Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 4.djvu/427

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Reporter of Supreme Court.For compensation to the reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars.

District attorneys and marshals.For compensation to the district attorneys and marshals, as granted by law, including those in the several territories, eleven thousand three hundred dollars.

Expenses of the Supreme, &c. Courts of the United States.For defraying the expenses of the Supreme, circuit, and district courts of the United States, including the District of Columbia; also, for jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, penalties, and forfeitures, incurred in the year eighteen hundred and thirty, and preceding years; and, likewise, for defraying the expenses of suits in which the United States are concerned, and of prosecution, for offences, committed against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Pensions.For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late and present governments, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Support of lighthouses.For the support and maintenance of lighthouses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, and stakeages, including the purchase of oil, keepers’ salaries, repairs and improvements, and contingent expenses, one hundred and eighty-six thousand and three dollars and thirteen cents.

Lighthouse on Whale’s Back.For building a lighthouse on a ledge of rocks called the Whale’s Back, in the harbour of Portsmouth, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Lighthouse on Cat Island.For building a lighthouse at Cat Island, in the Gulf of Mexico, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, five thousand dollars.

Beacon on Bass river.For erecting a beacon in the harbour at the mouth of Bass river, between the towns of Dennis and Yarmouth, in Massachusetts, being the amount of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, one thousand dollars.

Pier at Buffalo, &.
Act of May 18, 1826, ch. 73.
For erecting a pier adjacent to the pier at Buffalo, in New York, and placing thereon the lighthouse authorized to be built at the east end of Lake Erie, by act of the eighteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, being the balance of an appropriation for that object, which was carried to the surplus fund on the thirty-first of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Lighthouse, Roanoke Marshes.
Act of March 2, 1827, ch. 47.
For building a lighthouse at the south entrance of Roanoke Marshes, in North Carolina, in addition to the appropriation of five thousand dollars, made March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight [twenty-seven], five thousand dollars.

L. H. Passamaquoddy.For rebuilding the lighthouse at West Passamadquoddy Head, in Maine, eight thousand dollars.

Light-vessel, Carysfort reef.For building a light-vessel, to be placed on Carysfort reef, in the territory of Florida, the one heretofore stationed there having become so decayed as to be irreparable, twenty thousand dollars.

Surveying East Florida.For surveying private land claims in East Florida, eight thousand dollars.

Registers and receivers.For the salaries of registers and receivers of land offices, where there are no sales, two thousand dollars.

Keepers archives, Florida.For the salaries of two keepers of the public archives in Florida, one thousand dollars.

Stationery.For stationery and books for the offices of commissioners of loans, five hundred dollars.

Law agent, &c.
Act of May 23, 1828, ch. 70.
For allowance to the law agent, assistant counsel, and district attorney, under the act supplementary to the several acts providing for the settlement of private land claims in Florida,