Chapter 235. Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten
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CHAP. 235.— An Act Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten. March 2, 1909.[[H. R. 27628](/us/bill/70/hr/27628).][[Public, No. 292.](/us/pl/70/292)] *Be it 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 ten, 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. Erance, 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 to the ArgentineEnvoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. Republic, Belgium, Chile, China, Cuba, the Netherlands 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 anil 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 t he 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 anyProviso.Salary restriction. official receiving any other salary from the United States Government.
Chargés d’affaires ad interim, forty thousand dollars;Charges d’affaires. Total, five hundred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars. The following provision of an Act making appropriations for theMinisters, etc.Authority to change rank annulled.Vol. 27, p. 497, repealed. diplomatic and consular service of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, be, and is hereby, repealed, namely: “Whenever the President shall be advised that any foreign government is represented, or is about to be represented, in the United States by an ambassador, envoy extraordinary, minister plenipotentiary, minister resident, special envoy, or chargé d’affaires, he is authorized, in his discretion, to direct that the representative of the United States to such government shall bear the same designation.
This provision shall in nowise affect the duties, powers, or salary of such representative.” And hereafter no new ambassadorship shall be created unless theNew ambassadorships restricted to Act of Congress. same shall be provided for by Act of Congress. 673 Section sixteen hundred and eighty-five of the Revised Statutes isSecretary of embassy. etc., acting as chargé d’affaires.Compensation.R. S., sec. 1685, p. 295, amended. hereby amended to read as follows: “For such time as any secretary of embassy or legation shall be lawfully authorized to act as chargé d’affaires ad interim at the post to which ho shall have been appointed, he shall be entitled to receive, in addition to his salary as secretary of embassy or legation, compensation equal to the difference between such salary and fifty per centum of t he salary provided by law for the ambassador or minister at such post.” salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations.Secretaries of embassies and legations.
Secretaries of embassy 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 legation 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, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at two thousand dollars each, thirty-six thousand dollars;
Secretary of legation to Salvador and consul-general to 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, 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 embassy 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; 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 embassy to Great Britain, France, Mexico,Third secretaries. Germany, and Russia, at one 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. 674 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 anil authority to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundredR. 8., sec. 1740, p. 309. and forty of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby appropriated. clerks at embassies and legations.
For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies andClerks at embassies, etc. legations, 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, three thousand dollars;Interpreters. 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, five hundred dollars; For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall beStudent interpreters in China. citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation and consulates in China, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said student interpreters shall be chosenProvisos.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: *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 China so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters atTuition. 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; For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall beStudent interpreters 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 dollars: *Provided*, That said student interpreters shallProvisos.Nonpartisan selection.Tenn of service. be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: *And provided further*, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the embassy and consulates in Japan so long as 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. embassy to Japan, at the rate, of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, seven hundred and fifty dollars; 675 For ten student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, who shall beStudent interpreters in Turkey. citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the language of Turkey with a view to supplying interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Turkey, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said student interpreters shall beProvisos.Nonpartisan selection. chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: *And provided further*, That upon receiving such appointment each studentTerm of service. interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the embassy and consulates in Turkey so long as 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. embassy to Turkey, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Total, forty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty 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. For two clerks to be employed by the Department of State and toClerks to distribute information. be charged with the distribution of information among the diplomatic missions, one at the rate of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and one at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars. contingent expenses, foreign missions.Contingent expenses, foreign missions.
To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such 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 interpreters, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and SanDispatch agents.
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, 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 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 ten, 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 ten, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 676 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 ofExpenses, neutrality act.R. S., sec. 291, p. 49. the 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 as may be necessary. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising inUnforeseen emergencies. the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of theR.
S., sec. 291, p. 49. 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, 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 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.
For 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.Vol. 20. p. 714. Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, 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 677 of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, two thousand three hundred and six dollars and ninety-three cents. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs.
To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense forInternational Customs Tariffs Bureau.Vol. 26. p. 1518. the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, 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 nine, 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 treatiesMexican Water Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011: Vol. 26. p. 1512. of 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 five, 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 theBureau for Repression of African Slave Trade.Vol. 27, p. 917. special bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded at Brussels July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression of the African slave trade and the restriction of the importation into and sale in a certain defined zone of the African continent of firearms, ammunition, and spirituous liquors, for the year nineteen hundred and ten, 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. For the participation of the United States in the Eighth InternationalInternationa1 Prison Congress.Vol. 33, p. 1284. Prison Congress to be held at the city of Washington in nineteen hundred and ten, in pursuance of the invitation extended by the President in virtue of the joint resolution of the Congress of the United States, approved March third, nineteen hundred and five, and to meet the expenses that shall actually and necessarily be incurred by the United States by reason of such invitation, twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required. 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. 678 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, ten thousand dollars. installation of a water supply at seoul.
To enable the Secretary of State to install a water-supply systemSeoul, Korea.Installing water supply. in the American consulate-general at Seoul, Korea, seven hundred and ninety-one dollars and ninety-five cents. international union of american republics. International Bureau of American Republics, fifty-six thousandBureau of American Republics.Provisos.Use of moneys received. dollars: *Provided*, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the bureau, shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the appropriation, and may bo 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 he is hereby, authorized to print anMonthly Bulletin. edition of the Monthly Bulletin, not to exceed five thousand copies, for distribution by the bureau every month during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.
To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for theInternational Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 32. p. I793. year nineteen hundred and eight 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 ten, four thousand eight hundred dollars. international railway congress. To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member ofInternational Railway Congress. the International Railway Congress for the year nineteen hundred and ten, 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 ten, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy- nine cents. reports relative to the work of the joint high commission. For the preparation of reports and material necessary to enable, theJoint High Commission.Preparation of reports, 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 as may be necessary, to become immediately available. 679 boundary line, alaska and canada.
To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and makeBoundary. Alaska and Canada.Vol. 82. p. 1961. 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, one hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available, together with the unexpended balance of the previous appropriation for this object. quarters for the student interpreters at the embassy to japan.
For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to theJapan.Quarters for student interpreters. embassy at Tokyo, Japan, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. salaries and expenses, united states court for china.United States court for China. Judge of the United States court for China, eight thousand dollars;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; total, twenty-six thousand eight hundred dollars.
The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when theJudge and district attorney.Sessions other than at Shanghai. 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 ten, 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 ten, 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 ten, 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 for ChinaRent. at Shanghai, two thousand four hundred dollars. The judicial authority and jurisdiction in civil and criminal casesConsu1general, Shanghai.Judicial authority of. transferred to a vice-consul-general.Vol. 84, p. 814. now vested in and reserved to the consul-general of the United States at Shanghai, China, by the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act creating a United States court for China and prescribing the jurisdiction thereof,” shall, subsequent to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, be vested in and exercised by a vice-consul-general of the United States to be designated from time to time by the Secretary of State, and the consul-general at Shanghai shall thereafter be relieved of his judicial functions. boundary line, united states and canada.
For the more effective demarkation and mapping, pursuant to theBoundary. United States and Canada.*Post*, p. 2003. treaty of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, between the United States and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of 680 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-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, together with the unexpended balance appropriated for the demarkation of the boundary line west of the Rocky Mountains by the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and of March third, nineteen hundred and five, to remain available until expended as provided in said Acts. fisheries convention, united states and canada.
For the payment of the compensation of a commission on the partFishery Commission, Canadian.*Post*. p. 2000. of the United States under the convention between the United States and Great Britain concerning the fisheries in waters contiguous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada, signed at Washington on April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and of the share of the United States of the expenses that may be incurred in putting into operation and carryingout the convention during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. international congress of hygiene and demography.
To enable the Government of the United States suitably to participateInternational Congress of Hygiene and Demography.Vol. 34. p. 1422. in the Twelfth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography, which will be held at the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in nineteen hundred and ten,in pursuance of the invitation extended by the President of the United States in virtue of the joint resolution of the Congress thereof, approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, and to meet the expenses that will actually and necessarily’ be incurred by the United States by reason of such invitation and meeting, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required. international commission on private and public international law.
For the payment of compensation to, and of the necessary expensesInternational Commission on International Law. of, a commissioner to represent the United States in the international commission, which, in pursuance of the convention signed at the Third International Conference of American States, on August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, approved by the Senate on February third, nineteen hundred and eight, and ratified by the President on February eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, is to meet at the city of Rio de Janeiro in May, nineteen hundred and nine, for the purpose of preparing draft codes of private and public international law regulating the relations between the nations of America; and for the payment of the quota of the United States of the expenses incident to the preparation of the drafts, including the compensation of the experts provided for in article four of the said convention, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available. the hague international congress.
For the participation by the United States in an International CongressInternational Congress on Letters of Exchange. to be held at The Hague at such time as the Netherlands Government shall fix, for the purpose of promoting uniform legislation concerning letters of exchange, including compensation of and the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of an expert delegate and a secretary, nine thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 681 international office of public health.
For the payment of the quota of the United States for the year nineteenInternational Office of Public Health.Past. p. 1834. hundred and nine toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome December ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, in pursuance of article one hundred and eighty-one of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December third, nineteen hundred and three, three thousand dollars. purchase of property for legation purposes at tokyo, japan.
Purchase of residence erected by Mr. R. S. Miller, Japanese secretaryTokyo, Japan.Purchase of residence for embassy. to the embassy at Tokyo, at his own expense, on ground held by the United States in perpetual lease for legation purposes in Tokyo, three thousand two hundred and sixty-seven dollars. 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 “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘ An Act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States’ approved April fifth, nineteen hundred and six,” and amendments thereto, as follows:
Consuls- general, three hundred and three thousand dollars; consuls, seven hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars; in all, one million and thirty-seven thousand dollars. For salaries of five consular inspectors, at five thousand dollarsConsular inspectors. each, twenty-five thousand dollars. expenses of consular inspectors. For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses ofTraveling, 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 assistants. For thirteen consular assistants as provided for by law, eighteenConsular assistants. thousand three hundred dollars; twelve additional consular assistants, subject to the same provisions of law as the above thirteen, twelve thousand dollars; in all, thirty thousand three hundred dollars. 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 thousandProviso.Maximum. six hundred and ninety 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 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. 682 For interpreter at Vladivostok, Siberia, one thousand two hundred dollars. Interpreter at Tangier, eight hundred dollars. Interpreter at Seoul, live 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-generalBangkok. in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for AmericanShanghai. convicts 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 moreProviso.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 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,Relief of American seamen. and 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 HospitalCape 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 hospitalsPanama. at 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. 683 seamen’s institute at kobé.
Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute atSeamen’s Institute, Kobé. 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 centum 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, March 2, 1909.