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and including a deficiency in the existing appropriation of three thousand three hundred and seventeen dollars and seventy-six cents, to pay for work already completed and returned, five thousand eight hundred dollars.

Mississippi.
1840, ch. 22.
For completing and retracing of certain old surveys in the State of Mississippi, at a rate not exceeding eight dollars per mile, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of May eight, one thousand eight hundred and forty, for the survey of private land claims, and connecting the same with the adjacent public lands, south of the thirty-first degree of latitude, at the same rate, eleven thousand one hundred dollars.

Missouri.
1824, ch. 184.
1841, ch. 35.
For completing the surveys in Missouri, in the towns named in the act of May twenty-sixth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, in addition to the unexpended balance of the appropriation of March third, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, for a similar object, and including office work, four thousand dollars.

The several districts.For surveying the public lands, in addition to the unexpended balance of former appropriations, to be apportioned to the several surveying districts according to the exigencies of the public service, forty thousand dollars.

Illinois and Missouri.For the survey of small detached tracts situated in Illinois and Missouri, principally in the military district in Illinois, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, and including office work, three thousand dollars.

Foreign intercourse.
Ministers.
Intercourse with Foreign Nations.―For salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Austria, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, seventy-two thousand dollars.

Secretaries of legation.For salaries of the secretaries of legation to the same places, sixteen thousand dollars.

Chargés des affaires.For salaries of the chargés des affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, Venezuela, New Grenada, Texas, Naples, and Sardinia, fifty-four thousand dollars.

Outfits.For outfits of a minister to France, and of a chargé d’affaires to Denmark, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

Minister to Turkey.For salary of the minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars.

Drogoman.For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Commissioner to the Sandwich islands.For compensation to a commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, three thousand dollars.

Contingent expenses.For the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, twenty thousand dollars.

For the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars.

Consul at London.For the salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars.

Consul at Beyroot.For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, fifty thousand dollars.

Consulate at London.For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the American consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars.

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

Transmission of letters between Chagres and Panama.For defraying the expenses attending the conveyance and forwarding, by land, and of the receipt and delivery, of mails, letters and despatches at and between Chagres and Panama, including the compensation to an agent of the United States at each of said places for the above purposes, one thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State.

Post Office Department.
Act of July 2, 1836, ch. 270.
Post Office Department.―For the service of the General Post Office for the year commencing on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and