Chapter 166. Making appropriation for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five
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CHAP. 166.— An Act Making appropriation for the diplomatic and consular service of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five.July 26, 1894. *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-five, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
SCHEDULE A.Schedule A. salaries of ambassadors and ministers.Salaries. Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to France, Germany,Ambassadors. Great Britain, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars; Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Italy, twelve thousand dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Mexico,Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. seventeen thousand five hundred dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China, Japan, Spain, Austria, and Brazil, at twelve thousand dollars each, sixty thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Argentine Republic, Belgium, Colombia, Peru, Turkey, and Chile, at ten thousand dollars each, sixty 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 Denmark, Hawaiian Islands, Netherlands, and Venezuela, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Paraguay and Uruguay, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand five hundred dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia and Ecuador, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Switzerland and Portugal, at six thousand five hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to Korea, seven thousand five Ministers resident and consuls-general.hundred dollars: Ministers resident and consul-general to Siam, Persia, and Haiti, at five thousand dollars each (and the minister resident and consul-general to Haiti shall also be accredited as chargé d’affaires to Santo Domingo), fifteen thousand dollars;
Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars; 142 Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars;Agent, etc., Cairo.Chargés d’affaires. Charge d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twenty thousand dollars; Total, three hundred and sixty-five thousand five hundred dollars. salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits.Instruction and transit pay. 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, 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 thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby appropriated. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legationSecretaries of embassies and legations.
Secretaries of embassies at London, Paris, Berlin, and Saint Peters-burg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars; Secretary of embassy at Rome, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Secretaries of the legations to China, Japan, and Mexico, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; Secretary of legation to Korea, one thousand five hundred dollars; Secretary of legation and consul-general to Bogota, two thousand dollars;
Secretary of legation to Guatemala and Honduras and consul-general to Guatemala, two thousand dollars; Secretary of legation and consul general to Honolulu, four thousand dollars; Secretary of legation to Nicaragua, Costa Riea, and Salvador, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Secretaries of legations to Turkey, Austria, Spain, and Brazil, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, seven thousand two hundred dollars; Secretaries of legations to Argentine Republic, Venezuela, Chile, and Peru, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars ;
Second secretaries.of embassies to London, Paris, and Berlin, at twoSecond secretaries. thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; Second secretaries of 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, fifty-tour thousand two hundred and seventy-five dollars. salaries of interpreters to legations. Interpreters to legations to China and Turkey, at three thousandInterpreters. dollars each, six thousand dollars; Interpreter to legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Persia, one thousand dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Korea, five hundred dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, five hundred dollars;
Total, ten thousand live hundred dollars. 143 But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above providedNo additional pay. 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 to Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars. contingent expenses, foreign missions.Clerk biro, Spain. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such Contingent 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 dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and forDispatch agents.Printing. traveling and miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printing in the Department of State, one hundred and live thousand dollars. loss by exchange, diplomatic service.
Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from embassies andLoss by exchange. legations, two thousand live 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. rent of legation buildings in china.Rent. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or such China.other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand six hundred dollars. rent of legation buildings at tokio, japan.
Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Tokio, Japan,Japan. for the year ending March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, 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 criminals. 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.Vol. 22, p. 216. 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. 144 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 theExpended neutrality[R. S. sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/t/s291/p49). neutrality act, to lie expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, five 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 inUnforeseen emergencies.[R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/t/s291/p49). 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 Statutes, forty 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. 49, p. 311](/us/rs/t/s49/9311). 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. transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular clerks to their homes for interment. Defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomaticRemains of ministers, consuls, etc. 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, three thousand dollars. international bureau of weights and measures.
Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau ofInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 714. Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, in conformity with the terms of the convention 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 bureau for publication of customs tariffs.
To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense forInternational customs tariffs bureau.Vol. 20, p. 1518. the year ending April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, of sustaining the International Bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand three hundred and eighteen dollars and seventy-six cents. 145 intercontinental railway commission. Share of the United States of the cost of printing and publishingIntercontinental railway survey. reports, maps, and so forth, of the preliminary survey for an intercontinental railway, twenty-five thousand dollars.
SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries, consolar service.Salaries. Consul-general at Havana, six thousand dollars:Consuls-general. 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; Consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars; Consuls-general at Berlin, Montreal, Kanagawa, Panama, and Mexico (city), at four thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars;
Consuls-general at Halifax and Vienna, at three thousand five hundred dollars each, seven thousand dollars; Consuls-general at Apia, Constantinople, Dresden, Guayaquil, Frankfort, Ottawa, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Singapore, and Saint Gall, at three thousand dollars each, thirty 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; Consuls-general at Santo Domingo and Barcelona, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars;
Total, one hundred and two thousand dollars. For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, threeConsuls, etc. hundred and ninety-four thousand five hundred dollars, as follows, namely: Class I.Class I. $5,000 a year. Consul at Liverpool, five thousand dollars. Consul at Hongkong, five thousand dollars. Class IIClass 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, Fuehau, and Hankow. 146 France: Consul at Bordeaux. Germany: Consuls at Barmen and Nuremberg. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Belfast, Bradford, Demerara, Glasgow, Kingston (Jamaica), and Manchester. Japan: Consuls at Nagasaki, and Osaka and Iliogo.
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 a year. At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Argentine Republic: Consul at Buenos Ayres. Austria: Consul at Reicheuberg. Belgium: Consul at Brussels. China: Consul at Ningpo. Danish Dominions: Consul at Saint Thomas. France: Consuls at Lyons and Marseilles. Germany: Consuls at Annaberg. Aix la Chapelle, Bremen, Stuttgart, Chemnitz, Hamburg, Mayence, and Plauen.
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 Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba. Turkish Dominions: Consuls at Smyrna and Jerusalem. Class V.Class V, $2,000 a year. At two thousand dollars per annum. Austria-Hungary: Consul at Trieste. Brazil: Consuls at Bahia, Para, and Pernambuco.
Colombia: Consul at Barrampiilla. Costa Rica: Consul at San Jose. France: Consul at Rheims, Saint Etienne, and Roubaix. 147 Germany: Consuls at Cologne, Crefeld, Dusseldorf, Leipsic, Brunswick, Sonneberg, Magdeburg, and Furth. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at 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), Toronto (Canada), Bermuda, and Auckland (New Zealand).
Honduras: Consul at Tegucigalpa. Italy: Consul at Palermo. For salary and expenses of a commercial agent at Boma, in the Lower 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, and the openings for American trade, two thousand dollars. 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: Consul at Beirut. Class VI.Cilias VI, $1,500 a year. At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Brazil: Consul at 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), Barbadoes, Belize (British Honduras), Bristol, Brookville (Ontario), Coaticook (Canada), Ceylon (India), Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island), Clifton (Canada), Fort Erie (Canada), Goderich (Canada), Gibraltar, Guelph (Canada), Kingston (Canada), London (Canada), Malta, Morris-burg (Canada), Newcastle-on-Tyne, Picton (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), Wood- 148stock (New Brunswick), Yarmouth (Nova Scotia), and Cape Town (Africa). Italy: Consuls at Castellamare, 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 Cadiz, Cardenas, Denia, and Malaga.
Switzerland: Consul at Geneva. Sweden and Norway: Consuls at Guttenberg 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. 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), and Windsor (Nova Scotia).
Haiti: Consul at Cape Haitien. Honduras: Consul at Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utilla) . Italy: Consuls at Venice and Turin. Netherlands: Consul at Batavia. Portuguese Dominions: Consul at Mozambique (Africa). Society Islands: Consul at Tahiti. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Christiania. salaries of consular clerks. Ten consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, twelveConsular clerks. thousand dollars; and three consular clerks, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; total, fifteen thousand dollars. 149 salaries of consular officers not citizens.
The salary of a consular officer not a citizen of the United States shallPayments to consular officers not citizens. 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 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, Ottawa, Barmen, and Vienna, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars; Southampton, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; 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; Guayaquil, and Victoria, eight hundred dollars each;
Messina, Palermo, Saint Gall, Smyrna, and Tangier, at eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars; Leith, at six hundred and forty dollars; Cairo, Cologne, Constantinople, Huddersfield, Mayence, Munich, Nottingham, Odessa, Para, Pernambuco, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Horgen, and Zurich, at six hundred dollars each, seven thousand two hundred 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; Berne, Demerara, Florence, Genoa, Malaga, Mannheim, Naples, and Stuttgart, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, three thousand eight hundred and forty 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, twenty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total sum expended in*Proviso.*Limit. one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated;
Total, ninety-four thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars. salaries of 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. 150 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, marshals for consular courts.
Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, Japan, and Turkey,Marshals, consular courts. nine thousand three hundred dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts. Expenses of a prison and prison-keeper at the consulate-general inConsular prisoners.Bangkok. Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars; Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convictsShanghai. 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. 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 prisoners.*Provisos*.Maximum allowance. Japan, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than fifty 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 prisoners:Self-supporting 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 fifty cents per day, and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case; Bent of prison for American convicts in Turkey and for wages ofRent, etc., Turkey. keepers of the same, one thousand dollars;
Total, fourteen thousand one hundred dollars. relief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, or soRelief of American seamen. much thereof as maybe necessary, fifty thousand dollars. foreign hospitals at panama. Annual contributions toward the support of foreign hospitals atForeign hospitals. Panama,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.
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: *Proviso*.Equivalents of measures, etc.*Provided*, That all terms of measure, weight, and money shall be reduced to, and expressed in, terms of the measure, weight, and coin of the United States, as well as in the foreign terms. loss by exchange, consular service.
Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and fromLoss by exchange. the several consulates and consulates general, four thousand dollars. 151 contingent expenses, united states consulates. Expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and otherContingent expenses, cons u lutes. 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 eighty thousand dollars. international union of american republics.
Commercial Bureau of American Republics, ten thousand dollars:Bureau of American Republics.*Proviso.*Disposal of receipts. *Provided*, That any monies received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents or other sources may be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau. 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, four thousand dollars. Approved, July 26, 1894.