THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. l08L 1857. 223 losses of floating beacons and buoys, and chains and sinkers for the same, and for coloring and numbering all the buoys, twenty-two thousand Eve 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 third of V March, eighteen hundred and lilly-one, entitled "An act making appro- 185} ¤h· 32- priations for the civil and diplomatic expenses of government for the year V°l· lx- P- 608- ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and for other purposes," on the amoimt that may be disbursed by them, one thousand dollars. For maintenance of the vessel provided for by the act of eighteenth August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, for inspection and transportation 1856, ch. 160. purposes, thirty thousand dollars. Am. P- 100- For rebuilding the lighthouse destroyed by the gale of September, Ligh¤l¤<>¤¤¤¤» &°· eighteen hundred and fifty-six, at Cape St. Blas, Florida, twenty thousand dollars. For rebuilding and Htting with first-order apparatus the lighthouse at Fire Island, to mark the approach to the harbor of New York, forty thousand dollars. For rebuilding and fitting with first-order apparatus the lighthouse at Cape May, entrance to the Delaware Bay, New Jersey, forty thousand dollars. For rebuilding and fitting with suitable lens apparatus the lighthouse at Body’s Island, North Carolina, twenty-five thousand dollars. For rebuilding and fitting with first-order apparatus the lighthouse at Cape Lookout, North Carolina, forty-tive thousand dollars. For completing the lighthouse at or near the north pier-head at Chicago, Illinois, and for protecting the same 'in addition to the balances of previous appropriations made prior to the thirty-tirst August, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and eighty-five dollars and two cents. For fuel and quarters for officers of the army serving on lighthouse Army omcers. duty, the payment of which is no longer provided for by the quartermaster’s department, six thousand five hundred and eight dollars and eighty-two cents. For restoring the lighthouse works near CoHin’s Patches, Florida, to their condition prior to the hurricane of twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth of August, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, twenty-nine thousand and fifty- three dollars and eighty-one cents. For compensation of two superintendents for the life stations on the Life stations. coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, two thousand and sixty-one dollars and fourteen cents. For compensation of fifty-four keepers of stations, seven thousand one hundred and twenty-three dollars and eighty cents. For contingencies of life stations on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, fifteen thousand dollars. Suwey of the Public Lands.-For surveying the public lands, (exclusive Lam] sm-Wy, of California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, and Utah,) including incidental expenses, and island surveys in the interior, and all other special and ditlicult surveys demanding augmented rates, to be apportioned and applied to the several surveying districts, according to the exigencies of the public service, including expenses of selecting swamp lands and the compensation and expenses to survey or to locate private land claims in Louisiana, in addition to the unexpended balances of all former appropriations, one hundred thousand dollars. For completing the survey of towns and villages in Missouri, two thousand dollars. For correcting erroneous and defective lines of public and private surveys in Illinois and Missouri, at a rate not exceeding six dollars per mile, two thousand dollars.
