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CHAP. 278.— An act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety.February 26, 1889. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Diplomatic and consular service appropriations. 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 ninety, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: 697 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 Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador (to reside at such place in either of said states as the President may direct), ten thousand dollars. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, the United States of Colombia, Turkey, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, and Venezuela, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Minister resident in Hawaiian Islands, seven thousand five hundredMinisters resident. dollars.
Minister resident and consul-general in Corea, seven thousand fiveMinisters resident and consuls-general. hundred dollars. Minister resident and consul-general to Greece, Roumania, and Servia, six thousand five hundred dollars. Ministers resident and consuls-general in Bolivia, Denmark, Hayti, Persia, Portugal, Siam, and Switzerland, at five thousand dollars each, thirty-five thousand dollars (and the minister resident and consul-general in Hayti shall also be accredited as charge d’affaires to San Domingo).
Minister resident at Uruguay and Paraguay, seven thousand five hundred dollars. 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 ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twentyCharges d’affaires. 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 the legations at Berlin. London, and Paris, atSecond secretaries. two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars. Second secretaries of the legations in China and Japan, who shallIn China and Japan to be students of the language. 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.
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. Peru. Argentine Republic and Venezuela, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars.
Secretary of legation at Corea, one thousand five hundred dollars. 698 salaries interpreters and clerks to legations. Interpreters.Interpreter to the legation in Turkey, three thousand dollars; interpreter to the legation in China, three thousand dollars; interpreter to the legation in Japan, two thousand five 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, five hundred dollars; eleven No additional pay to interpreter.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. Clerk, Spain.Clerk at the legation in Spain, one thousand two 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, janitors, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the Dispatch agents.consulate at Tangier, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous Printing.expenses of legations, and for printing in the Department of.
State, one hundred and five thousand dollars. miscellaneous expenses of legations. Loss by exchange.Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from legations, two thousand five hundred dollars. Steam-launch, Constantinople.Hiring of steam-launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Rent.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 rent of legation buildings in Tokio, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, three thousand four hundred dollars. miscellaneous expenses foreign intercourse. Cape Spartel and Tangier Light.Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier light, on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-live dollars. Bringing home persons charged with crime.Actual expenses incurred in obtaining the extradition of and bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
Extradition expenses. Vol. 22, p. 216.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. Lite saving testimonials.For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Expenses, neutrality actTo meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality act. to be expended under the direction of the R. S., sec. 291, p. 49President, 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. 699 To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising inUnforeseen emergencies. the 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 RevisedR.
S., sec. 291, p. 49. Statutes, eighty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundredPayment to heirs of diplomatic or consular officers dying abroad. 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.
For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of ministersTransporting remains of ministers and consuls. and diplomatic officers, consuls and consular clerks of the United States, who may have died, or may die, abroad, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, 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 thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same,Vol. 20, p. 714. 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 salary and expenses of a commercial agent at Boma, in theCommercial agent at Boma, Congo.
Lower Congo Basin, with authority to visit and report upon the commercial resources of the Upper and Lower Congo Basin, their products, their minerals, their vegetable wealth, the openings for American trade, and to collect such information on the subject of that country as shall be thought of interest to the United States, four thousand dollars. To enable the President to cause to be paid to the Government ofPayment to Japanese. explosion of shells from U.S. S. Omaha. Japan, to be by it distributed among the families of the Japanese subjects accidentally killed or injured by the explosion of shells from the United States steamer Omaha while engaged in target practice near the Island of Ikesima on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, fifteen thousand dollars, the same to be received as full indemnity for the loss and injuries caused as aforesaid, said sum to be immediately available.
For the execution of the obligations and the protection of the interestsProtection of interests of the United States in Samoan Islands. of the United States, existing under the treaty between the United States and the Government of the Samoan Islands, five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the President, this appropriation to be immediately available. SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries consular service.Salaries.
Consuls-general at Havana, London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro,Consuls-general. at six 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, Ottawa, Rome, Saint Petersburg, and Vienna, at three thousand dollars each, twenty-one thousand dollars. 700 Consul-general at Mexico, two thousand five hundred dollars. Consul-general at Apia (Samoan and Friendly Islands), three thousand dollars. Consuls, vice-consuls. and commercial agents.For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, three hundred and seventy-eight thousand five hundred dollars, as follows, namely:
Consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars. Consul at Hong-Kong, five thousand dollars. Class II.Class II, $3,500 a year. At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. China: Consuls at Amoy, Canton, Chin-Kiang, Foo-Chow, Hankow, and Tien-Tsin. Peru: Consul at Callao. Class III.Class III, $3,000 a year. At three thousand dollars per annum. Austria-Hungary: Consul at Prague. Belgium: Consul at Antwerp. Chili: Consul at Valparaiso. China: Consul at Ningpo. France: Consul at Havre.
Germany: Consul at Barmen. Great Britain and British dominions. Consuls at Belfast, Bradford, Demerara, Glasgow, Manchester, 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, $2,300 a year. 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 Annaberg, Bremen, Brunswick, Dresden, Hamburg, and Mayence. Greece: Consul at Athens. 701 Great Britain and British dominions: Consuls at Birmingham, Dundee, Leith, Nottingham, Sheffield, Tunstall, and Victoria (British Columbia). Mexico: Consuls at Nuevo Laredo and Paso del Norte. 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 a year. At two thousand dollars per annum. Austria-Hungary: Consul at Trieste. Barbary States: . Consul at Tangier. Brazil: Consul at Pernambuco. Colombia: Consul at Barranquilla. Costa Rica: Consul at San Jose. France: Consuls at Rheims and Saint Etienne. Germany: Consuls at Chemnitz, Cologne, Crefeld, Dusseldorf, Leipsic, Nuremberg, and Sonneberg. 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 Tamatave. Mexico: Consuls at Acapulco and Piedras Negras. 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 Sagua la Grande (Cuba). Switzerland: Consuls at Basle, Horgen, and Zurich, Turkish dominions: Consuls at Beirut and Jerusalem. Uruguay: Consul at Montevideo. Venezuela: Consul at Maracaibo. 702 Class VI.Class VI, $1,500 a year. At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Brazil: Consuls at Bahia, Para, and Santos. Belgium: Consul at Liege and Verviers. Caroline Islands: Consul at Ponape.
Denmark: Consul at Copenhagen. France and French dominions: Consuls at Cognac, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Nice. Germany: Consuls at Aix-la-Chapelle, Breslau, Kehl, Mannheim, Munich, and Stuttgart. Great Britain and British dominions: Consuls at Amherstburg (Canada), Antigua (West Indies). Auckland (New Zealand). Barbadoes, Bermuda, Bristol, Brookville (Canada), 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, Picton (Canada), Port Hope (Canada), Port Sarnia (Canada), Port Stanley (Falkland Islands), Prescott (Canada), Southampton, Saint Helena, Saint John’s (Canada), Saint Stephens (Canada), Stratford (Canada). Three Rivers (Canada), Windsor (Canada), and Winnipeg (Manitoba). Italy: Consuls at Florence, Genoa, Leghorn, Messina, Milan, and Naples. Mexico: Consuls at Matamoras, Nogales, 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. Belgium: Consul at Ghent. Brazil: Consul at Rio Grande do Sul. Chili: Consul at Talcahuano.
France and French dominions: Consuls at Algiers and Nantes; and commercial agent at Gaboon (Africa). 703 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), and commercial agent at Levuka (Fiji). Hayti: Consul at Cape Haytien. Honduras: Consul at Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utilla). Italy: Consul at Venice. Mexico: Consul at Guaymas. Muscat:
Consul at Zanzibar. Netherlands: Consul at Batavia. Portuguese dominions: Consuls at Mozambique (Africa) and Santiago (Cape Verde Islands); and commercial agent at Saint Paul de Loando (Africa). Society Islands: Consul at Tahiti. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Christiania. And in the estimates for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteenConsulates and commercial agents receiving $1,000 to be estimated tor specifically. hundred and ninety-one, 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-nine, 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. For salaries of consular officers not citizens of the United States,Consular officers not citizens. six thousand dollars. allowance for clerks at consular officers. For allowance for clerks at consulates-general and consulates, fifty-twoClerks at consulates. thousand four hundred and eighty dollars, the sum to be allowed at each not to exceed the rate herein specified, as follows:
Liverpool, two thousand dollars. Havana, one thousand six hundred dollars. Shanghai, one thousand two hundred dollars. London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Berlin, Bremen, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Frankfort, Hamburg, Havre, Hong-Kong, Kanagawa, Lyons, Manchester, Montreal, Barmen, and Vienna, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars. Birmingham, Bradford, and Marseilles, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
Antwerp, Bordeaux, Calcutta, Colon, Dresden, Glasgow, Leipsic, Melbourne, Nuremberg, Panama, Port au Prince, Sheffield, Singapore, Sonneberg, Tunstall. Toronto, and Brussels, at eight hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars. 704 Belfast. Dundee, Halifax. Leith. Matamoras, and Victoria, at six hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. Beirut, Berne. Demerara, Florence, Genoa, Malaga, Mannheim, Mexico, Naples, Prague, Stuttgart, and Zurich, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Consulates not specified.For an additional allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expended 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 *Provisos*.one fiscal year, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total Limit.sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated: Pay to interpreters for clerical services.*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, 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 China, Japan, 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. Loss by exchange.Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and from the several consulates and consulates-general, four thousand dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts.Consular prisons. Bangkok. Siam.For the expense of a prison and prison-keeper at the consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. Shanghai. China.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.
Kanagawa, Japan.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, one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Keeping, etc., prisoners. *Provisos*. Maximum allowance.For the purpose of paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners 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 No allowance to self-supporting prisoners.required by such 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-five cents per day; and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case.
Rent, etc., prisons in Turkey.Rent of prisons for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars. 705 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. 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 compradores, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates, consular agencies, and commercial agencies in the transaction of their business, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, February 26, 1889.