Chapter CXXXVI. *making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other Purposes.* June 20, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembl
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Chap. CXXXVI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and for other Purposes.* June 20, 1864. *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 of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-five, namely;— For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners ofSalaries of envoys, 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, Japan, and Salvador, three hundred and eight thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of secretaries of legation, thirty thousand dollars.of secretaries of legation; For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris,of assistant secretaries; three thousand dollars. For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousandof interpreters in China, Turkey, and Japan. 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 thousandContingent expenses. dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, eighty thousand dollars. 138 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 136. 1864. Barbary Powers.For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, three thousand dollars. Consulates to the Turkish dominions.For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely, 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. Cemetery at Constantinople.For the contribution of the United States to the completion of a new cemetery at Constantinople, to receive the remains of American citizens transferred from an old burial-place, and also as a place for future interments, eighteen hundred dollars. Rewards to masters, &c., for rescuing, &c.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.
Blank books, stationery, &c.For the purchase of blank books, stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages, and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, including loss by exchange, sixty thousand dollars. Office-rent of certain 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, fifty thousand dollars.
Salaries of consuls-general and consuls.For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, namely:— I. CONSULATES-GENERAL. SCHEDULE B. Consulates-general.Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai; and the consul-general at Alexandria shall have the name and title of agent and consul-general. III. CONSULATES. SCHEDULE B. Consulates.Acapulco, Aix-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aspinwall, Aux Cayes, Bahia, Barcelona, Bankok, Basle, Belfast, Beirut, Bergen, Burmuda, [Bermuda,] Bilbao, Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux, Bremen, Bristol, Brindisi, Boulogne, Cadiz, Callao, Candia, Canton, Cardiff, Chin-Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Curaçoa, Demarara, Dundee, Elsinore, Erie, Foo-Choo, Funchal, Galatz, Gaspé Basin, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Gottenburg, Guaymas, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Honolulu, Hong-Kong, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston, Kingston in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, Lahaina, La Paz, La Union, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Lyons, Macao, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Manzanillo, Maracaibo, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Moscow, Munich, Nagasaki, Nantes, Naples, Nassau, W.
I., Newcastle, Nice. Odessa, Oporto, Palermo, Panama, Paramaribo, Paris. Pernambuco, Pictou, Ponce, Port Mahon, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Revel, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan, (Porto Rico.) Santander, Santiago de Cuba, Santos, Port Sarnia, Scio, Singapore, Smyrna, Southampton, Stockholm, St. John, N. F., St. John, N. B., St. Lambert and Longuieul, St. Petersburg, St. Pierre, (Martinique,) St. Thomas, Stuttgardt, Swatow, St. Helena, Tabasco, Tampico, Tangier, *Tehauntepec*, [Tehuantepec,] Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Trinidad, Tripoli, Tunis, Turk’s Island, Valparaiso, Valencia, Venice, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich.
THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 136. 1864. 139 IV. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE B. Amoor River, Antigua, Balize, (Honduras,) Gaboon, Madagascar, SanCommercial agencies. Juan del Norte, St. Domingo, St, Marc. V. CONSULATES. SCHEDULE C. Barbadoes, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthagena,Consulates. Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Fauikland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Otnoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, St.
Catherine, Santa Cruz, W. I., Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Spezzia, Stettin, Tahiti, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Zanzibar. VI. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE C. Apia, St. Paul de Loand*o*, including loss by exchange thereon, fourCommercial agencies. hundred and seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars. And the salaries of the consuls at Brindisi, Gibraltar, St. Helena, Boulogne,Salaries of certain consuls: Zurich, Clifton, Coaticook, Erie, Goderich, Kingston in Canada, Port Sarnia, Prescott, St.
Lambert and Longuieul, Toronto and Windsor, shall be fifteen hundred dollars each; and the salaries of the consuls at Ceylonof consul at Ceylon,Piraeus,Chin-Kinang,Bankok,Madagascar,Nassau, and Piraeus shall be one thousand dollars each; and the salary of the consul at Chin-Kiang shall be three thousand dollars; and the salary of the consul at Bankok shall be two thousand dollars; and the salary of the commercial agent at Madagascar shall be two thousand dollars; and the salary of the consul at Nassau shall be four thousand dollars, to commence after the. close of the present fiscal year, and to continue during the present rebellion; and the salary of the consul at Lyons shall be twoLyons, thousand dollars, to commence after the close of the present fiscal year; and the salary of the consul at Manchester shall be three thousand dollars,Manchester. to commence after the close of the present fiscal year.
For interpreters to the consulates in China, including loss by exchangeInterpreters to consulates in China. thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses incurred, under instructions from the Secretary of State,Bringing home persons charged with crime. in 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 of 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 for American convicts. 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 Hayti and Liberia. eleven thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses under the act of congress to carry into effect the treatySuppression of African slave-trade.1862. ch. 140.Vol. xii., p. 531. between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade, seventeen thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the President be, and isPresident may appoint consular clerks. hereby, authorized, whenever he shall think the public good will be promoted thereby, to appoint consular clerks, not exceeding thirteen in number at any one time, who shall be citizens of the United States, and over eighteen years of age at the time of their appointment, and shall be entitledAge and pay. to compensation for their services respectively at a rate not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum, to be determined by the President; and to assign such clerks, from time to time, to such consulates and with such duties as he shall direct; and before the appointment of any suchDuties.140THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 136, 137. 1864. Consular clerks.Examination.clerk shall be made, it shall be satisfactorily shown to the Secretary of State, after due examination and report by an examining board, that the applicant is qualified and fit for the duties to which he shall be assigned; and such report shall be laid before the President. And no Not to be removed except for cause.clerk so appointed shall be removed from office except for cause stated in writing, which shall be submitted to congress at the session first following such removal.
Sec. 3. Repeal of § 3 of act of 1859, ch. 75.Vol. xi. p. 404.*And be it further enacted*, That the third section of an act entitled “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,” approved March third, eighteen hundred Fees of consul-general for British N. A. provinces, and subordinates, for certifying invoices, &c.Certificate of growth not required in certain cases.and fifty-nine, is hereby repealed.
And the fee for certifying invoices to be charged by the consul-general for the British North American Provinces, and his subordinate consular officers and agents, for goods not exceeding one hundred dollars in value, shall be one dollar, and the same fee shall be charged for certifying the growth or production of goods made duty free by the reciprocity treaty: *Provided*, however, That no such certificate of growth or production shall be required for goods not exceeding in value the sum of two hundred dollars.
Sec. 4. Office of commercial agent at Hakodadi may be changed to that of consul.1856, ch. 127.Vol. xi. p. 52.*And be it further enacted*, That the office of commercial agent at Hakodadi, Japan, may, at the discretion of the Secretary of State, be changed to that of consul, to be classed with consuls other than those named in schedule B and C in the act approved August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. Approved, June 20, 1864.