Chapter 272. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three
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CHAP. 272.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three. March 22, 1902.[[Public, No. 54](/us/pl/57/54).] *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 and three, 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, 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. *Post,* p. 553. Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Austria, Brazil, China, Japan, and Spain, at twelve thousand dollars each, sixty thousand dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Netherlands, Peru, Turkey, and Venezuela, at ten thousand dollars each, eighty 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, Paraguay and Uruguay, Portugal, Sweden and Norway, and Switzerland, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Bolivia, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Ecuador, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Haiti, to be accredited also as chargé d’affaires to Santo Domingo, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Korea, seven thousand five hundred dollars;
Ministers resident and consuls-general. Minister resident and consul-general to Siam, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to Persia, five thousand dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars; Consul-general, Constantinople, etc. Consul-general at Constantinople and agent at Sofia, five 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 ninety thousand 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 77occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while waiting 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 R.
S., sec. 1740, p. 300.ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby appropriated. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations. Secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Secretaries of embassies and legations.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 to Austria, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Secretary of legation and consul-general to Colombia, two thousand dollars; Secretary of legation and consul-general to Stockholm, one thousand five hundred dollars; Secretary of legation to Guatemala and Honduras, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Secretary of legation to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, with residence at Athens, one thousand eight hundred 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 Belgium, Netherlands. Turkey, Spain, and Brazil, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars; Secretaries of legations to Argentine Republic, Venezuela, and Peru, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, Liberia, and Korea (who shall be consul-general to Seoul), at one thousand five hundred dollars each, eight thousand four hundred dollars; Second secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Germany, Second secretaries.Italy, Mexico, and Russia, at two thousand dollars each, twelve thousand dollars;
Second secretary of legation to Austria, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Second secretaries of legations to Japan and China, who shall be American students of the language of t he 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; Second secretary of legation at Constantinople, Turkey, who shall be an American student of the language of Turkey, and shall be allowed and required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to devote his time to the acquisition of such language, one thousand six hundred dollars;
Third secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Mexico, Third secretaries.and Germany, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars; Total, seventy-five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. salaries of interpreters to legations. Chinese secretary legation to China, and interpreter to legation to Interpreters to legations.Turkey, at three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; Interpreter to legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars; 78 Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Persia, one thousand dollars;
Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Korea, tire hundred dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, five hundred dollars; Student interpreters in China. For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall he to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legations and consulates in China, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand Provisos.
Nonpartisan selections.dollars: *Provided,* That said student interpreters shall be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan so far as may be consistent with aptness and fitness for the intended work: *And provided further,* Term of service.That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the legations and consulates in China so long as bis said services may be required within a period of ten years.
Total, twenty thousand five hundred dollars. Double salaries not allowed. 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, and for Loss by exchange.loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, one hundred and seventy-five thousand 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 extension of legation grounds in china. Rent. China. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Pekin, or such other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand six hundred dollars. erection of buildings for legation to china. Legation buildings, Pekin, China. For the erection of necessary buildings for legation premises at Pekin, China, sixty thousand dollars. ground rent of legation at tokyo, japan.
Rent. Japan. Annual ground rent of the legation at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 79 annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco. Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangiers Cape 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 countries Bringing 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 Extradition expenses. Vol. 22, p. 216.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. Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the Life-saving testimonials.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.
To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the Expenses, 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 Unforeseen emergencies.
R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.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, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad. Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and Payment 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 diplomatic Bringing 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 of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, five thousand dollars. international bureau of weights and measures.
Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Vol. 20, p. 714.Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, in conformity with the terms of the convention of 80May 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 three hundred and six dollars and ninety-three cents. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs.
International Customs Tariff Bureau. To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and three, of sustaining the International Bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand three hundred and eighteen Vol. 26, p. 1518.dollars and seventy-six cents; this appropriation to lie available on April first, nineteen hundred and two, pursuant to convention proclaimed, December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.
Mexican Water-Boundary Commission. 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, seventeen thousand four hundred dollars. international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade. Bureau for repression 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 nineteen hundred and three, one hundred dollars. international conference of the red cross at saint petersburg.
Red Cross International Conference at Saint Petersburg. For necessary expenses of delegates to represent, the United States at the International Conference of the Red Cross to be held at Saint Petersburg in May next, and for contribution on the part of the United States toward the expenses of said conference, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State (to be immediately available), three thousand 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, including preparation of reports, 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. 81 international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration. To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the year International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration. *Post,* p. 1798.nineteen hundred and one of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article twenty-two of the convention concluded at The Hague, July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
SCHEDULE B. Schedule B. Salaries, Consular Service. Salaries. consuls-general. Consuls-general. For salaries of consuls-general at the following places, namely: Calcutta, Hongkong, London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Shanghai, at five thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars; Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars; Berlin, Mexico, Montreal, Ottawa, Panama, and Yokohama, at four thousand dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars; Antwerp, Halifax, and Vienna, at three thousand five hundred dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars;
Apia and Nukualofa, Barcelona, Cape Town (Africa), Dresden, Frankfort, Guayaquil, Rome, Saint Gall, Saint Petersburg, and Singapore, at three thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars; Coburg, Hamburg, Marseilles, Monterey, and Rotterdam, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; Guatemala City (Guatemala), Maracaibo, Munich. Tangier, and Santo Domingo, at two thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars; Christiania, two thousand dollars;
Total for salaries of consuls-general, one hundred and twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. consuls. Consuls. For salaries of consuls at the following places, namely: class i. Class I, $5,000 a year. At five thousand dollars per annum. Liverpool, England, class ii. Class II, $3,500 a year. At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Amoy, China. Callao, Peru. Canton, China. Dawson City, Northwest Territory. Havre, France. Tientsin, China. class iii. Class III, $3,000 a year.
At three thousand dollars per annum. Barmen, Germany. Basle, Switzerland. Belfast, Ireland. Bordeaux, France. Bradford, England 82 Class III—Cont’d. Chefoo, China. Colon, Colombia. Demerara, Guiana. Fuchau, China. Glasgow, Scotland. Hankau, China. Kingston, Jamaica. Kobe, Japan. Lyons, France. Manchester, England. Montevideo, Uruguay. Nagasaki, Japan. Nanking, China. Niuchwang, China. Nottingham, England. Nuremberg, Germany. Para, Brazil. Pernambuco, Brazil. Prague, Austria. Pretoria, South African Republic.
Quebec, Canada. Santos, Brazil. Valparaiso, Chile. Vera Cruz, Mexico. class iv. Class IV, $2,500 a fear. At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Aix la Chapelle, Germany. Annaberg, Germany. Athens, Greece. Bahia, Brazil. Barbados, West Indies. Birmingham, England. Bremen, Germany. Brussels, Belgium. Buonos Ayres, Argentine Republic. Chemnitz, Germany. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Cologne, Germany. Dundee, Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland. Huddersfield, England. Jerusalem, Syria.
Lourenço Marquez, Africa. Mainz, Germany. Plauen, Germany. Reichenberg, Austria. Saint Thomas, West Indies. San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua. Sheffield, England. Smyrna, Turkey. Southampton, England. Stuttgart, Germany. Swansea, Wales. Tunstall, England. Victoria, British Columbia. Vladivostock, Siberia. Zurich, Switzerland. 83 class v. Class V, $2,000 a year. At two thousand dollars per an num. Acapulco, Mexico. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Auckland, New Zealand. Bamberg, Germany. Barranquilla, Colombia.
Beirut, Syria. Belize, Honduras. Berne, Switzerland. Bombay, India. Brunswick, Germany. Calais, France. Cardiff, Wales. Chatham, Ontario. Chihuahua, Mexico. Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Mexico. Collingwood, Canada. Copenhagen, Denmark. Cork, Ireland. Crefeld, Germany. Curaçao, West Indies. Dublin, Ireland. Dunfermline, Scotland. Dusseldorf, Germany. Erzerum, Turkey. Freiburg, Germany. Geneva, Switzerland. Genoa, Italy. Ghent, Belgium. Glauchau, Germany. Hamilton, Bermuda. Hamilton, Ontario.
Hanover, Germany. Kehl, Germany. La Guayra, Venezuela. Leeds, England. Leghorn, Italy. Liege, Belgium. Leipsic, Germany. London, Ontario. Lucerne, Switzerland. Magdeburg, Germany. Malta, Great Britain. Managua, Nicaragua. Mannheim, Germany. Mazatlan, Mexico. Milan, Italy. Moscow, Russia. Naples, Italy. Nassau, New Providence. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Odessa, Russia. Palermo, Italy. Port Louis, Mauritius. Port Sarnia, Ontario. Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.
Rheims, France. 84 Class V—Cont’d. Rosario, Argentine Republic. Roubaix, France. Saint Etienne, France. Saint Helena, Great Britain. Saint Johns, Newfoundland. Saint John, New Brunswick. Saint Thomas, Ontario. San Jose, Costa Rica. San Salvador, Salvador. Sherbrooke, Canada. Solingen, Germany. Sydney, New South Wales. Tamatave, Madagascar. Tampico, Mexico. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Three Rivers, Canada. Toronto, Canada. Trieste, Austria. Trinidad, West Indies. Vancouver, British Columbia.
Weimar, Germany. Zanzibar, Zanzibar. class vi. Class VI, $1,500 a year. At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Aden, Arabia. Alexandretta, Syria. Algiers, Africa. Amherstburg, Canada. Antigua, West Indies. Asuncion, Paraguay. Breslau, Germany. Bristol, England. Brookville, Canada. Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Cadiz, Spain. Cartagena, Colombia. Castellamare di Stabia, Italy. Catania, Italy. Ceylon, India. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Coaticook, Quebec. Cornwall, Canada.
Durango, Mexico. Ensenada, Mexico. Florence, Italy. Fort Erie, Canada. Funchal, Madeira. Gibraltar, Spain. Goderich, Ontario. Gothenberg, Sweden. Grenoble, France. Guadeloupe, West Indies. Guelph, Canada. Harput, Turkey. Hull, England. Kingston, Ontario. La Rochelle, France. Limoges, France. Malaga, Spain. Martinique, West Indies. 85 Class VI—Cont’d Matamoras, Mexico. Messina, Italy. Nantes, France. Niagara Falls, Ontario. Nice, France. Nogales, Mexico. Orillia, Ontario. Patras, Greece.
Port Hope, Ontario. Port Limon, Costa Rica. Prescott, Ontario. Progreso, Mexico. Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Puerto Cortez, Honduras. Saint Christopher, West Indies. Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec. Saint Johns, Quebec. Saint Michaels, Azores. Saint Pierre, Saint Pierre Island. Saint Stephen, New Brunswick. Saltillo, Mexico. Sierra Leone, Africa. Sivas, Turkey. Stettin, Germany. Stratford, Canada. Sydney, Nova Scotia. Tamsui, Formosa. Teneriffe, Spain. Valencia, Spain. Venice, Italy. Wallaceburg, Ontario.
Windsor, Ontario. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Woodstock, New Brunswick. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Zittau, Germany. SCHEDULE C. Schedule C. class vii. Class VII, $1,000 a year. At one thousand dollars per annum. Batavia, Java. Cape Haitien, Haiti. Ceiba, Honduras. Gaspe Basin, Canada. Riga, Russia, Rouen, France. Stanbridge, Canada. Tahiti, Society Islands. Turin, Italy. Utilla, Honduras. Windsor, Nova Scotia. Total, salaries of consuls, four hundred and sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. salaries of consular clerks.
Eight consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, Consular clerks.five thousand six hundred dollars: and five consular clerks, at one thousand dollars each, five thousand dollars: total, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars. 86 salaries of consular officers not citizens. Payment to consular officers not citizens. The salary of a consular officer not a citizen of the United States shall hr paid out of the amount specifically appropriated for salary at the consular office to which the alien officer is attached or appointed. allowances for clerk hire at united states consulates.
Clerks at consulates. For allowance for clerk hire at consulates as follows: London, three thousand dollars; Paris, two thousand six hundred dollars; Mexico (city), two thousand one hundred dollars; Liverpool, two thousand dollars; Bradford, one thousand eight hundred dollars: Southampton, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Rio de Janeiro and Shanghai, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, three thousand two hundred dollars; Antwerp and Manchester, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars;
Barmen, Berlin, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brussels, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Frankfort, Hamburg, Havre, Hongkong, Kobe, Lyons, Marseilles, Montreal, Ottawa, Rotterdam, Vienna, and Yokohama, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars; Belfast, Calcutta, Coburg, Glasgow, and Nuremburg, at one thousand dollars each, five thousand dollars; Birmingham, nine hundred and sixty dollars; Beirut, Cape Town, Colon, Dawson City, Dresden, Dundee, Guayaquil, Kingston (Jamaica), Leipsic, Maracaibo, Melbourne, Messina, Monterey, Naples, Palermo, Panama, Port au Prince, Saint Gall, Sheffield, Singapore, Smyrna, Tangier, Toronto, Tunstall, Vancouver, Vera Cruz, and Victoria, at eight hundred dollars each, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars;
Edinburgh, seven hundred and sixty dollars: Prague, seven hundred and twenty dollars; Aix la Chapelle, Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz. Halifax, and Lucerne, at six hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand two hundred dollars; Cairo, Canton, Cologne, Constantinople, Huddersfield, Mainz, Munich, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Nottingham, Odessa, Para, Pernambuco, Solingen, Tampico, and Zurich, at six hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars; Kehl, five hundred dollars; Berne, Demerara, Florence, Genoa, Malaga, Mannheim, and Stuttgart, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars;
Total, clerk hire, eighty-seven thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Consulates not specified. Allowance for clerks at consulates, to he 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, forty *Proviso.* Limit.thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated. salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan.
Interpreters at consulates. Interpreters to he employed at consulates in China, Korea, and Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars. For interpreter at Vladivostok, Siberia, eight hundred dollars. 87 expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions, and so forth. Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions Interpreters, guards, etc.and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, eight thousand dollars. salaries of marshals for consular courts.
Marshals for the consular courts in China. Korea, and Turkey, nine Marshals.thousand three hundred dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts. Consular prisons. Expenses of a prison and a prison keeper at the consulate-general Bangkok.in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts Shanghai.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.
Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea, Keeping prisoners. *Provisos.* Maximum allowance.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 keeping and Self-supporting prisoners.feeding of any prisoner who is able to pay or does pay the above sum of fifty cents per day; and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case.
Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of Rent, etc., Turkey.keepers of the same, one thousand dollars. Wages of prison keeper in Korea, six hundred dollars. Prison keeper, Korea. Total, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. relief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and Relief of American seamen.shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, or so much thereof as may be necessary, thirty thousand dollars. foreign hospital at cape town.
Foreign hospitals. Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital Cape Town.(a foreign hospital) at Cape Town, twenty-five 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 hospital. foreign hospitals at panama. Annual contributions toward the support of foreign hospitals at 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 Department Preparing, etc., consular reports. Employees, etc.of State of the diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports, forty thousand dollars; and of this sum the Secretary of State 88is authorized to expend not exceeding tire 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 *Proviso.* Equivalents of measure, etc.
Limit of issue of reports.commercial reports: *Provided,* 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 diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports shall not exceed ten thousand copies. contingent expenses, united states consulates. Contingent expenses, consulates. Expenses 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, 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 and five thousand dollars. international union of american republics.
Bureau of American Republics. *Provisos.* Use of receipts from other Republics, sales, etc. Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousand dollars: *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 therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau: *And provided further,* Monthly Bulletin issue limited.That the Public Printer be, and is hereby, authorized to print an edition of the Monthly Bulletin, not to exceed five thousand copies, for distribution by the Bureau every month during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three.
Approved, March 22, 1902.