Chapter XVII. *making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* February 4, 1862 *Be it enacted by the Senate and
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Chap. XVII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and additional Appropriations for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two.* February 4, 1862 *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 hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, namely:
For salaries of Envoys Extraordinary, Ministers, and CommissionersEnvoys, Ministers, and Commissioners. of 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, forty-three thousand threeSecretaries of Legation, &c. 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 salary of the Interpreter to the Legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For compensation to an Interpreter to the Consulate at Kanagawa, fifteen hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, one hundred thousandContingent expenses of foreign intercourse. dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, three thousandBarbary 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, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the United States,Blank books, &c. seals, presses, flags, postages, and for the payment of miscellaneous expenses of the Consuls of the United States, including the preservation of the archives of the Consulates, 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, 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 Nangasaki, in Japan, Liverpool, London, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Glasgow, Mauritius, Singapore, Belfast, Cork, Dundee, Deinarara, Halifax,336 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, St.
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, 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, 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, Tumbez, Talcahuano, Carthagena, Sabanillo, Omoa, Guayaquil, Cobija, Montevideo, Tahiti, Bay of Islands, Apia, Lanthala, Bristol, Cardiff, Malta, St. John (Newfoundland), St-John (New Brunswick), Pictou (Nova Scotia), La Union, Barbadoes, Bermuda, Antigua, Nantes, Napoleon Vendee, Nice, Lisbon, Gottenburg, Tehuantepec, Santos, St. Catherine, Balize, Gaspe Basin, Valencia, Port Mahon, Martinique, Taranto, Santander, Galatz, Bilbao, Scio, Paramaribo, Macao, Stockholm, Ancona, Otranto, Swatow, La Paz, Bergen, Trinidad, Barcelona, Quebec, Maricaibo, Algiers, Port an Prince, San Domingo (city), Monrovia, Cape Haytien, Aux Cayes, and New Castle-upon-Tyne;
Commercial Agents at San Juan del Norte, St. Paul de Loanda (Angola), Gaboon, St. Marc, Curaçoa, and Amoor River, three hundred and fifty-one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. And the salary of the Consul at Bremen shall be Salary of Consul at Bremen,three thousand dollars, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and the Consul at Pictou (Nova Scotia) shall at Pictou,receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars, to commence on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two; and the salary of the Consul at Swatow,at Swatow shall be thirty-five hundred dollars, to commence on the twenty-first day of September, eighteen hundred and sixty; and the at Port Mahon.Consul at Port Mahon shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars: *Provided*, That all consular officers whose respective salaries exceed one Consular officers whose salaries exceed $1000 not to engage in mercantile business.1856, ch. 127, § 5.Vol. xi. p. 55.Proviso.thousand dollars per annum shall be subject to the provisions of the fifth section of the act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States, approved August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six; and their respective Consulates shall be included in schedule B, of the list of salaried Consulates: *And provided further*, That no appointments of Consuls shall hereafter be made, nor the compensation of Consuls 1861, ch. 35.*Ante*, p. 285.raised, under the act of August two, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, except to the places herein mentioned.
And the Consul at New Castle-upon-Tyne Salary of Consul at flew Castle-upon-Tyne.shall receive a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, commencing on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. Interpreters in China.For Interpreters to the Consulates in China, four thousand five hundred dollars. Marshals in Consular Courts.For salaries of the marshals for the Consular Courts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, seven thousand dollars. Prisons in Japan, &c.For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. Appropriation for 1862.*And be it further enacted*, That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated for the service of the year ending the thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, namely: Increased pay to certain Consuls.For compensation and increased salaries to sundry Consuls, under the act of second August, eighteen hundred and sixty-one, fifty-four thousand one hundred and eleven dollars and ninety-seven cents. THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess.
II. Ch. 18, 19. 1862. 337 To meet an extraordinary emergency which has arisen in bringing from Sidney, New South Wales, eight seamen, belonging to the shipSeamen of ship Junior. “Junior,” charged with the crimes of mutiny and murder, a guard of seven men, and also eleven of the crew as witnesses, fifteen thousand and seven dollars and ninety-two cents, or so much thereof as may be just and fair; said sum to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. Approved, February 4, 1862.