arti. cles of the treaty of 1835, between the United States and the Cherokee Indians, the further sum of For satisfying all claims for arrearages of annuities for supplying blankets and other articles of clothing for the Cherokees who

$30,000 00

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$3,002,427 73 For continuing the improvement of

the navigation at the mouth of Vermilion river, Ohio

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For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Wilmington, Dela

ware

For continuing the improvement of the harbor of New-castle, Dela

ware

For continuing the Delaware breakwater

For continuing the improvement of the harbor of Baltimore, Maryland

For continuing the improvement of the navigation of Cape Fear ri. ver, below Wilmington, North Carolina

For opening a passage of fifty yards wide and seven feet deep, at low water, between the town of Beaufort and Pamlico sound, North Carolina, and for improving New river

For continuing the improvement of Pamlico, or Tar river, below Washington, North Carolina For continuing the improvements of the inland channel between St. Mary's & St. John's, Florida For continuing the improvement of Dog river bar and Choctaw pass, in Mobile harbor For continuing the improvement of the Cumberland river in Kentucky & Tennessee, below Nashville

For continuing the improvement of the Ohio river, between the falls and Pittsburg For continuing the improvement of the navigation of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, from Louisville to New Orleans For continuing the improvement of the Mississippi river, above the mouth of the Ohio and of the Missouri river

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reef, according to said survey and report

For the erection of a light-house on Lynde point, at the mouth of Connecticut river, in addition to the sum of five thousand dollars already appropriated 70,000 00 To complete a sea-wall, to preserv the light-house and other buildings on Fairweather island, near Black Rock harbor, pursuant to the report of captain Gregory For the erection of buoys on such of the rocks in the harbor of Milford as may be designated by the superintendent of light-houses for that district

8. 330. For building light houses, light-boats, beacon lights, buoys, and making surveys, for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.

STATE OF MAINE.

For the erection of two buoys near the entrance of Portland harbor, viz: one on Taylor's ledge,and one on Broad-cove rock

25,000 00 For rebuilding the light-house on Wood island

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For erecting a mound or sea-wall along the peninsula which separates Lake Erie from Buffalo creek, to prevent the influx of the lake over said peninsula For continuing the preservation of Plymouth beach

For continuing the preservation of Provincetown harbor

For continuing the preservation of Rainsford island

For continuing the sea-wall for the preservation of Fair-weather island, and repairing the breakwater near Black Rock harbor, Connecticut

48,000 00

2,400 00

4,500 00

For placing monuments on Fort-
point ledge, Adams' ledge, and
Buck ledge, in Penobscot river,
in addition to the former appro.
priation for that purpose
For placing a monument on Bul-
wark ledge, about seven miles
eastsoutheast of Portland light-
house

For placing one buoy on Drummer's
ledge, south of Mark island, and
one buoy on Mark island ledge
For erecting a light-house on Bear
island, at the entrance of Mount
desert harbor

For erecting a monument on Bunker's ledge, outside of said island For placing one buoy at the southwest entrance of said Mount Deseit harbor, and two buoys on the reef in the middle of Bass harbor For placing a buoy on Bantam ledge, outside of Ram island

For erecting a stone beacon and a buoy on Half-tide ledge, in the county of Hancock

For placing a spar-buoy on a ledge
in the vicinity of Crabtree's point,
about four miles below Sullivan
harbor, in said county

For the erection of a monument or
beacon on York ledge, off the en-
trance of York harbor
For erecting a light-house and sea-
wall at Saddleback ledge, in Pe-
nobscot bay

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.

7,353 00 For the erection of a pier on the east side of. Whaleback lighthouse, to protect the saine, in addition to the appropriation already made for that purpose

11,550 00

For continuing the improvement of the harbor at the mouth of Bass river, Massachusetts For continuing the breakwater of

10,000 00

Church's cove, town of Little Compton, Rhode Island For the protection and improve. ment of Little Egg harbor For improving the natural channels at the northern and southern entrances of the Dismal-swamp canal

18,000 00

10,000 00

10,000 00 15,000 00

40,000 00

For the improvement of the navigation of Savannah river, Georgia For the improvement of the Arkansas river

For removing the sand-bar occa sioned by the wreck in the harbor of New Bedford, the unexpended balance of an appropriation of ten thousand dollars, inade July 4, 1836, being

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the appropriation heretofore made of $10,000 for removing the mud shoal called the Bulkhead, in the harbor of Appalachicola, be, and the same is hereby, transferred to the deepening of the straight channel in the same harbor.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the several sums appropriated by the first section of this act, which exceeds $12,000 each, one half thereof, if the public service re

STATE OF MASSACHUSETT3. For the erection of two small beacon-lights on the north side of Nantucket island, in addition to former appropriation for that purpose

For completing the light-house on
Mayo beach, in Wellfleet bay
For a monument, in the place of one
carried away, on Bowditch's
ledge, in the harbor of Salem
For a monument on Bowbill ledge,
in the harbor of Manchester, or
for removing the same, at the dis-
cretion of the secretary of the
treasury

For rebuilding the two light-houses
on Plum island, near Newbury-
port

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND.

For buoys or dolphins in Providence river

7,691 37 For placing two spindles at the mouth of Pawcatuck river

STATE OF CONNECTICUT.

For placing six buoys in the wes tern, and six in the eastern entrance of Mystic river, from Fisher's island sound, in the state of Connecticut, according to the survey and estimate of F. H. Gregory, reported to the board of navy commissioners on the seventh day of August last, four hundred and thirty-five dollars; and for buoys on the rock in the channel east of Ram island, and upon Turner's

500 00

5,000 00

1,300 00

3,000 00

For one buoy on a shoal west of
Black point, and one buoy on
Pond reef, in the Day of Niantick
For buoys on Cornfield-point rock,
Adam's rock, and Oyster-pond-
point rock, near Plumb island, in
Long Island sound

STATE OF NEW YORK.

For completing a beacon on Ro-
mer's shoals, in addition to the
appropriation heretofore made
To complete a light house on Eso-
pus meadows, on the western
shore of the Hudson river, in ad-
dition to the sum heretofore ap
propriated

500 00 To complete a light house on Cedar island, Sag Harbor, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated 3,000 00 For the erection of a light house on the northern islet in Fisher's 1,000 00 sound, near the northwest end of Fisher's island

150 00 200 00

For the payment of the balance remaining due for the expenses of procuring and locating buoys in the new channel in the port of New York, lately discovered and called Gedney's channel

STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

1,200 00 For erecting a small beacon light at South Amboy, and putting down the following buoys, to wit: One on the tale of the Great Beds; one off Billop's Point shoal, southwest port of Staten island; one on the Middle Ground, near Prince's bay; one on the Old Orchard shoal, one off the point of the Great Kill shoals

150 00

10,000 00

17,000 00

10,000 00 For the erection of a beacon light at the Corner Stake, so called, between Elizabethtown point and Shorter's island; also another small light or lantern on Shorter's island; also for buoys, &c., at the following places: A spar buoy at Bergen point; a spar buoy at the Mill rocks, in Newark bay; a spar buoy on the first oysterbed or point of the bar between the Hackensack and Passaic channels, one and a half mile below the crossing-place; a spar buoy at the Corner Stake, so called; a spar buoy at the crossing place, on the north side; a spar buoy at the Elbow; all pursuant to the report of captains Kearney, Sloat, and Perry

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600 00 For placing spar-buoys in James river, between Day's point and Richmond city, on such ledges and shoals as may be selected For building a light-boat to take place of the one in the narrows of the Potomac

For placing three or more buoys at the entrance of Onancock creek, in the county of Accomac

STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

For marking, staking out, and placing buoys or other such monuments as are most suitable, to designate the channels in Crowatan sound, and at outlets of Pasquo

100 00

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STATE OF OHIO.

For securing, or rebuilding on a better site, the light house on Turtle island, at the entrance of Maumee bay, in Lake Erie

For completing a beacon light near the entrance of Sandusky bay, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose For the construction of a light house on the northwest end of Bass island, commonly called Put-in-bay in Lake Erie, instead of one on Cunningham's island

For placing buoys on a shoal or sunken inland near the western Sister island, and to the southward thereof, in Lake Erie

STATE OF GEORGIA.

For constructing a floating-light to be stationed in Tybee channel, in lieu of an appropriation of that sum heretofore made for a similar light on Martin's Industry shoal For placing three buoys at the entrance of St. Andrew's inlet For placing beacons or buoys at the entrance of Brunswick harbor

STATE OF ALABAMA.

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5,000 00

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1,000 00

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3,000 00

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550 00

10,000 00

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For the construction of a lighthouse on Dauphin island.

8,000 00

For marking the entrance and the channel of the Atchafalaya bay For rebuilding the light-house at the southwest pass of the Mississippi river

1,500 00

20,000 00

expedient, of the reflector apparatus, of the most improved kinds, to be imported and to cause the said several sets to be set up, and their merits, as compared with the apparatus in use, to be tested by full and satisfactory experiments; and the sum of $15,000, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, is hereby appropriated for that purpose; and the secretary of the treasury is also further authorized to ascertain, by suitable and proper experiments, the merits of the apparatus lately invented by Mr. E. Blunt of New York; and if, in his judginent, it has merits which justify the adoption of it, he is hereby authorised to contract with Mr. Blunt, to light any light-house on the coast with it; and the sum hereby appropriated for the above purposes is To enable the secretary of the navy to cause such examination of the coast between the mouths of the Mississippi and Sabine rivers, and the intermediate harbors, bays, and bayous, as may be necessary to fix suitable locations for light-houses and other im. provements, which may give a more safe and ready access to the said harbors, bays, bayous, and rivers

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STATE OF LOUISIANA.

For completing a light-house at or near the southwest pass on the Vermilion bay, in addition to the sun heretofore appropriated

STATE OF MICHIGAN.

For rebuilding a light-house on Bois Blanc island, if a suitable site for the same can be found on said island

For erecting a light-house at New Buffalo, on Lake Michigan, instead of one at city west, provided for by an act in 1837 For erecting a light-house on South Maniton island, Lake Michigan For erecting a light-house on the ledge or reef near Wagooshance, in the straits of Michilimackinac For erecting a light-house at Presque isle, Lake Huron For erecting a light-house on Point aux Borgues, Saginaw bay, Lake Huron

TERRITORY OF WISCONSIN.

For the construction of a lighthouse on Grassy island, at the head of Green bay, near the mouth of Fox river

TERRITORY OF FLORIDA.

For placing buoys at the mouth of the St. John's in addition to the appropriation heretofore made for that purpose For erecting a light-house on Carysfort reef, in addition to the appropriation already made for that purpose Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury be, and he hereby is, directed to cause two sets of dioptric or lenticular apparatus, one of the first, the other of the second class, and also one set, if he deems it

8,000 00

5,000 00

5,000 00

MISCELLANEOUS. H. R. 230.

For the continuation of the Cumberland road in Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois, and for other purposes.
For the continuation of the Cum-
berland road in the state of Ohio,
the sum of
For the continuation of the Cum-
berland road in the state of In-
diana, the sum of

For the continuation of the Cum-
berland road in the state of Illi-
nois, the sum of
For the completion of the bridge
over Dunlap's creek, on the Cum-
berland road, in the state of Penn-
sylvania the sum of

H. R. 289.

For certain roads in the territory of
Florida.
For opening and constructing a road
from Tallahassee to lola, on the
river Appalachicola, the sum of
For repairing the road and recon.
structing the bridges and canse-
ways thereon, from Saint Augus-
tine to Picolata

For repairing the road from Jack-
sonville, by the Mineral Springs,
to Tallahassee, the sun of
s. 29.

5,000 00 For the construction of roads in the territory of Wisconsin,

25,000 00

5,000 00

4,000 00

For the construction of a road from Fort Howard, at Green Bay, by Milwaukee and Racine, to the northern boundary line of the state of Illinois, in the direction of Chicago

5,000 00 For the construction of a road from the town of Milwaukee, on Lake Michigan, by way of Madison the permanent seat of govern ment of that territory, to a point opposite the town of Du Buque, on the Mississippi river For the completion of the military road from Fort Crawford, by Winnebago, to Fort Howard, at Green Bay

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Statement of the new offices created and the salaries of each, and also a statement of the offices the salaries of which are increased, and the amount of such increase, during the two last sessions of congress, made in pu suance of the 6th section of the art of the 2d of July," 1836, to provide for the appropriation of additional payments, and for other purposes.

NEW OFFICES.

Governor of the territory of Iowa As superintendent of Indian affairs 3 Secretary of the territory of Iowa $150,000 00 Chief justice supreme court territory of Iowa Two associate justices, ($1,500 each) 150,000 00 District attorney, same as others Marshal

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