Chapter 34. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven
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CHAP. 34.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending Juno thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.February 26, 1896. *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 for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
SCHEDULE A.Schedule A.Salaries. salaries of ambassadors and ministers. AmbassadorsAmbassadors. extraordinary and plenipotentiary to France, Germany, 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; EnvoysEnvoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Russia and 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, and Venezuela, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty 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 Romania, 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 seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars; MinisterMinisters resident and consuls-general. resident and consul-general to Korea, seven thousand five hundred dollars; 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; FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896.29 For secretary of legation to Liberia, fifteen hundred dollars; Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars;Agent, etc., Cairo. Chargés d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, thirtyChargés d’affaires. thousand dollars; Total, three hundred and seventy-nine thousand dollars. salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits.
To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, and otherInstruction and transit pay. 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 theR. S., sec. 1740. p. 309. Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, is hereby appropriated. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations.
Secretaries to embassies to Great Britain, France, and Germany, twoSecretaries of embassies and legations. thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars; Secretary to embassy to Italy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Secretaries to legations to Russia, Mexico, China, and Japan, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars; Secretary of legation to Korea, one 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, and Pern, atone thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars; Second secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Germany, and Mexico, at two thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars; Second secretaries of legations to Japan and China, who shall beSecond secretaries. 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-six 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 five hundred dollars. 30FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896. 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. ClerkClerk hire, Spain. hire at the legation to Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars. contingent expenses, foreign missions. To enableContingent expenses, foreign missions. 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 embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of cavasses, guards, dragomen, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangier, and the compensationDispatch agents. of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printingPrinting. in the Department of State, one hundred and five thousand dollars. loss by exchange, diplomatic service.
LossLoss by exchange. by exchange in remittances of money to and from embassies and legations, two thousand five hundred dollars. steam launch for legation at constantinople. HiringSteam launch, Turkey. of steam launch for use of the legation to Turkey, one thousand eight hundred dollars. rent of legation buildings in china.Rent. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or such other place in ChinaChina. as shall be designated, three thousand six hundred dollars. rent of legation buildings at tokyo, japan.
RentJapan.*Ante*, p. 18. of buildings for legation and other purposes at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco. AnnualCape Spartel and Tangier Light. proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light, on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. bringing home criminals.
ActualBringing home criminals. expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, five thousand dollars. fees and costs in extradition cases. To enableExtradition expenses.Vol. 22. p. 216. the Secretary of State to comply with the requirements of the fourth section of “An Act regulating fees and the practice in extradition cases, ” approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen.
ExpensesLife-saving testimonials. 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. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896.31 expenses under the neutrality act. To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of theExpenses, neutrality act.R. S., sec. 291, p. 49. 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, eight 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.R.S., sec 291, p. 49. 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. protecting interests of the united states in the samoan islands. For the execution of the obligations of the United States and theSamoan Islands.Vol. 26, p. 1497. protection of the interests and property of the United States in the 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, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred andPayment to heirs of diplomatic or consular officers dying abroad.R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311. 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 diplomaticBringing home remains 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-seven, 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 for theInternational customs tariffs bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518. year ending March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, 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-six, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. 32FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896. intercontinental railway commission. To meetIntercontinental Railway Commission. the share of the United States toward the completion and publication of the reports, maps, profiles, and so forth, of the Intercontinental Railway Commission, fifteen thousand dollars. international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade. To meetBureau for repressing African slave trade.Vol. 27, p. 917. the share of the United States in the expenses of the special 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 years eighteen hundred and ninety-four, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, four hundred dollars. trust funds.Trust funds.
Hereafter all moneys received by the Secretary of State from foreign governmentsTo ho covered into the Treasury. and other sources, in trust for citizens of the United States or others, shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury. The SecretaryPayments to claimants. of State shall determine the amounts due claimants, respectively, from each of such trust funds, and certify the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall, upon the presentation of the certificates of the Secretary of State, pay the amounts so found to be due.
Each ofGeneral appropriation. the trust funds covered into the Treasury as aforesaid is hereby appropriated for the payment to the ascertained beneficiaries thereof of the certificates herein provided for. SCHEDULE B.Schedule B.Salaries. salaries, consular service. Consul-generalConsuls-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, Kanagawa, Panama, and Mexico (city), at tour 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, Cape Town (Africa), and Saint Gall, at three thousand dollars each, thirty-three 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 six thousand dollars. For salariesConsuls, etc. of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, four hundred and seventeen 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. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896.33 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. Fern: 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, Fuchou, Hankow, and Chung King. 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 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 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 Chee Foo. 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), Huddersfield, and Swansea. 34FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896. 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 Barranquilla. Costa Rica: Consul at San José. France: Consuls at Rheims, Saint Etienne, and Roubaix. 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, 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, Auckland (New Zealand), and Trinidad. Honduras: Consul at Tegucigalpa. Italy: Consul at Palermo. Madagascar: Consul at Tamatave. Mexico: Consuls at Acapulco, Piedras Negras, 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 year. At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.
Brazil: Consul at Santos. Belgium: Consul at Liege. FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896.35 Denmark: Consul at Copenhagen. France and French Dominions: Consuls at Cognac, Guadelupe, Martinique, Nice, and Limoges. Germany: Consuls at Breslau, Kehl, Mannheim, Munich, and Freiburg. 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), 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), Yarmouth (Nova Scotia), Hull, and Saint Johns (Newfoundland).
Italy: Consuls at Castellamare, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Leghorn, Messina, Milan, Naples, and Venice. 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 Gottenberg and Stockholm. Turkey: Consuls at Harpoot and Sivas. Venezuela: Consuls at La Guayra and Puerto Cabello.
SCHEDULE C.Schedule C.Class VII, $1, 000 a year. Class VII 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: Consul at Turin. Netherlands: Consul at Batavia. 36FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896. Portuguese Dominions: Consul at Mozambique (Africa). Society Islands: Consul at Tahiti. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Christiania. inspection of consulates. To provideInspection of consulates.Expenses. for the expenses of an inspection of consulates to be made by officers of the Government, such officers not to receive any compensation in addition to their regular salaries, which shall continue to be paid to them during the period of their employment in this special service, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available. salaries of consular clerks.
Eleven consularConsular clerks. 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. The salaryPayments to consular officers not citizens. 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.
AllowanceClerks at consulates. 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, 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 and Sonneberg, 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, Nuevo Laredo, Nuremberg, Panama, Port au 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, eight hundred dollars each, one thousand six hundred dollars; 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, eight thousand four hundred dollars;
FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896.37 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, Demarara, 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-five thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*Limit.
That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated; Total, one hundred 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, 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, eight 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-generalConsular prisons.Bangkok. in 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: *And provided further,* That no allowance shall be made for the keepingSelf-supporting 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 ease; Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey and for wages ofRent, etc. keepers of the same, one thousand dollars;
Rent of prison for American convicts in Madagascar and for wages for keeper of the same, one thousand dollars; Total, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars. 38FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896. relief and protection of american seamen. ReliefRelief of American seamen.*Post,* p. 186. and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and also on the coast of Alaska, or so much thereof as may be necessary, fifty thousand dollars. foreign hospitals at panama. AnnualForeign hospitals, Panama. 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.
Preparation,Preparing, etc., consular reports.*Post,* p. 148.*Provisos.*Equivalents of measures, etc. printing, publication, and distribution, by the Department of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, twenty thousand dollars: *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 exceed seven thousand copies:Purchase of books, etc. *And provided further,* That a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars of this appropriation may be expended in the purchase of such books, maps, and periodicals as may be necessary to the editing of the consular and commercial reports. loss by exchange, consular service.
ActualLoss by exchange. 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. ExpenseContingent expenses, consulates. 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 eighty thousand dollars. international bureau of american republics.
CommercialBureau of American Republics.*Proviso.*Disposal of receipts. 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 there-from 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 completionCatalogne of commercial terms. of the compilation and publication, under the direction 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, five thousand dollars. Approved, February 27, 1896. Chapter 35: To change and fix the time for holding the district and circuit courts of the United States for the northern division of the eastern district of Tennessee. 29 Stat. 39 1896-02-27 Chapter 35 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.
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