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dated twenty-third of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, including contingencies, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Luigi Persico.For the second payment to Luigi Persico, for statues for the capitol, four thousand dollars.

Custom-house, &c. Portland.For finishing the custom-house and warehouse at Portland, Maine, and for repairing the wharf and clearing out the dock belonging to the same, two thousand one hundred dollars.

Miscellaneous claims.For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall be ascertained and admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, twelve thousand dollars.

Diplomatic salaries and outfits;For the salaries of the ministers of the United States to Great Britain, France, Spain, Russia, the Netherlands, and Colombia; for outfits of ministers of the United [States] to Great Britain, France, Spain, and Colombia, and a chargé d’affaires to Mexico; for outfits for chargé d’affaires to Sweden, Peru, and Guatemala; for the salaries of the chargé des affaires of the United States to Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Peru, Chili, Mexico, and Guatemala; for the salaries of the secretaries of legation;and contingent expenses. and for the contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, one hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred dollars.

Agents for claims.For the salaries of the agents for claims at London and Paris, four thousand dollars.

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

Relief, &c., Amer. seamen.For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, fifteen thousand dollars.

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

Surveying, &c. N. E. boundary.For surveying, printing, clerk hire, and other expenses, in relation to the north-eastern boundary agency, five thousand four hundred dollars.

Fifth census.
1829, ch. 24.
For discharging the expense of taking the fifth enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, in addition to the sum of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, appropriated for that purpose by the act of March second, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine.

Publishing foreign correspondence of old Congress.For enabling the Secretary of State to execute a contract with Jared Sparks, of Boston, made by Henry Clay, late Secretary of State, for printing and publishing the foreign correspondence of the Congress of the United States, from the first meeting thereof to the ratification of the definitive treaty of peace, in one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, thirty-one thousand three hundred dollars.

Approved, March 18, 1830.

Statute Ⅰ.



March 23, 1830.
Chap. XXXV.—An Act for the further regulation of vessels bound up James river, in the state of Virginia.

Vessels bound up James river exempted from stopping in Hampton Roads.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be necessary for any vessel bound up James river, in the state of Virginia, to stop in Hampton Roads, to deposit a manifest with the collector at Norfolk.

Master revenue cutter to board all such vessels, &c.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the master of the revenue cutter on that station, under the orders of the Secretary of the Treasury, to board all such vessels, to endorse their manifests, and to place an officer on board of each vessel bound up James river, having a cargo from a foreign port.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That whenever there shall be no