Chapter 268. Making appropriations for tile diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight
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CHAP. 268.— An Act Making appropriations for tile diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. February 20, 1897. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Diplomatic and consular appropriations. and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, 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. and Great Britain, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars; Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Italy, twelve thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Russia andEnvoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. Mexico, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-five thousand 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, Venezuela, Switzerland, and Portugal, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, forty-five thousand 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; Minister resident and consul-general to Korea, seven thousand fiveMinisters resident and consuls general. hundred dollars; 580 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 268. 1897. Ministers resident and consuls-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; Agent, etc., Cairo.Agent and consul general at Cairo, five thousand dollars; Chargés d’affaires.Chargés d’affaires ad interim and diplomatie officers abroad, thirty thousand dollars; Total, three hundred and seventy-seven 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 ambassadors, ministers, consuls, and other officers of the United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions, anti in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in R.
S., sec. 1740, p. 309.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-eight, is hereby appropriated. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations. Secretaries of embassies and legations.Secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, and Germany, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars;
Secretary of embassy to Italy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Secretaries of legations to Russia, Mexico, China, and Japan, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars: Secretary of legation and consul-general to Colombia, 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 the Hawaiian Islands, four thousand dollars;
Secretary of legation to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, 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, Peru, Liberia, and Korea, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars; Second secretaries.Second secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, and Germany, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars;
Second secretary of legation to Mexico, two thousand dollars; Second secretaries of legations to 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-seven thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars. salaries of interpreters to legations.
Interpreters.Interpreters to legations to China and Turkey, at three thousand 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; 581 Interpreter to legation anti consulate-general to Korea, five hundred dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, five hundred dollars; Total, ten thousand five hundred 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. contingent 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 embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomen, 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 SanDispatch agents.
Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printing in the Department of State, one hundred and ten thousandPrinting. dollars. loss by exchange, diplomatic service. Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from embassies andLose by exchange. legations, two thousand five hundred dollars. steam launch for legation at constantinople. Hiring of steam launch for use of the legation to Turkey, one thousandSteam launch, Turkey. eight hundred dollars. rent of legation buildings in china.
Rent. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or suchChina. other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand six hundred dollars. ground rent of legation at tokyo, japan. Japan. Annual ground rent of the legation at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco. Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light,Cape Spartel 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. 582 rescuing shipwrecked american seamen.
Life-saving testimonials.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 under the neutrality act. Expenses, neutrality act.To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service.
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 the R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. protecting interests of the united states in the samoan islands. Samoan Islands.For the execution of the obligations of the United States and the protection of the interests and property of the United States in the Vol. 26, p. 1497.Samoan Islands, under any existing treaty with the Government of said islands and with the Governments of Germany and Great Britain, six thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad.
Payment to heirs of diplomatic or consular officers dying abroad.R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311.Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and 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.
Bringing home 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, three thousand dollars. international bureau of weights and measures. International Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 714.Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and .Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, 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. 583 international bureau for publication of customs tariffs.
To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for theInternational Customs Tariffs Bureau. year ending March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, 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; this appropriation to be available on April first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, pursuant to conventionVol. 26, p. 1518. proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.
To enable the International (water) Boundary Commission, UnitedMexican Water Boundary Commission. States and Mexico, to meet the share of the United States for the expenses and salaries of the Commission for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available. To enable the Commission to continue its work under the treaties ofVol. 24. p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512. eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifteen thousand dollars. intercontinental railway commission.
To meet the share of the United States toward expense involved inIntercontinental Railway Commission. the preparation and publication of the final reports, maps, profiles, illustrations, and so forth, of the Intercontinental Railway Commission and their distribution among the various Governments of America, ten thousand dollars. international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade. To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the specialBureau for repressing African slave trade.Vol. 27, p. 917. bureau, created by article eighty-two of the, general act concluded at Brussels July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression of the African slave trade and the restriction of the importation into and sale in a certain defined zone of the African continent of firearms, ammunition, and spirituous liquors, for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, one hundred dollars. international prison commission.
For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of theInternational Prison Commission. International Prison Commission and the expenses of a commissioner, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. repairs to legation and consular premises. To enable the Secretary of State to keep in repair the legation andRepairs to legations and consulates. consular premises owned by the United States and occupied by its agents, two thousand dollars. payment to legal representatives of late pierce m. b. young.
To pay to the legal representatives of Pierce M. B. Young, who diedPierce M. B. Young.Payment to legal representatives. while envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Guatemala and Honduras, six months’ salary of said officer subsequent to the date of his death, five thousand dollars. 584 digest of international law of the united states. Digest of International Law.Revised edition to be prepared.Vol. 24, p. 345.For revising, reindexing, and otherwise completing and perfecting, by the aid of such documents as may be useful, the second edition of the Digest of the International Law of the United States, Taken from Documents Issued by Presidents and Secretaries of State, and from Decisions of Federal Courts and Opinions of Attorneys-General, the work to be done under the supervision of the Secretary of State, ten thousand dollars, said sum to be immediately available.
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; Consul general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars; Consuls-general at Berlin, Montreal, Yokohama, 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, and Nukualofa, Tonga, Constantinople, Dresden. Guayaquil, Frankfort, Ottawa, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Singapore, Cape Town (Africa), and Saint Gall, at three thousand dollars each, thirty-three thousand dollars; Consul-general at Monterey, 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 five thousand dollars. Consuls, etc.For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, four hundred and thirty two thousand 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 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. 585 Colombia: Consul at Colon (Aspinwall). China: Consuls at Chinkiang, Fuchan, Hankow, and Chung King. France: Consul at Bordeaux. Germany: Consuls at Elberfeld and Nuremberg. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Belfast, Bradford, Demerara, Glasgow, Kingston (Jamaica), and Manchester.
Japan: Consuls at Nagasaki, and Osaka and Hiogo. Mexico: Consul at Vera Cruz. Spanish Dominions: Consul at Matanzas (Cuba). Switzerland: Consul at Basel. Uruguay: Consul at Montevideo. Class IV. At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.Class IV, $2,500 a year. Argentine Republic: Consul at Buenos Ayres. Austria: Consul at Reiehenberg. Belgium: Consul at Brussels. Brazil: Consul at Santos. China: Consul at Chefoo. 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, Edinburgh, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Tunstall, Victoria (British Columbia), Huddersfield, and Swansea. Mexico: Consul at Ciudad Juarez. Spanish Dominions: Consuls at Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba. Turkish Dominions: Consuls at Smyrna and Jerusalem. Class V. At two thousand dollars per annum.Class V, $2,000 a year.
Austria-Hungary: Consul at Trieste. Belgium: Consul at Ghent. 586 Brazil: Consuls at Bahia, Para, and Pernambuco. Colombia: Consul at Barranquilla. Costa Rica: Consul at San Jose. France: Consuls at Reims, Saint Etienne, Roubaix, and Calais. Germany: Consuls at Cologne, Crefeld, Dusseldorf, Leipsic, Brunswick, Sonneberg, Magdeburg, Furth, Weimar, and Glauchau. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Barbados, Cardiff, Chatham, Cork, Dublin, Dunfermline, Newcastle on Tyne, Hamilton (Ontario), Leeds, Nassau (New Providence), Port Louis (Mauritius), Port Stanley and Saint Thomas (Canada), Saint Jolin (New Brunswick), Sherbrooke (Canada), Sydney (New South Wales), Toronto (Canada), Bermuda, Auckland (New Zealand), Trinidad, and Quebec.
Honduras: Consul at Tegucigalpa, Italy: Consul at Palermo. Madagascar: Consul at Tamatave. Mexico: Consuls at Acapulco, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, and Tampico. Netherlands: Consuls at Rotterdam and Curaçao. 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 Erzerum. Zanzibar: Consul at Zanzibar. Class VI. Class VI, $1,500 a year.At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, Belgium: Consul at Liege. Denmark: Consul at Copenhagen. France and French Dominions: Consuls at Cognac, Grenoble, Guadelupe, Martinique, Nice, and Limoges. Germany: Consuls at Bamberg, Breslau, Hanover, Kehl, Mannheim, Munich, Freiburg, and Zittau. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Amherstburg (Canada), Antigua (West Indies), Belize (British Honduras), Bristol, Brookville (Ontario), Coaticook (Canada), Ceylon (India), Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island),Clifton (Canada), Fort Erie (Canada), Goderich (Canada), Gibraltar, Guelph (Canada),587 Kingston (Canada), London (Canada), Malta.
Morrisburg (Canada), Sydney (Nova Scotia), Port Hope (Canada), Port Sarnia (Canada), Port Stanley (Falkland Islands), Prescott (Canada), Saint Helena, Saint Johns (Quebec), Saint Stephens (Canada), Stratford (Ontario), Three Rivers (Canada), Wallaceburg (Canada), Windsor (Ontario), Winnipeg (Manitoba), Woodstock (New Brunswick), Yarmouth (Nova Scotia), Hull, Saint Johns (Newfoundland), and Vancouver (British Columbia). Italy: Consuls at Castellamare, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Leghorn, Messina, Milan, Naples, and Venice.
Mexico: Consuls at Matamoros, Progreso, and Nogales. Netherlands: Consul at Amsterdam. Paraguay: Consul at Asuncion. Portuguese Dominions: Consuls at Saint Michaels (Azores) and Funchal (Madeira). Spain: Consuls at Cadiz, Cardenas, Valencia, and Malaga. Switzerland: Consul at Geneva. Sweden and Norway: Consuls at Gotten burg and Stockholm. Turkey: Consuls at Alexandretta, Harpoot, and Sivas. Venezuela: Consuls at La Guayra and Puerto Cabello. SCHEDULE C. Schedule C. Class VII.
At one thousand dollars per annum.Class VII, $1,000 a year. 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). Greece: Consul at Patras. Haiti: Consul at Cape Haitien. Honduras: Consul at Utilla and Truxillo (to reside at Utilla). Italy: Consul at Turin. Netherlands: Consul at Batavia. Portuguese Dominions: Consul at Lourenço Marquez (Africa).
Society Islands: Consul at Tahiti. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Christiania. inspection of embassies, legations, and consulates. To provide for the expenses of an inspection of embassies, legations,Inspection of embassies, legations, and consulates. and consulates to be made by officers of the Government, who are not588 to receive any compensation in addition to their regular salaries, which shall continue to be paid to them during the time of their employment in this special service, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. salaries of consular clerks.
Consular clerks.Eleven consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars; and two consular clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; total, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars. salaries of consular officers not citizens. Payments to consular officers not citizens.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; Bradford, one thousand eight 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, Yokohama, Lyons, Manchester, Mexico (city), Montreal, Ottawa, Elberfeld, 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 and Sonneberg, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; Birmingham and Marseilles, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; Bordeaux, Brussels, Calcutta, Colon, Dresden, Dundee, Glasgow, Leipsic, Melbourne, Monterey, Nuremberg, Panama, Port an Prince, Sheffield, Singapore, Toronto, and Tunstall, at eight hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars;
Kingston (Jamaica), eight hundred dollars; Maracaibo, eight hundred dollars; Guayaquil and Victoria, at eight hundred dollars each, one thousand six hundred dollars; Messina, Palermo, Saint Gall, Smyrna, and Tangier, at eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars; Edinburgh, at six hundred and forty dollars; Cairo, Cologne, Constantinople, Huddersfield, Horgen, Mayence, Munich, Nottingham, Odessa, Para, Pernambuco, Tampico, Vera Cruz, and Zurich, at six hundred dollars each, eight thousand four hundred dollars;
Beirut, four hundred and eighty dollars; Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, six hundred and forty dollars; Ciudad Juarez, 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; 589 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, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total sum expended in one year*Proviso*.Limit. shall not exceed the amount appropriated;
Total, one hundred and five thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. salaries of 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, huards, 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, eight thousand dollars. salaries, marshals for consular courts.
Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, Japan, and Turkey,Marshals. nine thousand three hundred dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts. Expenses of a prison and prison keeper at the consulate-general inConsular prisons 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 Yokohama for American convictsYokohama. 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. Japan, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no*Provisos*.Maximum allowance. 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: *And provided further*, That no allowance shall be made for the keepingSelf-supportingc prisoners. 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; Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey and for wages ofRent, etc. keepers of the same, one thousand dollars;
Total, fourteen thousand one hundred dollars. belief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, andRelief of American seamen. shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, or so much thereof as may be 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. 590 publication of diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports.
Preparing, etc., consular reports.Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the Department of State, of the diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports, Employees, etc.twenty-five thousand dollars; and of this sum the Secretary of State is authorized to use not exceeding three, thousand one hundred and twenty dollars for services of employees in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of State, in the work of compiling and distributing such reports, and not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars in the purchase of such books, maps, and periodicals as may be necessary to the editing of *Provisos*.Equivalents of measures, etc.diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports: *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; that each issue of consular reports shall not Bureau of Statistics to be styled Bureau of Foreign Commerce.exceed seven thousand copies: *And provided further*, That the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to change the name of the Bureau of Statistics to the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, and that the foregoing provision shall apply with the same force and effect to the Bureau of Foreign Commerce as to the Bureau of Statistics. loss by exchange, consular service.
Loss by exchange.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, Hags, 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 bureau of american republics. Bureau of American Republics.*Provisos*.Use of receipts from sales, etc.Commercial Bureau of American Republics, twenty-eight thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other sources shall 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 Free transmission of official mail matter.Vol. 19, p. 335.of meeting the expenses of the Bureau: *Provided*, That the provisions of the fifth and sixth sections of the Act entitled “An Act establishing post routes, and for other purposes,” approved March three, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the transmission of official mail matter, be, and they are hereby, extended and made applicable to all official mail matter of the Bureau of the American Republics established in Washington by recommendation of the International American Conference, representing the International Union of American Republics.
Approved, February 20, 1897.