Chapter XVIII. *making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.* Jan. 24, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following s
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Chap. XVIII.— An Act *making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six.* Jan. 24, 1865. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, and Consular and diplomatic appropriationthe same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fis cal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, 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, Republic of 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. Secretaries of legation and assistants. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, three thousand dollars. Interpreters. 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.
Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, sixty thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, eighty thousand dollars. Barbary Powers. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, three thousand dollars. Consulates in Turkish dominions. For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely: in terpreters, 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. Rescuing seamen. 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 dollars. Blank-books, stationery, &c. For the purchase of blank-books, stationery, bookcases, 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, fifty-five thousand dollars.
Office rent. 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. Consuls-general, consuls, &c. For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, namely:— 423 I. CONSULATES GENERAL. schedule b. Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai. III. CONSULATES. schedule b. Acapulco, Aix-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aspinwall, Aux Cayes, Bahia, Barcelona, Bankok, Basle, Belfast, Beirut, Bergen, Bermuda, *Bilbao,* [Bilboa,] 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, Gaspe Basin, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Gottenberg, 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, (West Indies,) 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, Saint John, (Newfoundland,) Saint John, (New Brunswick,) Saint Petersburg, Saint Pierre, (Martinique,) Saint Thomas, Stuttgardt, Swatow, Saint Helena, Tabasco, Tampico, Tangier, Tehuantepec, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Trinidad, Tripoli, Tunis, Turk’s Island, Valparaiso, Valencia, Venice, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich.
IV. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. Commercial agents. schedule b. Amoor River, Antigua, Belize, (Honduras,) Gaboon, Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo, Saint Marc. CONSULATES. schedule c. Barbadoes, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthegena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guyaqnil, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Ornos, Payta, Paso del Norte, Piræus, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, Saint Catherine, Santa Cruz, (West Indies.) Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Spezzia, Stettin, Tahita, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Zanzibar.
VI. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. Commercial agents. schedule c. Apia, Saint Paul de *Loando,* [Loanda,] including loss by exchange thereon, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For interpreters to the consulates in China, including loss by exchange Interpreters.thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars. 424 THIRTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 19, 20. 1865. Persons charged with crime. For expenses incurred, under instructions from the Secretary of State, in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto, twenty thousand dollars.
Marshals in consular courts. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, nine thousand dollars. Prisons. 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. Hayti and Liberia. For salaries of commissioners and consuh-general to Hayti and Liberia, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. Suppression of slave-trade. 1862, ch. 140.
Vol. xii. p. 531. For expenses under the act of congress to carry into effect the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade, seventeen thousand dollars. Immigration. 1804, ch. 246. *Ante,* p. 385. For expenses under the act to encourage immigration, twenty-five, thousand dollars. Neutrality. For expenses under the neutrality act, twenty thousand dollars. Boundary line commissioners. For expenses of the commission to run and mark the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions bounding on Washington Territory, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Approved, January 24, 1865.