Chapter 1407. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six
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CHAP. 1407.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. March 3, 1905. [[H. R. 18468](/us/bill/58/hr/18468).] [[Public, No. 140](/us/pl/58/140).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * 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 dune thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, out of any money in the Treasure not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
SCHEDULE A. Schedule A. salaries op 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 live hundred dollars: Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Brazil, Italy, and Austria-Hungary, at twelve thousand dollars each, thirty-six thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the ArgentineEnvoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.
Republic, China, Japan, Cuba, and Spain, at twelve thousand dollars each, sixty thousand dollars; Envoy extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Belgium, Chile, Colombia, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, Panama, 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;916 Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Denmark, Morocco, Paraguay anti Uruguay, Portugal, Roumania and Servia, Sweden and Norway, and Switzerland, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-two thousand tire hundred dollars;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro and diplomatic agent in Bulgaria, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia. Ecuador, Haiti, Korea, Persia, and Siam, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, forty-five thousand dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, five thousand dollars;Ministers resident and consuls-general. Minister resident and consul-general to Santo Domingo, five thousand dollars;
Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars;Agent, etc., Cairo. Chargés d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, thirty-fiveChargés d’affaires, etc. thousand dollars; Total, four hundred and thirty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations. Secretaries of embassies and legations. Secretaries of embassies to Austria-Hungary, Great Britain, France,Salaries. 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. Japan, and Turkey, 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 Stockholm, two thousand five hundred dollars; Secretaries of legation to Cuba, Panama, and Peru, at two thousand dollars each, six 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 to Guatemala and Honduras, one thousand eight hundred dollars: Secretary of legation to Greece and Montenegro, who shall also be secretary of the diplomatic agency in Bulgaria, with residence at Athens, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Secretaries of legations to Chile, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and San Salvador, one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; Secretaries of legations to Belgium, Brazil, Denmark, Portugal, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, Spain, and Switzerland, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, twelve thousand six hundred dollars;
Secretaries of legations to Argentine Republic and Venezuela, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, and Liberia and Korea (who shall be consul-general to Seoul), at one thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand six hundred dollars; Secretary of legation and consul-general to Roumania and Servia, one thousand five hundred dollars; Second secretaries of embassies to Austria-Hungary, Great Britain,Second secretaries. 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;917 Second secretary of legation to 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 fiis time to the acquisition of such language, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Second secretary of legation to Cuba, one thousand five hundred dollars; Third secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Mexico,Third secretaries. Germany and Russia, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars; Total, ninety-three thousand three hundred and fifty 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[R.
S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309). 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 six, is hereby appropriated, salaries of interpreters to legations. Chinese secretary, legation to China, and interpreter to legation toInterpreters to legations. Turkey, at three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; Assistant Chinese secretary to the legation to China, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, two 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, who shall beStudent interpreters in China. 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 consulates in China, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars: *Provided, *That said student interpreters shall be chosen*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection. 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 studentTerm of service. interpreter 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;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at theTuition. legation to China at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, to be immediately available, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Total, twenty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above providedRestriction. shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer. legation to spain.
Spain. For clerk hire at legation to Spain, one thousand two hundredClerk hire. dollars. 918contingent expenses, foreign missions. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all suchContingent expenses, foreign missions. stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses. flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk' at the consulate at Tangiers, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, andDispatch agents.
San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State,Printing. and for loss on lulls of exchange to and from embassies and legations,Loss by exchange. one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. steam launch for legation at constantinople. Hiring of steam launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, oneSteam launch, Turkey. thousand eight hundred dollars. rent of buildings for legation at peking.
Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or suchRent.China. other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand six hundred dollars. ground rent of legation at tokyo, japan. Annual ground rent of the legation at Tokyo, Japan, for the yearJapan. ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six. two hundred anil fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco. Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and TangiersCape Spartel light.
Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. bringing home criminals. Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countriesBringing home criminals. persons charged with crime, seven thousand dollars. RESCUING SHIPWRECKED AMERICAN SEAMEN. Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of theLife-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 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 inUnforeseen emergencies. the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the[R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49). requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised919 Statutes, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The Secretary of State is authorized to apply in his discretionCarriages, etc. such portions of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, to the maintenance, driving, and operating such carriages or vehicles as may be necessary for the use of the Assistant Secretaries of the Department of State in the duties officially devolving upon them, and further to apply upon the order of the President such proportion of any fund which may properly be applied to the entertainment of visiting functionaries of foreign governments to such temporary hire of carriages as may be required for the use of such Assistant Secretaries in emergencies arising in connection with the necessary entertainment of such functionaries of foreign governments in the United States, or in such other emergencies as may require such expenditures to be made. allowance to widows ok heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad.
Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred andPayment to heirs of diplomatic and consular officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311). forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five thousand dollars. transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls. and consular clerks to their homes for interment.
Defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomaticBringing home remains of ministers and consuls. 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 ofInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20. p. 714. Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same. 01 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 the animal expense for theInternational Customs Tariffs, Bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518. year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six. of sustaining the International Bureau al Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand live hundred dollars; this appropriation to be available on April first, nineteen hundred and five, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.
To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties ofMexican Water Boundary Commission.Vol. 24. p. 1011; Vol. 26. p. 1512. eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, five thousand dollars.920 international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade. To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the specialBureau for repression of African slave trade.Vol. 27, p. 917. bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded at Brussels, duly 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 six, one hundred dollars. international prison commission.
For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of theInternational Prison Commission. International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commissioner, including preparation of reports, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. international geodetic association for the measurement of the earth. To enable the Government of the United States to pay, through theInternational Geodetic Association. American embassy at Berlin, its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, one thousand live hundred dollars. repairs to legation and consular premises.
To enable the Secretary of State to keep in repair the legation andRepairs to legations and consulates. consular premises owned by the Government of the United States and occupied by its agents, five thousand dollars. international union of american republics. Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousandBureau of American Republics. dollars: *Provided, *That any moneys received from the other American*Provisos*.Use of receipts from other Republics, sales, etc.
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: *Provided further,* That the Public Printer be, and is hereby, authorized to print anMonthly Bulletin. 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 six. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.
To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the yearInternational Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 32, p. 1793. nineteen hundred and four 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. international railway congress.
To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member of theInternational Railway Congress. International Rai I way Congress for the year nineteen hundred and six, four hundred dollars. international sanitary bureau. Por the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of theInternational Sanitary Bureau. International Sanitary Bureau for the year nineteen hundred and six, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-nine cents.921 SCHEDFLE B. Schedule B.
Salaries, Consular Service. Consular service salaries. consuls-general. Consuls-general. For salaries of consul-general at the following places, namely: Calcutta, Constantinople, Cape Town (Africa), Habana, Hongkong, London, Ottawa, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, and Shanghai, at five thousand dollars each, fifty thousand dollars; Melbourne and Tientsin, at four thousand five hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars; Berlin, Canton, Mexico City, Montreal, Mukden, Panama, Saint Petersburg, and Yokohama, at four thousand dollars each, thirty-two thousand dollars;
Antwerp, Callao, Halifax. Hamburg, Singapore, and Vienna, at three thousand five hundred dollars each, twenty-one thousand dollars; Apia and Nukualofa, Barcelona, Buenos Ayres, Coburg, Dresden, Frankfort, Guayaquil, Marseilles, Monterey, Rome, and Rotterdam, at three thousand dollars each, thirty-three thousand dollars; Auckland (New Zealand), Christiania, Munich, and Tangier, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, ten thousand dollars; Guatemala City (Guatemala), Maracaibo, and San Salvador, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars;
Total for salaries of consuls-general, one hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars. consuls. Consuls. For salaries of consuls at the following places, namely: class i. Class I, 85,000 a year. At five thousand dollars per annum. Liverpool, England. class ii. Class II, 83,500 a year. At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Amoy, China. Antung, Manchuria, Bremen, Germany. Chefoo, China. Dalny. Manchuria. Dawson City, Northwest Territory. Havre, France. Kobe, Japan. Lourenzo Marquez, Africa.
Nuichwang, China. Pretoria, South Africa. Saint Gall, Switzerland. Southampton, England. Forty-five thousand five hundred dollars. class iii. Class III, 83,000 a year. At three thousand dollars per annum. Barmen, Germany. Bahia, Brazil. Basle, Switzerland Belfast, Ireland. Bombay, India.922 Bordeaux, France. Bradford, England. Chungking, China. Cienfuegos, Cuba. Colon, Panama. Fuchan, China. Georgetown, Guiana Glasgow, Scotland. Hankau, China. Hangchow, China. Kingston, Jamaica.
Lyons, France. Manchester, England. Montevideo, Uruguay. Nagasaki, Japan. Nanking, China. Nottingham, England. Nuremberg, Germany. Odessa, Russia. Para, Brazil. Pernambuco, Brazil. Prague, Austria. Quebec, Canada. Santiago de Cuba. Santos, Brazil. Valparaiso, Chile. Vera Cruz, Mexico Ninety-six thousand dollars. class iv. Class IV, $2,500 a year. At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Aix la Chapelle, Germany. Amsterdam, Netherlands. Annaberg, Germany. Athens, Greece.
Barbados, West Indies. Barranquilla, Colombia. Birmingham, England. Brussels, Belgium. Burslem, England. Calais, France. Chemnitz, Germany. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Mexico. Cologne, Germany. Colombo, Ceylon. Dundee, Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland. Huddersfield, England. Jerusalem, Syria. Liege, Belgium. Mainz, Germany. Plauen, Germany. Reichenberg, Austria. Saint Thomas, West Indies. San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua. Sheffield, England. Smyrna, Turkey. Stuttgart, Germany.923 Swansea, Wales.
Sydney, New South Wales. Three Rivers, Canada. Toronto, Canada. Trinidad, West Indies. Vancouver, British Columbia. Victoria, British Columbia. Vladivostok, Siberia. Zurich, Switzerland. Ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars. class v. Class V, $2,000 a year. At two thousand dollars per annum. Acapulco, Mexico. Algiers, Africa. Amherstburg, Canada. Bamberg, Germany. Beirut, Syria. Belize, Honduras. Bergen, Norway. Berne, Switzerland. Breslau, Germany. Brunswick, Germany. Budapest, Austria-Hungary.
Cardiff, Wales. Chatham, Canada. Chihuahua, Mexico. Collingwood, Canada. Copenhagen, Denmark. Cork, Ireland. Crefeld, Germany. Curasao, West Indies. Dublin, Ireland. Dunfermline. Scotland. Dusseldorf, Germany. Freiburg, Germany, Geneva, Switzerland. Genoa, Italy. Ghent, Belgium. Glauchau, Germany. Hamilton, Bermuda. Hamilton, Canada. Hanover, Germany. Hull, England. Jamestown, Saint Helena. Kehl, Germany. La Guayra, Venezuela. Leeds, England. Leghorn, Italy. Leipsic, Germany.
London, Canada. Lucerne, Switzerland. Magdeburg, Germany. Malta Islands, Great Britain, Managua, Nicaragua. Mannheim, Germany. Martinique, West Indies. Mazatlan, Mexico. Milan. Italy.924 Moscow, Russia. Nantes, France. Naples, Italy. Nassau, New Providence. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Palermo, Italy. Port Limon, Costa Rica. Port Louis, Mauritius. Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. Puerto Cortez, Honduras. Rheims, France. Rosario, Argentine Republic. Roubaix, France.
Saint Etienne, France. Saint John, New Brunswick. Saint Johns, Newfoundland. Saint Thomas, Canada. San Jose, Costa Rica. Sarnia, Ontario. Sherbrooke, Canada. Solingen, Germany. Sydney, Nova Scotia. Tamatave, Madagascar. Tampico, Mexico. Tamsui, Formosa. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Teneriffe, Spain. Trebizond, Turkey. Trieste, Austria. Valencia, Spain. Weimar, Germany. Winnipeg, Canada. Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. Zanzibar, Zanzibar. Zittau, Germany. One hundred and sixty-four thousand dollars class vi.
Class VI, $1,500 a year. At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Atien, Arabia. Alexandretta, Syria. Antigua, West Indies. Asuncion, Paraguay. Batavia, Java. Bristol, England. Brockville, Canada. Cape Haitien, Haiti. Cartagena, Colombia. Castellamare di Stabia, Italy. Catania, Italy. Ceiba, Honduras. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Coaticook, Quebec. Cornwall, Canada. Durango, Mexico. Ensenada, Mexico. Florence, Italy. Fort Erie, Canada.925 Funchal, Madeira. Gaspe Basin, Canada.
Gibraltar, Spain. Goderich, Ontario. Gothenberg, Sweden. Grenoble, France. Guadeloupe, West Indies. Guelph, Canada. Harput, Turkey. Hermosillo, Mexico. Jalapa, Mexico. Kingston, Ontario. La Rochelle, France. Limoges, France. Malaga, Spain. Matamoras, Mexico. Messina, Italy. Moncton, New Brunswick. Niagara Falls, Ontario. Nice, France. Nogales, Mexico. Orillia, Ontario. Patras, Greece. Port au Prince, Haiti. Port Deitrick, Nicaragua. Port Hope, Ontario. Prescott, Ontario. Progreso, Mexico.
Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Rouen, France. Saint Christopher, West Indies. Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec. Saint Johns, Quebec. Saint Michaels, Azores. Saint Pierre, Saint Pierre Island. Saint Stephen, New Brunswick. Saltillo, Mexico. Seville, Spain. Sierra Leone, Africa. Sivas, Turkey. Stan bridge, Canada. Stettin, Germany. Stratford, Canada. Turin, Italy. Turks Island, West Indies. Venice, Italy. Wallaceburg, Ontario. Windsor, Ontario. Woodstock, New Brunswick. One hundred and two thousand dollars.
SCHEDULE C. Schedule C. class vii. Class VII, $1,000 a year. At one thousand dollars per annum. Colonia, Uruguay. Riga, Russia. Tahiti, Society Islands. Stavenger, Norway.926 Utilla, Honduras. Windsor, Nova Scotia. Six thousand dollars. Total salaries of consuls, five hundred and eleven thousand dollars. salaries of consular clerks. Eight consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each,Consular clerks. nine thousand six hundred dollars; and five consular clerks, at one thousand dollars each, five thousand dollars; total, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars. allowances for clerk hire at united states consulates.
For allowance for clerk hire at consulates as follows:Clerks at consulates. London, three thousand five hundred dollars; Paris, three thousand dollars; Hongkong, two thousand two hundred dollars; Mexico City, two thousand one hundred dollars; Liverpool and Habana, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, five 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; Berlin, Antwerp, Hamburg, Kobe, and Lyons, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Monterey, one thousand four hundred dollars; Barmen, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brussels, Canton, Chemnitz, Coburg, Crefeld, Frankfort. Havre, Marseilles, Montreal, Ottawa, Rotterdam, Vienna, and Yokohama, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand two hundred dollars;
Belfast, Calcutta, Glasgow, Nuremburg, Plauen, Saint Gall, Sheffield, Singapore, and Sydney (New South Wales), at one thousand dollars each, nine thousand dollars; Birmingham, nine hundred and sixty dollars; Beirut, Buenos Ayres, Burslem, Cape Town, Colon, Dawson City, Dresden, Dundee, Guayaquil, Kingston (Jamaica), Leipsic, Mainz, Maracaibo, Melbourne, Messina, Naples, Palermo, Panama, Port au Prince, Smyrna, Tangier, Toronto, Vancouver, Vera Cruz, and Victoria, at eight hundred dollars each, twenty thousand dollars;
Edinllhrgh, seven hundred and sixty dollars; Stockholm, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Prague, seven hundred and twenty dollars; Aix la Chapelle, Chihuahua, Ciudad Jaurez, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Halifax, and Lucerne, at six hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; Bahia. Cairo, Cologne, Constantinople, Florence, Huddersfield, Liege, Munich, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Nottingham, Odessa, Para, Pernambuco, Reichenberg, Solingen, Tampico, and Zurich, at six hundred dollars each, ten thousand two hundred dollars;
Cienfuegos, Kehl, and Santiago de Cuba, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand five hundred dollars; Berne, Georgetown (Guiana), Genoa, Malaga, Mannheim, and Stuttgart, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; Total, clerk hire, one hundred and three thousand and sixty 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 in927 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, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total sum expended in one year*Proviso*.Limit. shall not exceed the amount appropriated. salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan.
Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, andInterpreters to consulates. Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, twenty thousand dollars. For interpreter at Vladivostok, Siberia, eight hundred dollars. expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions, and so forth. Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominionsInterpreters, guards, etc. and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, ten thousand dollars. salaries of marshals for consular courts.
Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, and Turkey, tenMarshals. thousand three hundred dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts. Expenses of a prison and a prison keeper at the consulate-general inConsular prisons.Bangkok. Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convictsShanghai. in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea,Keeping prisoners. Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more*Provisos*.Maximum allowance. 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 andSelf-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 ofRent, 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, andRelief of American seamen. shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. foreign hospital at cape town.
Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset HospitalForeign hospitals.Cape Town. (a foreign hospital) at Cape Town, fifty 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. 928 foreign hospitals at panama. Annual contributions toward the support of foreign hospitals atPanama. 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. rewriting consular regulations.
Expenses of rewriting the consular regulations, under the supervisionRewriting consular regulations. of the Secretary of State, three thousand dollars. foreign cemetery at tangier. Contribution toward the expense of a wall, gates, keeper’s house,Cemetery, Tangier. and so forth, in the foreign cemetery at Tangier, four hundred dollars. seamen’s institute at kobe. Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute of Kobé,Seamen’s Institute Kobé. to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that relief will be afforded by the said institute to indigent American seamen, twenty-five dollars. contingent expenses, united states consulates.
Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and otherContingent expenses consulates. books, seals, presses, Hags, 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 eighty thousand dollars.
Approved, March 3, 1905.