augmented rates in Louisiana, one hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That the surveyor general for the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan, shall be, and hereby is, authorized to pay for the surveys to be made in the northern peninsula of Michigan and in the northern part of the southern peninsula of that State, at a rate not exceeding five dollars per mile for township boundaries, and four dollars per mile for section lines.
Foreign intercourse.
Ministers.Intercourse with Foreign Nations.―For salaries of ministers to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Mexico, and Brazil, sixty-three thousand dollars; and for outfits of said ministers, sixty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Secretaries of legation.For salaries of secretaries of legation to the same places, fourteen thousand dollars.
Commissioner to China.For compensation to a Commissioner to reside in China, five thousand dollars.
For salary of secretary and Chinese interpreter to that mission, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Chargés des affaires.For salaries of chargés des affaires to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Chili, Peru, New Grenada, Venezuela, Texas, Naples, Sardinia, and Buenos Ayres, sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Minister to Turkey.For salary of a minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars.
Drogoman.For salary of a drogoman to the legation to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifteen thousand dollars.
Consul at London.For salary of the consul at London, two thousand dollars.
Consul at Beyroot.For salary of the consul at Beyroot, five hundred dollars.
Outfits.For outfits of chargés des affaires to Texas, Austria, Peru, and Venezuela, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars.
Consulate at London.For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the consul at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
Commiss’r to the Sandwich isl’ds.For compensation of a commissioner to the Sandwich islands, three thousand dollars.
Consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, &c.For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, and Alexandria, fifteen hundred dollars.
H. Ledyard.For salary as chargé d’affaires, and outfit to Henry Ledyard, while so employed in France, nine thousand four hundred and fifty-six dollars.
B. E. Green.For compensation to Benjamin E. Green, while officiating as chargé d’affaires in Mexico, one thousand and sixty-nine dollars and forty cents.
J. P. Hutchinson.For compensation to J. Pemberton Hutchinson, in full, for diplomatic services at Lisbon, during the interval between the suspension of the mission of T. L. L. Brent, and the recognition of his successor at the Court of Portugal, two thousand nine hundred dollars.
A. Middleton.For compensation to Arthur Middleton, in full for diplomatic services in Spain, during several periods in the years eighteen hundred and thirty-six, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, and eighteen hundred and forty, fourteen hundred and fifty-four dollars.
Relief of American seamen.For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, seventy-five thousand dollars;
N. E. boundary.For running and marking the boundary line between the United States and the possessions of Great Britain, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Application of the contingent fund of the two Houses of Congress.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no part of the appropriations which may be made for the contingent expenses of either House of Congress, shall be applied to any other than the ordinary expenditures of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, nor as extra allowance to any clerk, messenger, or attendant of the said two Houses,