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CHAP. 88.— An act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes.May 14, 1880. *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 the same are. hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, 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 the compensation, at the rate of ten thousand dollars a year each, and the*Commissioners*. necessary expenses, of the commissioners appointed to act with the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the United States to China to negotiate and conclude by treaty a settlement of such matters of interest to the two governments, now pending between the same, as may be confided to said envoy’ and said commissioners, twenty-*Appropriation*. 134 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1880. four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available immediately. For one secretary to the commission four thousand dollars; for one*Secretary, pay of*.*Interpreter, pay of*.*Contingent expenses*.Envoys extraordinary.Ministers resident. interpreter, three thousand dollars: and for additional contingent expenses, six thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars to be immediately available. For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollar’s.
For ministers resident at Belgium, Netherlands, Argentine Republic, Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, and the United States of Colombia, at seven thousand live hundred dollars each, sixty thousand dollars. For minister resident and consul-general at Bolivia, live thousand dollars.Ministers resident and consuls-general. 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,Chargés d ’ affaires ad interim.Chargés d’affaires. twenty thousand dollars. For salaries of charges d’affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Paraguay and Uruguay, and Switzerland, at live 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 live 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,*Second secretaries to legations, pay of*. 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*Clerk to legation at Spain, pay of*.Interpreters. dollars.
For the salary of the secretary to the legation (when acting also us interpreter) at China, five thousand dollars. 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. 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 a diplomatic agent and consul-general at Bucharest, four thousand dollars. For the consul-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. 135 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1880. 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. 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 four thousand dollars per annum.Class one.
GREAT BRITAIN. Hong-Kong. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Honolulu. Class II.—At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. CHINA. Foochow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; Tien-Tsin; Chin-Kiang; Ningpo. PERU. Callao. Class III.—At three thousand dollars 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. CHILL Valparaiso. 136 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1880. Class IV.—At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.Class four. GREAT BRITAIN. Singapore; Tunstall; Birmingham; Sheffield; Belfast. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons. SPANISH DOMINIONS. Oienfuegos; Santiago de Cuba. BELGIUM. Autwerp; Brussels. DANISH DOMINIONS, Saint Thomas. GERMANY. Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden. Class V.—At two thousand dollars per annum.Class five.
GREAT BRITAIN. Cork; Dublin; Leeds; Dundee; Leith; Toronto; Handlton; Halifax; Saint John (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Coaticook; Nassau (New Providence); Cardiff; Port Louis (Mauritius). SPANISH DOMINIONS. San Juan (Porto Rico). PORTUGAL. Lisbon. DOMINIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS. Rotterdam. RUSSIA Odessa. GERMANY. Sonneberg; Nuremberg; Barmen; Cologne; Chemnitz; Leipsic, AUSTRIAHUNGARY. Trieste; Prague. SWITZERLAND. Basle; Zurich. MEXICO. Acapulco; Matamoras. BRAZIL. Pernambuco. 137 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1880, MADAGASCAR. Tamatave. 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).
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. 138 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1880. VENEZUELA. Laguayra. BRAZIL. Bahia. SAN DOMINGO.
San Domingo. Schedule C. Class VII.—At one thousand dollars per annum.Class seven. GREAT BRITAIN. Ceylon; Gaspe Basin; Southampton; Windsor (Nova Scotia) GERMANY. Stettin FRENCH DOMINIONS. Nantes. ITALY. Venice. HAYTI. Cape Haytian. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA. Sabandla. ECUADOR. Guayaquil. NETHERLANDS. Batavia. BRAZIL. Para; Rio Grande del Sul. HONDURAS. Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utila). MEXICO. Guaymas. MUSCAT. Zanzibar. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS. Santiago (Cape Verde Islands). 139 FORTY-SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 88. 1880. SOCIETY ISLANDS. Tahiti. CHILI. Talcahuano. FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATOR’S ISLANDS. Apia. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.Commercial agencies. Schedule C. Saint Paul de Loando; Levuka. Schedule B. San Juan del Norte. For allowance for clerks at consulates, fifty-six thousand six 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 Melbourn, 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, and Matamoras, 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 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 thousand dollars.Consular officers not citizens.Marshals. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan and China, Siam and Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand dollars. For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at Constantinople,Interpreters, &c., Turkey. 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. 140 FORTY SIXTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 88, 89. 1880. For contingent expenses of United States consulates, such as stationery,Contingencies. 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 twenty-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 hundred 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, andRent of prisons. for wages of keepers of the same, including loss by exchange, two thousand dollar’s. 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 suchRent of courthouse, &c., Yeddo. 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 buildings, Pekin. such other place as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars. For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes,Bringing home persons charged with crimes. and expenses incidental thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars.
For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,Relief of American seamen. sixty thousand dollars. For expenses of acknowledging the services of masters and crewsRescue from shipwreck. of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool,Shipping and discharging seamen.Neutrality act. London, Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburg, six thousand dollars. To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the executionR.
S. , 291. 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 American cemetery at Smyrna.Revised Statutes, five thousand dollars. To provide the American cemetery at Smyrna with a wall, gates, andCape Spartel light. other improvements, five hundred dollars. For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel light, on theWidows and heirs of diplomatic and consular officers. 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, May 14, 1880. Chapter 89: for the relief of settlers on public lands. Chapter 89 21 Stat. 140 1880-05-14 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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