Chapter XCIII. making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine
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Chap. XCIII.— An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine.June 5, 1858. *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 311THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 93. 1858. the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury notAppropriation. otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, 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, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Rome, Naples, Sardinia, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Buenos Ayres, New Grenada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Sandwich Islands, two hundred and seventy-four thousand dollars. For salaries of the secretaries of legation of the United States, twelveSecretaries of legation and assistants. thousand dollars.
For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, 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 thousandContingent expenses. dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, three thousandBarbary powers. dollars.
For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, viz: interpreters,Turkish consulates. guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Suyma, Candia, Alexandria, and Beirout, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,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 and vessels 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, and 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 agentsOffice rent for consuls, &c. who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon, twenty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. For salaries of consuls-general at Quebec, Calcutta, Alexandria, Simoda,Consuls-general, consuls, &c.
Havana, 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 Petersburgh, 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, Beirout, Smyrna, Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Flughaf, Oporto, St.
Thomas, Elsineur, Genoa, Basile, Geneva, Messina, Naples, Palermo, Leipsie, Munich, Leghorn, Stuttgartl, Bremen, Hamburg, Tangiers, Tripoli, Tunis, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco, Vera Cruz, Acapulco, Callao, Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, San Juan del Sur, Aspinwall, Panama, Laguayra, Honolulu, Lahaina, Capetown, Falkland Islands, Venice, Sicilin, Caudia, Cyprus, Batavia, Fuyal, Santiago, (Cape de Verdes,) Saint Croix, Spezzia, Athens, Zanzibar, Bahia, Marantnam Island, Para, Rio Grande, Matamoras, Mexico, (city,) Tampico, Paso del Norte, Tabasco, Patia, Tumbez, Tulcahuano, Carthagena, Subanillo, Onoa, Guayaquil, Cobija, Montevideo, Tahita, Bay of Islands, Apia, Lanthala; commercial agents at San Juan del Norte, Port-au-Prince, San Domingo, 312THIRTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 93, 122. 1858. (city.) St. Paul de Loanda, (Angola.) Monrovia, Gaboon, Cape Haytien, Aux Cayes, and Amoor River, one hundred and seventy-three thousand seven hundred and fifty 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 with Great Britain on Washington Territory. surveyor, assistant astronomer and surveyor, clerk, and for provisions, 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, seventy-one 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 commissioner under the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, twenty-three thousand dollars. Approved, June 5, 1858.