Chapter 128. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred
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CHAP. 128.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred. February 9, 1899. *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, nineteen hundred, 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, Mexico, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Italy, twelve thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Austria, Brazil,Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. China, Japan, and Spain, at twelve thousand dollars each, sixty thousand dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Turkey, and Venezuela, at ten thousand dollars each, seventy 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, Netherlands, Paraguay and Uruguay, Portugal, Sweden and Norway, and Switzerland, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, forty-five thousand dollars;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand five hundred dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, Ecuador, and Haiti, at five thousand dollars each and the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Haiti shall also be accredited as chargé d’affaires to Santo Domingo), fifteen thousand dollars; 824 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. Ministers resident and consuls-general.Minister resident and consul-general to Korea, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
Ministers resident and consuls-general to Siam and Persia, at five thousand dollars each, ten 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 diplomatic officers abroad, thirty thousand dollars; Total, three hundred and seventy-two 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, 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 [R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309).the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred, is hereby appropriated. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations.
Secretaries of embassies and legations.Secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Russia, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Secretaries of legations to China and Japan, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, five thousand two hundred and fifty 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;
Secretaries of legations to Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Salvador, and to Chile, one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six 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, and Peru, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each Liberia, and Korea, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, eight thousand four huudred dollars;
Second secretaries.Second secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, and Russia, at two thousand dollars each, twelve 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;
Third secretaries.Third secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, and Germany, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; Total, sixty-three thousand four hundred 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 live hundred dollars; FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. 825 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. 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. legation to spain.Legation to Spain. For clerk hire at legation to Spain, one thousand two hundredClerk hire. dollars. 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 Tangiers, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and SanDispatch agents.
Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for lossPrinting.Loss by exchange. on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand dollars. steam launch for legation at constantinople. Hiring of steam launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, oneSteam launch, Turkey. thousand eight hundred dollars. rent of legation buildings and grounds 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. Annual ground rent of the legation at Tokyo, Japan, for the yearJapan. ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred, 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 TangiersCape Spartel 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. 826 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. 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.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the 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.
Unforeseen emergencies.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).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 requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, sixty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. protecting interests of the united states in the samoan islands. Samoan Islands.Vol. 26, p. 1497.For the execution of the obligations of the United States and the 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, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the President. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad.
Payment to heirs diplomatic or consular officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311).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 or in transit, 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, five 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, nineteen hundred, 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.
International Customs Tariffs Bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518.To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred, of sustaining the International Bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. 827 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-nine, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.Mexican Water Boundary Commission. *Post*, p. 1744.Vol. 24, p. 101.1, vol. 26, p. 1512.
To enable the Commission to continue its work under the treaties of eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifteen 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 repression 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 nineteen hundred, 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. international geodetic association for the measurement of the earth. To enable the Government of the United States to pay, through theInternational Geodetic Association. American embassy at Berlin, its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, one thousand five hundred dollars. 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 Government of the United States and occupied by its agents, three thousand dollars. intercontinental railway commission. To meet the share of the United States toward the expenses involvedIntercontinental Railway Commission. in the completion of the preparation, printing, and distribution of the final reports, maps, profiles, and so forth, of the Intercontinental Railway Commission, three thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries, consular service.Salaries. Consuls-general at London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, at five thousandConsuls-general. dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars; Consuls-general at Hongkong, Shanghai, and Calcutta, at five thousand dollars each, fifteen 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 Antwerp, Apia and Nukualofa (Tonga), Constantinople, Dresden, Guayaquil, Frankfort, Ottawa, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Singapore, Cape Town (Africa), Barcelona, and Saint Gall, at three thousand dollars each, thirty-nine thousand dollars; 828 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. Consul-general at Monterey, at two thousand five hundred dollars;
Consuls-general at Tangiers and Maracaibo, at two thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars; Consul-general at Santo Domingo, two thousand dollars; Consul-general at Stockholm, one thousand five hundred dollars; Total, one hundred and ten thousand five hundred dollars. Consuls, etc.For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, four hundred and twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars, as follows, namely: Class I.Class I, $5,000 a year. Consul at Liverpool, 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.Clasg III, $3,000 a year. At three thousand dollars per annum. Austria: Consul at Prague. Chile: Consul at Valparaiso. Colombia: Consul at Colon (Aspinwall). China: Consuls at Chinkiang, Fuchau, 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), Manchester, and Dawson City, British North America. Japan: Consuls at Nagasaki, and Osaka and Hiogo. Mexico: Consul at Vera Cruz. Switzerland: Consul at Basel. Uruguay: Consul at Montevideo. Class IV.Class IV, $2,500 a year. At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Argentine Republic: Consul at Buenos Ayres. Austria: Consul at Reichenberg. Belgium: Consul at Brussels. Brazil: Consuls at Santos and Pernambuco.
China: Consul at Chefoo. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. 829 Danish Dominions: Consul at Saint Thomas. France: Consuls at Lyons and Marseilles. Germany: Consuls at Aix la Chapelle, Annaberg, Bremen, Chemnitz, Hamburg, Mayence, Plauen, and Stuttgart. Greece: Consul at Athens. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Birmingham, Dundee, Edinburgh, Huddersfield, Nottingham, Sheffield, Southampton, Swansea, Tunstall, Quebec, and Victoria (British Columbia).
Mexico: Consul at Ciudad Juarez. Nicaragua: Consul at San Juan del Norte. Turkish Dominions: Consuls at Smyrna and Jerusalem. Russia: Consul at Vladivostock. Class V.Class V, $2,000 a year. At two thousand dollars per annum. Austria-Hungary: Consul at Trieste. Belgium: Consul at Ghent. Brazil: Consuls at Bahia and Para. Colombia: Consul at Barranquilla. Costa Rica: Consul at San Jose. France: Consuls at Calais, Reims, Roubaix, and Saint Etienne. Germany: Consuls at Bamberg, Cologne, Crefeld, Dusseldorf, Leipsic, Munich, Brunswick, Coburg, Magdeburg, Solingen, Weimar, and Glauchau.
Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Barbados, Bombay (India), Cardiff, Chatham, Collingwood, Cork, Dublin, Dunfermline, Newcastle on Tyne, Hamilton (Ontario), Leeds, Nassau (New Providence), Port Louis (Mauritius), Saint Thomas (Canada), Saint John (New Brunswick), Sherbrooke (Canada), Sydney (New South Wales), Toronto (Canada), Hamilton (Bermuda), Auckland (New Zealand), Trinidad, and Vancouver (British Columbia). Honduras: Consul at Tegucigalpa. Italy: Consuls at Palermo and Naples.
Madagascar: Consul at Tamatave. Mexico: Consuls at Acapulco, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, and Tampico. Netherlands: Consuls at Rotterdam and Curagao. Nicaragua: Consul at Managua. Portuguese Dominions: Consul at Lourenço Marquez (Africa). Russia: Consul at Odessa. 830 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. Salvador: Consul at San Salvador. South African Republic: Consul at Pretoria. Switzerland: Consuls at Aarau 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 Grenoble, Guadeloupe, La Rochelle, Limoges, Martinique, Nantes, and Nice. Germany: Consuls at Breslau, Freiburg, Hanover, Kehl, Mannheim, and Zittau. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Amherstburg (Canada), Antigua (West Indies), Belize (British Honduras), Bristol, Brookville (Ontario), Ceylon (India), Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island), Niagara Falls (Canada), Coaticook (Canada), Fort Erie (Canada), Goderich (Canada), Gibraltar, Guelph (Canada), Hull, 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 Hyacinth (Quebec), Saint Johns (Quebec), Saint Stephens (Canada), Sierra Leone (West Africa), Stratford (Ontario), Three Rivers (Canada), Wallaceburg (Canada), Windsor (Ontario), Winnipeg (Manitoba), Woodstock (New Brunswick), Yarmouth (Nova Scotia), and Saint Johns (Newfoundland).
Italy: Consuls at Castellamare, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Leghorn, Messina, Milan, and Venice. Japan: Consul at Tamsui, Formosa. Mexico: Consuls at Matamoras, Mazatlan, Nuevo Laredo, 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, Valencia, and Malaga. Switzerland: Consuls at Geneva and Berne. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Gottenburg. Turkey:
Consuls at Alexandretta, Harpoot, and Sivas. Venezuela: Consuls at La Guayra and Puerto Cabello. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. 831 SCHEDULE C.Schedule C. Class VII.Class VII, $1,000 a year. At one thousand dollars per annum. Germany: Consul at Stettin. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Gaspe Basin (Canada), and Windsor (Nova Scotia). Greece: Consul at Patras. Haiti: Consul at Cape Haitien. Honduras: Consul at Utilla. Italy: Consul at Turin. Netherlands:
Consul at Batavia. Society Islands: Consul at Tahiti. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Christiania. salaries of consular clerks. Eleven consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each,Consular clerks. 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 salary of a consular officer not a citizen of the United StatesPayment to consular officers not citizens. 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; Bradford, one thousand eight hundred dollars; London, one thousand six hundred dollars; Shanghai, one thousand six hundred dollars; Paris, two thousand six hundred dollars; Rio de Janeiro, one thousand six hundred dollars; Antwerp, one thousand five hundred dollars; Berlin, Bordeaux, Bremen, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Frankfort, Hamburg, Havre, Hongkong, Yokohama, Lyons, Manchester, Mexico (city), Montreal, Ottawa, Barmen, and Vienna, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, twenty thousand four hundred dollars;
Southampton, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Halifax, six hundred and forty dollars; Belfast and Coburg, 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; Brussels, Calcutta, Colon, Dresden, Dundee, Glasgow, Leipsic, Melbourne, Monterey, Nuremberg, Panama, Port an Prince, Sheffield, Singapore, Toronto, and Tunstall, at eight hundred dollars each, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars;
Kingston (Jamaica), eight hundred dollars; Maracaibo, eight hundred dollars; 832 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. 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, Cologue, Constantinople, Huddersfield, Aarau, 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; Consulates not specified.Allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expended under the direction 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 *Proviso.*—limit.thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated;
Total, one hundred and five thousand one hundred and seventy dollars. salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan. Interpreters.Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea and Japan, 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, guards, etc.Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish Dominions and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, eight thousand dollars. salaries, marshals for consular courts.
Marshals.Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, Japan, and Turkey, nine thousand three hundred dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts.Consular prisons. Bangkok.Expenses of a prison and prison keeper at the consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars; Shanghai.Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars;
Yokohama.Actual expense of renting a prison in Yokohama for American convicts in Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; Keeping prisoners.Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea, *Provisos.*Japan, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no 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: 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 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. 833 fact of inability in every case; Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of 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, andRelief of American seamen. shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, or so much thereof as may be necessary, thirty 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 diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports.
Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution by the DepartmentPreparing, etc., consular reports. of State of the diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports, thirty thousand dollars; and of this sum the Secretary of State isEmployees, etc. authorized to expend not exceeding five thousand five hundred dollars for services of employees in the Bureau of Foreign Commerce (formerly the Bureau of Statistics), Department of State, in the work of compiling and distributing such reports; the sum of two thousand dollars for the cost of cablegrams in instructing consular officers to report upon matters of immediate importance to commerce and industry, and of cablegrams of consuls on such subjects; also to defray the extra expense imposed upon consular officers in collecting certain data where it seems to be warranted; 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 diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports: *Provided,* That all terms of measure, weight, and money shall*Proviso.*Equivalents of measures, etc.Limit of issue of reports. be reduced to and expressed in terms of measure, weight, and coin of the United States, as well as in the foreign terms; that each issue of diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports shall not exceed ten thousand copies. 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, loss by exchange, 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, two hundred thousand dollars. international union of american republics.
Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousand dollars:Bureau of American Republics.*Proviso.*Use of receipts from sales. *Provided,* That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the Bureau, or from the 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.
Approved, February 9, 1899.