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660 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 175. 1855. envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States on special mission to the Argentine Confederation, in the year eighteen hundred and lii’ty-three, the sum of nine thousand dollars, such payment to be in lieu of the per diem compensation provided for said Robert C. 1854,ch. 242. Schenck, in the "act making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of the government," approved August fourth, eighteen hundred and fifty-four. Edward Riddle. To enable the Secretary of State to reimburse to Edward Riddle, such sums as shztllbe satisfactorily shown to have been expended by him, or which said Riddle may have obligated himself to pay, on account of his oflicial position at the Industrial Exhibition at London, England, or so much as shall be necessary, twenty-six thousand dollars 1 Provided, That no portion of the payments made pro rata, by contributors at said exhibition, shall be regarded as within this appropriation. Collection of Expenses of the Oollcction of Revenue j5·0m Lct1zcZs.— 1““d “"'°““°· To meet the expenses of collecting the revenue from the sale of public lands in the several land States, and Territory of Minnesota, in addition to the balances of former appropriations : For salaries and commissions of registers of land-oflices and receivers of public moneys, three hundred and eighteen thousand dollars. For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public moneys, one hundred thousand dollars. For incidental expenses of the several lzmd—0fIiecs, seventy—four thousand three hundred dollars. Lum] ¤¤W¤}’¤· Survey of the Public Lands.- For surveying the public lands, (exclusive of California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, and Nebraska,) including incidental expenses, and island surveys in the interior, and all other special and diilicult surveys demanding augmented rates to be apportioned and applied to the several surveying districts according to the exigencies of the public service, including expenses of selecting swamp lands, and the compensation and expenses to surveyor to locate private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balances of all former appropriations for the same objects, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For the resurvey and correction of thirty townships in Michigan, situated north of the first correction line, and west of the meridian, averaging sixty miles each, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. For the resurvey and correction of townships forty-four, to forty-eight north, inclusive of ranges eighteen, nineteen, and twenty west, situated in the upper peninsula of Michigan, estimated at thirteen fulltownships, averaging sixty miles each, at u. rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. For correcting erroneous and defective lines of public and private su1·— veys in Illinois and Missouri, at at rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, three thousand dollars. For the resurvey correction of old erroneous surveys in Arkansas, discovered since the last report by the surveyongeneral, at a. rate not cxceeding six dollars per mile, nine thousand five hundred and four dollars. For the renewal and correction of old, erroneous, and defective surveys in Arkansas, discovered since the last estimate by the surveyongeneral, where the marks have become obliterated by time, accident, and other causes, at a mte not exceeding four dollars per mile, four thousand eight hundred and ninety-six dollars. For surveying in Louisiana, at augmented rates, now authorized by law, twenty-three thousand and ninety-one dollars. For retmoing and renewing old, obliterated, imperfect, and defective surveys in the State of Florida, and making relocations of the lines of private land claims therein ; and For locating private land claims under