Chapter 530. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four
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CHAP. 530.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four. February 9, 1903.[[Public, No. 73](/us/pl/57/73).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, andDiplomatic and consular appropriations. they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, 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; Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Italy and Austria-Hungary, at twelve thousand dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Brazil, China,Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.
Japan, Cuba, and Spain, at twelve thousand dollars each, sixty thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, 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 arid 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, and diplomatic agent in Bulgaria, 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 charge d’affaires to Santo Domingo, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Korea, seven thousand five hundred dollars: Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Siam, seven thousand five hundred dollars; 808 Ministers resident and consul-general.*Post*, p. 1033.Minister resident and consul-general to Persia, seven thousand live hundred dollars;
Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars; Agent, etc., Cairo.Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars; Charges d’affaires.Charges d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, thirty thousand dollars; Total, three hundred and ninety-nine 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 [R.
S.,sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309).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 ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, is hereby appropriated. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations. Secretaries of embassies and legations.Secretaries of embassies to AustriaHungarv, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy. Mexico, and Russia, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, eighteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five 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 Cuba, two thousand dollars; Secretary of legation and consul-general to Colombia, two thousand dollars; Secretary of legation to Siam and consul-general at Bangkok, one thousand eight hundred 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 and Luxemburg, 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, and Liberia, Switzerland, and Korea (who shall be consul-general to Seoul), at one thousand five hundred dollars each, nine thousand nine hundred dollars;
Second secretaries.Second secretaries of embassies to Austria-Hungary. Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy. Mexico, and Russia, at two thousand dollars each, fourteen 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;
Second secretary of legation to Turkey, who shall be an American student of the language of Turkey, and shall be allowed and required, 809under the direction of the Secretary of State, to devote his time to the acquisition of such language, one thousand six hundred dollars; Second secretary of legation to Cuba, one thousand five hundred dollars; Third secretaries of embassies to Great Britain. France,Third secretaries. Mexico, and Germany, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, four thou-sand eight hundred dollars;
Total, eighty-two thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars. salaries of interpreters to legations. Chinese secretary, legation to China, and interpreter toInterpreters to legations. legation to 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; For ten student interpreters at the legation to China,Student interpreters in China. who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language, with a view to supplying interpreters to the legations and *Proviso.*Nonpartisan selection.consulates in China, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand 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*, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreterTerm of service. shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the legations and consulates in China so long as his said services may be required within a period of ten years.
Total, twenty thousand five hundred dollars. But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as aboveDouble salaries not allowed. provided shall he, allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer. legation to spain. For clerk hire at legation to Spain, oneSpain.Clerk hire. thousand two hundred dollars. contingent expenses, foreign missions. To enable the President to provide, at theContingent expenses, foreign missions. public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, hags, 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 Tangiera, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, andDispatch agents.
San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for Printing.Loss by exchange.loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. steam launch for legation at constantinople. Hiring of steam launch for use of the legationSteam launch, Turkey. at Constantinople, one thousand eight hundred dollars. 810 rent of buildings for legation at pekin.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. ground rent of legation at tokyo, japan. Japan.Annual ground rent of the legation at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and four, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. for improvements of the grounds, and stable, of the legation at tokyo, japan. Improving grounds, Tokyo, Japan.*Ante*, p. 5.For improvements of the grounds of the United States legation at Tokyo, Japan, owned by the United Stites Government, and for the reconstruction of the legation’s stable, so much of the sum of five thousand seven hundred dollars appropriated by the Act making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes, approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and two, for a new system of heating the legation building at Tokyo, Japan, and for a fireproof vault for the preservation of the records and archives of the legation, as remains unexpended for these purposes and as may be necessary. annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco.
Cape Spartel Light.Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangiers Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. bringing home criminals. Bringing home criminals.Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, Jive thousand dollars. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen. Life-saving testimonials.Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. expenses under the neutrality act.
Expenses, neutrality act.To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be expended under the [R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).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 emergenciesTo 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 [R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).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. 811 allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad. Payment, under thePayment to heirs of diplomatic and consular officer dying abroad. 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, live thousand dollars. For payment to EllenAlfred E. Buck.Payment to widow. B. Buck, widow of Alfred E. Buck, late minister plenipotentiary to Japan, who died December fourth, nineteen hundred and two, while minister, an amount equal to six months’ salary of said officer, six thousand dollars. For payment to the Thomas T. Prentis.Payment to surviving children.surviving children of Thomas T. Prentis. late United States consul at Martinique, who with his wife and all their possessions were lost in the late disaster caused by the eruption of Mount Pelee, five thousand dollars. transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular clerks to their homes for interment.
Defraying the expenses of transporting theBringing home remains of ministers, consuls, etc. 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, at their post or at home, five thousand dollars. international bureau of weights and measures.
Contribution to the maintenance of theInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 714. International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, 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 three hundred and six dollars and ninety-three cents. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs.
To meet the share of the United States in theInternational Customs Tariffs Bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518. annual expense for the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and four, 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, nineteen hundred and three, pursuant to convention pro-claimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.
To enable the Commission to continue its workMexican Water Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512. 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. To meet the share of the United States in theBureau for repressing African slave trade.Vol. 27, p. 917. 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 812of 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 four, 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, 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. 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 Monthly Bulletin; issue limited.requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau: *And provided further,* 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 four. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.
International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration.*Post.* pp. 1708.To meet the share of the. United States in the expenses for the year nineteen hundred and two 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. publication of diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports.
Preparing, etc., consular reports.Employees, etc.Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution by the Department of State of the diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports, forty thousand dollars; and of this sum the Secretary of State is authorized to expend not exceeding six 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 813report 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: *Proviso.*Equivalents of measures, etc.Limit of issue of 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.
SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. Salaries, Consular Service.Salaries. consuls-general.Consuls-general. For salaries of consuls-general at the following places, namely: Calcutta, Constantinople, Cape Town (Africa), Habana, Hongkong. Lon-don, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Shanghai, at five thousand dollars each, forty-five thousand dollars; Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars; Berlin, Canton, Mexico, Montreal, Ottawa, Panama, and Yokohama, at four thousand dollars each, twenty-eight thousand dollars;
Antwerp, Halifax, Singapore, and Vienna, at three thousand live hundred dollars each, fourteen thousand dollars: Apia and Nukualofa. Barcelona, Coburg, Dresden, Frankfort. Guayaquil, Monterey. Rome, Saint Gall, Saint Petersburg, and Marseilles, at three thousand dollars each, thirty-three thousand dollars; Auckland (New Zealand), Hamburg, Munich, and Rotterdam, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, ten thousand dollars; Guatemala City (Guatemala), Maracaibo, Tangier, and Santo Domingo, at two thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars:
Christiania, two thousand dollars; Total for salaries of consuls-general. one hundred and forty-four thousand five hundred dollars. consuls.Consuls. for salaries of consuls at the following places, namely: class iClass I. $5,000 a year. At five thousand dollars per annum. Liverpool, England. class iiClass II. $3,500 a year. At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Amoy, China. Callao, Peru. Dawson City, Northwest Territory. Havre, France. Tientsin, China. Pretoria, South Africa. class iiiClass III. $3,000 a year.
At three thousand dollars per annum. Barmen, Germany. Basle, Switzerland.814 Belfast. Ireland. Bordeaux, France. Bradford, England. Chefoo, China. Cienfuegos. Cuba. Colon, Colombia. Demerara, Guiana. Fuehau, 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.
Quebec, Canada. Santiago de Cuba. Santos, Brazil. Valparaiso. Chile. Vera Cruz, Mexico. class ivClass IV, $2,500 a year. At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Aix la Chapelle, Germany. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Annaberg, Germany. Athens. Greece. Bahia, Brazil. Barbados, West Indies. Birmingham. England. Bombay, India. Bremen, Germany. Brussels, Belgium. Buenos Ayres. Argentine Republic. Chemnitz, Germany. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Cologne, Germany. Dundee, Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland.
Huddersfield, England. Jerusalem, Syria. Loureneo Marquez. Africa. Mainz, Germany. Odessa. Russia. Plauen, Germany. Reiehenberg, Austria. Saint Thomas. West Indies. San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua. Sheffield, England. Smyrna, Turkey. Southampton, England. Stuttgart, Germany.815 Swansea, Wales. Sydney. New South ’Wales. Tunstall, England. Victoria, British Columbia. V1 ad i vostoe k, S i be ria. Zurich, Switzerland. class vClass V, $ 2,000 a year. At two thousand dollars per annum.
Acapulco, Mexico. Amherstburg, Canada. Bamberg, Germany. Barranquilla, Colombia. Beirut, Syria. Belize, Honduras. Berne, Switzerland. Breslau, Germany. Brunswick, Germany. Calais, France. Cardiff, Wales. Chatham, Ontario. Chihuahua, Mexico. Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Mexico. Collingwood, Canada. Copenhagen, Denmark. Cork, Ireland. Crefeld, Germany. Curasao, West Indies. Dublin, Ireland. Dunfermline, Scotland. Düsseldorf, Germany. Erzerum, Turkey. Freiburg. Germany. Geneva. Switzerland.
Genoa, Italy. Ghent. Belgium. Glauchau, Germany. Hamilton, Bermuda. Hamilton, Ontario. Hanover, Germany. Hull, England. Kehl. Germany. La Guayra, Venezuela. Leeds. England. Leghorn, Italy. Liege, Belgium. Leipsic, Germany. London, Ontario. Lucerne, Switzerland. Magdeburg, Germany. Malta. Great Britain. Managua, Nicaragua. Muntmeim. Germany. Mazatlan, Mexico. Milan, Italy. Moscow, Russia. Naples. Italy. Nassau. New Providence. Newcas11e-on-Tyne, England. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico.816 Palermo, Italy.
Port Louis. Mauritius. Port Sarnia, Ontario. Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Rheims, France. 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, Nova Scotia. Tamatave, Madagascar. Tampico, Mexico. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Three Rivers, Canada. Toronto, Canada. Trieste, Austria.
Trinidad, West Indies. Vancouver, British Columbia. Weimar, Germany. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Zanzibar, Zanzibar. class viClass VI, $1.500 a year. At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Aden, Arabia. Alexa nd retta, Syria. Algiers, Africa. Antigua, West Indies. Asuncion, Paraguay. Bristol, England. Brookville, Canada. Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Cadiz, Spain. Cartagena, Colombia. Castel lama re di Stabia. Italy. Catania. Italy. Ceiba, Honduras. Ceylon, India. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
Coaticook, Quebec. Cornwall. Canada. Durango, Mexico. Ensenada, Mexico. Florence, Italy. Fort Erie, Canada. Funchal. Madeira. Gaspa Basin, Canada. Gibraltar, Spain. Goderich, Ontario. Gothenberg, Sweden. Grenoble, France. Guadeloupe, West Indies. Guelph. Canada. Harput, Turkey.817 Kingston. Ontario. La Rochelle, France. Limoges, France. Malaga, Spain. Martinique, West Indies. 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, Sicas, Turkey. Stan bridge, Canada. Stettin, Germany. Stratford. Canada. Tamsui, Formosa. Teneriffe. Spain.
Valencia, Spain. Venice, Italy. Wallaceburg, Ontar io. Windsor. Ontario. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Woodstock, New Brunswick. Zittau, Germany. SCHEDULE C.Schedule C. class viiClass VII, $1,000 a year. At one thousand dollars per annum. Batavia, Java. Cape Haitien, Haiti. Riga, Russia. Rouen, France. Tahiti, Society Islands. Turin, Italy. Utilla, Honduras. Windsor, Nova Scotia. Total, salaries of consuls, four hundred and seventy-four thousand five hundred dollars. salaries of consular clerks.
Ten consular clerks, at one thousandConsular clerks. two hundred dollars each, twelve thousand dollars; and three consular clerks, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; total, fifteen thousand dollars. 818 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 be 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; Hongkong, two thousand two hundred dollars; Mexico (city), two thousand one hundred dollars; Liverpool and Havana, at. two thousand dollars each, four thousand dollars; Bradford and Manchester, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six 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, one thousand five hundred dollars; Barmen, Berlin. Bordeaux. Bremen. Brussels. Chemnitz, Crefeld, Frankfort, Hamburg, Havre, Kobe, Lyons, Marseilles, Montreal, Ottawa, Rotterdam, Vienna, and Yokohama, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars; Belfast, Calcutta, Coburg, Glasgow, Nuremburg, Saint Gall, and Sheffield, at one thousand dollars each, seven thousand dollars;
Birmingham, nine hundred and sixty dollars; Beirut, Canton, Cape, Town, Colon, Dawson City, Dresden, Dundee, Guayaquil, Kingston (Jamaica), Leipsic, Maracaibo, Melbourne, Messina, Monterey, Naples, Palermo, Panama, Port an Prince, Singapore, Smyrna, Sydney (New South Wales), 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; Stockholm, seven hundred and fifty dollars;
Prague, seven hundred anil twenty dollars; Aix la Chapelle, Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Halifax, and Lucerne, at six hundred and forty dollars each, two thousand six hundred dollars; Buenos Ayres, Cairo, Cologne, Constantinople, Huddersfield. Mainz, Munich, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Nottingham, Odessa, Para. Pernambuco, Solingen, Tampico, and Zurich, at six hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars; Cienfuegos. Kehl, and Santiago de Cuba, at five hundred dollars each, fifteen 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, ninety-four thousand four hundred 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, forty thousand *Proviso.*Limit.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 be 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. 819 expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions, and so forth. Interpreters and guards at the consulates inInterpreters, guards, etc. the Turkish dominions 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,Marshals. Korea, and Turkey, nine housand three hundred dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts. Expenses of a prison and a prison keeper at theConsular prisons.Bangkok. consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai forShanghai. 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.
Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners inKeeping prisoners.*Provisos*.Maximum allowance. China, Korea, 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 allowanceSelf-supporting prisoners. snail 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 case.
Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and forRent, etc., Turkey, wages of keepers of the same, one thousand dollars. Wages of prison keeper in Korea, six hundred dollars.Prison keeper, Korea. Total, thirteen thousand one hundred anil fifty dollars. relief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreignRelief of American seamen. countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, or so much thereof as may be. necessary, thirty thousand dollars. foreign hospital at cape town.
Annual contribution toward the support of the SomersetForeign hospitals.Cape Town. Hospital (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 foreignPanama. 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. contingent expenses, united states consulates.
Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks,Contingent expenses, consulates. record and other books, seals, presses, (lags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising. 820messenger 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 fifteen thousand dollars.
Approved, February 9, 1903.