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CHAP. 600.— An act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular Service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for other purposes.July 1, 1886. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Diplomatic and consular appropriations. 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-seven, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
SCHEDULE A.Schedule A. salaries of ministers.Salaries. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain,.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary- France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Japan, China, Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil, 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, ten thousand dollars. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey, ten thousand dollars. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Ministers resident in Belgium, Netherlands, Hawaiian Islands,Ministers resident.
Sweden and Norway, and Venezuela, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty seven thousand five hundred dollars. Minister resident and consul-general in the Argentine Republic, sevenMinisters resident and consuls-general. thousand five hundred dollars. Ministers resident and consuls-general in Liberia, Switzerland, Denmark, Portugal, Siam, Persia, Corea, Hayti, and Bolivia, at five thousand dollars each; and the minister resident and consul-general in Hayti shall also be accredited as chargé d’affaires to Santo Domingo, forty-five thousand dollars. 109 Minister resident and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece,-six thousand five hundred dollars.
Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars.Agent, etc.,Cairo. Chargés d’affaires. Chargé d’affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, five thousand dollars. Chargés d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twenty thousand dollars. salaries, secretaries of legations. Secretaries of the legations in London, Paris, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg,Secretaries of legations. at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Secretaries of the legations in China and Japan, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Secretaries of the legations in Spain, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Brazil, and Mexico, 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. Second secretaries of the legations at London, Paris, and Berlin, atSecond secretaries. Second secretaries in China and Japan to study the language of the country. two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.
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. Clerk to the legation in Spain, one thousand two hundred dollarsClerk to legation in Spain.
Secretaries of legation and consuls-general.. Secretary of legation and consul-general at Bogota, two thousand dollars. Secretary of legation in Central American States and consul-general to Guatemala, two thousand dollars. salaries, interpreters to legations. Interpreter to the legation in China, three thousand dollars.Interpreters. Interpreters to the legations in Japan and Turkey, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars. But no person drawingNo additional salary to interpreter. the salary of interpreter as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer.
Interpreter to the legation and consulate-general in Persia, one thousand dollars. Interpreter to the legation in Corea, one thousand dollars. Interpreter to the legation and consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam, five hundred dollars. 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 he shall think necessary for the several legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk-hire, compensation of cavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangiers, and the compensation of despatch agents at London, New York, andDespatch agent.
San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printing in the Department of State, one hundred and fivePrinting. thousand dollar 110 miscellaneous expenses of legations.Miscellaneous. Loss by exchange if remittances of money to and from legations,Loss by exchange. two thousand five hundred dollars. Hiring of steam-launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, oneHire of launch, Constantinople. thousand eight hundred dollars. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or suchRent.
Peking, 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-seven, three thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase of building and grounds for legation at Seoul, Corea,Purchase of buildings, etc., Seoul, Corea. Cape Spartel and Tangier light. and repairs upon the same, five thousand dollars. Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Sparteland 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. persons charged with crime, five 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 Vol. 22, p. 216.extradition cases,” approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars. For expenses which maybe 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 dollars.
To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of theExpenses, neutrality act. neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Unforeseen emergencies.diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirementR.
S.,sec. 291, p. 49. of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, 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 or consular officers dying abroad. R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311. 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. Vol. 20, p. 714. Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, 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.
SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries, consuls-general.Salaries. Consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro, at sixConsuls-general. thousand dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars. Consuls-general at Shanghai and Calcutta, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars. 111 Consul-general at Kanagawa, four thousand dollars. Consul-general at Panama, four thousand dollars. Consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars. Consuls-general at Berlin, Montreal, and Honolulu, at four thousand dollars each, twelve thousand dollars.
Consul general at Halifax, three thousand five hundred dollars. Consuls-general at Saint Petersburg, Frankfort, Vienna, Constantinople, and Home, and in Ecuador, at three thousand dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars. Consul-general at Mexico, two thousand five hundred dollars. salaries, consular service. For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, three Consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents.hundred and thirty-three thousand five hundred dollars, namely:
Consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars. Consul at Hong-Kong, five thousand dollars. Class II.— At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum:Class II, $3.500 a year. china. Foochow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; Tien-Tsiu; Chin-Kiang. peru. Callao. Class III.— At three thousand dollars per annum.Class III, $3,000 a year. great britain. Manchester; Glasgow; Bradford; Belfast; Demerara; Ottawa; Singapore. china. Ningpo. france. 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 IV, $2,500 a year. great britain. Tunstall; Birmingham; Sheffield; Dundee; Leith; Nottingham; Victoria (British Columbia). 112 french dominions. Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons. argentine republic. Buenos Ayres. germany. Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden. spanish dominions. Cienfuegos; Santiago de Cuba. belgium. Brussels; Antwerp. danish dominions. St. Thomas. turkish dominions.
Smyrna. greece. Athens. Class V.— At two thousand dollars per annum.Class V, $2,000 s year. great britain. Cork: Dublin; Leeds; Cardiff; Toronto; Hamilton (Ontario); Saint John (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Nassau (New Providence); Port Louis (Mauritius); Sydney (New South Wales). venezuela. Maracaibo. turkish dominions. Beirut; Jerusalem. spanish dominions. San Juan (Porto Rico); Sagua la Grande (Cuba). barbary states. Tangier. netherlands. Rotterdam. russia. Odessa. germany.
Sonneberg; Nuremberg; Barmen; Cologne; Chemnitz; Leipsic; Crefeld. austriahungary. Trieste; Prague. switzerland. Basle; Zurich. 113 italy. Palermo. mexico. Acapulco; Matamoras. brazil. Pernambuco. madagascar. Tamatave. uruguay. Montevideo. honduras. Tegucigalpa. costa rica. Sau Jose. nicaragua. Managua; San Juan del Norte. san salvador. San Salvador. philippine islands. Manila friendly and nvaigator’s islands. Apia. Class VI.— At one thousand live hundred dollars per annum:Class VI, $1,500 a year. great britain.
Bristol; Clifton; Southampton; Newcastle; Auckland; Gibraltar; Cape Town; Saint Helena; Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island); Port Stanley (Falkland Islands); Pictou; Winnipeg; Mabe; Kingston; Prescott; Port Sarnia: Quebec; Saint John’s (Canada); Barbadoes; Bermuda; Fort Erie; Goderich (Canada West); Amherstburg (Canada West); Windsor (Canada West); Ceylon; Antigua; Saint Stephen’s; Malta. french dominions. Nice; Martinique; Guadeloupe. spain. Cadiz; Malaga; Barcelona. portuguese dominions.
Fayal (Azores); Funchal (Madeira), belgium. Verviers and Liege. germany. Munich; Stuttgart; Mannheim; Aix la Chapelle. 114 nethrelands. Amsterdam. denmark. Copenhagen. switzerland. Geneva. italy. Genoa; Naples; Milan; Leghorn; Florence; Messina. mexico. Tampico; El Paso del Norte. venezeula. Laguayra; Puerto Cabello. paraguay. Asuncion. brazil. Bahia; Para. san domingo. San Domingo. turkish dominions. Sivas. SCHEDULE C.Schedule C. Class VII.— At one thousand dollars per annum.Class VII, $1,000 a year. great britain.
Gaspe Basin; Windsor (Nova Scotia); Bombay; Sierra Leone;. Turk’s Island. chili Talcahuano. germany. Stettin. belgium. Ghent. france. Nantes; Algiers. italy. Venice. hayti. Cape Haytien. netherlands. Batavia. 115 brazil. Rio Grande do Sul. 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.
Christiania. commercial agencies.Commercial agencies. SCHEDULE C. Saint Paul de Loando; Levuka; Gaboon. And in the estimates for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,All consulates and commercial agencies to be estimated for specifically. 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-six, exceeds one thousand dollars. consular clerks.
Seven consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annumConsular clerks. each, eight thousand four hundred dollars. Six consular clerks, at one thousand dollars per annum each, six thousand dollars. consular officers not citizens. For consular officers not citizens of the United States, six thousandConsular officers not citizens. 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. Consuls-general at Berlin, Frankfort, Vienna, Montreal, and Kanagawa, and consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Manchester, Lyons, Hong-Kong, Havre, Crefeld, and Chemnitz, at one thousand two hundred dollars each: fifteen thousand six hundred dollars. 116 Consuls at Bradford, Birmingham, and Marseilles, at nine bandied 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, Nuremburg, 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 four hundred and eighty dollars each, tire thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
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 *Proviso*. Limit. Allowance to interpreters for clerical services.fiscal year: *Provided*, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed amount appropriated, ten thousand dollars: *And provided further*, 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 to consulates in china and japan.
Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China and Japan, to beInterpreters, China and Japan. expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, twelve thousand dollars. marshals for consular courts. Marshals for the consular courts in Japan, China, and Turkey, eightMarshals, consular courts. thousand dollars. miscellaneous consular expenses.Miscellaneous. Boat for official use of United States consulat Osaka and Hiogo, andLimit and crew, consul at Osaka and Hiogo. Boat and crew, consul at Hong-Kong.
Interpreters and guards. 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, live hundred dollars. Interpreters and guards at the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, and at Seoul, in Corea, four thousand dollars. Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and fromExpense of exchange. the several consulates and consulates-general, four thousand dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts.
For the expense of a prison and prison-keeper at the consulate-generalConsular prisons.Bangkok, Siam.Shanghai, China. in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. 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, 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 117 for any such keeping and feeding; this is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such prisoners: *And provided further*, That no allowance shall be made forNo allowance for self-supporting prisoners. the keeping and 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.
Bent of prisons for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages ofPrisons in Turkey. keepers of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars. relief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, or soRelief of American seamen. much thereof as may be necessary, fifty thousand dollars. foreign hospitals at panama. Annual contributions towards the support of foreign hospitals atForeign hospitals at Panama. 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.
Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the DepartmentPublication, etc., consular reports. of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars. Expense of revising the Consular Regulations by the Department ofRevising consular Regulations. State, three thousand dollars. contingent expenses, united states consulates. Expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and otherContingent expenses. books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight, foreign and domestic, telegrams, advertising, messenger-service, traveling expenses of consular clerks, 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, July 1, 1886.