Chapter 1184. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight
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CHAP. 1184.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight. February 22, 1907. [[H. R. 24538](/us/bill/59/hr/24538).] [[Public, No. 107](/us/pl/59/107).] *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 and eight, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
SCHEDULE A.Schedule A. SALARIES OF AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERS.Salaries. Ambassadors.Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary, Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the Argentine Republic, Belgium, China, Cuba, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, and Spain, at twelve thousand dollars each, seventy-two thousand dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Chile, Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela, at ten thousand dollars each, sixty thousand dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Nicaragua and Costa Rica, ten thousand dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Honduras and Salvador, ten thousand dollars; 917 Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Denmark, Morocco. Norway, Paraguay and Uruguay, Portugal, Roumania and Servia and diplomatic agent in Bulgaria, Sweden, and Switzerland, at ten thousand dollars each, eighty thousand dollars;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Greece and Montenegro, ten thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia. Ecuador, Haiti. Persia, and Siam, at ten thousand dollars each, fifty thousand dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to the Dominican Republic,Ministers resident and consuls-general. ten thousand dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, five thousand dollars; Agent and consul-general at Cairo, six thousand five hundredAgent, etc., Cairo. dollars; *Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any*Proviso*.Salary restriction official receiving any other salary from the United States Government.
Charges d’affaires ad interim, forty thousand dollars;Chargés d’affaires. Total, five hundred and twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars. SALARIES OF SECRETARIES OF EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS.Secretaries of embassies and legations. Secretaries of embassies to Austria-Hungary, Brazil. Great Britain.Salaries. France. Germany, Italy, Japan. Mexico, Russia, and Turkey, at three thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars; Secretaries of legations to the, Argentine Republic, Belgium, China, and the Netherlands and Luxemburg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand live hundred dollars;
Secretaries of legation to Bolivia, Chile, Colombia. Cuba, Denmark, Guatemala, Honduras and Salvador, Liberia, Morocco, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Spain, Sweden. Switzerland, and Venezuela, at two thousand dollars each, thirty-six thousand dollars: Secretary of legation to Nicaragua and Costa Rica, two thousand dollars; Secretary of legation to Siam and consul-general at Bangkok, two thousand dollars: Secretary of legation to Greece and Montenegro, two thousand dollars;
Secretary of legation to Paraguay and Uruguay, two thousand dollars; Secretary of legation and consul-general to Roumania and Servia, who shall also be secretary of the diplomatic agency in Bulgaria, two thousand 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 secretary of embassy to Japan, who shall be an American student of the language of Japan, and shall be allowed and required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to devote his time to the acquisition of such language, two thousand dollars;
Second secretary of legation to China, who shall be an American student of the language of that court and country, and shall be allowed and required under the direction of the Secretary of State, to devote his time to the acquisition of the Chinese language, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Second secretary of embassy to Turkey, who shall be an American student of the language of that court and country, and shall be allowed arid required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to devote his time to the acquisition of the Turkish language, two thousand dollars; 918 Second secretary of legation to Cuba, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Third secretaries.Third secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Mexico, Germany, and Russia, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars; Total, one hundred and thirteen thousand eight 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 R.S. sec. 1740, p. 309.their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby appropriated.
CLERKS AT EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS. Clerks at embassies, etc.For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, sixty-five thousand dollars. SALARIES OF INTERPRETERS TO EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS. Interpreters.Chinese secretary, legation to China, and interpreter to embassy to 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;
Japanese secretary and interpreter to embassy to Japan, three thousand dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Persia, one thousand dollars; Interpreter to consulate-general to Seoul, five hundred dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, five hundred dollars; Student interpreters in China.For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall 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 *Provisos.*Nonpartisan selection.dollars: *Provided,* That said student interpreters shall be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: *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;
Tuition.For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the 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; Student interpreters in Japan.For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Japanese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legations and consulates in Japan, at one thousand dollars each, six *Provisos.*Nonpartisan selection.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said student interpreters shall be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan:
Term of service. *And provided further*, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the legation and consulates in Japan so long as his said services may be required within a period of ten years: 919 For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters atTuition. the legation to Japan, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, seven hundred and fifty dollars;Total, thirty-one thousand dollars.
But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above providedRestriction on salaries. shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer. CLERKS AT THE EMBASSY AT LONDON. For two clerks at the embassy to Great Britain, one at the rate ofClerks at embassy, London. one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum and one at the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars per annum, three thousand 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, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangiers, and theDispatch agents. compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
STEAM LAUNCH FOR LEGATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE. Hiring of steam launch for use of the embassy at Constantinople,Steam launch, Turkey. one thousand eight hundred dollars. GROUND RENT OF LEGATION AT TOKYO, JAPAN. Annual ground rent of the legation at Tokyo, Japan, for the yearJapan.Ground rent, legation. ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, 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, seven thousand dollars. RESCUING SHIPWRECKED AMERICAN SEAMEN. Expenses which may he 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 ofR.S sec. 291. p. 49. the Revised Statutes, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 920 EMERGENCIES ARISING IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE. Unforeseen emergencies.To enable the President to meet unforseen emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and R.
S. sec. 291, p. 49.other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. ALLOWANCE TO WIDOWS OR HEIRS OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS WHO DIE ABROAD. Payment to heirs of diplomatic and consular officers dying abroad.Payment, under the 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, five thousand dollars.
TRANSPORTING REMAINS OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS, CONSULS, AND CONSULAR CLERKS TO THEIR HOMES FOR INTERMENT. Bringing home remains of diplomatic, and consular officers.Defraying the expenses of transporting the 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. International Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 714.Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, 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. International Customs Tariffs Bureau.To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eight, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand five hundred dollars; this appropriation to be available on April first, nineteen hundred and seven, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety.
INTERNATIONAL (WATER) BOUNDARY COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. Mexican Water Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011, Vol. 26, p. 1512.To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. INTERNATIONAL BUREAU AT BRUSSELS FOR REPRESSION OF THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. Bureau for Repression of African Slave Trade.Vol. 27, p. 917.To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the special bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded at Brussels, July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression 921of 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 eight, 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, 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, throughInternational Geodetic Association. 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. 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, seven thousand dollars. INTERNATIONAL UNION OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousandBureau of American Republics.*Provisos*.Use of receipts from other Republics, sales, etc. dollars: *Provided*, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the Bureau, or from the sale of the Bureau publications, from rents, or other sources, shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau: *And provided further*, That the Public Printer be, and is hereby, authorized to print an editionMonthly Bulletin. 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 eight.
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 six 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 Rail way Congress. International Railway Congress for the year nineteen hundred and eight, four hundred dollars. INTERNATIONAL SANITARY BUREAU. For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance ofInternational Sanitary Bureau. the International Sanitary Bureau for the year nineteen hundred and eight, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-nine cents. 922 BOUNDARY LINE, ALASKA AND CANADA.
Boundary, Alaska and Canada.To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary, and make the surveys incidental thereto, between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, fifty thousand dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the previous appropriation for this object. TRANSPORTATION OF DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICERS IN GOING TO AND RETURNING FROM THEIR POSTS. Mileage, diplomatic and consular officers.To pay the cost of the transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of five cents per mile, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, thirty thousand dollars.
INTERNATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. International Seismological Association.For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations of the United States as a member of the International Seismological Association, including the annual contribution to the expenses of the association, and the expenses of the United States delegate in attending the meetings of the commission, one thousand three hundred dollars. SECOND INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE AT THE HAGUE. International Peace Conference.To enable the Government to participate in the Second International Peace Conference to be convened at The Hague, the Netherlands, and for the payment of the compensation and expenses of a commission Appropriation continued.*Ante,* p. 118.thereto on the part of the United States, the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, appropriated by the Act of July sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, is hereby continued and made available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight.
INTERNATIONAL FISHERY CONGRESS. International Fishery Congress.To enable the United States, as an adhering member of the permanent International Fishery Congress, to meet the legitimate expenses connected with the Fourth International Fishery Congress, which convenes, by special invitation, in the city of Washington in nineteen hundred and eight, to be immediately available, three thousand dollars. SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES COURT FOR CHINA.United States Court for China.
Salaries.Judge of the United States court for China, eight thousand dollars; district attorney of the United States court for China, four thousand dollars; marshal of the United States court for China, three thousand dollars; clerk of the United States court for China, three thousand dollars; total, eighteen thousand dollars. Expenses, judge and district attorney.The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their actual expenses during such sessions, not to exceed ten dollars per day for the judge and five dollars per day for the district attorney, and so much as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, is hereby appropriated.
For compensation of deputy marshals at Canton and Tientsin, so much as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities. 923 Deputy marshals.For compensation of deputy clerks at Canton and Tientsin, so muchDeputy clerks. as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities.
BOUNDARY LINE, UNITED STATES AND CANADA. For the more effective demarcation and mapping of the boundaryBoundary, United States and Canada. line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, and to be immediately available and continue available until expended, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. Salaries, Consular Service.Consular Service.
For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, and consular inspectors, asSalaries. provided for in the Act approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and*Ante*, p. 99. six, entitled “An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States.” as follows : Salaries of consuls-general, two hundred and ninety-seven thousand five hundred dollars; consuls, seven hundred and thirty-live thousand five hundred dollars; consular inspectors, twenty-five thousand dollars; total, one million and fifty-eight thousand dollars.
For salary of consul-general at Boma, Kongo Free State, class five,Consul-general, Boma. four thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of consul at Calgary, Canada, class nine, two thousandConsul, Calgary, Canada. dollars. expenses of consular inspectors. For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses ofConsular inspectors.Traveling, etc., expenses. consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars.
SCHEDULE C.Schedule C. SALARIES OF CONSULAR CLERKS.Consular clerks. For the thirteen consular clerks heretofore provided for by law,Salaries. twenty-one thousand and fifty-six dollars. From and after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and seven,Increased compensation. the salaries of consular clerks shall be at the rate of one thousand dollars a year for the first three years of continuous service as such, and shall be increased two hundred dollars a year for each succeeding year of continuous service until a maximum compensation of one thousand eight hundred dollars a year shall be reached, and sectionR.
S. sec., 1704, p. 304, amended.Vol. 18. p. 70, amended. seventeen hundred and four, Revised Statutes, and its amendatory Act of June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, are hereby so amended: That the salary of no consular clerk herein provided*Proviso.*No reduction of salary. for, and now in the service, shall be reduced by this Act. ALLOWANCES FOR CLERK HIRE AT UNITED STATES CONSULATES. For allowance for clerk hire at consulates as follows;Clerks at consulates. London and Paris, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars;
Shanghai, four thousand five hundred dollars; Hongkong, three thousand five hundred dollars; Havana, three thousand four hundred dollars; 924 Mexico City, three thousand one hundred dollars; Liverpool, three thousand dollars; Rio de Janeiro, and Yokohama, at two thousand live hundred dollars each, live thousand dollars; Canton, two thousand two hundred dollars; Berlin, Cape Town, Marseilles, and Seoul, at two thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars; Bordeaux, Bradford, and Manchester, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, live thousand four hundred dollars;
Southampton, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Antwerp, Bahia, Brussels, Buenos Ayres, Calcutta. Chemnitz, Hamburg, Kobe, Lyons, Monterey, Montreal. Ottawa. Para. Pernambuco, Rotterdam, and Santos, at one thousand live hundred dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars; Barcelona. Barmen, Birmingham, Bremen, Cairo. Callao, Coburg, Colon, Crefeld, Dawson, Frankfort, Havre, Panama, Port au Prince, Singapore, Toronto, Vera Cruz, and Vienna, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars;
Belfast, Dresden, Glasgow, Guayaquil, Munich, Naples, Nottingham, Nuremberg. Plauen, Pretoria, Reichenberg, Saint Gall, Sheffield, and Sydney (New South Wales), at one thousand dollars each, fourteen thousand dollars: Santiago de Cuba, nine hundred dollars; Annaberg, Beirut, Burslem, Christiania, Cienfuegos, Constantinople, Dundee, Edinburgh, Genoa, Kingston (Jamaica), Leipsig, Mainz, Mannheim, Maracaibo, Melbourne. Messina, Newcastle onTyne, Palermo, Prague, Rome, Smyrna, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Tangier, Vancouver, and Victoria, at eight hundred dollars each, twenty thousand eight hundred dollars;
Kehl, seven hundred dollars; Aixla-Chapelle, Berne, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juarez. Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Halifax, and Lucerne, at six hundred and forty dollars each, four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars; Cologne, Cork, Florence. Huddersfield, Liege. Odessa. Tampico, Zittau, and Zurich, at six hundred dollars each, five thousand four hundred dollars; Geogetown (Guiana), and Malaga, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, nine hundred and sixty dollars; in all, one hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and ninety 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 one thousand dollars to be allowed to any one consulate in any one fiscal year, *Proviso*.Restriction.one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated. SALARIES OF INTERPRETERS TO CONSULATES IN CHINA, KOREA.
AND JAPAN. Interpreters at consulatesInterpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, and Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, thirty-five thousand dollars. For interpreter at Vladivostok. Siberia, one thousand two hundred dollars. Interpreter at Tangier, eight hundred dollars. EXPENSES OF INTERPRETERS, GUARDS, AND SO FORTH, IN TURKISH DOMINIONS, AND SO FORTH. Interpreters, guards, etc.Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, twelve, thousand dollars. 925 SALARIES OF MARSHALS FOR CONSULAR COURTS.
Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, and Turkey,Marshals. eleven thousand dollars. EXPENSES OF PRISONS FOR AMERICAN CONVICTS.Consular prisons. Expenses of a prison and a prison keeper at the consulate-generalBangkok. in 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 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. 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, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. FOREIGN HOSPITAL AT CAPE TOWN.Foreign hospitals.
Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (aCape Town. 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. FOREIGN HOSPITALS AT PANAMA. Annual contributions toward the support of the foreign hospitals atPanama. Panama, live 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.
SEAMEN’s INSTITUTE AT KOBÉ. Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute at Kobé,Seamen’s Institute, Kobe. 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. REWRITING CONSULAR REGULATIONS.Consular regulations. For services, rewriting the consular regulations as authorized byRewriting.R. S. 170, 1768-5, pp. 27, 314. the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and five, provided that the provisions of sections one hundred and seventy, seventeen hundred and sixty-three, seventeen hundred and sixty-four, and seventeen hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes, and section three, Act ofVol. 18, p. 109.
June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall not be applicable, the, three, thousand dollars appropriated by the said Act ofVol. 33, p. 928. March third, nineteen hundred and five, is hereby made available: *Provided*, That the work shall be completed within the limit of this*Proviso*.Limit. appropriation. 926 CONTINGENT EXPENSES, UNITED STATES CONSULATES. Contingent expenses, consulates.Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular clerks, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
CIPHER CODE. Cipher code.Cipher code, five thousand dollars. Approved, February 22, 1907.