Chapter 78. making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 78.— An Act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and for other purposes.Feb. 24, 1881. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Appropriations.Consular and diplomatic service. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, 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, Sweden and Norway,Ministers resident. Turkey, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, Argentine Republic, 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 thousandMinisters resident and consul.s-general. 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. For minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars. For charges d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad,Charges d’ affaires ad interim. twenty thousand dollars. For salaries of charges d’affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Paraguay Charges d’ affaires.and Uruguay, and Switzerland, at five thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars. For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris,Secretaries of legation.
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, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars. For salaries of the second secretaries to the legations at Great Britain,Second secretaries of legation. 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 Clerks of legation.dollars. For salary of clerk to legation in Central America, one thousand dollars. For the salary of the secretary to the legation (when acting also asInterpreters. interpreter) at China, five thousand dollars. For the salary of the interpreter to the legation at Turkey, three thousand dollars. 340 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 78. 1881. 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 salary of the agent and consul-general at Cairo, four thousandConsular service. dollars. For the charges d’affaires and consul-general of the United States in Roumania (at Bucharest), 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, Rome, Constantinople, and Halifax, each three thousand dollars, fifteen 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 thirty thousand four hundred dollars, namely: Class I.— At four thousand dollars per annum.Class one. GREAT BRITAIN. Hong-Kong. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Honolulu. Class II.— At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum.Class two. CHINA. Foochow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; TienTsin; ChinKiang; Ningpo. PERU. Callao. Class III.— At three thousand dollars per annum.Class three.
GREAT BRITAIN. Manchester; Glasgow; Bradford; Demerara; Belfast. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Havre. SPANISH DOMINIONS. Matanzas. MEXICO. Vera Cruz. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA. Panama; Colon (Aspinwall). 341 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 78. 1881. ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Buenos Ayres. BARBARY STATES. Tripoli; Tunis; Tangier. JAPAN. Nagasaki; Osaka and Hiogo. SIAM. Bangkok. CHILI. Valparaiso. Class IV.— At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.Clans four. GREAT BRITAIN. Singapore;
Tunstall; Birmingham; Sheffield; Dundee; Nottingham. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons. SPANISH DOMINIONS. Oienfuegos; Santiago de Cuba. BELGIUM. Antwerp; Brussels. DANISH DOMINIONS. Saint Thomas. GERMANY. Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden. Class V.— At two thousand dollars per annum.Class five. GREAT BRITAIN. Cork; Dublin; Leeds; Leith; Toronto; Handlton; Saint John (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Coaticook; NassAn (New Providence); Cardiff; Port Louis (Mauritius); Sidney (New South Wales).
SPANISH DOMINIONS. San Juan (Porto Rico). PORTUGAL. Lisbon. DOMINIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS. Rotterdam. 342 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 78. 1881. RUSSIA. Odessa. GERMANY. Sonneberg; Nuremberg; Barmen; Cologne; Chemnitz; Leipsic; Crefeld. AUSTRIAHUNGARY. Trieste; Prague. SWITZERLAND. Basle; Zurich. MEXICO. Acapulco; Matamoras. BRAZIL. Pernambuco. MADAGASCAR. Tamatave. FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATOR’S ISLANDS. Apia. VENEZUELA. Maracaibo. URUGUAY. Montevideo. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Beirut;
Smyrna. Class VI.— At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.Class six. GREAT BRITAIN. Bristol; Newcastle; Auckland; Gibraltar; Cape Town; Saint Helena; Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island); Port Stanley; Clifton; Pictou; Winnipeg; Mabe; Kingston (Canada); Prescott; Port Sarnia; Quebec; Saint John’s (Canada); Barbadoes; Bermuda; Fort Erie; Goderich (Canada West); Windsor (Canada West); Southampton; Ottawa; Ceylon. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Nice; Martinique; Guadeloupe. SPANISH DOMINIONS.
Cadiz; Malaga; Barcelona. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS. Fayal (Azores); Funchal. BELGIUM. Verviers and Liege. GERMANY. Munich; Stuttgart; Mannheim; Aix la Chapelle. DOMINIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS. Amsterdam. 343 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 78. 1881. DANISH DOMINIONS. Copenhagen. SWITZERLAND. Geneva. ITALY. Genoa; Naples; Leghorn; Florence; Palermo; Messina. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Jerusalem. MEXICO. Tampico. VENEZUELA. Laguayra; Puerto Cabello. BRAZIL. Bahia; Para. PHILLIPINE ISLANDS.
Manila. SAN DOMINGO. San Domingo. ECUADOR. Guayaquil. Schedule C. Class VII.— At one thousand dollars per annum.Class seven. GREAT BRITAIN. Gaspe Basin; Windsor (Nova Scotia); Bombay; Sierra Leone; Turk’s Island. GERMANY. Stettin. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Nantes; Algiers. ITALY. Venice. HAYTI. Cape Haytien. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA. Sabanilla. NETHERLANDS. Batavia. BRAZIL. Rio Grande del Sul. HONDURAS. Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utila). EASTERN AFRICA. Mozambique. 344 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. in. Cu. 78. 1881. MEXICO. Guaymas; Nuevo Laredo; Piedras Negras. MUSCAT. Zanzibar. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS. Santiago (Cape Verde Islands). SOCIETY ISLANDS. Tahiti. CHILI. Talcahuano. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.Commercial agencies. Schedule C. Saint Paul de Loando; Levuka. Schedule B. San Juan del Norte. For allowance for clerks at consulates, fifty-seven thousand four hundredClerks at consulates. dollars, as follows: For the consul at Liverpool, a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars for any one year; and for the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro, each a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand dollars for any one year; for the consuls-general at Berlin, Frankfort, Vienna, and Kanagawa, and for the consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Manchester, Lyons, Hong-Kong, Havre, and Chemnitz, each a sum not exceeding the. rate of one thousand five hundred dollars for any one year; for the consul-general at Montreal, and the consuls at Bradford and Birmingham, each a sum not exceeding the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars for any one year; for the consuls-general at Calcutta and Melbourne, and for the consuls at Leipsic, Sheffield, Sonneberg, Dresden, Marseilles, Nuremberg, Tunstall, Antwerp, Bordeaux, Colon (Aspinwall), Glasgow, and Singapore, each a sum not exceeding the rate of one thousand dollars for any one year; for the consuls at Belfast, Barmen, Leith, Dundee, Matamoras, and Halifax, each a sum not exceeding the rate of eight hundred dollars for any one year; for the consul-general at Mexico, and for the consuls at Beirut, Naples, Stuttgart, Florence, Mannheim, Prague, Zurich, Panama, and Demerara, each a sum not exceeding the rate of six hundred dollars for any one year: *Proviso.**Provided*, That the total sum expended in any one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated.
For salaries of the interpreters to the following consulates: At Shanghai,Interpreters. 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, live thousandConsular officers not citizens. dollars. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan Marshals consular courts.and China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange, eight thousand dollars. FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 78. 1881. 345 For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at Constantinople,Interpreters, guards. 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 thirty-five thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of the United States and Spanish ClaimsSpanish Claims Commission. Commission, namely:
For commissioner, three thousand dollars; for counsel, three thousand dollars; for secretary, nine hundred dollars; for messenger, three handled dollars; for translation, stationery, and other 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, andPrisons. 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 (China), 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 (Japan), five thousand dollars. For rent of Courthouse and jail, with grounds appurtenant, at Yeddo, or such other place in Japan as shall be designated, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, orBuildings for legation in China. such other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars.
For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes,Extradition. and expenses incidental thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Relief of American seaman.sixty thousand dollars. For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services ofRescuing shipwrecked Americans. masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars.
For postage on copies of the Daily Congressional Record to be sentPostage on Congressional Record to legations. by the Public Printer to each of our legations abroad, under the provisions of the joint resolution approved December eighteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, one thousand dollars. For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, London,Shipping and discharging seamen.Neutrality act. Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburg, six thousand dollars. 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, ten thousand dollars.
For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Capo Spartel and Tangier light.Widows and heirs of diplomatic and consular officers.light, on the coast of Morocco, two hundred and eighty-five dollars. 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. Approved, February 24, 1881.