Chapter 183. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending
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CHAP. 183.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending .June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine. May 21, 1908.[[H. R. 20345.]](/us/bill/70/hr/20345)[[Public, No. 127](/us/pl/70/127).] *Beit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be,Diplomatic and consular appropriations. 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 nine, 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 Austria-Hungary,Ambassadors, Brazil, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and Turkey, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, one hundred and seventy- live thousand dollars;172 Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the ArgentineEnvoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary Republic, Belgium, Chile, China, Cuba, the Nether lands and Luxemburg, and Spain, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras. Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Salvador, and Venezuela, at ten thousand dollars each, ninety thousand dollars; 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, tenMinisters resident and consuls-general. 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.
Chargés d’affaires ad interim, fortyChargés d’affaires. thousand dollars; Total, five hundred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations.Secretaries of embassies and legations. Secretaries of embassies to Austria-HungarySalaries. , Brazil. Great Britain. France, Germany, Italy, Japan. Mexico, Russia, and Turkey, at three thousand dollars each, thirty thousand dollars; Secretaries of legations to the Argentine Republic. Belgium, Chile, China, Cuba, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, and Spain, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, eighteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars;
Secretaries of legation to Bolivia. Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark. Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, the Dominican Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at two thousand dollars each, thirty-six thou sand dollars; Secretary of legation to Salvador and consul-general to San Salvador,*Ante*, p. 101. two thousand dollars; and the provision in the Act of May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for a consul-general at San Salvador is hereby repealed.
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; Secretary of legation to Persia, who shall be an American student of the language of that country, two thousand dollars;
Second secretaries of embassies to Austria-Hungary, Brazil, GreatSecond secretaries. Britain, France, Germany. Italy. Mexico, and Russia, at two thousand dollars each, sixteen thousand dollars; Second secretary of embassy to Japan, two thousand dollars;173 Second secretary of legation to China, 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, two thousand dollars; Second secretary of legation to Cuba, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
Third secretaries of embassies to Great Britain, France, Mexico,Third secretaries. Germany, and Russia, atone thousand two hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars; Third secretary of embassy to Japan, who shall be an American student of the Japanese language, one thousand two hundred dollars; Third secretary of embassy to Turkey, who shall be an American student of the Turkish language, one thousand two hundred dollars; Total, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand three hundred and seventy-five 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 pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, so much as mit be necessary for the fiscal yearR. S., sec. 1740, p. 309. ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby appropriated. clerks at embassies and legations.
For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations,Clerks at embassies, etc. who, whenever hereafter appointed shall be citizens of the United States, sixty-five thousand dollars. salaries of interpreters to embassies and legations. Interpreter to embassy to Turkey, threeInterpreters. thousand dollars; Chinese secretary, legation to China, three thousand six hundred 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 six hundred dollars; Assistant Japanese secretary to the embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, two thousand dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Persia, one thousand dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, live 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 legation and consulates in China, at one, thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said student interpreters shall be chosen in*Provisos.*Nonpartisan selection. such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: *And provided fart lier*, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreterTerm el service. to the legations and consulates in China so long as his said services may be required within a period of live years;174 For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at theTuition. legation to China at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, to be immediately available, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars;
For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall beStudent interpretens in Japan. citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Japanese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Japan, at one thousand dollars each, six 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 legation and consulates in Japan so long us his said services may be required within a period of five years;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at theTuition. legation to Japan, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, seven hundred and fifty dollarsp; Total, thirty-three thousand seven hundred 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. continssent 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, Sags, 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 harasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, andDispatch agents. the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies mid legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies mid legations, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts.
To pay the cost of the transportation of diplomatic and consularTraveling expenses. officers in going to mid returning from their posts, or when traveling under the orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of live 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 nine, thirty 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 embassy at tokyo, japan Annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the yearJapan.Ground rent. ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.175 annual expenses of cape spartel light, coast of morocco.
Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and TangierCape Spartel light. Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. bringing home criminals. Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countriesBringing home criminals. persons charged with crime, seven thousand dollars. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen. Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of theLife-saving testimonials. services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. expenses under the neutrality act.
To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of theExpenses, neutrality act. neutrality Act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, eight thousand dollars or so much thereof asR. S., see. 291, p. 49. may be necessary. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arisingUnforeseen emergencies. in the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the RevisedR.
S., sec. 291, p. 49. Statutes, ninety 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 andPayments to heirs of diplomatic and consular officers dying abroad. forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officere 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 diplomatic and consular officers. 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 dune thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, 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 throe hundred and six dollars and ninety-three cents.176 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 nine, of sustainingVol. 26, p. 1518. the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs traiffs, one thousand five hundred dollars; this appropriation to be available on April first, nineteen hundred and eight, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. international (water) boundary commission, united states and mexico.
To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties ofMexican Water Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512. eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, twenty-five thousand dollars. elimination of bancos in the rio grande. To meet the share of the United States in the expense of carryingRio Grande.Elimination, of bancos in*Post*, p. 1863. out the provisions of the convention of March twentieth, nineteen hundred and live, between the United States and Mexico, for the elimination of the bancos in the Rio Grande, to be immediately available, twenty-five 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 specialBureau for Repten sion of 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 nine, one hundred dollars. international prison commission.
For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of theInternational Prison Commission. International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commissioner, including preparation of reports, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may lie 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, seven thousand dollars. repaies to legation premises at constantinople. To enable the ambassador to Turkey to make, under the directionTurkey.Repairs, etc., of legation. of the Secretary of State, all needed repairs to and improvements in 177 the embassy premises owned by the Government of the United States at Constantinople, Turkey, the sum of twenty-five thousand one hundred and eleven dollars and nineteen cents is hereby appropriated, the same being the unexpended balance of the sum of one hundred andPurchase of 1egation unexpended balance. fifty thousand dollars appropriated by the diplomatic and consular Act approved June sixteenth, nineteen hundred and six, for the purchaseVol. 34, p. 293. of legation premises at Constantinople: *Provided*, That the total*Proviso.*Maximum cost. cost shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated. international union of american republics.
International Bureau of American Republics, fifty-four thousandBureau of American Republics.*Provisos.*Use of receipts from other Republic, 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, 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 PublicMonthly Bulletin.
Printer be, and be 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 nine. 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 seven 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 institute of agriculture.
For the payment of the Quota of the United States for the supportInternational Institute of Agriculture.*Post*, p. 1918. of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and nine, four thousand eight hundred dollars. international railway congress. To pay the quota of the United States ns an adhering member of theInternational Railway Congress. International Railway Congress for the year nineteen hundred and nine, 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 nine, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-nine cents, reports relative to the mork of the joint high commission. For the preparation of reports and material necessary to enable theJoint High Commission.Preparation of report etc. Secretary of State to utilize and carry out the work partly performed by the Joint High Commission of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight for the settlement of questions relating to Canada and for the settlement of questions relating to Newfoundland, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof us may be necessary, to become immediately available.
To enable the Secretary of State to protect the property and rightsSaint John River.Expenses of ligation. of citizens of the United States interested in the navigation and use 178 of the Saint John River in ease of litigation arising in the courts or tribunals of any foreign power, the Secretary of State in such case being authorized to appoint counsel in such courts or tribunals, fifteen thousand dollars. boundary une, alaska and canada. To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and makeBoundary, Alaska and Canada. 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, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, and draftsmen as are necessary to reduce field notes, seventy-live thousand dollars, to be immediately available, together with the unexpended balance of the previous appropriation for this object. international seismological association.
For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations ofInternational Seismological Association. 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. quarters for the student interpreters at the legation to japan. For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to theJapan.Rent, quarters tor student interpreters. embassy at Tokyo.
Japan, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For the purchase of necessary furniture for the quarters for theFurniture. student interpreters attached.to the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, six hundred dollars. salaries and expenses, united states court for china. Judge of the United States court for China, eight thousand dollars;United States court for China.Salaries. 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; stenographer of the United States court for China, one thousand eight hundred dollars: for court expenses, seven thousand dollars;Expenses. total, twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.
The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when theJudge and district attorney. 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 for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby appropriated.
For compensation of deputy marshals at Canton and Tientsin, soDeputy marshals. much as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities. 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 nine, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities.
For rent of premises for the use of the United States court forRent. China at Shanghai, two thousand four hundred dollars. For the purchase of necessary furniture for the premises to beFurniture. occupied by the United States court for China at Shanghai, one thousand eight hundred dollars.179 boundary line, united states and canada. For the more effective demarcation and mantling of the boundary lineBoundary, United States and Canada.*Post*, p. 2003. 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, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, and draftsmen as are necessary to reduce field notes, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. international congress on tuberculosis.
To enable the Government of the United States suitably to partiel-International Congress on tuberculosis.*Post*, p. 568. pate in The International Congress on Tuberculosis, which will convene at Washington. September twenty-first to October twelfth, nineteen hundred and eight, twenty-five thousand dollars. exchange of property at peking. china. The Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to transferChina.Exchange of property at Peking. to the Bank of Indo-China a certain lot of land situated at.
Peking. China, and now belonging to the United States, said lot being designated as XYZ on the plat on tile, in the Department of State entitled “Plat showing the property situated at Peking, China, to be exchanged between the United States and the Bank of Indo-China,” and marked with file No. 3565 45-47; said lot XYZ being described by metes and bounds, as follows: Starling from the point “o” of lot “C,” thence north eighty-oneDescription. degrees fifty-eight minutes west fifty four feet to the point “p,” the place of beginning in describing lot “XYZ:” thence south four degrees thirty-six minutes west seventy-two feet to a point “r;” thence north seventy-seven degrees fifty-six minutes west sixty-seven feet to the point “a;” thence north twelve degrees four minutes east ten feet to the point “t;” thence south seventy-seven degrees fifty-six minutes east fifty feet to the point “u;” thence north twelve degrees four minutes east seven feet to the point “v;” thence south eighty-five degrees twenty-four minutes east six feet to the point “ w;” thence north four degrees thirty-six minutes east fifty-four feet to the point “y;” thence south eighty-one degrees fifty-eight minutes east ten feet to the point “p.
” The said lot to be transferred to the said Bank of Indo-China in exchange for certain lots of land situated at Peking, China, and now belonging to the said bank, said lots being designated as A. B. and C on the said plat and described by metes and bounds as follows; lot a.Lot A. The starting point marked “a” on the plat is the intersection of the west side of the west wall of the house built and formerly owned by H. G. Squiers, and being situated upon the south line of Legation street.
Peking, China, and the west side of the west wall being one hundred and twenty-eight feet six inches, more or loss, east of the east side of the main entrance to the compound of the Banque de 1’Indo Chine, and one hundred and ninety-one feet six inches, more or less, west of the intersection of the north line of Canadal street with the south line of Legation street, with the south face of the present wall running east and west on the south line of Legation street, said wall being the boundary wall on the north side of the property of the Banque de l’Indo Chine.
Beginning with the point “a,” thence south two degrees fifty-two minutes west ninety-six feet to the point “b;” thence west one degree forty-four minutes north four feet six inches to the point “c,” this 180 being the northeast corner of the house now occupied by the comprador of the Banque de l’Indo Chine; thence north two degrees fifty-two minutes east ninety-six feet to the point “d;” thence cast to the starting point “a.” lot b.Lot B. Starting from “a,” thence south two degrees fifty-two minutes west one hundred and fourteen feet to the point “e,” which is the. place of beginning in describing lot “Β;” thence cast four degrees thirty-six minutes south twenty feet to the point “f;” thence south eleven degrees thirty minutes west thirty-six feet to the point “g:” thence west four degrees thirty-six minutes north five feet to the point “h;” thence north eleven degrees thirty minutes east two feet to the point “j;” thence west twelve degrees thirty-eight minutes north nine feet to the point “k;” thence north two degrees thirty-two minutes east thirty-two feet to the point “e.” lot c.Lot C.
Starting from the point “ h,” thence south eight degrees two minutes west forty-four feet to the point “I,” which is the place of beginning in describing lot “C;” thence south eight degrees two minutes west sixteen feet to the point “ m;” thence west eight degrees two minutes north twenty feet to the point “n;” thence north eight degrees two minutes east sixteen feet to the point “ο;” thence east eight degrees two minutes south twenty feet to the point “I,” as described in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and fifty-one, Sixtieth Congress, first session.
SCHEDULE B.Schedule B. salaries, consular service.Consular Service. For salaries of consuls-general and consuls, as provided in the ActSalaries.*Ante*, p. 101.Vol. 34, p. 99. approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “Ah Act to amend an Art entitled ‘An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States’ approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six,” as follows: Consuls-general, three hundred arid three thousand dollars; consuls, seven hundred and thirty-three thousand dollars; in all, one million and thirty-six thousand dollars.
For salaries of five consular inspectors, at five thousand dollars each,Consular inspectors. twenty-five thousand dollars. expenses of consular inspectors. For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses ofTraveling, etc., expensed. consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars SCHEDULE C.Schedule C. salaries of consular assistants.Consular assistants. The consular clerks heretofore provided for by law shall, from andConsular clerks, designation changed.R.
S., 1704, p. 304, amended. after the first day of July, nineteen hundred and eight, be styled consular assistants. For thirteen consular assistants as provided for by law, eighteenSalaries.Additional assistants. thousand three hundred dollars; seven additional consular assistant, subject to the same provisions of law as the above thirteen, seven thousand dollars; total, twenty-five thousand three hundred dollars.181 allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates. Allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under theClerks at consulates. direction of the Secretary of State, two hundred and forty-two thousand six hundred and ninety dollars: *Provided*, That the total sum*Proviso.*Maximum. expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated. salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, korea, and japan.
Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, andInterpreters at consulates. 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. Interpreter at Seoul, five hundred dollars. expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions, and so forth. Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions,Interpreters guards, etc.
Persia, and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fourteen thousand dollars. 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-general inBangkok. 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*Proviso.*Limit of cost. 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 ofRents, etc., Turkey. keepers of the same, one thousand dollars.
Wages of prison keeper in Korea, six hundredPrison keeper, Korea. dollars. 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.182 foreign hospitals at panama. Annual contributions toward the support of the foreign hospitals atPanama. Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals. seamen’s institute at kobé.
Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute at Kobé,Semen’s Institute, Kobé. to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that relief will be afforded by the said institute to indigent American seamen, twenty-five dollars. contingent expenses, united states consulates. Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and otherContingent expenses, consulates. books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (allowance for rent not to exceed in any case thirty per cent of the officers’ salary), postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, 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, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Approved, May 21, 1908.