TUSCANY. J. A. Binda, consul, Leghorn. PONTIFICAL STATES. George W. Green, consul, Rome. James E. Freeman, consul, Ancona. KINGDOM OF THE TWO SICILIES. William Boulware, chargé d'affaires, Naples. John M. Marston, consul, Palermo, (Sicily.) TURKISH DOMINIONS. David Porter, minister resident, Constantinople. David W. Offley, consul, Smyrna. PLACES UNDER THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PASHA OF EGYPT. John Gliddon, consul, Alexandria, (Egypt.) GREECE. Gregory A. Perdicaris, consul, Athens. BARBARY STATES. John F. Mullowny, consul, Tangiers, (Morocco.) DOMINIONS OF THE IMAUM OF MUSCAT. consul, Muscat. Richard P. Waters, consul, Island of Zanzibar, (near the east coast of Africa.) Peter W. Snow, consul, Canton. CHINA. INDEPENDENT PACIFIC ISLANDS. Samuel R. Blackler, consul, Otaheite, (Society Islands.) Peter A. Brinsmade, commercial agent, Woahoo, (Sandwich Islands.) John B. Williams, consul, Bay of Islands, (New Zealand.) HAYTI, OR SAN DOMINGO. Francis D. Cummins, commercial agent, Port au Prince. Powhatan Ellis, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary Mexico. Brantz Mayer, secretary of legation, Mexico. consul, Mexico. consul, Chihuahua. Manuel Alvarez, consul, Santa Fé. ON THE ATLANTIC SIDE. consul, Tampico, or Santa Anna de Tamaulipas. Daniel W. Smith, consul, Matamoras. F. M. Dimond, consul, Vera Cruz and Alvarado. Edward Porter, consul, Tabasco. Charles Russell, consul, Laguna, (Carmen Island.) ON THE PACIFIC SIDE. Jonathan P. Gilliam, consul, Monterey. John Parrott, consul, Mazatlan. Josè Maria Castanos, consul, San Blas. Thomas Carlile, consul, San Francisco, California. CENTRAL AMERICA. Stephen H. Weems, consul, Guatemala, (Pacific side.) NEW GRANADA. W. M. Blackford, chargé d'affaires, Bogota. ON THE ATLANTIC SIDE: Ramon Leir Sanchez, consul, Carthagena. ON THE PACIFIC SIDE. William Nelson, consul, Panama. VENEZUELA. Allen A. Hall, chargé d'affaires, Caraccas. ECUADOR. Seth Sweetser, consul, Guayaquil. BRAZIL. William Hunter, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, Rio de Janeiro. R. M. Walsh, secretary of legation, Rio de Janeiro. Charles B. Allen, consul, Maranham Island. Charles J. Smith, consul, Para. Joseph Ray, consul, Pernambuco. Alexander Powell, consul, Rio de Janeiro. George Black, consul, Santos. Lemuel Wells, consul, Saint Catharine's Island. John C. Pedrick, consul, Rio Grande. Alexander H. Tyler, consul, Bahia de San Salvador. URUGUAY, OR CISPLATINE REPUBLIC. Robert M. Hamilton, consul, Montevideo. ARGENTINE REPUBLIC, OR BUENOS AYRES. Amory Edwards, consul, Buenos Ayres. CHILE. J. S. Pendleton, chargé d'affaires, Sanatigo. Paul H. Delano, consul, Talcahuano. PERU. James C. Pickett, chargé d'affaires, Lima. 2d Session. Treas. Dept. CONTRACTS AND PAYMENTS AT THE TREASURY. LETTER FROM THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, TRANSMITTING Statements-1st, of contracts relating to light-houses; 2d, of payments of miscellaneous claims; 3d, expenditure from marine hospital fund ; 4th, contracts authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury. APRIL 8, 1842. Referred to the Committee on Commerce. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, April 4, 1842. SIR: In obedience to the "act concerning public contracts," approved 21st April, 1808, and the "act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Depariments," approved the 2d March, 1809, I have the honor to transmit 1st. A statement of contracts relating to light-houses, floating lights, buoys, stakage, &c. 2d. A statement of payments made, according to law, at the Treasury of the United States, during the year 1841, for the discharge of miscellaneous claims not otherwise provided for. 3d. A statement of expenditures from the marine hospital fund, for the relief of sick or disabled seamen, during the year 1840. 4th. A statement of contracts authorized by the Secretary of the Treasury for the year 1841. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, sir, your obedient servant, Hon. JOHN WHITE, W. FORWARD, Secretary of the Treasury. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Contractors. Statement of contracts made relative to light-houses, floating lights, beacons, buoys, stukages, &c., in 1841. Date. Object. Price. For refitting Thatcher's island (2) light-houses, Massachusetts Contract for refitting Scituate light-house, Massachusetts Charter-party of the schooner "Gazelle," to deliver oil, &c., to the light houses from Maine to North Carolina, inclusive 10 Contract for supplying oil for the light-houses from Maine to North Carolina, inclusive, excepting New York and Rhode Island E. T. Hastings & Co. 41,625 00 May 1 Contract for rebuilding and fitting Chatham (2) lights March 15 Contract for lighting apparatus for the light-houses from Maine to North Carolina, inclusive Contract for supplying oil for the light houses on the lakes Winslow Lewis 5,849 00 Contract for repairing and refitting Cape Henry light-house, Virginia October 1 Contract for supplying oil for the light-houses from North Carolina to Louisiana, the latter inclusive Agreement for refitting Tybee light-house, Georgia Agreement for refitting and repairs at Old and New Point Comfort light-houses, Virginia Contract for securing Cove point, Chesapeake bay 1,280 45 19,712 00 4,000 00 400 00 Charter-party of schooner "Gazelle," to deliver oil to light-houses from North Carolina to Louisiana, the latter inclusive, including repairs of apparatus, not heretofore reported Contract for building a new floating light for the Wolf trap shoals, Chesapeake bay, not heretofore reported TREASURY DEPARTMENT, FIFTH AUDITOR'S OFFICE, March 9, 1842. 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