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204 THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97. 1853. For salary and outfit of a Commissioner to reside in China, including 1848, ch. 150. the additional compensation under the act to carry into effect certain provisions in the treaties between the United States and China and the Ottoman Porte, eighteen thousand dollars; For salary of the interpreter and secretary to said mission, two thousand five hundred dollars; For compensation to the Consuls at the Eve ports in China, viz. Kwang Chow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ning Po, and Shanghai, five thousand dollars; For salary of the Consul—General at Alexandria, five thousand dollars; A¤¤¤1‘i¤¤¤ 5%- For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, mm one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the Consul of the United States at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars; For salary of the Consul at Beirout, five hundred dollars. public Ln5S_ Public Lrmds.-For compensation for Secretary to sign patents for public lands, one thousand five hundred dollars; For salary of the recorder of land titles in Missouri, five hundred dollars; Payment; by For salaries and commissions of Registers of Land Offices and Receivers ¤’°°°l'¢¤· of Public Moneys, one hundred and forty-one thousand seven hundred Proviso. dollars: Provided, That whenever the amount received at any United 1852,ch. 19. States land office under the third section of an act entitled "An act'to make land warrants assignable, and for other purposes," approved March twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, has exceeded or shall exceed the amount which the registers and receivers at any such office are entitled to receive under said third section, the surplus which shall remain, after paying the amount so due as aforesaid to said registers and receivers, shall be paid into the Treasury of the United States as other qhenge of lo- public moneys: And provided further, That the President be and he is Egg; of L°·¤d hereby authorized to change the location of the several land offices, and ` to establish the same from time to time, at such other place in the district as he may deem expedient; For expenses of depositing public moneys by receivers of public moneys, twenty-nve thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; For incidental expenses of the several land offices, thirty-seven thousand and forty dollars. suwsysogpub- Surveys of the Public Lands.—·For surveying the public lands, in- HG L*md¤· cluding incidental expenses and special surveys, demanding augmented rates, to be applied and apportioned to the several districts according to the exigencies of the public service, (the part to be applied to the resurveys required by the location and survey of private claims in Florida, to be disbursed at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile,) in addition to the unexpended balances of former appropriations, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars; For resurveys and examinations of the surveys of the public lands in those States where the offices of the surveyorsgeneral have been or shall be closed under the acts of twelfth of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, and twenty-third of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, including two thousand dollars for the salary of the clerk detailed on this special service in the General Land Office, the sum of Efteen thousand dollars ; For correcting defective and fraudulent surveys in the upper peninsula of Michigan, including the expenses of a field inspector of surveys, five thousand dollars; To defray the expenses of examining and correcting old, imperfect, and defective surveys in the northern part of the lower peninsula. of" Michigan, tln·ee thousand dollars ;