Chapter 333. making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and for other purposes
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CHAP. 333.— An Act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five and for other purposes.July 7, 1884. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, 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 228 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 333. 1884. and eighty-five, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: Envoys ; plenipotentiary.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 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 salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia and Turkey, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars. For salary of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to be accredited to the several Central American states of 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 Ministers resident.For salaries of ministers resident in Belgium, Netherlands, Hawaiian Islands, and Sweden and Norway, at seven thousand five hundred dollar’s each, thirty thousand dollars.
Minister resident and consuls-general.For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general in Venezuela, and Argentine Republic, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars. For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general in Switzerland, Denmark, Portugal, Liberia, Bolivia, Hayti, Persia, Corea, and Siam, at five thousand dollars each, forty-five thousand dollars; and the minister resident and consul-general at Hayti shall also be accredited as charge d’affaires to Santo Domingo.
Charge d’affaires.For salary of charge d’affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, five thousand dollars. Charge d’affaires ad interim, etc.For charges d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twelve thousand dollars. Secretaries of legation.For salaries of the secretaries of the legations in London, Paris, 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 in China, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For salary of the secretary of legation in Japan, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. For salaries of the secretaries of the legations in Spain, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Brazil, and Mexico, at one thousand eight hundred dollars Clerk to legation in Spain.each, five thousand four hundred dollars. For salary of a clerk to the legation in Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars. For salaries of the secretaries of the legations in Chili, and Peru, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars.
Second secretaries of legations.For salaries of the second secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, and Berlin, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars. Compensation to secretaries, etc., other than that provided hy law, prohibited.And no secretary or second secretary of any legation shall 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.
Second secretaries of legations, Japan and China; duties.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, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars. Interpreters; salary restricted, etc.For the salaries of interpreters to the legations in China, at three thousand dollars, and in Japan and Turkey, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, 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. 229 For secretary of legation and consul general at Bogota, two thousandSecretary of legation, etc., Bogota. dollars. For secretary of legation in Central American states and consul-generalSecretary of legation, Central American States, etc. at Guatemala, two thousand dollars. Schedule B. For salaries of the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, andConsular service.
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, Panama, Montreal, and Kanagawa, at four thousand dollars each, sixteen thousand dollars. For salaries of the consuls-general at Frankfort, Vienna, Bucharest, Saint Petersburg, and Halifax at three thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars.
For salary of consul-general at Ecuador, to reside at such place as the President may direct, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the consuls-general at Constantinople and Rome, at two thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars. For salary of the consul-general at Mexico, at 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 consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, three hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars, namely:
Class I.—At four thousand dollars per annumClass one. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS. Honolulu. Class II.—At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum:Class two. CHINA. Foochow; Haukow; 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. Matan zas. MEXICO. Vera Cruz. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA Colon (Aspinwall) 230 JAPAN.
Nagasaki; Osaka and Hioga. CHILI. Valparaiso. Clues four.Class, IV.—At two thousand live hundred dollars per annum: GREAT BRITAIN. Singapore; Tunstall; Birmingham; Sheffield; Dundee; Leith; Nottingham; Victoria (British Columbia) FRENCH DOMINIONS. Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons. SPANISH DOMINIONS. Cienfuegos; Santiago de Cuba. BELGIUM. Antwerp; Brussels. DANISH DOMINIONS. Saint Thomas. TDRKISH DOMINIONS. Smyrna. GERMANY. Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden. GREECE. Athens. Class five.Class V.—At two thousand dollars per annum.
GREAT BRITAIN. Cork; Dublin; Leeds; Toronto; Handlton; Saint John (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Nassau (New Providence); Cardiff; Port Louis (Mauritius); Sidney (New South Wales) SPANISH DOMINIONS. San Juan (Porto Rico); Sagua la Grande (Cuba). BARBARY STATES. Tangier. DOMINIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS. Rotterdam. RUSSIA. Odessa. GERMANY. Sonneberg; Nuremberg; Barmen; Cologne; Chemnitz; Leipsic; Crefleld. AUSTRIA-HUNGARY. Trieste; Prague. ITALY. Palermo. 231 SWITZERLAND. Basle;
Zurich. MEXICO. Acapulco; Matamoras. BRAZIL. Pernambuco. MADAGASCAR. Tamatave. VENEZUELA. Maracaibo. URUGUAY. Montevideo. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Beirut. HONDURAS. Tegucigalpa. COSTA RICA. San Jose. NICARAGUA. Managua; San Juan del Norte. SAN SALVADOR. San Salvador. Class VI.—At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.Class six. GREAT BRITAIN. Bristol; Newcastle; Auckland; Gibraltar; Cape Town; Saint Hel-ma ; Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island); Port Stanley; Clifton; Picton;
Winnipeg; Mabe; Kingston ; Prescott; Port Sarnia; Quebec; Saint Johns (Canada); Barbadoes; Bermuda; Fort Erie; Goderich Canada West); Amherstburg (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. 232 FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATORS ISLANDS. Apia. SWITZERLAND. Geneva. ITALY. Genoa; Naples; Milan; Leghorn; Florence; Messina. TURKISH DOMINIONS. Jerusalem. MEXICO. Tampico; El Paso del Norte. VENEZUELA. Laguayra; Puerto Cabello. PARAGUAY. Ascunsion. BRAZIL. Bahia; Para. PHILIPPINE ISLANDS. Manila. SAN DOMINGO. San Domingo. Schedule C. Class seven.Class VII.—At one thousand dollars per annum. GREAT BRITAIN. Gaspe Basin ; Windsor (Nova Scotia);
Bombay; Sierra Leone; Turks Island. GERMANY. Stettin. BELGIUM. Ghent. 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 Utilla). EASTERN AFRICA. Mozambique. 233 MEXICO. Guaymas; Neuro Laredo; Piedras Negras. MUSCAT. Zanzibar. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS, Santiago (Cape Verde Islands). SOCIETY ISLANDS. Tahati. CHILI. Talcahuano. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.Commercial agencies.
Schedule C. Saint Paul de Loando; Levuka; Gaboon, And after June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, no consulConsuls and consuls-general prohibited from receiving any portion of salary of secretary,etc. or consul-general shall be entitled to or allowed 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-seven thousand nineClerks at consulates. hundred and twenty 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 consuls-general at Lon- Ion, Paris, Havana, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro, each a sum not exceeding the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars for any one year; for the consuls-general at Berlin, Frankfort, Vienna, and Kanagawa, md for consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Manchester, Lyons, Hong-Kong, Havre, Crefeld, and Chemnitz, each a sum not exceeding the rate of me thousand two hundred dollars for any one year: for the consul-general at Montreal, 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 consuls-general at Calcutta, Port an 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 if eight hundred dollars for any one year; for the consuls at Belfast, Barmen, Leith, Dundee, 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 atNaples, 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 expendedAdditional allowance for 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 “our hundred dollars to be allowed to anyone consulate in any one fiscal Fear, six thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the total sum expended inProviso. my one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated. For consular officers not citizens of the United States, six thousandConsular officers not citizens. dollars.
For salaries of the interpreters to the following consulates: AtInterpreters to consulates. Shanghai, Tien-Tsin, Foochow, and Kanagawa, at two thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to the consulates at Hankow, Amoy, Danton, and Hong-Kong, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no person otherwise receiving a*Proviso.* salary, in any capacity whatever, from the United States, shall be entitled to any part of the above sum. 234 For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars.
For salary of interpreter to the legation and consulate-general at Bangkok, five hundred dollars. Marshals for consular courts.Steam-launch, etc., at Constantinople.Cost and expense of making exchange of money, etc.Contingent expenses, etc.For salaries of eight marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China, and Turkey, eight thousand dollars. For hiring of steam-launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, 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 and other books, seals, presses, flags, 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 the transaction of their business, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. Prisons.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. For the actual expense of renting a prison in Kanagawa for American convicts in Japan, six hundred dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars. For the purpose of paying the keepers of prisoners in China, Japan, Siam, and Turkey, the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, *Proviso.**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 to any such keeper; and such payment shall cover all expenses attending the keeping, feeding, and care of any such prisoner.
For rent of prisons for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, one thousand dollars. Rent of buildings for legation, etc., at Peking, etc. ~Extradition.Relief of American seamen.Hospital, Panama.*Proviso.*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 actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, five thousand dollars.
For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, forty thousand dollars. For annual contribution toward the support of the foreign hospital at Panama, three hundred dollars; *Provided,* That the Secretary of State shall be satisfied that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital. Rescuing shipwrecked Americans.For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Shipping and discharging seamen.R.S., 1749,311.Allowance to widow of consular officer deceased in a foreign country.For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, London, Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburg, six thousand dollars. For the payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred 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.
Stationery, blanks, seal’s, irises, flags, etc., or legations, including miscellaneous expenses,For the purpose of enabling the President to provide at the public 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, 235 telegrams, furniture, and traveling expenses including for miscellaneous expenses, fifteen thousand dollars, in all seventy-five thousand dollars.
For the expenses of an international exchange of books, documents,International exchange of books, etc., including salaries to employees. and productions of the United States with foreign countries, in accordance with the Paris convention of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, including salaries and compensation to all necessary employees, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, ten thousand dollars. For the payment of the actual and necessary expenses of two civilianCivilian experts at international commission for establishment of electrical units.Cape Spartel and Tangier light.Consular reports, etc.; printing, and distribution.*Proviso.* experts as delegates of the United States to an international commission for the establishment of electrical units, three thousand dollars.
For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier light, on the coast of Morocco, three hundred dollars. 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, *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 ofInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.20 Stat.,709.International Prison Commission.Transportation for interment of ministers and consuls dying abroad.Loss by e x - change.Repairs, etc., of monument, Bogota to Benjamin A.
Bid-lack.Agent to states of the Congo Association; appointment of, duties, compensation. Weights and Measures for the calendar year eighteen hundred and eighty-five, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, or so much thereof as may be necessary, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. 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.
For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of ministers and consuls of the United States to their former homes in this country for interment, where such ministers or consuls have died or may die abroad while in discharge of their official duties, ten thousand dollars. For loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from legations, two thousand dollars. For repairing and inclosing with an iron railing the monument in the foreign cemetery of Bogota above the grave of Benjandn A.
Bidlack, formerly charge d’affaires of the United States to the Republic of New Grenada, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For an 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 ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: and the President is hereby authorized to appoint in the recess of the Senate such agent whose commission shall expire at the end of the next session of the Senate.
To enable the Secretary of State to comply with the requirements ofFees, etc., in extradition cases.22 Stat., 215.Commissioners, to secure international and commercial relations between United States and Central and South. America.Compensation, duties.Secretary; compensation. the fourth section of “An act regulating fees and the practice in extradition cases,” approved August third, eighteen hundred a nd eighty-two, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
For three commissioners to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, at a compensation of seven thousand five hundred dollars each. Said commissioners shall ascertain the best modes of securing more intimate international and commercial relations between the United States and the several countries of Central and South America, and for that purpose they shall visit such countries in Central and South America as the President may direct. For one secretary to said commission, to be appointed by the president, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three thousand dollars; and in addition to the foregoing amounts such further sum as may be required for the reasonable expenses of said commission, suchExpenses oí commission. 236 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 333, 334. 1884. expenses to be paid upon the certificate of the chairman thereof and Report.approved by the Secretary of State; and said commission shall report their action to the President, for transmission to Congress, with such recommendation as he may deem fitting. Approved, July 7, 1884.