Chapter LXXV. making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty
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Chap. LXXV.— An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty.March 3, 1859. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasuryAppropriation. not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty, namely:— For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners ofEnvoys, ministers, and commissioners. the United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Mexico, China, Chile, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Rome, Naples, Sardinia, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Buenos Ayres, New Granada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, and Paraguay, two hundred and four thousand dollars: *Provided,* That noNo other minister, &c. to receive any pay. other ambassador, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary, minister, resident, commissioner, diplomatic representative, or chargé d’affaires, shall be entitled to any compensation during the said fiscal year: *AndConstruction of this act. provided,* That nothing in this act shall be construed to interfere with the 403THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 75. 1859. disbursement of the amount hereinafter appropriated for the contingent expenses of foreign intercourse. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris,Secretaries of legation and assistants. three thousand dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation to China, acting as interpreter, five thousand dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as dragoman, three thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifty thousand dollars.Contingent expenses.
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, two thousandBarbary powers. dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,American seamen. one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services ofShipwrecks. the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens of the United States from shipwreck, ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States.
For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the United States,Blank Books. seals, presses, flags, and for the payment of postages and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, forty thousand dollars. For office rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents,Office rent of consuls, &c., loss by exchange. who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon, viz.; for office rent, twenty-two thousand three hundred and seventy dollars.
For salary of minister resident at Japan, from the nineteenth day ofMinister resident at Japan. January, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, to the thirtieth of June next, three thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For salary of minister resident at Japan, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of consuls-general at Quebec, Calcutta, Alexandria, Havana,Consuls-general.Consuls. Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main; consuls at Liverpool, London, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Glasgow, Mauritius, Singapore, Belfast, Cork, Dundee, Demarara, Halifax, Kingston, (Jamaica,) Leeds, Manchester, Nassau, (New Providence,) Southampton, Turk’s Island, Prince Edward’s Island, Havre, Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Lyons, Moscow, Odessa, Revel, Saint Petersburg, Matanzas, Trinidad de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, San Juan, (Porto Rico,) Cadiz, Malaga, Ponce, (Porto Rico,) Trieste, Vienna, Aix-la-Chapelle, Canton, Shanghai, Fouchou, Amoy, Ningpo, Beirut, Smyrna, Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Funchal, Oporto, Saint Thomas, Elsinore, Genoa, Basle, Geneva, Messina, Naples, Palermo, Leipsic, Munich, Leghorn, Stuttgardt, Bremen, Hamburg, Tangiers, Tripoli, Tunis, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco, Vera Cruz, Acapulco, Callao, Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, San Juan del Sur, Aspinwall, Panama, La Guayra, Honolulu, Lahaina, Capetown, Falkland Islands, Venice, Stettin, Candia, Cyprus, Batavia, Fayal, Santiago, (Cape de Verdes,) Saint Croix, Spezzia, Athens, Zanzibar, Bahia, Maranham Island, Para, Rio Grande, Matamoras, Mexico, (city,) Tampico, Paso del Norte, Tabasco, Paita, Tumbaz, Talcahuano, Carthagena, Sabanillo, Onoa, Guayaquil, Cobija, Montevideo, Tahiti, Bay of Islands, Apia, Lanthala; commercial agents at San Juan del Norte, Port au Prince, San Domingo,Commercial Agents.
(city,) St. Paul de Loanda, (Angola,) Monrovia, Gaboon, Cape Haytien, Aux Cayes, and Amoor River, two hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars. For interpreters to the consulates in China, four thousand five hundredInterpreters in China. dollars. For compensation of the commissioner, secretary, chief astronomer andCommission to run the boundary line with Great Britain on Washington Territory. surveyor, assistant astronomer and surveyor, clerk, and for provisions, 404THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 75, 76. 1859. transportation, and contingencies of the commission to run and mark the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions bounding on Washington Territory, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For compensation and per diem of the commissioner, compensation ofCommissioner, &c. under reciprocity treaty with Great Britain. the surveyor, and for the payment of all expenses of the commission under the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, twenty-three thousand dollars.
To enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the actSuppression of slave-trade.1819, ch. 101.Vol. iii. p. 532.Proviso.Expenses now incurred. of Congress of third March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and any subsequent acts now in force for the suppression of the slave-trade, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That so much of said appropriation as may be required to pay expenses already incurred may be used from and after the passage of this act. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the salary provided by the thirdSalary of Consul General of British North America.1856, ch. 127, § 3.*Ante*, p. 62. section of “An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States,” approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, as compensation for the consul general of British North America, as by schedule B, shall be in full of all compensation allowed to that officer; and all fees received by any vice consul or commercial agent in British North America, exceeding the amount allowed by the President as compensation for his services, and all fees received by said consul general,Fees, &c., to be accounted for. shall be accounted for by such officers, respectively, to the treasury of the United States.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That the fee for certifying invoices,Fee for certifying certain invoices, &c. and for certifying the place of growth or production of goods made duty free by the reciprocity treaty, to be charged by the consul general for the British North American provinces and subordinate consular officers, or agents in said provinces, shall be fifty cents for each certificate, and no more. And no such certificate of the growth or production shall beCertificate not required for goods not exceeding $200 in value. required for goods not exceeding in value the sum of two hundred dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1859.