Chapter 28.
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CHAP. 28.— An act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes. Jan. 27, 1879. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, andAppropriations.Consular and diplomatic service. the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, out of any 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 Republic,Ministers 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 five hundred dollars. 268 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 28. 1879. For minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars. Chargés d’affaires.For salaries of charges d’affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Paraguay and Uruguay, and Switzerland, at five thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars. Secretaries of legation.For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, Berlin, 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, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars. For salaries of the second secretaries to the legations at Great Britain, France, and Germany, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars. For salary of a clerk to the legation at Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars. For the salary of the secretary to the legation (when acting also as interpreter) at China, five thousand dollars.
Interpreters.For the salary of the interpreter to the legation in Turkey, three thousand dollars. For the interpreter to the legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper, and of all the missions abroad, eighty thousand dollars. Schedule B. Consular service.For the agent and consul-general at Cairo, four thousand dollars. 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, Borne, 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.
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 one.Class I.—At $4,000 per annum. GBEAT BRITAIN. Hong-Kong. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Honolulu. Class two.Class H.—At $3,500 per annum. CHINA. Foochow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; Tien-Tsin; Chin-Kiang; Ningpo, 269 PERU. 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. Buenos Ayres. BARBARY STATES. Tripoli; Tunis; Tangier. JAPAN. Nagasaki; Osaka and Hiogo. SIAM. Bangkok. CHILI. Valparaiso. 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. 270 DANISH DOMINIONS. Saint Thomas. GERMANY. Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden. Class five.Class V.—At $2,000 per annum. GREAT BRITAIN. Cork; Dublin; Leeds; Dundee; Leith; Toronto; Hamilton; Halifax; Saint John’s (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Coaticook Nassau (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. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. Trieste; Prague. SWITZERLAND. Basle; Zurich. MEXICO. Acapulco; Matamoras. BRAZIL. Pernambuco. MADAGASCAR. Tamatave. URUGUAY. Montevideo. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Beirut; Smyrna. 271 Class VI.—At $1,500 per annum.Class six GREAT BRITAIN. Bristol; New Castle; Auckland; Gibraltar; Cape Town; Saint Helena; Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island); Port Stanley; Clifton; Pictou; Winnipeg; Make; Kingston (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.
MEXICO. Tampico. VENEZUELA. Laguayra. BRAZIL. Bahia. SAN DOMINGO. San Domingo. 272 Schedule C. Class seven.Class VII.—At $1,000 per annum. GREAT BRITAIN. Ceylon; Gaspe Basin; Southampton; Windsor (Nova Scotia). GERMANY. Stettin. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Nantes. ITALY. Venice. HAYTI. Cape Haytian. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA. Sabanilla. ECUADOR. Guayaquil NETHERLANDS. Batavia. BRAZIL. Para; Rio Grande del Sul. HONDURAS. Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utila). MEXICO. Guaymas. MUSCAT.
Zanibar. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS. Santiago (Cape Verde Islands). SOCIETY ISLANDS. Tahiti. CHILI. Talcahuano. 273 FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATORS ISLANDS. Apia. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.Commercial agencies. Schedule C. Saint Paul de Loando; Lauthala. Schedule B. San Juan del Nolle. For allowance for clerks at consulates, forty-two thousand six hundredClerks at consu lates. 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 consuls-general at Berlin, Vienna, Frankfort, and Montreal, and to the consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Leipsic, Lyons, Manchester, Hong-Kong, Ottawa, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheffield, Sonneberg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Rio de Janeiro, Nuremberg, Leith, Singapore, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Tunstall, each a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for any one year: *Provided,* That the*Proviso*. total 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 discharge of seamen.*Proviso*. Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburg, 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. And the President is*Revision of consular fees*. requested to revise the tariff of consular fees and prescribe such rates as will make them conform, as nearly as may be, to the fees charged by other commercial nations for similar services.
For salaries of the interpreters to the following consulates: at Shanghai,Interpreters. two thousand dollars, and at Tien-Tsin, 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 andConsular courts. China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand dollars. For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at 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.Contingent expenses.
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. And it*Returns of exports and imports*. shall be the duty of consuls to make to the Secretary of State a quarterly statement of exports from, and imports to, the different places to which they are accredited, giving, as near as may be, the market price of the various articles of exports and imports, the duty and port charges, if any, on articles imported and exported, together with such general 274 information as they may be able to obtain as to how, where, and through what channels a market may be opened for American products and *Wages*.manufactures.
In addition to the duties now imposed by law, it shall be the duty of consuls and commercial agents of the United States, annually, to procure and transmit to the Department of State, as far as practicable, information respecting the rate of wages paid for skilled and unskilled labor within their respective jurisdictions. Spanish Claims Commission.For salaries and expenses of the United States and Spanish Claims 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.
Prisons.For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, and 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, or such other place as shall be designated, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Buildings for legation in China.For rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or such other place as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars. Extradition.For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes, and expenses incidental thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars.
Relief and protection of seamen.For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, fifty thousand dollars. Rescuing ship-wrecked Americans.For expenses of acknowledging the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. Cape Spartel light.For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel light, on the coast of Morocco, two hundred and eighty-five dollars. Widows and heirs of diplomatic and consular officers.*Salaries herein to be in full*.For allowance to widows or heirs of deceased diplomatic and consular 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-nine; and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Consular Regulations.For expenses of revising and editing the Consular Regulations, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available immediately. Neutrality act.[R.
S. 291](/us/rs/s291).To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, five thousand dollars. Approved, January 27, 1879.