Chapter 3337. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven
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CHAP. 3337.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven. June 16, 1906. [[H. R. 19264](/us/bill/59/hr/19264).] [[Public, No. 236](/us/pl/59/236).] *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 Diplomatie and consular appropriations.they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, 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, Panama, Peru, and Venezuela, at ten thousand dollars each, fifty 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, 287Morocco, Norway (to be immediately available), Paraguay and Uruguay, Portugal, Roumania and Servia, Sweden, and Switzerland, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, sixty thousand 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, Persia, and Siam, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to Santo Domingo, five thousand dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, five thousand dollars;
Ministers resident and consuls-general. Agent and consul-general at Cairo, six thousand five hundred dollars: Agent, etc., Cairo. *Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any *Proviso.*Salary restriction.official receiving any other salary from the United States Government. Chargés d’affaires ad interim, forty thousand dollars; Charges d’affaires, etc. Total, four hundred and seventy-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, and Russia, at three thousand dollars each, twenty-seven thousand dollars; Secretaries of legations to the Argentine Republic, Belgium, China, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, and Turkey, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars; Secretaries of legation to Bolivia, Chile, Colombia.
Cuba, Denmark, Guatemala and Honduras, Liberia, Morocco, Norway (to be immediately available), Panama, Peru. Portugal. Santo Domingo. Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at two thousand dollars each, thirty-four thousand dollars; Secretary of legation to Nicaragua. Costa Rica, and San Salvador, two thousand dollars; Secretary of legation to Siam and consul-general at Bangkok, two thousand dollars; Secretary of legation to Greece and Montenegro, who shall also be secretary of the diplomatic agency in Bulgaria, with residence at Athens, two thousand dollars;
Secretary of legation and consul-general to Roumania and Servia, 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 secretaries of legation to China and Turkey, 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 (he 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 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; 288 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 seven, is hereby appropriated. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts.
Mileage.*Post,* p. 634. 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, so much as may be necessary out of the respective contingent funds for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, 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 legation 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 interpreter Term 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;
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 thou-289*Provisos.*Nonpartisan selection.sand 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 interpreter Term of service.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;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the Tuition.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 provided Restriction 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 al the embassy to Great Britain: one at the rate of Clerks 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 such Contingent 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 the Dispatch 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 legation 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 year Japan.Ground rent, legation.ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. repair of consular building at tahiti, society islands. For rebuilding the American consular building at Tahiti, Society Tahiti, Society Islands.Consular building.Islands, five thousand three hundred and seventy-one dollars and forty-five cents. annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco.
Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangiers Cape Spartel light.Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. bringing home criminals. Actual expenses incurred in bringing nome from foreign countries Bringing home criminals.persons charged with crime, seven thousand dollars. 290 rescuing shipwrecked american seamen. Life-saving testimonials. Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. expenses under the neutrality act.
Expenses, neutrality act. To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be expended under the direction of the President, R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. Unforeseen emergencies. To enable the President to meet unforeseen 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.R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311. 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 ministers and consuls. 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 seven, 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 seven, 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 six, 291pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen Vol. 26, p. 1518.hundred and ninety. international (water) boundary commission. united states and mexico.
To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of Mexican Water Boundary Commission.Vol. 24. p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512.eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fifteen 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 the special Bureau for repression of African slave trade.Vol. 27. p. 917.bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded at Brussels.
July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression of the African slave trade and the restriction of the importation into and sale in a certain defined zone of the African Continent of firearms, ammunition, and spirituous liquors, for the year nineteen hundred and seven, one hundred dollars. international prison commission. For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the International 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 the International 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 and Repairs 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 thousand Bureau 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*, 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 seven. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.
To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the year International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol 32, p. 1798.nineteen hundred and five of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article twenty-two of the 292convention 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.
International Railway Congress. To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member of the International Railway Congress for the year nineteen hundred and seven, four hundred dollars. international sanitary bureau. International Sanitary Bureau. For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of the International Sanitary Bureau for the year nineteen hundred and seven, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-nine cents. reports relative to the work of the joint high commission.
Joint High Commission.Reports relative to work of.Vol. 30, pp. 658, 1117. For the preparation of reports and material necessary to enable the Secretary of State to utilize and carry on the work partly performed by the Joint High Commission of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, for the settlement of questions between the United States and Great Britain relating to Canada, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. boundary line, alaska and canada. Boundary, Alaska and Canada.Vol. 32, pp. 15, 1961.
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, twenty-five thousand dollars, together with the unexpended balance of the previous appropriation for this object. boundary line, united states and canada. Boundary, United States and Canada. For the more effective demarcation and mapping of the boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, near the forty-fifth parallel, from the Richelieu River to Halls Stream, as established by the Commissioners of eighteen hundred and forty-two Vol. 8, p. 572.to eighteen hundred and forty-eight, under the treaty of Washington of August ninth, eighteen hundred and forty-two, 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. saint john river commission.
Saint John River Commission. For the expenses of a joint commission, to be constituted if the Government of Great Britain concurs, to investigate and report upon the conditions and uses of the Saint John River, and to make recommendations for the regulation of the use thereof by the citizens and subjects of the United States and Great Britain, according to the provisions of treaties between the two countries, twenty thousand dollars. consular buildings in china, korea, and japan.
Consular buildings in China, Korea, and Japan. The Secretary of State shall report to Congress at its next session a plan in detail covering provisions for the purchase of ground and the 293erection of buildings for consular offices in China, Korea, and Japan, and estimates shall be submitted for the same, showing the amount required at each place, the total sum for all such buildings not to exceed one million dollars. purchase of legation premises in constantinople, turkey. For the purchase of the buildings and grounds now occupied by the Legation buildings, etc., Turkey.Purchase of.legation of the United States in Constantinople, Turkey, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
SCHEDULE B. Schedule B. Salaries, Consular Service. For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, and consular inspectors, as Consular service.Salaries.*Ante*, p. 99.provided for in the Act approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and 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-five 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 thousand Consul, Calgary, Canada.dollars. expenses of consular inspectors. For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of Consular inspectors.Traveling, etc., expenses.*Ante*. p. 100.consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars.
SCHEDULE C. Schedule C. salaries of consular clerks. Ten consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, Consular clerks.twelve thousand dollars; and three consular clerks, at one thousand dollars each, three thousand dollars; total, fifteen thousand dollars. allowances for clerk hire at united states consulates. For allowance for clerk hire at consulates as follows: Clerks at consulates. London, four thousand five hundred dollars; Paris, four thousand dollars; Habana and Liverpool, three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars;
Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, and Shanghai, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, seven thousand five hundred dollars; Hongkong and Yokohama, at two thousand two hundred dollars each, four thousand four hundred dollars; Berlin, Bordeaux, Bradford, Canton, Cape Town, Manchester, and Seoul, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, twelve thousand six hundred dollars; Southampton, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Antwerp, Bahia, Brussels, Hamburg, Kobé, Lyons, Monterey, Montreal, Ottawa.
Para, Pernambuco, Rotterdam, and Santos, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars; 294 Barmen, Birmingham, Bremen, Chemnitz, Coburg, Colon, Crefeld, Dawson, Frankfort, Havre, Marseilles, Panama, and Vienna, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, fifteen thousand six hundred dollars; Belfast, Calcutta, Cairo, Dresden, Glasgow, Guayaquil, Naples, Nottingham, Nuremburg, Plauen, Pretoria, Reichenberg, Saint Gall, Sheffield, Singapore, Sydney (New South Wales), Toronto, and Vera Cruz, at one thousand dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars;
Annaberg, Beirut, Buenos Ayres, Burslem, Dundee, Edinburgh, Genoa, Kingston (Jamaica), Leipsic, Mainz, Mannheim, Maracaibo, Melbourne, Messina, Newcastle-on Tyne, Palermo, Port au Prince, Prague, Rome. Santiago de Cuba. Smyrna, Stockholm, Tangier, Vancouver. and Victoria, at eight hundred dollars each, twenty thousand dollars; Aix la Chapelle. Chihuahua, Ciudad Juarez, Ciudad Porfirio Diaz, Halifax, and Lucerne, at six hundred and forty dollars each, three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars;
Cologne, Constantinople, Cork. Florence, Huddersfield. Liege. Munich, Odessa, Tampico, Zittau, and Zurich, at six hundred dollars each, six thousand six hundred dollars; Cienfuegos and Kehl, at five hundred dollars each, one thousand dollars; Berne, Georgetown (Guiana), Malaga, and Stuttgart, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; Total, clerk hire, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand two hundred and ten 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, one hundred *Proviso.*Restriction.thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated. salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan.
Interpreters at consulates. Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, and 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, 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. salaries of marshals for consular courts.
Marshals. Marshals for the consular courts in China. Korea, and Turkey, eleven thousand dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts. Consular prisons.Bangkok. Expenses of a prison and a prison keeper at the consulate-general in Bangkok. Siam, one thousand dollars. Shanghai. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of 295a 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.*Proviso*.Maximum allowance.Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than fifty cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall he 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 of Rent, etc., Turkey.keepers of the same, one thousand dollars.
Wages of prison keeper in Korea, six hundred dollars. Prison keeper, Korea. Total, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. relief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and Relief of American seamen.shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philip pine 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 Hospital Foreign 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. foreign hospitals at panama. Annual contributions toward the support of the foreign hospitals at Panama.Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals. seamen’s institute at kobé.
Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute at 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 other Contingent 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 and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, June 16, 1906.