Chapter LVIII. *making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* February 28, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the
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Chap. LVIII.— 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-two.* February 28, 1861. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Consular and diplomatic appropriation.and the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, namely:
Envoys, ministers, and commissioners. For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of the United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Mexico, China, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Rome, Sardinia, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, New Granada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine, Confederation, Paraguay, and Japan, three hundred and one thousand dollars.
Secretaries of legation, &c. For salaries of secretaries of legation, forty-three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, three thousand dollars. For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars. For compensation to the interpreter to the mission to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, forty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, forty thousand dollars. THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sees. II. Ch. 58. 1861. 171 For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, three thousand Barbary Powers.dollars. For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely, interpreters, Turkish consulates.guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, and Beirut, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Relief, &c. of seamen.two hundred thousand dollars. For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens of the United States from shipwreck, ten thousand dollars. For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the United States, Blank books. &c.seals, presses, flags, and for the payment of postages and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, thirty thousand dollars.
For office rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents Office-rent of consuls-general, &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, Havana, Salaries of consuls-general and consuls.Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main; consuls at Kanagawa and Nagasaki in Japan, Liverpool, London, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Glasgow, Mauritius, Singapore, Belfast, Cork, Dundee, Demarara, Halifax, Kingston, (Jamaica,) Leeds, Mancheter, Nassau, (New Providence,) Southampton, Turk’s Island, Prince Edward’s Island, Havre, Paris, Marseilles, Bordeaux, La Rochelle, Lyons, Moscow, Odessa, Revel, St.
Petersburgh, Mantansas, Trinidad de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba, San Juan, (Porto Rico,) Cadiz, Malaga, Ponce, (Porto Rico,) Trieste, Vienna, Aix-la-Chapelle, Canton, Shanghae, Fouchou, Amoy, Ningpo, Beirut, Smyrna, Jerusalem, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Funchal, Oporto, St. Thomas, Elsineur, 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, Laguayra, Honolulu, Lahaina, Cape-Town, 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, Tombez, Talcahuano, Carthagena, Sabanillo, Omoa, Guyaquil, Cobija, Montevideo, Tahita, Bay of Islands, Apia, Lanthala; commercial agents at San Juan del Norte, Port au Prince, San Domingo, (city,) St. Paul de Loando, (Angola,) Monrovia, Gaboon, Cape Haytien, Aux Gayes, and Amoor river, two hundred and seventy-four thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and the office of consul-general at Simoda is hereby abolished.
Office of consul-general at Simona abolished.And the salaries of the consuls at Kanagawa and Nagasaki, in Japan, shall be three thousand dollars each. For expenses incurred, under instructions from the Secretary of State, Persons charged with crime.in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. For interpreters to the consulates in China, four thousand five hundred Interpreters in China.dollars. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China, Marshals in China.Siam, and Turkey, seven thousand dollars.
For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, and Prisons in Japan, &c.Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand eight hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to have prepared and transmitted to Boundaries of certain States.the executives of the several States having boundaries with foreign States a competent number of authentic copies of the settlement of such boundaries, and the maps and charts relating thereto, and the evidence thereof in the State Department, ten thousand dollars. 172 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 59. 1861. Bringing home seamen of ship “Staghound,” To meet an extraordinary emergency which has; arisen in bringing from Batavia twenty-four seamen of the ship “Staghound,” charged with mu tiny, nine thousand seven hundred and ninety-two dollars, or so much thereof as may be deemed just and fair; said sum to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. Approved, February 28, 1861.