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Specific appropriations.and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice and two associate judges of the district of Columbia, and to the attorney-general, and including also one thousand dollars for the compensation of the district judge of Ohio, for the year one thousand eight hundred and three, fifty-four thousand nine hundred dollars.

For the like compensation granted to the several district attornies of the United States, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, east and west Tennessee, one thousand four hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit and district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties; and likewise, for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars.

For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred dollars.

For the payment of an annuity granted to the children of the late Colonel John Harding and Major Alexander Trueman, by an act of Congress, passed the fourteenth day of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars.

For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, ninety-eight thousand dollars.

For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty-three cents.

For the erection of a lighthouse on New Point Comfort, five thousand dollars; being the amount of a former appropriation carried to the credit of the surplus fund.

For the payment of balances due on the contracts for erecting the lighthouses on Old Point Comfort, and Smith’s Point, and for the inspection of the work, the balance of the former appropriations being carried to the credit of the surplus fund, two thousand dollars.

For erecting a lighthouse on Gull’s Island, in the sound between Long Island and the Main, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that purpose, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For defraying the expenses incident to the purchase or erection of certain warehouses and wharves, under the act respecting quarantine and health laws, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, five thousand dollars: and so much of the sums received on account of storage for merchandise deposited in the public warehouses under said act, as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the erection and repairs of the warehouses, and to carry the said act into effect.

For defraying the expenses incident to the valuation of lands and houses, and enumeration of slaves within the United States,1798, ch. 70. as directed by the act of the ninth of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight; the balance of former appropriations having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, three thousand dollars.

For the purpose of carrying into effect the act of the third of March, one thousand eight hundred and three, in relation to the lands south of the state of Tennessee,1803, ch. 27. in addition to the sum therein appropriated, ten thousand dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, accord-