Chapter XIX. making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four
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Chap. XIX.— An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.February 4, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, andConsular and diplomatic appropriation. the same are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, 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, Italy, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Rome, 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.
For salaries of secretaries of legation, thirty thousand dollars.Secretaries of Legation, &c. 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 salary of the interpreter to the legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, sixty thousand dollars.Contingent expenses of foreign missions.
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, eighty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, three thousand dollars.Barbary Powers. For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely,Turkish Consulates. interpreters, 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, twoRelief, &c., of seamen. 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, five thousand dollars. For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the United States,Blank books, &c. seals, presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages, and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, forty-five thousand dollars. For office rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercialOffice rent of consuls-general, &c. agents who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon, forty-one thousand eight hundred and ninety 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,639THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 19, 20. 1863. 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, Taupiers, Tripoli, Tunis, Rio de Janeiro, Pernambuco, Vera Cruz, Acapulco, Callao, Valparaiso, Buenos Ayres, San Juan de Sur, Aspinwall, Panama, Laguayra, Honolulu, Lahaina, Capetown, Falkland Islands, Venice, Stettin, Candia, Cyprus, Batavia, Fayal, Santiago, (Cape de Verdes,) Sainte Croix, Spezzia, Athens, Zanzibar, Bahia, Maranham Island, Para, Rio Grande, Matamoras, Guaymas, Mexico, (city,) Tampico, Paso del Norte, Tabasco, Paila, Tumbez, Talcahuane, Cartagena, Sabanillo, Omoa, Guayaquil, Cobija, Montevideo, Tahiti, Bay of Islands, Apia, Lanthala, Bristol, Cardiff, Maha, Saint John, (Newfoundland,) Saint John, (New Brunswick,) Pictou, (Nova Scotia,) La Union, Barbadoes, Bermuda, Antigua, Nantes, Napoléon-Vendée, Nice, Lisbon, Gottenburg, Tehuantepec, Santos, Saint Catherine, Balize, Gaspé Basin, Valencia, Port Mahon, Martinique, Taranto, Santander, Galatz, Bilbao, Scio, Paramaribo, Macao, Stockholm, Ancona, Otranto, Swatow, La Paz, Bergen, Trinidad, Barcelona, Quebec, Maricaibo, Algiers, San Domingo, (city,) Monrovia, Cape Haytien, Aux Cayes, and New-Castle-upon-Tyne; commercial agents at San Juan del Norte, Saint Paul de Loando, (Angola,) Gaboon, Saint Marc, Curaçoa, and Amoor River, including the loss by exchange thereon, four hundred and sixteen thousand three hundred and fifty-four dollars and thirty-four cents; and the salary of theSalary of consul at Guaymas.Amount due William L.
Baker to be paid his widow. consul at Guaymas shall be fifteen hundred dollars per annum, to commence on the fifth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one: *Provided,* That the amount due to the late William L. Baker be paid to his widow. For interpreters to the consulates in China, including loss by exchangeInterpreters in China. thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses incurred, under instructions from the Secretary of State, inBringing home persons charged with crime. bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars.
For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China,Marshals in consular courts. Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, nine thousand dollars. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, andPrisons in Japan, China, &c. Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand dollars. For salaries of commissioners and consuls-general to Hayti and Liberia,Commissioners, &c., to Liberia and Hayti. eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses under the act of Congress to carry into effect the treatyTreaty for suppression of African slave trade. between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade, passed July eleventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, seventeen thousand dollars. Approved, February 4, 1863.