Chapter 56.
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CHAP. 56.— An act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the government for the fisical year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty four, and for other purposes. Feb. 26, 1883. *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 four, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
Envoys; plenipotentiaries.For salaries of envoys 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 envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 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. Ministers resident.For ministers resident at Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, Argentine Republic and the United States of Colombia, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty two thousand five hundred dollars, Ministers resident and consuls-general.For ministers resident and consuls general to Liberia Hayti, Switzerland, Denmark, Portugal, Bolivia, Persia, and Siam, at five thousand dollar’s each, forty thousand dollars; and the minister resident and consul general at Hayti shall be also accredited as charges d’affaires to Santo Domingo, For minister resident and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand five hundred dollars.
Charge d’affaires.For charge d’affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, five thousand dollars - Charges d’affaires ad interim.For charges d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twenty thousand dollars, Secretaries of legation.For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, Saint 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, and Mexico, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars, Second secretataries of legation.For salaries of the second secretaries to the legations at Great Britain, France, and Germany, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars. Clerk to legation at Spain.For salary of a clerk to the legation at Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars, Secretary to legation at China.For salary of the secretary to the legation (when acting also as interpreter) at China, five thousand dollars.
Interpreters.For salary of the interpreter to the legation at Turkey, three thousand dollars. FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 56. 1883. 425 For the interpreter to the legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of clerk to legation in Central America, one thousandClerk to legation in Central America. dollars. 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.
Constantinople, at three thousand five hundred dollars each, and for secretary of legation and consul general at Madrid, three thousand dollars, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Schedule B. For salary of the agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousandConsular service. dollars, For the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro, six thousand dollars, each, twenty four thousand dollars, For the consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars.
For the consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars, For the consuls-general at Berlin, Kanagawa, and Montreal, each, four thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars, For the consuls-general at Saint Petersburg, Frankfort, and Halifax, at three thousand dollars each, nine thousand dollars, For 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 thousand six hundred dollars, namely:
Class I,—At four thousand dollars per annum,Class GREAT BRITAIN, Hong-Kong, HAWAIIN ISLANDS, Honolulu, Class II—At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum,Class two. CHINA, Foochow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; Tien-Tsin; Chin-Kiang; Ningpo. 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 COLOMBIA, Panama;
Colon ; (Aspinwall). 426 ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Buenos Ayres, JAPAN, Nagasaki; Osaka, and Hiogo, CHILI, Valparaiso, Class four.Class IV.—At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, 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, Class fiveClass V,—At two thousand dollars per annum, GREAT BRITAIN, Cork;
Dublin; Leeds; Toronto; Hamilton; Saint John (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Coaticook; Nassau (New Providence); Cardiff; Port Louis (Mauritius); 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, ITALY, Palermo, SWITZERLAND, Basle, Zurich, 427 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; New Castle; Auckland; Gibraltar; Cape Town; Saint Helena; Charlottetown; (Prince Edward Island); Port Stanley; Clifton; Picton; Winnipeg; Mahe; Kingston; Prescott; PortSarnia; Quebec; Saint John’s (Canada); Barbadoes; Bermuda; Fort Erie; Goderich (Canada West); Amherstburg (Canada West); Windsor (Canada West); Southampton ; Ceylon; Antigua; Saint Stephens; Malta. 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, DANISH DOMINIONS, Copenhagen SWITZERLAND, Geneva, ITALY, Genoa; Naples; Milan; Leghorn; Florence; Messina, TURKISH DOMINIONS, Jerusalem, MEXICO, Tampico VENEZUELA, Laguayra; Puerto; Cabello, 428 BRAZIL, Bahia; Para. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Manila, SAN DOMINGO. San Domingo, ECUADOR, Guayaquil, Schedule C, Class seven.Class VII,—At one thousand dollars per annum.
GREAT BRITAIN; Gaspe Basin; Windsor (Novia 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, MEXICO, Guaymas; Nuevo Laredo; Piedras Negras, MUSCAT, Zanzibar, PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS, Santiago (Cape Verde Islands), SOCIETY ISLANDS, Tahiti, CHILI, Talcahuano, 429 COMMERCIAL AGENCIES,Commercial agencies.
Schedule C, Saint Paul de Leando; Levuka; Gaboon; San Juan del Norte,Clerks at consul ates. For allowance for clerks at consulates sixty thousand five hundred 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, 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, Port au Prince, Hayti, 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 for consul general, at 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, Genoa, Stuttgart, Florence, Mannheim, Prague, Zurich, Panama, and Demarara, 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 pay to clerks at consulates. 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 year, six thousand dollars; *Provided,* That the total sum expended*Proviso*. in any one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated For consular officers not citizens of the United States, ten thousandConsular officers not citizens. dollars For salaries of the interpreters to the following consulates;
At Shanghai,Interpreters. TienTsiu, 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 interpreters, guards, and other expenses, at the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars, For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China,Marshals for consular courts.
Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars. For pay of boat’s crew for boat for official use of United States consulBoat’s crew, etc., for U. S. consul at Osaka, etc. at Osaka and Hiogo, five hundred dollars. For hiring of steam-launch for use of the legation and consulate generalSteam-launch, etc., at Constantinople. at Constantinople, one thousand dollars, For loss by exchange on consular and other foreign service of theLoss by exchange. State Department, eight thousand dollars, For contingent expenses of United States consulates, such as stationery,Contingent expenses. book cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and other necessary miscellaneous matters, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.
For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, andPrisons. for wages of keepers of the same, two thousand dollars. 430 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 court house and jail, with grounds appurtenant, at Yeddo, or such other place in Japan as shall be designated, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Rent of buildings for legation in China.For rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or such other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars, Extradition.For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes, and expenses incidental thereto, five thousand dollars Relief of American seamen.For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, Rescuing shipwrecked Americans.For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Shipping and discharging seamen.For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, London, Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburg, six thousand dollars. . Neutrality act.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 [R. S. 291, 49](/us/rs/s291/49).Revised Statutes, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, Cape Spar tel and Tangier light.For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier light, on the coast of Morocco, two hundred and eighty five dollars.
Widows and heirs of diplomatic and consular officers.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. International Bureau of Weights and Measures.[20 Stat., 709](/us/stat/20/709).For contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the convention signed May twentieth eighteen hundred and seventy five, to be expended under the direction of tire Secretary of State, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.
For special contribution of the United States toward paying, through the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, the cost of obtaining international standards and test copies of the same, in conformity [20 Stat., 722](/us/stat/20/722).to the terms of the above convention, paragraph twenty one of its rules, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. International Prison Commission .For contribution to the maintenance of the International Prison Commission, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, two hundred and fifty dollars Printing and distributing publications of consular reports, etc.For printing and distributing the publications by the Department of State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars.
French and American Claims, Commission.To defray the expenses of the French and American Claims Commission : For salaries, compensation, and contingent expenses, to enable ‘the government to fulfill its treaty obligations to France, as well as to enable the counsel for the United States to take the testimony needed for defending the government against unjust claims, seventy five thousand dollars, the same to be immediately available. That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to extend the time within which said Commission shall expire and make its final report Transportation, etc., for interment, of ministers andFor defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of ministers and consuls of the United States to their homes for interment, where FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 56–58. 1883. 431 such ministers or consuls have died, or who may die abroad while in theconsuls, etc., who have died, or, who may die abroad. discharge of their duties ten thousand dollars. Sec. 2. For the purpose of enabling the President to extend diplomaticExtension of diplomatic relations with Eastern Asia. relations with the governments of Eastern Asia, five thousand dollars. Approved, February 26, 1883.