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THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 242. 1854. 563 For the purchase of metallic surf-boats to rescue lives and pro- $¤¤`·b<>v-iS- perty, and to be located at each of the following ports, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, viz : On the east side of Lake Michigan, at Michigan City, one ; New Buffalo, one; St. Joseph, one; Kalamazoo, one; Manistee, one ; Grand River, one ; Muskegon, one; White River, one; Pier Marquette, one; and South Black River, one; and on the west side of Lake Michigan, at Chicago, two ; Kenosha, one; Milwaukie, one; Sheboygan, one ; Deatl1’s Door, one; Two Rivers, one; Manitowack, one; Waukegan, one; Racine, one; Port Washington, one; Washington Harbor, one; South Manitou Island, one; Ka11ey’s Harbor, one ; and at Calumet, one; or at such other points as shall be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall also adopt such measures as shall be necessary for the preservation of such boats ; For expenses of visiting and inspecting lights, and other aids to navigation, two thousand dollars; For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same, under the proviso to the act of third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled “An act 1851,cn.82. making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending June thirtietb, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for other purposes," on the amount that may be disbursed by them, eight thousand dollars. For the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington: For oil and other supplies for fifteen lights, cleaning materials of all kinds, and transportation of the same, expenses of keeping lamps and machinery in repair, publishing notices to mariners of changes of aids to navigation, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-six dollars and twenty-five cents; For repairs and incidental expenses of fifteen lights, and buildings connected therewith, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries of fifteen keepers and twelve assistants, at an average not exceeding eight hundreddollars per annum each, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars ; For expenses of raising, cleaning, repairing, remooring, and supplying losses of floating beacons and buoys, and chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, eight thousand five hundred dollars; For commissions, at two and a half per centum, to such superintendents as are entitled to the same, under the proviso to the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one, entitled, "An not 1861, ch- 82- making appropriations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year ending June thir|;tieth,] eighteen hundred and fifty- two, and for other purposes,” on the amount that may be disbursed by them, four hundred dollars ; _ For completing the lighthouses, on the coast of California and Oregon, the sum of fifty-nine thousand four hundred and thirty-four dollars : Provided, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to pay the contractors for building the lighthouse on Point Lema, near Pt. Lama. San Diego, what the same is reasonably worth. _ Intcrcourse with Foreign Nations.—For salaries of Ministers of the Foreignlu United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Brazil, “'°°“"°‘ Peru, Mexico, Chili, and Central America, ninety thousand dollars; For salaries of Secretaries of Legation to the same places, twenty thousand dollars; For salary of a Minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars; For salary of the Dragoman to the Legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries of Charges d’Ail`aires or Ministers resident to Portugal,