Specific appropriations.and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, one thousand dollars.
For the compensations to Consuls to Barbary powers, for six months, the former appropriation being for one year, five thousand dollars.
For compensations to the following officers of the mint: the Director, two thousand dollars; the Treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars; the Assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars; the Chief Coiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; the Melter and Refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars; the engraver, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks at five hundred dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For the wages of persons employed at the different branches of melting, refining, coining, carpenters, millwrights and smiths’ work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum allowed to an assistant coiner and die forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, six thousand dollars.
For the purchase of ironmongery, lead, wood, coals, stationery, office furniture, and for all other contingencies of the establishment of the mint, five thousand seven hundred dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and for occasional improvement in the construction of lanterns, and of the lamps and materials used in them, including an allowance for the increased number of lighthouses, and for the advanced price of spermaceti oil, thirty-six thousand dollars.
For the balance carried to the “surplus fund,” of an appropriation for building a lighthouse near the entrance of Georgetown harbour, in the state of South Carolina, five thousand dollars.
For the additional expense estimated as necessary for erecting the said lighthouse, two thousand dollars.
For the payment of Nicholas Fish, supervisor of the revenue for the district of New York, so much short of an appropriation for the purchase of land at Montock-point, in the state of New York, for the purpose of erecting a lighthouse thereon, two hundred and fifty-five dollars and twelve cents.
For the purchase of presses, the engraving of dies, and other expenses incident to the preparations made and to be made, for executing the act intituled Ante, p. 527.“An act laying duties on stamped vellum, parchment and paper,” passed the sixth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, nine thousand dollars.
For the expense incurred by the committee of the House of Representatives, on the impeachment of William Blount; for the compensation of the members, and for incidental charges as estimated by the chairman of the committee, two thousand six hundred and twenty-six dollars.
For the discharge of such miscellaneous demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, 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 the act Ante, p. 138.“making provision for the debt of the United States,” together with so much as may be necessary of the proceeds of the duties on imports, and the tonnage of ships and vessels, and the duties on domestic distilled spirits and stills, which shall accrue until the close of the present year.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be, and hereby is further appropriated, to be paid out of any monies in the treasury of