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CHAP. 155.— AN ACT making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes.June 4, 1878. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year 92 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 155. 1878. ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, out of anyConsular and diplomatic service. money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary toEnvoys; plenipotentiaries. Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars. For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and China, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars. For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.
For ministers resident at Belgium, Netherlands, Argentine RepublicMinisters resident., Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, and the United States of Colombia, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, sixty thousand dollars. For minister resident and consul-general at Bolivia, five thousand dollars. For minister resident accredited to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua, to reside at the place that the President may select in either of the States named, ten thousand dollars.
For minister resident and consul-general to Hayti, seven thousand Ministers resident and consuls-general.five hundred dollars. For minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars. That hereafter charges d’affaires ad interim shall receive no additional*Charges affaires ad interim, pay of.* pay beyond that which the law provides for the regular offices which they hold in their respective legations. For salary of charges d’affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Paraguay andCharges d'affaires.
Uruguay and Switzerland, at five thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars. For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, Berlin,Secretaries of legation. and Saint Petersburg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at Austria, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars.
For the salary of the secretary to the legation (when acting also as interpreter) at China, five thousand dollars. For the salary of the interpreter to the legation in Turkey, threeInterpreters. thousand dollars. For the interpreter to the legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper, and of all theContingent expenses. missions abroad, eighty thousand dollars. Schedule B. For the agent and consul-general at Cairo, four thousand dollars.Consulates.
For the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro, each six thousand dollars, twenty-four thousand dollars. For the consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, each five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars. For the consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars. For the consuls-general at Kanagawa and Montreal, each four thousand dollars, eight thousand dollars. For the consul-general at Berlin, four thousand dollars. For the consuls-general at Vienna, Frankfort, Rome, and Constantinople, each three thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars.
For the consuls-general at Saint Petersburg and Mexico, each two thousand dollars, four thousand dollars. 93 For the consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars. For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, three hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars, namely: Class I.— At $4,000. per annum.Class one. GREAT BRITAIN. Hong-Kong. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS Honolulu. Class II.— At $3,500. per annum.Class two. CHINA. Foochow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy;
TienTsin; ChinKiang; Ningpo. PERG. Callao. Class III.— At $3,000 per annum.Class three. GREAT BRITAIN. Manchester; Glasgow; Bradford; Demerara. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Havre. SPANISH DOMINIONS. Matanzas. MEXICO. Vera Cruz. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA. Panama; Colon (Aspinwall). ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Bueuos Ayres. BARBARY STATES. Tripoli; Tunis; Tangier. JAPAN. Nagasaki; Osaka and Hiogo. SIAM. Bangkok. CHILI. Valparaiso. 94 Class IV.— At $2,500 per annum.Class four. GREAT BRITAIN. Singapore;
Tunstall; Birmingham; Sheffield; Belfast. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons. SPANISH DOMINIONS. Cienfuegos; Santiago de Cuba. BELGIUM. Antwerp; Brussels. DANISH DOMINIONS. Saint Thomas. GERMANY Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden. Class V.— At $2,000 per annum.Class five. GREAT BRITAIN. Cork; Dublin; Leeds; Dundee; Leith; Toronto; Handlton; Halifax; Saint John’s (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Ooaticook; NassAn (New Providence); Cardiff; Port Louis (Mauritius). SPANISH DOMINIONS.
San Juan (Porto Rico). PORTUGAL. Lisbon. DOMINION OF THE NETHERLANDS. Rotterdam. RUSSIA. Odessa. GERMANY. Sonneberg; Nuremberg; Barmen; Cologne; Chemnitz; Leipsic. AUSTRIAHUNGARY. Trieste; Prague. SWITZERLAND. Basle; Zurich. MEXICO. Acapulco; Matamoras. 95 BRAZIL. Pernambuco. MADAGASCAR. Tamatave. URUGUAY. Montevideo. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Beirut; Smyrna. Class VI.— At S1,500 per annum.Class six. GREAT BRITAIN. Bristol; New Castle; Auckland; Gibraltar; Cape Town; Saint Helena; Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island);
Port Stanley; Clifton; Pictou; Winnipeg; Mabe; Kingstou (Canada); Prescott; Port Sarnia; Quebec; Saint John’s (Canada); Barbadoes; Bermuda; Fort Erie; Goderich (Canada West); Windsor (Canada West). FRENCH DOMINIONS. Nice; Martinique. SPANISH DOMINIONS. Cadiz; Malaga; Barcelona. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS. Fayal (Azores); Funchal. BELGIUM. Verviers and Liege. GERMANY. Munich; Stuttgart; Mannheim. DOMINIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS. Amsterdam. DANISH DOMINIONS. Copenhagen. SWITZERLAND. Geneva.
ITALY. Genoa; Naples; Leghorn; Florence; Palermo; Messina. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Jerusalem. 96 MEXICO. Tampico. VENEZUELA. Laguayra. BRAZIL. Bahia. SAN DOMINGO. San Domingo. Schedule C. Class VII.— At $1,000 per annum.Class seven. GREAT BRITAIN. Ceylon; Gaspe Basin; Southampton; Windsor (Nova Scotia). GERMANY. Stettin. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Nantes. ITALY. Venice. HAYTI. Cape Haytien. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA. Sabanilla. ECUADOR. Guayaquil. NETHERLANDS. Batavia. BRAZIL. Para; Rio Grande del Sul.
HONDURAS. Ruatan and Truxillo. MEXICO. Guaymas. 97 MUSCAT. Zanzibar. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS. Santiago (Cape Verde Islands). SOCIETY ISLANDS. Tahiti. CHILL Talcahuano. FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATOR’S ISLANDS. Apia. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.Commercial agencies. Schedule C. Saint Paul de Loando; Lauthala. Schedule B. San Juan del Norte. For allowance for clerks at consulates, forty-two thousand six hundredClerks at Consulates. dollars, as follows: For the consul-general at Havana and the consul at Liverpool, each a sum not exceeding the rate of three thousand dollars for any one year; and to the consuls-general at London, Paris, and Shanghai, each a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand dollars for any one year; to the con suisgeneral at Berlin, Vienna.
Frankfort, and Montreal, and to the consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Leipsic, Lyons, Manchester, Beirut, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheffield, Sonneberg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Fayal, Nuremberg, Leith, Naples, Singapore, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Tunstall, each a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for anyone year: *Provided*, That the total*Proviso.* sum expended in any one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated. For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool.
London,Shipping and discharging seamen.*Proviso.* Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburgh, to be allotted as may seem proper to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the fees collected at these ports for shipping and discharging seamen shall be paid into the Treasury as required by law. For salaries of the interpreters to the following consulates: at Shanghai,Interpreters; Japan, China, Siam. two thousand dollars, and at TienTsin, Foochow, and Kanagawa, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand five hundred dollars.
For salaries of the interpreters to the consulates at Hankow, Amoy, Canton, and Hong-Kong, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to twelve other consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars. For consular officers not citizens of the United States, three thousandConsular officers not citizens. dollars. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan and China, Siam, andMarshals.
Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand dollars. 98 For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates atInterpreters, etc., Turkey. Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars. For loss by exchange on consular service, eight thousand dollars.Loss by exchange. For contingent expenses of United States consulates, such as stationery, bookcases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and other necessary miscellaneous matters, including loss by exchange, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
Contingencies.Every consular officer shall furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, or to such officers of the customs as he may direct, as often as may be required, the prices current of all articles of merchandise usually exported to the United States from the port or place in which he is stationed; and authority is hereby vested in the Secretary of the Treasury to *Prices current to be furnished by consuls.*require a compliance with this provision; but this provision shall not have the effect to impair the provisions of section seventeen hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes.
For salaries and expenses of the United States and Spanish ClaimsR. S., 1712, p. 306. Commission, namely: For commissioner, three thousand dollars; for counsel, three thousand dollars; for secretary, nine hundred dollars; for messenger, three hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars; making in all the sum of seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, andSpanish Claims Commission. for wages of keepers of the same, including loss by exchange, two thousand dollars.
For rent of prison for American convicts in China, one thousand five hundred dollars; for wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of prison for American convicts in Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, five thousand dollars. For rent of courthouse and jail, with grounds appurtenant, at Yeddo, Rent of prisons.or such other place as shall be designated, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, orRent of courthouse, etc., Yeddo. such other place as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars. For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes,Rent of buildings, Pekin. and expenses incidental thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,Bringing home persons charged with crimes. fifty thousand dollars.
For expenses of acknowledging the services of masters and crews of Relief of American seamen.foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel light, on theRescue from shipwreck. coast of Morocco, two hundred and eighty-five dollars. For allowance to widows or heirs of deceased diplomatic and consularCape Spartel light. officers for the time that would be necessarily occupied in making the transit from the post of duty of the deceased to his residence in the United States, five thousand dollars.
And the salaries provided in this act for the officers within named respectively shall be in full for the annual salaries thereof from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of theWidows and heirs of diplomatic and consular officers.*Salaries herein, to be in full.* neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, Neutrality act.R.
S., 291, p. 48.pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the. Revised Statutes, five thousand dollars. Approved, June 4, 1878.