Chapter 342. making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 342.— An Act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, and for other purposes.Mar. 3, 1887. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Diplomatic and consular appropriation.To be full compensation. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, severally appropriated in full compensation for the diplomatic and consular service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty eight, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the object s hereinafter expressed, namely: 479 SCHEDULE A.Schedule A. salaries of ministers.Salaries.
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to France, Germany,Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. Great Britain, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Austria, Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Spain, and Mexico, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador (to reside at such place in either of said states as the President may direct,) ton thousand dollars. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia, the Argentine Republic, and Turkey, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Ministers resident in Belgium, Hawaiian Islands, Netherlands, SwedenMinisters resident. and Norway, and Venezuela, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.
Minister resident and consul general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece,Ministers-resident and consuls-general. six thousand five hundred dollars. Ministers resident and consuls-general in Bolivia, Corea, Denmark, Hayti, Persia, Portugal, Siam, and Switzerland, at five thousand dollars each, forty thousand dollars (and the minister resident and consul-general in Hayti shall also be accredited as chargé d’affaires to San Domingo). Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars.
Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars.Agent, etc., Cairo.Charges d’affaires. Chargé d’affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, five thousand dollars. Chargé d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twenty thousand dollars. salaries secretaries of legations. Secretaries of the legations in Berlin, China, Japan, London, Paris,Secretaries of legations. and Saint Petersburg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five, dollars each, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars Second secretaries of t he legations at Berlin, London, and Paris atSecond secretaries. two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.
Second secretaries of the legations in Japan and China, who shall beIn China and Japan to be students of the language. 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. Secretary of legation and consul-general at Bogota, two thousandSecretaries of legations and consuls-general. dollars.
Secretary of legation in Central American states and consul-general to Guatemala, two thousand dollars. Secretaries of the legations in Austria, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Spain,Secretaries. and Turkey, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars. Secretaries of the legations in Chili and Peru, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars. Secretary of legation and consul-general at Corea, one thousand fiveSecretary and consul-general, Corea. hundred dollars. 480 salaries interpreters to legations.
Interpreter to the legation in Turkey, three thousand dollars; interpreterInterpreters. to the legation in China, three thousand dollars; interpreter to the legation in Japan, two thousand live hundred dollars; interpreter to the legation and consulate general in Persia, one thousand dollars; interpreter to the legation and consulate general in Corea, one thousand dollars; interpreter to the legation and consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam, live hundred dollars; eleven thousand dollars.
But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided shall be allowedNational salary to interpreter. any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer. clerk-hire at legations. Clerk at the legation in Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars.Clerk to legation, Spain. contingent expenses foreign missions.Contingent expenses foreign missions. 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 be shall think necessary for the several legations in the transaction of their business, and also torrent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk-hire, compensation of cuvasses, gnards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangier, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and SanDispatch agents.
Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printing in the. Department of State, one hundred and fivePrinting. thousand dollars. miscellaneous expenses of legations.Miscellaneous. Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from legations, twoLoss by exchange. thousand five hundred dollars. Hiring of steam-launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, oneSteam launch, Constantinople. thousand eight hundred dollars. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or suchRent.China. other place in China, as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars.
For rent of legation buildings in Tokio, Japan, for the year endingTokio, Japan. March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand four hundred dollars. miscellaneous expenses foreign intercourse. Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier light,Cape Spartel and Tangier light. on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countriesBringing home persons charged with crime.Extradition expenses.Vol. 22, p. 216. persons charged with crime, live thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of State to comply with the requirement 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 expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of theLife-saving testimonials. services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars.
To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Expenses, neutrality act.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., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/t/s291/p49). Revised Statutes, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 481 To enable the President to meet unforseen emergencies arising in theUnforeseen emergencies. diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirements of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes,[R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/t/s291/p49). fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundredAllowance to heirs of diplomatic and consular officers dying abroad.[R. S., 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/t/s1749/p311).Transporting remains of ministers and consuls. 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.
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 who may die, abroad, while in discharge of their official duties, ten thousand dollars. Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau ofInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures. Weights and Measures for the. year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same, orVol. 20, p. 714. 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.
Haytian Arbitration Commission: For expenses of printing for jointExpenses of arbitration of claims of Pelletier and Lazare against Hayti. commission which sat at Washington to arbitrate the claims of Antonio Pelletier and A. H. Lazare against the Government at Hayti, one thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-four cents; for compensation of the arbitrator, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, four thousand and seventy-seven dollars and forty-four cents.
Venezuela and American Claims Commission: For compensation ofExpenses Venezuela and American Claims Commission. one commissioner, at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum; one-half compensation of third commissioner, the said one-half at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one-half compensation of secretary of commission, said one-half at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; one-half of incidental expenses, or so much thereof as may be necessary, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars.
SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries consular service.Salaries. Consuls-general at Havana, London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro, at sixConsuls-general. thousand dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars. Consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars. Consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars. Consuls-general at Berlin, Honolulu, Kanagawa, Montreal, and Panama, at four thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.
Consul general at Halifax, three thousand five hundred dollars. Consuls-general at Constantinople, Ecuador, Frankfort, Borne, Saint Petersburg, and Vienna, at three thousand dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars. Consul-general at Mexico, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, threeConsuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents. hundred and seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars, as follows, namely: Consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars.
Consul at Hong-Kong, five thousand dollars. 482 Class II.Class II, $3,500 a year. At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. China: Consuls at Amoy, Canton, Chiu-Kiang, Foo-Chow, Hankow, and Teiu-Tsin. Peru: Consul at Callao. Class III.Class III, $3,000. At three thousand dollars per annum. Belgium: Consul at Antwerp. Chili: Consul at Valparaiso. China: Consul at Ningpo. France: Consul at Havre. Great Britain and British dominions: Consuls at Belfast, Bradford, Demerara, Glasgow, Manchester, Ottawa, and Singapore.
Japan: Consuls at Nagasaki, and Osaka and Hiogo. Mexico: Consul at Vera Cruz. Spanish dominions: Consul at Matanzas (Cuba). United States of Colombia: Consul at Colon (Aspinwall). Class IV.Class IV, $2,500. At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Argentine Republic: Consul at Buenos Ayres. Belgium: Consul at Brussels. Danish dominions: Consul at Saint Thomas. France: Consuls at Bordeaux, Lyons, and Marseilles. Germany: Consuls at Aunaberg, Bremen, Brunswick, Dresden, Hamburg, and Mayence.
Greece: Consul at Athens. Great Britain and British dominions: Consuls at Birmingham, Dundee, Leith, Nottingham, Sheffield, Tunstall, and Victoria (British Columbia). Spanish dominions: Consuls at Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba. Switzerland: Consul at Saint Galle. Turkish dominions: Consul at Smyrna. Class V.Class V, $2,000. At two thousand dollars per annum. Austria-Hungary: Consuls at Trieste and Prague. 483 Barbary States:Class V—Continued. Consul at Tangier: Brazil: Consul at Pernambuco.
Columbia: Consul at Barrauquilla. Costa Rica: Consul at San Jose. France: Consuls at Rheims and Saint Etienne. Friendly and Navigator’s Islands: Consul at Apia. Germany: Consuls at Barmen, Chemnitz, Cologne, Crefeld, Dusseldorf, Elberfeld, Leipsic, Nuremburg, and Sonueberg. Great Britain and British dominions: Consuls at Cardiff, Chatham, Cork, Dublin, Dunfermline, Hamilton (Canada), Kingston (Jamaica), Leeds, Nassau (New Providence), Port Louis (Mauritius), Port Stanley and Saint Thomas (Canada), Saint John (New Brunswick), Sherbrook (Canada), Sydney (New South Wales), and Toronto (Canada).
Honduras: Consul at Tegucigalpa. Italy: Consul at Palermo. Madagascar: Consul at Tamatava. Mexico: Consuls at Acapulco and Matamoras. Netherlands: Consul at Rotterdam. Nicaragua: Consuls at Managua and San Juan del Norte. Russia: Consul at Odessa. Salvador: Consul at San Salvador. Spain and Spanish dominions: Consuls at Manila (Philippine Islands), San Juan (Porto Rico), and Sagna la Grande (Cuba). Switzerland: Consuls at Basle, Horgen, and Zurich. Turkish dominions: Consuls at Beirut, and Jerusalem.
Uruguay: Consul at Montevideo. Venezuela: Consul at Maricaibo. Class VI.Class VI, $1,500. At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Brazil: Consuls at Bahia, Para, and Santos. Belgium: Consul at Liege and Verviers. Denmark: Consul at Copenhagen. France and French dominions: Consuls at Cognac, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Nice. Germany: Consuls at Aixla-Chapelle, Breslau, Kehl, Mannheim, Munich, and Stuttgart. 484 Great Britain and British dominions:Class VI—Continued. Consuls at Am herstburg (Canada), Antigua (West Indies), Auckland (New Zealand), Barbadoes, Bermuda, Bristol, Brookville, Cape Town, Ceylon (India), Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island),Clifton (Canada), Fort Erie (Canada), Goderich (Canada), Gibraltar, Guelph (Canada), Kingston (Canada), London (Canada), Malta, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Quebec, Pictou (Canada), Port Hope (Canada) Port Sarnia (Canada), Port Stanley (Falkland Islands), Prescott (Canada), Southampton, Saint Helena, Saint John’s (Canada), Saint Stephen (Canada), Stratford (Canada), Three Rivers (Canada), Windsor (Canada), and Winnepeg (Manitoba).
Italy: Consuls at Florence, Genoa, Leghorn, Messina, Milan, and Naples. Mexico: Consuls at Paso del Norte and Tampico. Netherlands: Consul at Amsterdam. Paraguay: Consul at Asuncion. Portuguese dominions: Consuls at Fayal (Azores) and Funchal (Madeira). San Domingo: Consul at San Domingo. Spain: Consuls at Barcelona, Cadiz, and Malaga. Switzerland: Consul at Geneva. Turkey: Consul at Sivas. Venezuela: Consuls at Laguayra and Puerto Cabello. SCHEDULE C.Schedule C. Class VII.Class VII, $1,000 a year.
At one thousand dollars per annum. Africa: Consul at Mozambique (Eastern Coast). Belgium: Consul at Ghent. Brazil: Consul at Rio Grande do Sul. Chili: Consul at Teleahuano. France and French dominions: Consuls at Algiers and Nantes. Germany: Consul at Stettin. Great Britain and British dominions: Consuls at Bombay (India), Gaspe Basin (Canada), Sierra Leone (West Africa), Turk’s Island, and Windsor (Nova Scotia). Hayti: Consul at Cape Haytien. Honduras: Consul at Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utilla).
Italy: Consul at Venice. Mexico: Consuls at Guay mas, Nuevo Laredo, and Piedras Negras. 485 Muscat.Class VII—Continued. Consul at Zanzibar. Netherlands: Consul at Batavia. Portuguese dominions: Consul at Santiago (Cape Verde Islands). Society Islands: Consul at Tahati. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Christiania. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES Schedule C. Gaboon, Levuka, and Saint Paul de Loando.Commercial agencies.All consulates and commercial agencies to be estimated for specifically. And in the estimates for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, there shall be estimated for specifically, under classified consulates, all consulates and commercial agencies where the fees collected or compensation allowed for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty seven, exceed one thousand dollars. consular clerks.
Six consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annumConsular clerks. each, seven thousand two hundred dollars. Seven consular clerks, at one thousand dollars per annum each, seven thousand dollars. consular officers not citizens.Consular officers not citizens. For salaries of consular officers not citizens of the United States, six thousand dollars. allowance for clerks at consulates. For allowance for clerks at consulates, fifty thousand three hundredClerks at consulates. and twenty dollars, the sum to be allowed at each consulate not to exceed the rate herein specified, as follows.
Consul at Liverpool, two thousand dollars. Consul general at Havana, one thousand six hundred dollars. Consul-general at Shanghai, one thousand two hundred dollars. Consuls-general at London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Consul general at Berlin, Frankfort, Vienna, Montreal, and Kanagawa, and consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Manchester, Lyons, Hong-Kong, Havre, Crefeld, and Chemuitz, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars.
Consuls at Bradford, Birmingham, and Marseilles, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Consuls general at Calcutta, Port an Prince, and Melbourne, and consuls at Leipsic, Sheffield, Sonneberg, Dresden, Antwerp, Nuremberg, Tunstall, Bordeaux, Colon, Singapore, Glasgow, and Panama, at eight hundred dollars each, twelve thousand dollars. Consuls at Belfast, Barmen, Leith, Dundee, and Victoria, and the consuls-general at Matamoras and Halifax, at six hundred and forty dollars each, four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
Consul-general at Mexico and Berne, and consuls at Malaga, Naples, Genoa, Stuttgart; Florence, Mannheim, Prague, Zurich, Beirut, and Demerara, at lour hundrd and eighty dollars each, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. 486 For an additional allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expendedConsulates not specified. 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 *Provisos*.Limit.fiscal year, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated: *And provided further*,Allowance to interpreters for clerical services.
That out of the amount hereby appropriated the Secretary of State may make such allowance as may to him seem proper to any interpreter for clerical services, in addition to his pay as interpreter. interpreters, guards, and marshals to consulates.Interpreters, guards, and Marshals. Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China and Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars. Interpreters and guards at the consulates at Beirut, Cairo, Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Smyrna, in the Turkish dominions, and at Zanzibar, five thousand dollars.
Marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars. boat-hire.Boat-hire. Boat for official use of United States consul at Osaka and Hiogo, and for pay of boat’s crew, five hundred dollars. Boat for official use of the United States consul at Hong-Kong, and for pay of boat’s crew, five hundred dollars. exchange. Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and fromLoss by exchange. the several consulates and consulates general, four thousand dollars. expense of a prisons for american convicts.Consular prisons.
For the expense of a prison and prison-keeper at the consulate-generalBangkok, Siam. in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convictsShanghai, China. in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars, and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Actual expense of renting a prison in Kanagawa for American convictsKanagawa, Japan. in Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars, and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For the purpose of paying for the keeping and feeding of prisonersKeeping and feeding prisoners.*Provisos*.Maximum allowance. in 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; this is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such No allowance for self-supporting prisoners.prisoners: *And provided further*, That no allowance shall be made for the keeping and feeding of any prisoner who is able to pay, or does pay, the above sum of seventy live cents per day; and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case.
Rent of prisons for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages ofRent, etc., prisons in Turkey. keepers of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars. relief and protection of american seamen.Relief of American seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, or so much thereof as may be necessary, fifty thousand dollars. 487 foreign hospitals at panama.Foreign hospitals, Panama. Annual contributions towards the support of foreign hospitals at Panama, 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 hospitals, five hundred dollars. publication of consular and commercial reports.Publication, etc., consular reports.
Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the Department of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars. contingent expenses united states consulates.Contingent expenses, consulates. Expenses 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, traveling expenses of consular clerks, Chinese writers, and such 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 fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1887.