Chapter LXI. *making Appropriations for the consular and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year aiding June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other Purposes*
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CHAP. LXI.— An Act *making Appropriations for the consular and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year aiding June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, and for other Purposes*. Feb. 21, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Consular and diplomatic expenses appropriation. That the following sums be, and 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 June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, namely:— For salary of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary toEnvoys and ministers plenipotentiary.
Great Britain and France, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-five thousand dollars. To Russia, Prussia, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Mexico, China, and Italy, at twelve thousand dollars each, ninety-six thousand dollars. To Chili, Peru, and Japan, ten thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars. For ministers resident at Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium,Ministers resident. Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Ecuador, New Granada, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Salvador, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.
For minister resident at the Argentine Republic, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For minister to Uruguay, accredited also to Paraguay, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For salary of minister resident and consul-general at Hayti, sevenHayti and Liberia. thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of minister resident and consul-general at Liberia, four thousand dollars. For salaries of secretaries of legation, as follows:—Secretaries of legation and assistants.
At London and Paris, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. At Saint Petersburg, Madrid, Berlin, Florence, Vienna, Rio de Janeiro, and Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars each, twelve thousand six hundred dollars. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, two thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation, acting as interpreter to theInterpreters. 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 foreign intercourse proper and all contingentContingent expenses. expenses of all missions abroad, one hundred thousand dollars. To enable Robert C. Schenck, minister to Great Britain, to employ aPrivate amanuensis for Robert C. Schenck. Pub. Res. No. 6.*Post*, p. 590. private amanuensis, according to joint resolution approved January eleven, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, commercialConsuls-general, consuls, &c. agents, and thirteen consular clerks, including loss by exchange thereon, namely, three hundred and ninety-one thousand and two hundred dollars : I. CONSULATES GENERAL. Consulates general. Schedule B. Schedule B. Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople. Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai, Beirut, Tampico, London, Paris. 418 II. CONSULATES. Consulates. Schedule B. Schedule B.
Aix-la-Chapelle, Acapulco, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aspinwall, Bangkok, Basle, Belfast, Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brindisi, Boulogne, Barcelona, Cadiz, Callao, Canton, Chemnitz, Chin Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Demerara, Dundee, Elsinore, Fort Erie, Foo-Choo, Funchal, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Honolulu, Hong-Kong, Hankow. Hakodadi, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston, (Jamaica,) Kingston, (Canada,) La Rochelle, Laguayra, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, Lyons, Malaga, Maha, Manchester, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Munich, Mahe, Nagasaki, Naples, Nassau, (West Indies,) New Castle, Nice, Nantes, Odessa, Oporto, Osacca, Palermo, Panama, Pernambuco, Pictou, Port Mahon, Port Said, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan, (Porto Rico,) Saint John's, (Canada East,) Santiago de Cuba, Port Sarnia, Rome, Singapore, Smyrna, Southampton, Saint Petersburg, Santa Cruz, (West Indies,) Saint Thomas, Spezzia, Stuttgardt, Swatow, Saint Helena, Tangier, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Tripoli, Tunis, Tunstall, Turk's Island, Valparaiso, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Valencia, Windsor, Yeddo, Zurich, Birmingham, Barmen, and Winnepeg, (Selkirk settlement, British North America.
) III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. Commercial agencies. Schedule B. Schedule B. Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, San Domingo. IV. CONSULATES. Consulates. Schedule C. Schedule C. Aux Cayes, Bahia, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Candia, Cape Town, Carthagena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Guaymas, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Piræus, Rio Grande, Saint Catharine, Saint John, (Newfoundland,) Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Stettin, Tabasco, Tahiti, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Venice, Zanzibar.
V. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. Commercial agencies. Amoor River, Apia, Belize, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loanda, Lanthala, Sabinilla. Interpreters.For interpreters to the consulates in China, Japan, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars. Marshals for consular courts.For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, including that at Nagasaki, and in China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
Stationery, &c.For stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, and payment of rent, freight, postage, and miscellaneous expenses, including loss by exchange, sixty thousand dollars. Consulates in Turkish dominions.For expenses for interpreters, guards, and other matters, at the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars. Prisons for American convicts.For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, including loss by exchange, twenty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. 419 FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 61, 62. 1871. For expenses under the neutrality act, twenty thousand dollars.Neutrality.1818, ch. 88. Vol. iii. p. 447. For expenses incurred under instructions of the Secretary of State, of bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes,Persons charged with crime. and expenses incident thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,American seamen. one hundred thousand dollars.
For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services ofRescuing seamen. masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, five thousand dollars. For payment of the seventh annual instalment of the proportion contributedScheldt dues. Vol. xiii. p. 649. by the United States toward the capitalization of the Scheldt dues, fifty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars; and for such further sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, as may be necessary to carry out the stipulations of the treaty between the United States and Belgium.
To pay to the government of Great Britain and Ireland, the secondAward to Hudson's Bay and Puget Sound Agricultural Companies. Vol. xiii. p. 651. and last instalment of the amount awarded by the commissioners under the treaty of July one, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, in satisfaction of the claims of the Hudson's Bay and of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars in gold coin: *Provided*, That before, payment shall be made of that portion of the aboveCertain taxes to be settled before payment of award; sum awarded to the Puget Sound Agricultural Company, all taxes legally assessed upon any of the property of said company covered by said award, before the same was made, and still unpaid, shall be extinguished by said Puget Sound Agricultural Company ; or the amount of such taxes shallor amount withheld. be withheld by the government of the United States from the sum hereby appropriated.
Approved, February 21, 1871.