Chapter 150.

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CHAP. 150.— AN ACT making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and for other purposes.February 25, 1885. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Consular and diplomatic appropriations for the year ending June 30, 1886. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, severally appropriated for the consular and diplomatic service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, 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 extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. 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 Japan, China, Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil, and Mexico, at twelve thousand dollars each, in all 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 salary of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to be accreditedOne envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary for Guatemala, Costa Rica, etc.Residence.Turkey. to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua, and to reside at such place in either of said states as the President may direct, ten thousand dollars. For salary of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey, ten thousand dollars. For salary of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to theUnited States of Colombia.Ministers resident.

United States of Colombia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of ministers resident in Belgium, Netherlands, Hawaiian Islands, and Sweden and Norway, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty thousand dollars. For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general in Venezuela 323 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 150. 1885. and Argentine Republic, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars. For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general in Liberia, Switzerland, Denmark, Portugal, Siam, Persia, Corea, Hayti, and Bolivia, at five thousand dollars each, forty-five thousand dollars; and the minister resident and consul general in Hayti shall also be accreditedChargé d’affaires. as charge d’affaires to Santo Domingo.

For salary of minister resident and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars.Agent and consul-general at Cairo.Agent to States of the Congo Association. For salary of agent to the States of the Congo Association, five thousand dollars; said agent to be charged with introducing and extending the commerce of the United States in the Congo Valley; and for such purpose the further sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For salary of charge d’affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, five thousandChargé d’affaires.R. S., sec. l681., p. 294, repealed. dollars; and section sixteen hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby repealed. For charges d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad,Chargé d’affaires ad interim. twelve thousand dollars. For salaries of the secretaries of the legations in London, Paris, Berlin,Secretaries of legations. and Saint Petersburg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For salary of the secretaries of legation in China and Japan, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; and section sixteen hundred and eighty ofR. S., sec. l680, p. 294, repealed. the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby repealed. For salaries of the secretaries of the legations in Spain, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Brazil, and Mexico, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, in all, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.

For salaries of the secretaries of the legations in Chili and Peru at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the second secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, and Berlin, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars. And hereafter no secretary or second secretary of any legation shallSecretary not to receive compensation above salary as secretary,for acting as charge d’affaires.Second secretaries of legations, Japan and China; duties. be entitled to or receive any compensation over and above his salary as such secretary for acting as charge d’affaires during the temporary or other absence without leave of the minister to whose duties he may succeed.

For salaries of second secretaries of the legations in Japan and China, who shall be American students of the language of the Court and country to which they are appointed, respectively, and shall be allowed and required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to devote their time to the acquisition of such language, atone thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars. For the salaries of interpreters to the legations in China, at threeInterpreters to legations. thousand dollars, and in Japan and Turkey, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand dollars.

But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer. For secretary of legation and consul-general at Bogota, two thousand dollars. .Secretaries of legations. For secretary of legation in Central American states and consul-general at Guatemala, two thousand dollars. For salary of interpreter to the legation and consulate-general in Persia,Interpreters to legations. one thousand dollar’s.

For salary of interpreter to the legation in Corea, one thousand dollars. For salary of the clerk to the legation in Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars.Clerk to legation in Spain. 324 For the purpose of enabling the President to provide at the publicContingent expenses. expense all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, Miscellaneous.telegrams, furniture, and traveling expenses, including for miscellaneous expenses fifteen thousand dollars, in all, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countriesActual expenses. persons charged with crime, five thousand dollars. For loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from legations,Loss by exchange in remittance of money.To enable Secretary of State to comply with requirements of fourth section act August 3, 1882, vol. 22, ch. 378, p. 215.Rent of buildings for legation in China. two thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to comply with the requirements of the fourth section of “An act regulating fees and the practice in extradition cases,” approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.

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. For repairing United States legation buildings at Tangier, two thousandRepairing United States legation building at Tangier.Cape Spartel and Tangier light. five hundred dollars. For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier light, on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.

For printing and distributing the publications by the Department of StatePrinting and distributing publications by department of State.*Proviso*. of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of such reports discussing partisan political, religious, or moral questions shall be published. For contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau ofContribution to maintenance of International Bureau of Weights and Measures ending June 30, 1886.1875, vol. 20, p. 709.

Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said Bureau on its certificate of apportionment, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of ministers Transportation of the remains of ministers and cons u Is of Uni ted States to their former homes for interment.Schedule B.and consuls of the United States to their former homes in this country for interment, where such ministers or consuls have died or who may die abroad while in discharge of their official duties, ten thousand dollars. ‘ Schedule B.

For salaries of the consuls-general at Constantinople and Rome, atConsuls-general. three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars. For salaries of the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro, at six thousand dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars. For salaries of the consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars. For salary of the consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of the consuls-general at Berlin, Kanagawa, Montreal, Honolulu, and Panama, at four thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.

For salaries of the consuls-general at Saint Petersburg, Frankfort, Halifax, Vienna, and in Ecuador, at three thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars. 325 For salary of the consul-general at Mexico, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the consul at Liverpool (Great Britain), six thousand dollars. For salary of the consul at Hong-Kong (Great Britain), five thousand dollars. For salaries of thirteen consular clerks, fourteen thousand six hundredConsular clerks. dollars.

For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, threeConsuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents. hundred and nineteen thousand dollars, namely: Class II.—At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum:Class two. CHINA. Foochow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; TienTsin; ChinKiang. PERU. Callao. Class III.—At three thousand dollars per annum:Class three. GREAT BRITAIN. Ottawa; Manchester; Glasgow; Bradford; Demerara; Belfast; Singapore. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Havre. SPANISH DOMINIONS.

Matanzas (Cuba). MEXICO. Vera Cruz. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA. Colon (Aspinwall). JAPAN. Nagasaki; Osaka and Hiogo. CHILI. Valparaiso. Class IV.—At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum:Class four. GREAT BRITAIN. Tunstall; Birmingham; Sheffield; Dundee; Leith; Nottingham; Victoria (British Columbia). FRENCH DOMINIONS. Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons. ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. Buenos Ayres. GERMANY. Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden. 326 SPANISH DOMINIONS. Cienfuegos; Santiago de Cuba. BELGIUM.

Brussels; Antwerp. DANISH DOMINIONS. Saint Thomas. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Smyrna. GREECE. Athens. Class V.—At two thousand dollars per annum:Class five. GREAT BRITAIN. Cork; Dublin; Leeds; Toronto; Hamilton; Saint John (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Nassau (New Providence); Cardiff; Port Louis (Mauritius); Sidney (New South Wales). VENEZUELA. Maracaibo. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Beirut; Jerusalem. SPANISH DOMINIONS. San Juan (Porto Rico); Sagua la Graude (Cuba). 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. ITALY. Palermo. MEXICO. Acapulco; Matamoras. 327 BRAZIL. Pernambuco. MADAGASCAR. Tamative. URUGUAY. Montevideo. HONDURAS. Tegucigalpa. COSTA RICA. San Jose. NICARAGUA. Managua; San Juan del Norte. SAN SALVADOR. San Salvador. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Manila. 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); PortStanley (Falkland Islands); Clifton; Picton; Winnipeg; Mabe; Kingston; Prescott; Port Sarnia; Quebec; Saint John’s (Canada); Barbadoes; Bermuda; Fort. Erie; Goderich (Canada West); Amberstburg (Canada West); Windsor (Canada West); Southampton; Ceylon; Antigua; Saint Stephen’s; 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. 328 FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATOR’S ISLANDS. Apia. SWITZERLAND. Geneva. ITALY. Genoa; Naples; Milan; Leghorn; Florence; Messina. MEXICO. Tampico; El Paso del Norte. VENEZUELA. Laguayra; Puerto Cabello. PARAGUAY. Ascunsion. BRAZIL. Bahia; Para. SAN DOMINGO. San Domingo.

TURKISH DOMINIONS. Sivas. Schedule C.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. BELGIUM. Ghent. FRENCH DOMINIONS. Nantes; Algiers. ITALY. Venice. HAYTI. Cape Haytien. NETHERLANDS. Batavia. BRAZIL. Rio Grande del Sul. 329 HONDURAS. Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utilla). EASTERN AFRICA. Mozambique. MEXICO. Guay mas; Nuevo Laredo; Piedras Negras.

MUSCAT. Zanzibar. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS. Santiago (Cape Verde Islands). SOCIETY ISLANDS. Tahiti. SWEDEN AND NORWAY. Christiana. CHILL Talcahuano. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.Commercial agencies.Schedule C. Schedule C. Saint Paul de Loando; Levuka; Gaboon. And hereafter no consul or consul-general shall be entitled to or allowedAdditional compensation to clerks at consulates. any part of any salary appropriated for payment of a secretary or second secretary of legation or an interpreter.

For allowance for clerks at consulates, forty-eight thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, as follows: For the consul at Liverpool, a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand dollars for any one year; and for the eonsulsgeneral at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro, each a sum not exceeding the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars for any one year; for the eonsulsgeneral at Berlin, Frankfort, Vienna, Shanghai, Montreal, 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 two hundred dollars for any one year; and for the consuls at Bradford and Birmingham, each a sum not exceeding the rate of nine hundred and sixty dollars for any one year; for the eonsulsgeneral at Calcutta, Port an Prince, Hayti, and Melbourne, and for the consuls at Leipsic, Sheffield, Sonneberg, Dresden, Marseilles, Nuremberg, Tunstall.

Antwerp, Bordeaux, Colon (Aspinwall), Singapore, and Glasgow, each a sum not exceeding the rate of eight hundred dollars for any one year; for the consuls at Belfast, Barmen, Leith, Dundee, Victoria, and Matamoras, and for the consul-general at Halifax, each a sum not exceeding the rate of six hundred and forty dollars for any one year; for the consul-general at Mexico, and for the consuls at Malaga, Naples, Genoa, Stuttgart, Florence, Mannheim, Prague, Zurich, Panama, and Demerara, each a sum not exceeding the rate of four hundred and eighty dollars for any one year.

For an additional allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expended*Proviso*. 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 330 fiscal year, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total sum expendedConsuls not to be paid as secretaries of legations or interpreters.Clerks at consulates. in any one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated.

For consular officers not citizens of the United States, six thousandConsular officers not citizens of United States.Interpreters at consulates in China and Japan.*Provisos*. dollars. For salaries of interpreters to be employed at consulates in China and Japan, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided*, That not more than one thousand two hundred dollars shall be expended for interpreting at any one consulate or consulate general: *And provided further*, That no person otherwise receiving a salary in any capacity whatever from the United States shall be entitled to any part of the above sum.

For interpreters and guards at the consulates at Constantinople,Interpreters, etc., in Turkey. Smyrna, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, and at Seoul, in Corea, four thousand dollars. For salaries of seven marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China,Marshals of consular courts. and Turkey, seven thousand dollars. For hiring of steam-launch for use of the legation at Constantinople,Steam-launch at Constantinople. one thousand dollars. For boat for official use of United States consul at Osaka and Hiogo, Boat and crew for consul at Osaka and Hiogo.Cost and expense of exchange of money.and for pay of boat’s crew, five hundred dollars.

For the actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and from the several consulates and consulates-general, three thousand dollars. For the expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record andContingent expenses. other books, seals, presses, Hags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight foreign and domestic, telegrams, advertising, messenger service, including six thousand dollars for other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and commercial agencies in the transaction of their business, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

For the salary of an interpreter to the consulate-general in Bangkok,Interpreter to consulate-general in Bangkok.Prison and prison-keeper at consulate-general in Bangkok.Rent of prisons. Siam, five hundred dollars. For the expense of a prison and prison-keeper at the consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. For the actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

For the actual expense of renting a prison in Kanagawa for American convicts in Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; in all, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For the purpose of paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners inExpense of keeping prisoners.*Provisos*. China, Japan, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than seventy-five cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner, while actually confined, Shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding: *And provided further*, That no allowance shall be made for the keeping or feeding of any prisoner who is able to pay or does pay the above sum of seventy-five cents per day; and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case.

For rent of prisons for American convicts in Turkey, and for wagesRent of prison in Turkey. of keepers of the same, one thousand dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,Relief of American seamen. fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For annual contribution toward the support of the foreign hospital at Support of hospital at Panama.Panama, three hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital.

For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of theRescue from shipwreck. 331 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 150, 160, 161. 1885. services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. For the payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundredPayment to widows or heirs-at-law of diplomatic or consular officers.R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311. and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, of the widows or heirs-at-law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five thousand dollars.

To pay the expense of a preliminary search, to be made under theFor search for evidence as to French spoliation by Department of State. direction of the Department of State, of the records of the French prize courts or other French archives from seventeen hundred and ninety-two to eighteen hundred and one, inclusive, to ascertain whether any evidence or documents relating to the claims of American citizens for spoliations committed by the French prior to the thirty-first of July, eighteen hundred and one, still exist, and, if so, the nature and character thereof, the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be immediately available.

To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising inTo enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies. the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, twenty-five thousand dollars. Approved, February 25, 1885.