Chapter 197. making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three
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CHAP. 197.— 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-three.July 16, 1892. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Diplomatic and consular 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-three, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: 224 SCHEDULE A.Schedule A. salaries of ministers.Salaries.
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.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; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Argentine Republic, Columbia, 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 thousand five hundred dollars; 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; Minister resident and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand five hundred 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 be accredited as charge 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. Charges d'affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twenty Chargesd'affaires.thousand dollars; Total, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars. 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 R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309.the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, 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:225 Secretary of legation and consul-general at Bogata, two thousand dollars; 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 five hundred each, six thousand dollars; Second secretaries of the legations at London. Paris, and BerlinSecond secretaries. 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. Interpreters to the legations in China and Turkey, at three thousand dollars each, six thousandInterpreters 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. 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 at the legation in Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars.Clerk, Spain. contignent expenses, foreign missions. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all suchContingent expenses. foreign missions. 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 Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangier, and the compensation of dispatchDispatch agents. agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printing in thePrinting.
Department of State, ninety thousand dollars. loss by exchange, diplomatic service. Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from legations, twoLoss by exchange. thousand five hundred dollars. steam launch for legation at constantinople. Hiring of steam launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, oneSteam launch, Constantinople. thousand eight hundred dollars. 226 buildings and grounds for legation in china. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or Rent. other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand China.one hundred dollars. rent of legation building in tokyo, japan.
Rent of legation building in Tokyo, Japan, for the year endingJapan. March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, four thousand dollars. annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco. Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light,Cape Spartel and Tangier 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 persona 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 Vol. 22, p. 216.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. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen. Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the servicesLife-saving testimonials. 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 R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.the Revised Statutes, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in theUnforeseen emergencies. diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49.requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers and die abroad. Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred andPayment to heirs of diplomatic or consular officers dying abroad. 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. 227 transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular clerks to their homes for interment.
Defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic andRemains of ministers, consuls, etc. 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. 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-three, in conformity with the terms of the conventionVol. 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. international union of american republic. Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, for the prompt collectionBureau of the American Republics. and distribution of commercial information, as recommended by the International American Conference, thirty thousand dollars.
The sums contributed by the other American Republics for this purpose, when collected, shall be covered into the Treasury. continental railway survey.Continental railway survey. For payment of the share of the United States of the expense of aPreliminary survey. preliminary survey for a continental railway recommended by the International American Conference, sixty-five thousand dollars: *Provided*,*Provisos*. That this sum shall be in full of the share of the United States for theTo be in full.
Officers prohibited from participating in building the road. expense of said preliminary survey: *and provided further*, That it shall not be lawful for any officer of the United States or persons connected with the international commission of engineers as a representative of the United States to participate in any action as to proposals to build the whole line of the intercontinental railroad or any part thereof: *Provided further*, That to avoid any misunderstanding on the part of the Central and South American Nations it is hereby declared that no officer of the government of the United States shall commit or attempt toUnited States not to approve survey, etc. commit it to the approval of the surveys, the terms of proposal, the protection of the concessionaires, the inspection of the work, the legislation affecting it, the neutrality of the road, the free passage of the merchandise in transit thereon, or to aid in the construction thereof in any form, either alone or in connection with other nations interested, and that the President of the United States cause notice of this declarationNotice. to be communicated to these several nations. publication of international catalogue of exports and imports.
For completion of the compilation and publication, under the directionCatalogue of commercial terms. of the Secretary of State, of a uniform nomenclature of articles of merchandise, exported and imported, in the English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, as provided by the International American Conference, ten thousand dollars; and the Public Printer is hereby directed to issue an edition of one thousand copies for the use of the customs and consular service of the United States and five hundred for the governments of the several American Republics, and he is hereby authorized to furnish copies to the public, on application, at a price not to exceed the cost of publication with ten per centum added. 228 SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries, consular service.
Consul-general at Havana, six thousand dollars;Salaries. Consuls-general at London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, at five thousandConsuls-general. dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars. Consuls-general at Shanghai and Calcutta, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; 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 thou sand 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 Galle, at three thousand dollars each, twenty-seven thousand dollars; Consul general at Nuevo Laredo, two thousand five hundred dollars; Consul-general at Tangier, two thousand dollars; Total, ninety-eight thousand dollars. For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, threeConsuls, etc. hundred and ninety-seven 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 Tien-Tsin. 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 Chiu Kiang, Fuchau, and Hangkow. France: Consul at Bordeaux. Germany: Consul at Barmen.
Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Belfast, Bradford, Demerara, Glasgow, Kingston (Jamaica), Manchester, and Singapore.229 Japan: Consuls at Nagasaki, and Osaka and Hiogo. Mexico: Consul at Vera Cruz. Spanish Dominions: Consul at Matanzas (Cuba). Switzerland: Consul at Basle. Uruguay: Consul at Montevideo. Class IV.Class IV, $2,500 ft 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 Ningpo. Danish Dominions: Consul at Saint Thomas. France: Consuls at Lyons, and Marseilles. Germany: Consuls at Annaberg, Aixla-Chapelle, Bremen, Brunswick, Chemnitz, Hamburg, Nuremberg, 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.
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. Columbia: Consul at Barranquilla. Costa Rica: Consul at San Jose. France: Consuls at Rheims, and Saint Etienne. Germany: Consuls at Cologne, Crefeld, Dusseldorf, Leipsic, Stuttgart, Sonneberg, and Magdeburg. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Belize (British Honduras), Cardiff, Chatham, Cork, Dublin, Dunfermline, Hamilton (Ontario), Leeds, Nassau (New Providence), Port Louis (Mauritius), Port Stanley and Saint Thomas (Canada), Saint John (New Brunswick), Sherbrooke (Canada), Sydney (New South Wales), and Toronto (Canada).230 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 (Puerto Rico), and Sagna 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. 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 (Ontario), 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, Pictou (Canada), Port Hope (Canada), Port Sarnia (Canada), Port Stanley (Falkland Islands), Prescott (Canada), Quebec, Southampton, 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, Nogales, and Tampico. Netherlands: Consul at Amsterdam. Paraguay: Consul at Asuncion.231 Portuguese Dominions: Consuls at Fayal (Azores), and Funchal (Madeira). San Domingo: Consul at Santo Domingo. Spain: Consuls at Barcelona, Cadiz, Cardenas, Denia, 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. Chile: Consul at Talcahuano. France and French Dominions: Consul at Nantes. Germany: Consul at Stettin. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Gaspe Basin (Canada), 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 Christiania. And in the estimates for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteenEstimates. hundred and ninety-four, 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-two, exceed one thousand dollars. salaries, consular clerks.
Eight consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars perConsular clerks. 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. 232 salaries, consular officers not citizens. The salary of a consular officer not a citizen of the United States,Consular officers, not citizens to be paid from amount for the office. 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.
Allowance for clerks at consulates, as follows:Clerks at consulates. Liverpool, two thousand dollars; Havana, two thousand six hundred 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; Antwerp, one thousand five hundred dollars; 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.
Halifax, six hundred and forty dollars; Belfast, one thousand dollars; Birmingham. Bradford, Marseilles, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; Bordeaux, Brussels. Calcutta, Colon, Dresden, Dundee, Glascow, Leipsic, Melbourne, Nuevo Laredo, Nuremberg, Panama, Port an 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 hunched dollars; Messina, Ottawa, Palermo, Saint Gall, 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 *Provisos*.dollars to be allowed to any one consulate in any one fiscal year: *Provided*, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the Lands.amount appropriated: *And provided further*, That out of the amount hereby appropriated the Secretary of State may make such allowance Interpreters.as may to him seem proper to any interpreter for clerical services in addition to his pay as interpreter, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Total, ninety-three thousand dollars. salaries, interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan. Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, andInterpreters. Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars. 233 expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions and so forth. Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish DominionsInterpreters, guards, etc. and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars. salaries, marshalls for consular courts.
Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, Japan, and TurkeyMarshals, 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 and Hiogo,Boat hire, Osaka and Hiogo. and pay of boat’s crew, five hunched dollars. boat and crew for consul at hongkong. Boat for official use of United States consul at Hongkong, and for payHongkong. of boat’s crew, five hundred dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts.
Expenses of a prison and prison-keeper, at the consulate-general inConsular prisons. Bangkok. Siam. 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 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;
Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China. Korea,Keeping, etc., prisoners. *Provisos*. Japan. Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided* That no more than seventy-five cents per day for the Maximum allowance.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 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,Self-supporting prisoners. 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 prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages ofRent, etc., prisons in Turkey. keepers of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars. Total, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars. relief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, orRelief of American seamen. so much thereof as may be necessary, fifty thousand dollars. foreign hospitals at panama. Annual contributions toward the support of foreign hospitals at Panama,Foreign hospitals, 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. 234 publication of consular and other commercial reports.
Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the DepartmentPublication, etc., consular reports. of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars. loss by exchange, consular service. Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and from Loss by exchange, consular service.the several consulates and consulates-general, four thousand dollars. contingent expenses, united states consulates.
Expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and otherContingent expenses, consulates. 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, July 16, 1892.