Chapter 182. making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four
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CHAP. 182.— An Act making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.March 1, 1893 *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 four, 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 Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and Mexico, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China, Japan, Spain, Austria, Italy, and Brazil, at twelve thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars; 497 Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Argentine Republic, Colombia, Peru, Turkey, and Chile, at ten thousand dollars each, fifty thousand dollars;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Salvador, ten thousand dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Guatemala and Honduras, ten thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Belgium, Hawaiian Islands, Netherlands, Venezuela, and Paraguay and Uruguay, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty seven thou sand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand five hundred dollars; and said rank shall take effect on the approval of this act:
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway, and to Denmark, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia and Ecuador, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars: Minister resident and consul general in Korea, seven thousand fiveMinisters resident and consuls-general. hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Switzerland, five thousand dollars.
Ministers resident and consuls-general in Siam, Persia, Portugal, and Haiti, at five thousand dollars each (and the minister resident and consul-general in Haiti shall also accredited as chargé d’affaires to Santo Domingo), twenty thousand dollars; Minister resident and consul-general in Liberia, four thousand dollars; Agent and consul general at Cairo, five thousand dollars;Agent, etc., Cairo.Chargés d’affaires. Chargés d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twenty thousand dollars;
Total, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. Whenever the President shall be advised that any foreign governmentChanges in rank authorized. is represented, or is about to be represented, in United States by an ambassador, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, special envoy, or chargé d’affaires, he is authorized, in his discretion, to direct that the representative of United States to such government shall bear the same designation. This provision shall inDuties, powers, and salary not affected. nowise affect the duties, powers, or salary of such representative. salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits.
To pay the salaries of ministers, consuls, and other officers of theMinisters, consuls, etc., while receiving instructions, etc. United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions, and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June[R. S., sec. 1740. pp. 309, 310](/us/rs/t/s1740/pp309/310). thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, is hereby appropriated. salaries, secretaries of legations.
Secretaries of the legations in London, Paris, Berlin, Saint Petersburg,Secretaries of legations. China, and Japan, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Secretary of legation in Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars. Secretary of legation in Korea, one thousand five hundred dollars. Secretary of legation and consul general at Bogota, two thousand dollars. 498 Secretary of legation in Guatemala and Honduras and consul general to Guatemala, two thousand dollars;
Secretaries of the legations in Turkey, Austria, Italy, Spain, and Brazil, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars; Secretaries of legations in Argentine Republic, Venezuela, Chile, and Peru at one thousand live hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars; Second secretaries.Second secretaries of the legations at London, Paris, and Berlin, at 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;
Total, forty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. salaries, interpreters to legations. InterpretersInterpreters to the legations in China, and Turkey, at three thousand dollars each, six 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 Korea, one thousand dollars; Interpreter to the legation and consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam five hundred dollars;
Total, eleven thousand dollars. No additional pay to interpreter.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-hire at legations. Clerk-hire, Spain.Clerk-hire at the legation in Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars. contingent expenses, foreign missions. Contingent expenses, foreign missions.To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, 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 Dispatch agents.Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangier, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for Printing.traveling and miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printing in the Department of State ninety thousand dollars. loss by exchange, diplomatic service.
Loss by exchange.Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from legations, two thousand five hundred dollars. steam launch for legation at constantinople. Steam launch, Constantinople.Hiring of steam launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, one thousand eight hundred dollars. 499 buildings and grounds for legation in china. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, orRent.China. such other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars. rent of legation building in tokyo, japan.
Rent of legation building in Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending MarchJapan. fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand dollars. annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco. 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. bringing home criminals. Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countriesBringing home persons charged with crime. persons charged with crime, five thousand dollars. fees and costs in extradition cases.
To enable the Secretary of State to comply with the requirements ofExtradition expenses. the fourth section of “An act regulating fees and the practice in extradition cases,” approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two,Vol. 22, p. 216. to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen. Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of theLife saving testimonials. services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. expenses under the neutrality act.
To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of theExpenses, neutrality act. neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as[R. S., sec. 291. p. 49](/us/rs/t/s291/p49). may be necessary. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. 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 requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised[R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/t/s291/p49). Statutes, sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad. Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred andPayment to heirs of diplomatic or consular officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/t/s1749/p311). forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to 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. 500 transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular clerks to their homes for interment.
Remains of ministers, consuls, etc.Defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic and consular officers of the United States including consular clerks, who have died or may die abroad, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, ten thousand dollars. international bureau of weights and measures. International Bureau of Weights and Measures.Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, in conformity with the terms of the convention of Vol. 20, p. 714.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. international union of american republics.
Bureau of the American Republics.Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, for the prompt collection and distribution of commercial information, as recommended by the International American Conference, thirty thousand dollars. And of the sums heretofore, or which may be hereafter, contributed by the other American Republics for this purpose, there shall be covered into the Treasury the amount necessary to reimburse the United States for the sum advanced beyond its contributive share for the maintenance of the Bureau of the American Republics. united states and chilean claims commission.
United States and Chilean claims commission.*Post*, p. 966.To carry into effect the convention between the United States and Chile for the settlement of certain claims of the citizens of either country against the other, signed at Santiago on the seventh day of August, Amount.Immediately availableExpenditure.eighteen hundred and ninety-two, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, this appropriation to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the President, in such manner as he shall deem reasonable and proper, for the compensation of the commissioner, secretary, and agent, on the part of the United States, and for the contingent expenses of the commission, including the moiety of the compensation of the third commissioner and the *Proviso*.Commissioner.Secretary.taking of testimony on behalf of the United States:
Prodded, That the compensation of the commissioner on the part of the United States shall not exceed the rate of five thousand dollars a year, that of the secretary on the part of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars a Agent.Ratable deduction on awards.year, and that of the agent of the United States, four thousand dollars a year; and that the ratable deduction on the amount of the sums awarded by the Commissioners, not exceeding the rate of five per centum on the sums so awarded, which, in accordance with the provisions of the tenth article of said convention, is to be retained in reimbursement of the expenses of the commission, shall be covered into the Treasury.
SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries, consular service.Salaries. Consuls-general.Consul-general at Havana, six thousand dollars; Consuls-general at London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, at five thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars. Consuls-general at Shanghai and Calcutta, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; 501 Consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars; Consuls-general at Berlin, Montreal, Kanagawa, Panama. Mexico (city), and Honolulu, 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 Apia, Constantinople, Dresden, Ecuador, Frankfort, Ottawa, Rome, Saint Petersburg, and Saint Gall, at three thou sand dollars each, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Consul general at Nuevo Laredo, two thousand five hundred dollars; Consuls-general at Tangier and Maracaibo, at two thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars; Consul-general at Santo Domingo, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Total, one hundred and one thousand five hundred dollars. Class I.Class I. For salaries of consuls, vice consuls, and commercial agents, threeConsuls etc. hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, as follows, namely: Consul at Liverpool, five thousand dollars. Consul at Hongkong, five thousand dollars. For salary and expenses of a commercial agent at Boma, in the LowerCommercial agent, Boma. Kongo Basin, with authority to visit and report upon the commercial resources of the Upper and Lower Kongo basins, 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.
Class II.Class II, $3,500 a year. At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. China: Consuls at Amoy, Canton, and Tientsin. France: Consul at Havre. Peru: Consul at Callao. Class III.Class III, $3,000 a year. At three thousand dollars per annum. Austria: Consul at Prague. Belgium: Consul at Antwerp. Chile: Consul at Valparaiso. Colombia: Consul at Colon (Aspinwall). China: Consuls at Chinkiang, Fuchau, and Hankow. France: Consul at Bordeaux. 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. 502 Spanish Dominions: Consul at Matanzas (Cuba). Switzerland: Consul at Basle. Uruguay: Consul at Montevideo. 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. China: Consul at Ninpo.
Danish Dominions: Consul at Saint Thomas. France: Consul at Lyons and Marseilles. Germany: Consuls at Annaberg, Aixla-Chapelle, Bremen, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Hamburg, Nuremberg, and Mayence. Greece: Consul at Athens. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Birmingham, Dundee, Leith, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Tunstall, Victoria (British Columbia, and Huddersfield. Mexico: Consul at Paso del Norte. Spanish Dominions: Consuls at Cieufuegos and Santiago de Cuba. 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 Jose. France: Consul at Rheims and Saint Etienne. Germany: Consuls at Cologne, Crefeld, Dusseldorf. Leipsic, Brunswick. Sonneberg and Magdeburg. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Belize (British Honduras), Cardif, Chatham, Cork, Dublin, Dunfermline, Hamilton, (Ontario), Leeds, Nassau, (New Providence), Port Louis (Mauritius), Port Stanley and Saint Thomas (Canada), Saint John (New Brunswick) Sherbrooke (Cauada), Sydney (New South Wales), and Toronto, (Canada).
Honduras: Consul at Tegucigalpa. Italy: Consul at Palermo. 503 Madagascar: Consul at Tamatave. Mexico: Consuls at Acapulco, Piedras Negras, and Tampico. 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 (Puerto Rico), and Sagua la Grande (Cuba). Switzerland: Consuls at Horgen and Zurich. Turkish Dominions:
Consuls at Beirut and Jerusalem. 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. Denmark: Consul at Copenhagen. France and French Dominions: Consuls at Cognac, Guadelupe. 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, Brockville (Ontario), Cape Town, Coaticook (Canada), Ceylon (India), Charlottetown (Prince Ed ward Island), Clifton (Canada), Fort Erie (Canada), Goderich (Canada) Gibraltar, Guelph (Canada), Kingston (Canada) London (Canada), Malta, Morrisburg (Canada), Newcastle-on Tyne, Pictou (Canada), Port Hope (Canada), Port Sarnia (Canada), Port Stanley (Falkland Islands), Prescott (Canada), Quebec, Saint Helena, Saint Johns (Quebec), Saint Stephens (Canada), Stratford (Ontario), Three Rivers (Canada), Wallaceburg (Canada) Windsor (Ontario), 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, and Nogales. Netherlands: Consul at Amsterdam. Paraguay: Consul at Asuncion. Portuguese Dominions: Consuls at Fayal (Azores), and Funchal (Madeira). Spain: Consuls at Barcelona, Cadiz, Cardenas Denia and Malaga. Switzerland: Consul at Geneva. 504 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. Chile: Consul at Talcahuano. France and French Dominions: Consul at Nantes. Germany: Consul at Stettin. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Gaspe Basin (Canad), Sierra Leone (West Africa), Turks Island, and Windsor (Nova Scotia). Haiti: Consul at Cape Haitien. Honduras: Consul at Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utilla) Italy: Consul at Venice. Netherlands:
Consul at Batavia. Portuguese Dominions: Consuls at Mozambique (Africa), and Santiago (Cape Verde Islands) Society Islands: Consul at Tahiti. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Christiana. salaries, consular clerks. Consular clerks.Eight consular clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars per annum each, nine thousand six hundred dollars; five consular clerks, at one thousand dollars per annum each, five thousand dollars; total, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars. salaries, consular officers not citizens.
Consular officers not citizens to be paid from amount for the office.The salary of a consular officer not a citizen of the United States shall be paid out of the amount specifically appropriated for salary at the consular office to which the alien officer is attached or appointed. allowance for clerks at consulates. Clerks at consulates.Allowance for clerks at consulates, as follows: Liverpool, two thousand dollars; Havana, two thousand dollars; London, one thousand six hundred dollars;
Shanghai, one thousand six hundred dollars; Paris, one thousand six hundred dollars; Rio de Janeiro, one thousand six hundred dollars; 505 Antwerp, one thousand five hundred dollars;Clerks at consulates—Continued. Berlin, Bremen, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Frankfort, Hamburg, Havre, Hongkong Kanagawa, Lyons, Manchester. Mexico, (city), Montreal Barmen, and Vienna, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars; Southampton, two thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum seven hundred and fifty dollars shall be immediately available.
Halifax, six hundred and forty dollars: Belfast, one thousand dollars; Birmingham, Bradford, and Marseilles, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; Bordeaux, Brussels, Calcutta. Colon, Dresden, Dundee, Glasgow, Leipsic, Melbourne, Nuevo Laredo, Nuremberg, Panama, Port au Prince, Sheffield. Singapore, Sonneberg. Toronto, and Tunstall, at eight hundred dollars each, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars; Kingston, (Jamaica), eight hundred dollars;
Maracaibo, eight hundred dollars; Ecuador, eight hundred dollars; Massina, Ottawa, Palermo, Saint Gaul. Smyrna, and Tangier, at eight hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars; Leith and Victoria, at six hundred and forty dollars each, one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; Beirut, four hundred and eighty dollars; Piedras Negras, six hundred and forty dollars; Paso del Norte, six hundred and forty dollars; Aix la Chapelle, six hundred and forty dollars; Prague, four hundred and eighty dollars;
Horgen, six hundred dollars; Berne, Demerara, Florence. Genoa, Malaga, Mannheim, Naples, Stuttgart, and Zurich, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expended under the directionConsulates not specified. 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 consulate in any one fiscal year; *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limit.
That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated, twenty-five thousand dollars. Total, ninety-three thousand two hundred dollars. salaries, interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan. Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, and Japan,Interpreters. to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars. expenses of interpreters, guards. and so forth, in turkish dominions,Interpreters, guards, etc. and so forth.
Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish Dominions and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars. salaries, marshals for consular courts. Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, Japan, and Turkey,Marshals, consular courts. nine thousand three hundred dollars. boat and crew for consul at osaka and hiogo. Boat for official use of the United States consul at Osaka andBoat hire, Osaka and Hiogo. Hiogo, and pay of boat’s crew, five hundred dollars. 506 boat and crew fob consul at hongkong.
Hongkong.Boat for official use of United States consul at Hongkong, and for pay of boat’s crew, five hundred dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts. Consular prisoners.Bangkok.Expenses of a prison and prison-keeper, at the consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. Shanghai, China.Actual expense of renting of 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.Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea, Japan, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than seventy-five cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding.
This is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such Self-supporting prisoners.prisoners: *And provided further*, That no allowance shall be made for the keeping and feeding of any prisoner who is able to pay, or does pay, the above sum of seventy five cents per day, and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case. Rent, etc., prison in Turkey.Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Total, fourteen thousand six 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 toward the support of foreign hospitals at Panama, five hundred dollars, 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. publication of consular and other 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. loss by exchange, consular service. Loss by exchange, consular service.Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and from the several consulates and consulates-general. four thousand dollars. contingent expenses, united states consulates.
Contingent expenses, consulates.Expense 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 officers and consular clerks compensation of Chinese writers, 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 1, 1893.