Chapter LX. *making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, and for other Purposes.* May 26, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as
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Chap. LX.— 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-one, and for other Purposes.* May 26, 1860. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Appropriations.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 of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, namely:
For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of Salaries of envoys, &c.the United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Mexico, China, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, 20 THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Suss. I. Ch. 60. 1860.Rome, Naples, Sardinia, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, New Granada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, arid Japan, two hundred and ninety-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Secretaries of legation, &c. For salaries of secretaries of legation, forty thousand 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.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, twenty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, forty thousand dollars. Barbary powers. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, three thousand dollars. Consulates in Turkey. For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, viz.: interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, and Beirut, two thousand five hundred dollars. American seamen For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, two hundred thousand dollars.
For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the United States, seals, presses, flags, and for payment of postages and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, thirty thousand dollars. Office-rent of consuls general, &c. For office rent for those consuls general, consuls, and commercial agents, who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon twenty-seven thousand three hundred and seventy dollars. Salaries of consuls. For salaries of consuls general at Quebec, Calcutta, Alexandria, 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 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, 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, Tumbez, Talcahuano, Carthagena, Sabanillo, Omoa, Guayaquil, Cobija, Montevideo, Tihita, 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 Cayes, and Amoor river, two hundred and sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Interpreters in China. Boundary between United States and British possessions. For interpreters for the consulates in China, three thousand dollars. For compensation of the commissioner, secretary, chief astronomer and surveyor, assistant astronomer and surveyor, clerk, and for provisions, THIRTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 60, 61. 1860. 21transportation, 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.
To enable the President of the United States to carry into effect the Suppression of slave trade.act of Congress of third March, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and any subsequent acts now in force for the suppression of the slave trade, forty thousand dollars. 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. To enable the Secretary of State to defray the cost of a prison ship at Prison ship in China.Canton, in China, from the first day of-January, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, to the first day of January, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, and for compensation of the marshal of the consular court at Canton from January one, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, to fifteenth December, eighteen hundred and fifty-seven, four thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For compensation of commissioner to China and the consuls at the Commissioner to China and consuls.five ports in China, viz.: Kwang-chow, Amoy, Fu-chow, Ningpo, and Shanghae, from the first of July, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, to the thirty-first of December, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, nine thousand dollars. Approved, May 26, 1860.