Chapter 706. making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one
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CHAP. 706.— 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-one.July 14, 1890. *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 anti ninety-one, 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.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to France, Germany, Great Britain, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars. Envoys extraordinary anti 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 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 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 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. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Bolivia, five thousand dollars.
Ministers resident and consuls-generalMinister resident and consul-general in Corea, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Minister resident and consul-general to Greece, Romania, and Servia, six thousand five hundred dollars. Ministers resident and consul-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 charge d’affaires to San Domingo). Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Switzerland, five thousand dollars.
Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars. Agent, etc., Cairo.Charges d’affaires.Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars. Charges d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twenty thousand dollars. salaries of ministers, consuls, and other officers while receiving instructions and making transits. Ministers, consuls, etc., while receiving instructions, etc.Transit pay.[R. S., Sec. 1740, pp. 309, 810](/us/rs/t/s1740/pp309/810).To pay the salaries of ministers, consuls, and other officers of the 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 year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, is hereby appropriated.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 706. 1890.273 salaries secretaries of legations. Secretaries of the legations in Berlin, China, Japan, London,Secretaries of legations. Paris, 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, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars.
Secretary of legation and consul-general at Bogota, two thousandSecretaries of legation and consuisgeneral. 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. 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 interpreterNo additional pay to 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 hundred dollars.Clerk, Spain. 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, 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 consulate at Tangier, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London,Dispatch agents.
New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printing in the Department of State,Printing. 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 Pekin, or suchRent. other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars. 274 For rent of legation buildings in Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth eighteen hundred and ninety, three thousand four hundred dollars.
Repairs, etc., Bangkok.For repairing and improvement of legation premises at Bangkok, Siam, the same, with the ground, being the gift of the Government of Siam, three thousand dollars. Constructing embankment in front of legation buildings at Bangkok, Siam, one thousand six 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-five 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 requirements 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.
Lifesaving 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 act.To 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. 49](/us/rs/t/s291/p49).President, 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.
Unforeseen emergencies.To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to [R. S. Sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/t/s291/p49).the requirements of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, eighty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Payment to heirs of diplomatic or consular officers, dying abroad.[R.
S.. Sec. 1749, p. 811](/us/rs/t/s1749/p811).For the payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, of the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five thousand dollars. Transporting remains or ministers and consuls.For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic 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.
International Bureau of Weightsand Measures.Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, in conformity with the terms of the convention Vol. 20, p. 714.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.
Commercial agent at Boma, Congo.For salary and expenses of a commercial agent at Boma, in the 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, five thousand dollars. 275 international american conference.International American Conference.
To enable the President to carry into effect the recommendations of the International American Conference so far as he shall deem it expedient, when the same are agreed to by the Governments represented in such Conference, or a majority of them, as follows, includingRestriction.*Post*, p. 679.Compensation of employees.Rent, fuel, etc. the compensation of translators, copyists, clerks, and other employees, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars; for office rent, stationery, postage, fuel, lights, and other miscellaneous expenses, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; for the printingPrinting, etc. and distribution to the public of the proceedings and reports of the International American Conference, twenty-five thousand dollars; in all, forty-nine thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; and such appropriations, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction and subject to the approval of the Secretary of State.
For compensation of three commissioners, not more than two ofThree international coin commissioners to be appointed.Pontical representation.Duty. whom shall belong to one political party, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to consider the establishment of an international coin or coins, as recommended by the International American Conference, who shall receive, in lieu of expenses, an allowance of ten dollars per diemCompensation. during the time they shall be engaged in the actual performance of their duties; and for other expenses attending the meeting of suchOther expenses. commissioners, fifteen thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction and subject to the approval of the Secretary of State; and the President of the United States is authorized to invite the GovernmentsInvitation to certain other nations to appoint commissioners.Place, etc., of meeting. of the several other American Republics and the Hawaiian Kingdom to appoint commissioners for a like purpose to meet in the city of Washington on the first Wednesday of January, eighteen hundred and ninety-one.
For payment of the share of the United States of a preliminaryPayment for preliminary survey of continental railway. survey for information in respect of a continental railway recommended by the International American Conference, sixty-five thousand dollars; and in aid of such survey the President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, threeThree continental railway commissioners to be appointed.Political representation.Compensation. members of the Continental Railway Commission, not more than two of whom shall belong to one political party, whose compensation shall be paid from the common international railway fund as recommended by the International American Conference; and the President may, in addition to civil engineers employed by said commission, and at the request of the commission, detail from the Army and NavyDetail of Army and Navy engineers for survey. of the United States such officers as, in his discretion, may be spared without detriment to the service, to serve as engineers under such commission in making a survey for a continental railway; and officers so detailed may receive, in addition to their lawful pay and allowances,Additional compensation to detailed officers. from the common intercontinental railway fund, such compensation in lieu of expenses as may be allowed them by said commission.
For the organization and establishment, under the direction of theInternational Union of American Republics, commercial information. Secretary of State, of “The International Union of American Republics for the 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. For the compilation and publication, under the direction of theCompiling, etc., uniform mercantile nomenclature, in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Secretary of State, of a uniform nomenclature of articles of merchandise exported and imported in the English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, and provided by the International American Conference, ten thousand dollars. 276 SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries consular service.Salaries. Consuls-general.Consuls-general at Havana, London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, 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, 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 NuevoLaredo, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Consul-general at Apia (Samoan and Friendly Islands), three thousand dollars. Consul-general at Tangier, two thousand dollars. Consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents.For salaries of consuls, vice consuls, and commercial agents, four hundred and one thousand five hundred dollars, as follows, namely: Consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars. Consul at Hong-Kong, five thousand dollars. Class II.Class II, $8,500 a year. 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 IIIClass III, $3,000 a 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. 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. 277 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 Atheus. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Birmingham, Dundee, Leith. Nottingham, Sheffield, Tunstall, and Victoria (British Columbia). 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, and Sonneberg. Great Britain and British dominions: Consuls at Cardiff, Chatham, Cork, Dublin, Dunfermline, Hamilton (Canada), Kingston (Jamaica), Leeds, Nassau (NewProvidence), Port Louis (Mauritius), Port Stanley and Saint Thomas (Canada).
Saint Johns (New Brunswick), Sherbrook (Canada), Sydney (New South Wales), and Toronto (Canada). Honduras: Consul at Tegucigalpa. 278 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 (Philipine 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 VIdas 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, Gaudeloupe, 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.\ Mexico: Consuls at Matamoras, Merida, Nogales, and Tampico. Netherlands: Consul at Amsterdam. Paraguay: Consul at Asuncion. 279 Portuguese dominions: Consuls at Fayal (Azores) and Funchal (Madeira). San Domingo: Consul at San Domingo. Spain: Consuls at Barcelona, Cadiz, Cardenas, Denia, and Malaga.
Switzerland: Consul at Geneva. Sweden and Norway: Consuls at Guttenberg and Stockholm. Turkey: Consul at Si vas. 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: Consu 1 at Taicahuan o. 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: Consuls at Mozambique (Africa) aud 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 agencies receiving $1,000, to be estimated for, specifically. hundred and ninety-two, 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 exceed one thousand dollars. 280 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 six hundred and twenty 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. Antwerp, one thousand five hundred dollars. Shanghai, one thousand six 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, Mexico, and Vienna, at one thousand two hundred 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, Melborne, NuevoLaredo, Nuremberg, Panama, Port au Prince, Sheffield, Singapore, Sonneberg, Tunstall, Toronto, and Brussels, at eight hundred dollars each, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars. Halifax, Leith, Matamoras and Victoria, at six hundred and forty dollars each, two thousand five hundred and sixty 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. 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 five hundred dollars to be allowed to any one *Proviso*.Limit.Pay to interpreters tor clerical services.consulate in any one fiscal year thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated: *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, Corea, and Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars. 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. 281 boat-hire. Boat for official use of United States consul at Osaka and Hiogo,Boat-hire. 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. expenses of 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 AmericanKanagawa, Japan. 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. 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 per day for the keeping*Provisos*.Maximum allowance. 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 prisoners: *And provided further*, That noNo allowance to self-supporting prisoners. 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 of prisons for American convicts in Turkey, and for wagesRent, etc., prisoners 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 suffei’ing seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said Hospitals, five hundred dollars. american cemetery at acapulco, mexico.American cemetery, Acapulco, Mexico.
For improving and putting in proper condition the American cemetery at Acapulco, Mexico, one thousand 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. 282FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. I. Chs. 706, 707. 1890. contingent expenses united states consulates.Contingent expanses, 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, July 14, 1890.