Chapter 55. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine
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CHAP. 55.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. March 9, 1898. *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-nine, 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.Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to France, Germany, Great Britain, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars; Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Italy, twelve thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Mexico, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China, Japan, Spain, Austria, and Brazil, at twelve thousand dollars each, sixty thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, Belgium, Colombia, Peru, Turkey, Venezuela, and Chile, 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;
FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. 263 Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Denmark, Hawaiian Islands, Netherlands, Switzerland, and Portugal, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Paraguay and Uruguay, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Sweden and Norway, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary 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; Minister resident and consul-general to Korea, seven thousand fiveMinisters resident and consuls-general. 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 and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars;Agent, etc., at Cairo. Chargés d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, thirtyChargé d’affaires. thousand dollars; Total, three hundred and eighty 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 the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending[R.S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309).
June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, is hereby appropriated. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations. Secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Germany, andSecretaries of embassies and legations. Russia, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars; Secretary of embassy to Italy, two thousand dollars; Secretaries of legations to Mexico, China, and Japan, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-five 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, and Chile, one thousand eight hundred dollars each; 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, Peru, Liberia, and Korea, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Second secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Germany,Second secretaries. and Russia, at two thousand dollars each, eight 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 264 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS.
Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. 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, atone thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; Second secretary of the embassy to Italy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Total, sixty-two thousand and seventy-five dollars. Embassy to Russia.Appropriation immediately available.The appropriations in this Act for the salaries of the ambassador to Russia and for the first and second secretaries of said embassy are hereby made immediately available. 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; 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. —salaries of secretaries of legations not available for.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.Spain.
Clerk hire.For clerk hire at legation to Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars. contingent expenses, foreign missions. Contingent expenses, foreign missions.To enable 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 kavasses, guards, dragomen, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangiers, and Dispatch agents.the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies Printing.and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. loss by exchange, diplomatic service.
Loss by exchange.Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from embassies and legations, two thousand five hundred dollars. steam launch for legation at constantinople. Steam launch, Turkey.Hiring of steam launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, one thousand eight hundred dollars. rent of legation buildings and grounds in china.Rent. China.Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or such 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-nine, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. 265 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. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen.
Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the servicesLife-saving testimonials. of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. expenses under the neutrality act. To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of theExpenses, neutrality act. neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of[R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49). 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 theEmergencies expenses. 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,[R.S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49). sixty-three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which amount three thousand dollars shall be immediately available. protecting interests of the united states in the samoan islands.
For the execution of the obligations of the United States and the protectionSamoan Islands.Vol. 26, p. 1497. 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, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty-ninePayment to heirs of diplomatic officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311). 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, or in transit, while in the discharge 266 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. 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, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, 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 Tariff Bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518.To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, 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-eight, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.
Mexican Water Boundary Commission.To enable the International (water) Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico, to meet the share of the United States for the expenses and salaries of the Commission, ten thousand dollars. Vol. 24, p. 1011; 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.
Bureau for repressing African slave trade.Vol. 27, p. 917.To meet 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 year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred dollars. international prison commission.
International Prison Commission.For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the 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. International Geodetic Association.To enable the Government of the United States to pay, through the 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.
Repairs to legations and consulates.To enable the Secretary of State to keep in repair the legation and consular premises owned by the Government of the United States and occupied by its agents, three thousand dollars. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. 267 SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries, consular service.Salaries. Consul-general at Havana, six thousand dollars;Consuls-general Consuls-general at London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, at five thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars;
Consuls-general at 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;
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 sixteen thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, four hundredConsuls. and forty-two 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.Class 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 Ohinkiang, 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. 268 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. Spanish Dominions: Consul at Matanzas (Cuba). 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: Consul at Santos. China: Consul at Chefoo. 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. Spanish Dominions: Consuls at Cienfuegos and Santiago de Cuba. 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, Para, and Pernambuco. 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, Brunswick, Coburg, Magdeburg, Solingen, Weimar, and Glauchau. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Barbados, Bombay (India), Cardiff, Chatham, Cork, Dublin, Dunfermline, Newcastle on Tyne, Hamilton (Ontario), Leeds, Nas- FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. 269 sau (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: Consul at Palermo. Madagascar: Consul at Tamatave. Mexico: Consuls at Acapulco, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, and Tampico. Netherlands: Consuls at Rotterdam and Curasao. Nicaragua: Consuls at Managua and San Juan del Norte. Portuguese Dominions: Consul at Lourengo Marquez (Africa). Russia: Cousul at Odessa. Salvador: Consul at San Salvador. South African Republic: Consul at Pretoria. Spain and Spanish Dominions: Consuls at Baracoa, Manila (Philippine Islands), San Juan (Puerto Rico), and Sagua la Grande (Cuba).
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, and Nice. Germany: Consuls at Breslau, Freiburg, Hanover, Kehl, Mannheim, Munich, 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), Clifton (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, Naples, and Venice. 270 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. 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, Cardenas, Valencia, Malaga, and Nuevitas (Cuba).
Switzerland: Consul at Geneva. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Gottenburg. Turkey: Consuls at Alexandretta, Harpoot, and Sivas. Venezuela: Consuls at La Guayra and Puerto Cabello. SCHEDULE C.Schedule C. Class VII.Claes VII, $1,000 a year. At one thousand dollars per annum. France and French Dominions: Consul at Nantes. 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. Payment to incumbent at Coburg, La Rochelle, Solingen, and Aarau.The appropriations for consulates at Coburg in place of Sonneberg, La Rochelle in place of Cognac, Solingen in place of Fiirth, and Aarau in place of Horgen, shall be deemed to be transfers, and the salaries shall be paid to the incumbents of the present offices until they or others are appointed and qualify at the new offices, and all allowances for rent and clerk hire shall follow the same rule. inspection of embassies, legations, and consulates.
Inspection of embassies, legations, and consulates.To provide for the expenses of an inspection of embassies, legations, and consulates, to be made by officers of the Government, who are not 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. FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. 271 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 StatesPayments 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:Clerksatconsulates. 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, 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 au 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; 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, 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; 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 shall not*Proviso.*Limit. exceed the amount appropriated;
Total, one hundred and six thousand one hundred and seventy dollars. 272 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. 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.*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,*Self-supporting prisoners. That no allowance shall be made for the keeping and feeding of any prisoner who is able to pay or does pay the above sum of fifty cents per day; and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every ease; Rent, etc.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 of American seamen.Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, or so much thereof as may be necessary, thirty thousand dollars. foreign hospitals at panama. Foreign hospitals, Panama.Annual 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 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, thirty thousand dollars; and of this sum the Secretary of State is FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 55, 56. 1898. 273 authorized to expend not exceeding five thousand five hundred dollarsEmployees. 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,**Proviso.*Equivalents of measures, etc.
That all terms of measure, weight, and money shall 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 consular 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 bureau of american republics.
Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousand dollars:Bureau of American Republics.*Proviso.*Receipts from sales, etc., available for expenses. *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 of meeting the expenses of the Bureau. Approved, March 9, 1898.