Chapter 543. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five
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CHAP. 543.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five. March 12, 1904. [[H. R. 11287](/us/bill/58/hr/11287).] [[Public, No. 48](/us/pl/58/48).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Diplomatic and consular appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred anti rive, 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 rive hundred dollars;68 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 thou sand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, Belgium. Chile, Colombia, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, Panama, Peru, Turkey, and Venezuela, at ten thousand dollars each, ninety 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, and diplomatie agent in Bulgaria, seven 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*Post*, p. 394. 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; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Sium, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Persia, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousandMinister resident and consul-general. dollars;
Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars;Agent, etc., Cairo. Chargé d’affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, thirty-fiveChargés d’affaires. thousand dollars; Total, four hundred and fifteen thousand five hundred 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 five, is hereby appropriated. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations. Secretaries of embassies to Austria-Hungary, Great Britain, France,Secretaries of embassies and legations. 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;69 Secretaries of legation to Cuba and Panama, at two thousand dollars each, four 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, who shall also be secretary of the diplomatic agency in Bulgaria, 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, Denmark, Portugal, the Nether-lands and Luxemburg, Turkey.
Spain, and Brazil, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; Secretaries of legations to Argentine Republic, Venezuela, and Peru, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, and Liberia, Switzerland, anti Korea (who shall be consul-general to Seoul), at one thousand five hundred dollars each, nine thousand nine 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; 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 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, Mexico, and Germany, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars; Total, eighty-eight thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. 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 thou-70sand 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 bis said services may lie required within a period of ten years;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at theCost of tuition, immediately available. 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 providedDouble salaries not allowed. shall be 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, one thousand two hundredSpain.Clerk hire. dollars. Contingent Expenses, Foreign Missions. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all suchContingent expenses, foreign missions. stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses. flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomen, and porters, including compensation ofDispatch agents. interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangiers and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and Sun Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and forPrinting.Loss by exchange. loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars. steam launch for legation at constantinople.
Hiring of steam launch for use of the legation at Constantinople,Steam launch, Turkey. one thousand eight hundred dollars. kent of buildings for legation at pekin. Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Pekin, 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 five, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco.
Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and TangiersCape Spartel Light. Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. bringing home criminals. Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countriesBringing home criminals. persons charged with crime, five thousand dollars.71 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[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49). 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 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 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 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, 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 ofInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures. Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, in conformity with the terms of the convention ofVol. 20, p. 714. 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 the annual expense for theInternational Customs Tariffs Bureau. year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and five, 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 onVol. 26, p. 1518. April first, nineteen hundred and four, pursuant to convention pro-claimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety.72 international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.
To enable the coin mission 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, ten thousand dollars. international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade. To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of theBureau for repression of African slave trade.Vol. 27, p. 917. 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 nine-teen hundred and five, one hundred dollars. international prison commission. For subscription of the United States as an adhering member ofInternational Prison Commission. the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commissioner, including preparation of reports, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. international geodetic association for the measurement of the earth.
To enable the Government of the United States to pay, through theInternational Geodetic Association. American embassy at Berlin, its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, one thousand five hundred dollars. repairs to legation and consular premises. To enable the Secretary of State to keep in repair the legation andRepairs to legations and consulates. consular premises owned by the Government of the United States and occupied by its agents, 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: *And Provided further, *Monthly Bulletin.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 five. 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 three 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. 73SCHEDULE 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, London, Ottawa, Paris, Bio de Janeiro, and Shanghai, at five thousand dollars each, fifty thousand dollars; Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars; Berlin, Canton, Mexico, Montreal, Mukden, Panama, Saint Peters-burg, and Yokohama, at four thousand dollars each, thirty-two thous-and dollars;
Antwerp, Halifax, Hamburg, Singapore, and Vienna, at three thous-and five hundred dollars each, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; Apia and Nukualofa, Barcelona. Buenos Ayres, Coburg, Dresden, Frankfort, Guayaquil, Monterey, Rome, Rotterdam, Saint Gall, and Marseilles, at three thousand dollars each, thirty-six thousand dollars; Auckland (New Zealand), and Munich, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars; Guatemala City (Guatemala), Maracaibo, Tangier, and Santo Domingo,*Post*, p. 394. at two thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars;
Christiania, two thousand dollars; Total for salaries of consuls-general, one hundred and fifty-five 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, $3,500 a year. At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Amoy, China. Antung, Manchuria. Bremen, Germany. Callao, Peru. Dalny, Manchuria. Dawson City, Northwest Territory.
Havre, France. Lourenco Marquez, Africa. Tientsin, China. Pretoria, South Africa. Southampton, England. class iii. Class III, $3,000 a year. At three thousand dollars per annum. Barmen, Germany. Bahia, Brazil. Basle, Switzerland, Belfast. Ireland. Bordeaux, France. Bradford, England. Chefoo, China. Chungking, China. Cienfuegos, Cuba.74 Colon, Panama. Fuchau, China. Georgetown, Demarara. Glasgow, Scotland, Hankau, China. Hangchow, China. Kingston, Jamaica. Kobe, Japan. Lyons, France.
Manchester, England. Montevideo, Uruguay. Nagasaki, Japan. Nanking, China. Ninchwang, 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. 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. Birmingham, England.
Bombay, India. Brussels, Belgium. Chemnitz, Germany. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Mexico Cologne, Germany. Dundee, Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland. Huddersfield, England. Jerusalem, Syria. Mainz, Germany. Plauen, Germany. Reichenberg, Austria. Saint Thomas, West Indies. San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua. Sheffield, England. Smyrna, Turkey. Stuttgart, Germany. Swansea, Wales. Sydney, New South Wales. Tunstall, England. Victoria, British Columbia. Vladivostok, Siberia.
Zurich, Switzerland.75 class v. Class V, $2,000 a year. At two thousand dollars per annum. Acapulco, Mexico. Algiers. Africa. Amherstburg, Canada. Bamberg, Germany. Barranquil1a, Colombia. Beirut, Syria. Belize, Honduras, Berne, Switzerland. Breslau, Germany. Brunswick, Germany. Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Calais, France. Cardiff, Wales. Chatham. Ontario. Chihuahua. Mexico. Collingwood, Canada. Copenhagen, Denmark. Cork, Ireland. Crefeld, Germany. Curasao, 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. Hull, England. Kehl, Germany. La Guayra, Venezuela, Leeds, England. Leghorn, Italy. Leipsic, Germany. Liege, Belgium. London, Ontario. Lucerne, Switzerland. Magdeburg, Germany. Malta, Great Britain, Managua, Nicaragua. Mannheim, Germany. Martinique, West Indies. Mazatlan, Mexico.
Milan, Italy. Moscow, Russia. Naples, Italy. Nassau, New Providence. Newcastle-on-Tyne, England. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Palermo, Italy. Port Louis, Mauritius. Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.76 Rheims, France. Rosario, Argentine Republic. Roubaix, France. Saint Etienne, France. Saint Helena, Great Britain. Saint John, New Brunswick. Saint Johns, Newfoundland. Saint Thomas, Ontario. San Jose, Costa Rica. San Salvador, Salvador. Samia, Ontario. 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 vi. Class VI, $1,500 a year. At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Aden, Arabia. Alexandretta, Syria. Antigua, West Indies. Asuncion, Paraguay. Bristol, England. Brockville, Canada. Cartagena, Colombia. Castellamare di Stabia, Italy.
Catania, Italy. Ceiba, Honduras. Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Coati cook, Quebec. Colombo, India. Cornwall, Canada. Durango, Mexico. Ensenada, Mexico. Florence, Italy. Fort Erie, Canada. Funchal, Maderia. Gaspé Basin, Canada. Gibraltar, Spain. Goderich, Ontario. Gothenberg, Sweden. Grenoble, France. Guadeloupe, West Indies. Guelph, Canada. Harput, Turkey. Kingston, Ontario. La Rochelle, France. Limoges, France. Malaga, Spain. Matamoras, Mexico.77 Messina, Italy. Moncton, New Brunswick.
Nantes, France. Niagara Falls, Ontario. Nice, France. Nogales, Mexico. Orillia, Ontario. Patras, Greece. Port an Prince, Haiti. Port Hope, Ontario. Port Limon, Costa Rica. Prescott, Ontario. Progreso, Mexico. Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. Puerto Cortez, Honduras. 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. Stanbridge, Canada. Stettin, Germany. Stratford, Canada. Tamsui, Formosa. Teneriffe, Spain. Turin, Italy. Turks Island, West Indies. Valencia, Spain. Venice, Italy. Wallaceburg, Ontario. Windsor, Ontario. Winnipeg, Manitoba. Woodstock, New Brunswick. 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. Riga, Russia. Tahiti, Society Islands. Utilla, Honduras. Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Total salaries of consuls, four hundred and ninety-six thousand five hundred 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.78 salaries of consular officers not citizens. The salary of a consular officer not a citizen of the United StatesPayment to consular officers not Citizens. shall be paid out of the amount specifically appropriated for salary at the consular office to which the alien officer is attached or appointed. 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 Habana, 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 do Janeiro and Shanghai, at one thousand six hundred dollars each, three thousand two hundred dollars; Antwerp and Hamburg, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars; Monterey, one thousand four hundred dollars; Barmen, Berlin, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brussels, Canton, Chemnitz, Crefeld,Frankfort, 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, Sheffield, and Sydney (New South Wales), at one thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars; Birmingham, nine hundred and sixty dollars; Beirut, Buenos Ayres, Cape Town, Colon, Dawson City. Dresden. Dundee, Guayaquil, Kingston (Jamaica), Leipsic, Maracaibo, Melbourne, Messina, Naples, Palermo, Panama, Port au Prince, Singapore, Smyrna, Tangier, Toronto, Tunstall, Vancouver, Vera Cruz, and Victoria, at eight hundred dollars each, twenty thousand dollars;
Edinburgh, seven hundred and sixty dollars; Stockholm, seven hundred and fifty dollars; Prague, seven hundred and twenty dollars; Aix la Chapelle, Ciudad Jaurez, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Halifax, and Lucerne, at six hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand two hundred dollars; Bahia,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-six thousand seven hundred dollars. Allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expended under the directionConsulates not specified. of the Secretary of State at consulates not herein provided for in respect to clerk hire, no greater portion of this sum than five hundred dollars to be allowed to any one consulate in any one fiscal year, forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the total sum expended in one year*Proviso*.Limit. shall not exceed the amount appropriated. 79salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan.
Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, and Japan,Interpreters at consulates. to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifteen 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, eight thousand dollars. salaries of marshals for consular courts.
Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, and Turkey, nineMarshals. 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.
Paving 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 lie 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, or so much thereof as may be necessary, thirty thousand dollars. foreign hospital at cape town.
Animal contribution toward the support of the Somerset HospitalForeign hospitals.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 atPanama. Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State80 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, record and otherContingent expenses, consulates. books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular clerks, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates, consular agencies, and commercial agencies in the transaction of their business, two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.
Approved, March 12, 1904.