Chapter 262. making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 262.— An Act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and for other purposes.July 1, 1882. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Consular and diplomatic appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiaryEnvoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. to 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, as follows:
To Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each; to Turkey, seven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For ministers resident at Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden and Norway,Ministers resident. Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, Argentine Republic and the United States of Columbia, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For minister resident and consul-general at Bolivia, five thousand dollars. For envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary accredited toOne minister resident for Guatemala, Costa Rica, etc.; residence fixed by the President.Ministers resident and consuls-general.Liberia, Hayti, Switzerland, and Nicaragua.Roumania, Servia, and Greece.
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 ministers resident and consuls-general to Liberia Hayti, Switzerland Denmark, and Portugal, at five thousand dollars each, twenty-five thousand dollars. For minister resident and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand live hundred dollars. For salary of charges d’affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, five thousandCharges d’affaires, etc. dollars. 129 For charges d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twenty thousand dollars.
For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, SaintSecretaries of legation. Petersburg, and Berlin, 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 Brazil, Mexico, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, five thousand four hundred 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 hundredClerk to legation at Spain. 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 at Turkey, threeInterpreters to legations. thousand dollars. For the interpreter to the legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of clerk to legation in Central America, one thousand dollars.Clerk to legation Central America.
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper, and of all theContingent expenses. missions abroad, eighty-five thousand dollars. For secretaries of legation and consuls’-general at Vienna, Rome, andSecretaries of legation and consuls’-general Vienna, Rome, and Constantinople. Constantinople at three thousand five hundred dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Schedule B. For salary of the agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousandConsulates. 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 St. Petersburg, Frankfort, and Halifax, at three thousand dollars each, nine thousand dollars. For the consul-general at Mexico, two 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-two thousand one 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; Tien-Tsin; Chin-Kiang; Ningpo. 130 PERU. Callao. Class III.— At three thousand dollars per annum.Class three.
GREAT BRITAIN. Ottawa; Manchester; Glasgow; Bradford; Demerara; Belfast. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Havre. SPANISH DOMINIONS. Matanzas. FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATOR’S ISLANDS. Apia. MEXICO. Vera Cruz. UNITED STATES OF COLUMBIA. Panama; Colon (Aspinwall). ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Buenos Ayres. JAPAN. Nagasaki; Osaka and Hiogo. SIAM. Bangkok. CHILI. Valparasio. Class IV.— At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.Class four. GREAT BRITAIN. Singapore; Tunstall; Birmingham; Sheffield; Dundee; Leith;
Nottingham. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons. SPANISH DOMINIONS. Cienfuegos; Santiago de Cuba. BELGIUM. Antwerp; Brussels. DANISH DOMINIONS. Saint Thomas. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Smyrna. GERMANY. Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden. 131 Class V.— At two thousand dollars per annum.Class five. GREAT BRITAIN. Cork; Dublin; Leeds; Toronto; Hamilton; Saint John (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Coaticook; Nassau (NewProvidence); Cardiff; Port Louis (Mauritus); Sidney (New South Wales).
SPANISH DOMINIONS. San Juan (Porto Rico). BARBARY STATES. Tangier. DOMINIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS. Rotterdam. RUSSIA. Odessa. GERMANY. Sonneberg; Nuremberg; Barmen; Cologne; Chemnitz; Leipsic; Crefeld. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. Trieste; Prague. SWITZERLAND. Basle; Zurich. MEXICO. Acapulco; Matamoras. BRAZIL. Pernambuco. MADAGASCAR. Tamatave. VENEZUELA. Maracaibo. URUGUAY. Montevideo. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Beirut. 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; Mahe; Kingston (Canada); Prescott; Port Sarnia; Quebec; Saint John’s (Canada); Barbadoes; Bermuda; Fort Erie; Goderich (Canada West); Amherstburg (Canada West); Windsor (Canada West); Southampton; Ceylon; Antigua; Saint Stephens. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Nice; Martinique; Guadeloupe. 132 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. DANISH DOMINIONS. Copenhagen. SWITZERLAND. Geneva. ITALY. Genoa; Naples; Milan; Leghorn; Florence; Palermo; Messina. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Jerusalem. MEXICO. Tampico. ‘ VENEZUELA. Laguayra; Puerto Cabello. BRAZIL. Bahia; Para. PHILLIPINE ISLANDS. Manila. BAN 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. ITALY. Venice. 133 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. 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; Gaboon; Sau Juan del Norte. And hereafter the Secretary of State shall in the estimates for the annualSecretary of State to estimate for entire amount required for diplomatic and consular service, etc. expenditures of the expenses of diplomatic and consular service estimate for the entire amount required for its support, including all commercial agents and other officers, whether paid by fees or otherwise, specifying the compensation to be allowed or deemed advisible in each individual case.
For allowance for clerks at consulates, fifty-nine thousand five 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 Landon, 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, Crefeld, 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 134 hundred dollars for any one year; for the consul-general at Mexico, and for the consuls at Beirut, Naples, Genoa, Stuttgart, Florence, Mannheim, Prague, Zurich, Panama, and Demerara, each a sum not exceeding the rate of six hundred dollars for any one year.
For an additional allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expendedAdditional compensation to clerks at consulates. at the above-named places in the discretion of the Secretary of State, four thousand dollars. For an additional allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State at consulates not herein provided for in respect to clerk-hire, no greater portion of this sum than four hundred dollars to be allowed to any one consulate in any one fiscal *Proviso*.year, six thousand dollars: *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: Shanghai, Tien-Tsin, Foochow, and Kanagawa;Hankow, Amoy, Canton, and Hong-Kong TienTsin, Foochow, and Kanagawa, at two thousand dollars each-, eight thousand 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 other consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, five thousand dollars.
For consular officers not citizens of the United States, five thousandConsular officers not citizens.Marshals. dollars. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars. For boat for official use of United States consul at Osaka and Hiogo,Boat and crew for consul at Osaka and HiogoHire of steam-launch for legation and consul-general at Constantinople.Interpreters, etc., Turkey and for pay of boat’s crew, five hundred dollars.
For hiring of steam-launch for use of the legation and consulate-general, at Constantinople, one 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 and other foreign service of theLose by exchange.Contingent expenses. State Department, eight thousand dollars. 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, 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 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, etc. for wages of keepers of the same, 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 in 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 in Japan, five thousand dollars. For rent of courthouse and jail, with grounds appurtenant, at Yeddo,Rent of courthouse and jail, 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, orRent of buildings, Peking, etc. such other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars. 135 For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged withBringing home persons charged with crimes.Relief of American seamen. crimes, and expenses incidental thereto, five thousand dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the servicesRescue from shipwreck. of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, London,Shipping and discharging seamen.Neutrality act.[R. S. 291, 48](/us/rs/t/s291/48). 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, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Cape Spartel and Tangier light.Widow or 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. Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of WeightsInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.[20 Stat., 714](/us/stat/20/714). and Measures for the calendar year eighteen hundred and eighty-three, in conformity with the terms of the convention signed May twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Contribution to the maintenance of the International Prison Commission,International Prison Commission. to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, two hundred and fifty dollars. For printing and distributing the publications by the Department ofPrinting and distribution of consular and other commercial reports. State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars. Approved, July 1, 1882.