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CHAP. 545.— 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-two.March 3, 1891. *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-two, 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 France,Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. Germany, Great Britain, Russia, and Mexico, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Austria, Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, and Spain, at twelve thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Turkey, Chili, the Argentine Republic, the United States of Colombia, and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each fifty thousand dollars.
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Guatemala and Honduras, ten thousand dollars. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Salvador, ten thousand dollars. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Paraguay and Uruguay, Hawaiian Islands, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, Denmark, and Venezuela, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, and Ecuador, each five thousand dollars.
Minister resident and consul-generalMinisters resident and consuls-general. in Corea, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Greece, Roumania, and Servia, six thousand five hundred dollars. Ministers resident and consuls-general in Hayti, Persia, Portugal, and Siam, at five thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars (and the minister resident and consul-general in Hayti shall also be accredited as chargé d’affaires to Santo Domingo Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Switzerland, five thousand dollars.
Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars. Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars.Agent, etc., Cairo. Chargés d’affaires ad interim and diplomaticChargés d’affaires. officers abroad, twenty thousand dollars. salaries of ministers, consuks, and other officers while receiving instructions and making transits. To pay the salaries of ministers, consuls, and other officers of theMinisters, con sols, etc., while receiving instructions, etc.
Transit pay. United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions, and in making transits to and from their posts in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty, Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal yearR. S., sec. 1740, pp. 309, 310. ending June thirtieth, eighteen Hundred and ninety-two, is hereby appropriated. 1054 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,Second secretaries. at 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, atone thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars.
Secretary of legation and consul-general at Bogota, two thousandSecretaries of legation 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, 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. salaries interpreters and clerks 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 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; in all, eleven 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 at the legation in Spain, one thousand two hundredClerk, Spain. dollars. contingent expenses foreign missions. For the purpose of enabling the President to provide at the publicContingent expenses, foreign Missions. expense, all such stationery, blanks, record, and other books, seals, firesses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several egations 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 Printing.miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printing in the Department of State, one hundred and five thousand dollars. miscellaneous expenses of legations.
Loss by exchange in 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,Steam launch, Constantinople. one thousand eight hundred dollars. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, orRent. such other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars. 1055 For rent of legation buildings in Tokio, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, four thousand dollars. miscellaneous expenses foreign intercourse.
Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and TangierCape Spartel and Tangier light. light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. Actual expenses incurred in obtaining the extradition of and Bringing home persons charged with crime.bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of State to comply with the requirementsExtradition expenses. of the fourth section of “An act regulating fees and the practice in extradition cases,” approved August third, eighteen hundred andVol, 22, p. 216. eighty-two, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment ofLife-saving testimonials. the 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 ofExpenses, neutrality act. the neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirements of section two hundred and ninety-oneR. S., sec. 291, p. 40. of the Revised Statutes, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
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 pursuantR. S., sec. 291, p. 4O. to the requirements of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised 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. 811. 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 diplomaticRemains of ministers, consuls, etc. and consular officers, 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 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five,Vol. 20, p. 714. 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 salary and expenses of a commercial agent at Borna, in theCommercial agent at Borna, 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 to that country as shall be thought of interest to the United States, five thousand dollars. continental railway survey.Continental Railway Survey.
For payment of the share of the United States of the expense of a Preliminary survey.preliminary survey for a continental railway recommended by the International American Conference, sixty-five thousand dollars. 1056 bureau of commercial information.Bureau of Commercial Information. For “The International Union of American Republics for theInternational Union of American Republics, commercial information. prompt collection and distribution of commercial information,” thirty-six thousand dollars, and the sums contributed by other American Republics for this purpose when collected, shall be covered into the Treasury.
SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries consular service.Salaries. Consuls-general at Havana, London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, atConsuls-general. 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, Mexico, and Panama, at four thousand dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars.
Consuls-general at Halifax and Vienna, at three thousand five hundred dollars each, seven thousand dollars. Consuls-general at Constantinople, Ecuador, Frankfort, Ottawa, Rome, and Saint Petersburg, at three thousand dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars. Consul-general at Nuevo-Laredo, two thousand five hundred dollars. Consul-general at Apia (Samoan and Friendly Islands), three thousand dollars. Consul-general at Tangier, two thousand dollars. For salaries of consuls, vice consuls, and commercial agents, fourConsuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents. hundred and six thousand dollars, as follows, namely, Consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars.
Consul at Hong-Kong, five thousand dollars. Class II.Class II. $3,500 ayear. At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. China: Consuls at Amoy, Canton, ChinKiang, Foo-Chow, Hankow, and TienTsin. France: Consul at Havre. Peru: Consul at Callao. Class III.Class III. $3,000a year. At three thousand dollars per annum. Austria-Hungary: Consul at Prague. Belgium: Consul at Antwerp. Chili: Consul at Valparaiso. Uruguay: Consul at Montevideo. China: Consul at Ningpo. France: Consul at Bordeaux. 1057 Germany:
Consul at Barmen. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Belfast, Bradford, Demerara, Glasgow, Kingston (Jamaica) Manchester and Singapore. Japan: Consuls at Nagasaki, and Osaka and Hiogo. Mexico: Consul at Vera Cruz. Spanish dominions: Consul at Matanzas (Cuba). Switzerland: Consul at Basle. United States of Colombia: Consul at Colon (Aspinwall). Class IV.Class IV. $2,500 a year. At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Argentine Republic: Consul at Buenos Ayres.
Austria: Consul at Reichenberg. Belgium: Consul at Brussels. Danish dominions: Consul at Saint Thomas. France: Consuls at Lyons and Marseilles. Germany: Consuls at Annaberg, Aixla-Chapelle, Bremen, Brunswick, Chemnitz, Dresden, Hamburg, and Mayence. Greece: Consul at Athens. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Birmingham, Dundee, Leith, Nottingham, Sheffield Tunstall, Victoria (British Columbia), and Huddersfield. Mexico: Consul at 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. Brazil: Consul at Pernambuco. Colombia: Consul at Barranquilla. Costa Rica: Consul at San José. France: Consuls at Rheims and Saint Etienne. Germany: Consuls at Cologne, Crefeld, Dusseldorf, Leipsic, Nuremberg, Stuttgart Sonneberg, and Magdeburg.1058 Great Britain and British Dominions:
Consuls at Cardiff, Chatham, Cork, Dublin, Dunfermline, Hamilton (Canada), Leeds, Nassau (New Providence), Port Louis (Mauritius), Port Stanley and Saint Thomas (Canada), Saint Johns (New Brunswick), Sherbrooke (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 Baracoa, Manila (Philippine Islands), San Juan (Porto Rico), and Sagua la Grande (Cuba). Switzerland: Consuls at Horgen and Zurich. Turkish dominions: Consuls at Beirut and Jerusalem. Venezuela: Consul at Maracaibo. 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 Breslau, Kehl, Mannheim, and Munich. Great Britain and British dominions: Consuls at Amherstburg (Canada), Antigua (West Indies), Auckland (New Zealand), Barbadoes, Bermuda, Bristol, Brookville, (Canada) Cape Town, Coaticook (Canada), Ceylon (India), Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island), Clifton (Canada), Fort Erie (Canada), Goderich (Canada), Gibraltar, Guelph (Canada), Kingston Canada), London (Canada).
Malta, Morrisburg (Canada), 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 Stephens (Canada), Stratford (Canada), Three Rivers (Canada), Wallaceburg (Canada), Windsor (Canada), Winnipeg (Manitoba,) Woodstock (New Brunswick), and Yarmouth (Nova Scotia). Italy: Consuls at Castela-Mare, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Leghorn, Messina, Milan, and Naples.1059 Mexico:
Consuls at Matamoras, Merida, Nogales, and Tampico. Netherlands: Consul at Amsterdam. Paraguay: Consul at Asuncion. Portuguese dominions: Consuls at Payai (Azores) and Funchal (Madeira). San Domingo: Consul at Santo Domingo. Spain: Consuls at Barcelonia, Cadiz, Cardenas, Dénia, and Malaga. Switzerland: Consul at Geneva. Sweden and Norway: Consuls at Gottenberg and Stockholm. Turkey: Consul at Sivas. Venezuela: Consuls at La Guayra 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). 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: Consul 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. 1060 And in the estimates for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth,Consulates and commercial agencies receiving $1,000 to lie estimated fur, specifically. eighteen hundred and ninety-three, 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 ninety-one exceed one thousand dollars. consular clerks.Consular clerks.
Six consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum 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, ten thousand dollars. allowance for clerks at consular offices.Clerks at consulates. For allowance for clerks at consulates-general and consulates, fifty-five thousand nine 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, two thousand six hundred dollars. London and Paris, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, three thousand two hundred dollars. Antwerp, one thousand five hundred dollars. Shanghai, one thousand six hundred dollars. Rio de Janeiro, one thousand six hundred dollars. Berlin, Bremen, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Frankfort, Hamburg, Havre, Hong-Kong, Kanagawa, Lyons, Manchester, Montreal, Barmen, Mexico, and Vienna, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars.
Belfast, one thousand dollars. Birmingham, Bradford, and Marseilles, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Bordeaux, Calcutta, Colon, Dresden, Dundee, Glasgow, Leipsic, Melbourne, NuevoLaredo, Nuremberg, Panama, Portau-Prince, Sheffield, Singapore, Sonneberg, Tunstall. Toronto, and Brussels, at eight hundred dollars each, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars. Halifax, Leith, and Victoria, at six hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
Beirut, Berne, Demerara, Florence, Genoa, Malaga, Mannheim, Naples, Prague, Stuttgart, and Zurich, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, five thousand two hundred and eighty 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 five hundred dollars to be allowed to any one *Provisos*.consulate in any one fiscal year, thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, Limit.That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated: *And provided further*, That out of the amount hereby Pay to interpreters for clerical services.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, Corea, and Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars. 1061 Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions and at Zanzibar, six thousand dollars. Marshals for the consular courts in China, Japan, and Turkey, nine thousand three hundred 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. For the expense of a prison and prison keeper at the consulateBangkok, Siam. general in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for AmericaShanghai, China.n 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, etc., prisoners. in China, Corea, Japan, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than seventy-five cents perday for the keeping *Provisos*.and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall beMaximum allowance. 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 prisoners: *And provided further*, That noNo allowance to self-supporting prisoners. allowance shall be made made for the keeping anti feeding of any prisoner who is able to pay, or does pay, the above sum of seventy-five cents perday; and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case.
Rent of prisons for American convicts in Turkey, and for wagesRent, etc., prisons in Turkey. of 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. 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. 1062FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 545, 546. 1891. 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, March 3, 1891.