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Specific appropriations.lighthouse on New-Point Comfort, in Virginia, one hundred and seventy-seven dollars and twenty cents.

For erecting lighthouses on Long Island sound, one thousand dollars.

For erecting a lighthouse on Wood Island or Fletcher’s neck, one hundred dollars.

For erecting a double lighthouse at or near Chatham harbor, on the back of Cape Cod, two thousand dollars.

For placing buoys and beacons in or near the rocks and shoals in the channel leading into the harbor of Salem, in Massachusetts, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, five thousand dollars.

For the expenses of the boards formed in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, for investigating and adjusting titles and claims to land, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, thirty-three thousand three hundred dollars.

For carrying on the surveys of the public lands in the several territories, twenty-one thousand one hundred and seventy-four dollars.

For the contingent expenses of government, the balance of former appropriations for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty thousand dollars.

For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars.

For contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, twenty thousand dollars.

For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.

For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.

For expenses of prosecuting claims in relation to captures, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, four thousand dollars.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by an1790, ch. 34. act making provision for the debt of the United States, and out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, February 10, 1808.

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Feb. 10, 1808.
[Obsolete.]
Chap. XVIII.—An Act making appropriations for the support of the Navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and eight.

Specific appropriations.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expenses of the navy of the United States, during the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, the following sums be, and the same hereby are, respectively, appropriated; that is to say:

For the pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, three hundred and sixty-eight thousand and forty-eight dollars.

For provisions, one hundred and sixty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-five dollars and ten cents.

For medicines, instruments and hospital stores, five thousand dollars.

For repairs of vessels, one hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars.

For freight, store rent, commissions to agents and other contingent expenses, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, including provisions for