Specific appropriations.and nine, to the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ten, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
For the maintenance and support of lighthouses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, stakeages of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, seventy-nine thousand and thirty-nine dollars and forty cents.
For erecting two lighthouses on Long Island sound, one on Watchhill point, and the other on Sands or Watch point, the following sums, that is to say: the sum of two thousand six hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents, balance of a former appropriation for these objects carried to the “surplus fund,” and the further sum of five thousand seven hundred dollars, in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for the same objects.
For placing buoys and beacons on or near the shoals and rocks in the channel leading into the harbor of Salem, in the state of Massachusetts, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that purpose, sixty-seven dollars and twenty-nine cents.
For re-building two lighthouses on Plumb island, in the state of Massachusetts, ten thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of surveying the public land, within the several territories of the United States, eighteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For expenses of the boards formed in the territories of Orleans and Louisiana, for investigating and adjusting titles and claims to land, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated for that object, ten thousand dollars.
For the expense of taking the second census of the United States, being the balance of a former appropriation for that object, and carried to the surplus fund, thirteen thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars and ninety-six cents.
For the expense of returning the votes of President and Vice President of the United States, for the term commencing on the fourth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and nine, one thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, thirty-three thousand and fifty dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, fifty thousand dollars.
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars.
For the expenses of prosecuting claims in relation to captures, six thousand dollars.
For defraying the expenses of regulating, laying out, and making a road from Cumberland, in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio,1806, ch. 19. agreeably to an act of Congress, passed the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, the balance of a former appropriation made by the aforesaid act, for that object, having been carried to the surplus fund, sixteen thousand and seventy-five dollars and fifteen cents.
For defraying the expense of opening a road from the frontier of Georgia, on the route from Athens to New Orleans, till the same1806, ch. 41. intersects the thirty-first degree of North latitude, agreeably to an act of Congress, passed on the twenty-first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and six, the balance of a former appropriation for that object having been carried to the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred