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CHAP. 199.— AN ACT Making appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven. May 6, 1910.[[H. R. 19255](/us/bill/61/hr/19255).][[Public, No. 156](/us/pl/61/156).] *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 eleven, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

SALARIES OF AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERS.Salaries. Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiaryAmbassadors.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 to theEnvoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.Argentine 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 Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Greece and Montenegro, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at ten thousand dollars each, two hundred and twenty thousand dollars; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania, Servia, and Bulgaria, ten thousand dollars; Minister resident and consul-general to the Dominican Republic,Ministers resident and consuls-general.ten thousand dollars;

Minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, five thousand dollars; Agent and consul-general at Cairo, six thousand five hundred dollars:Agent, etc., Cairo. *Provided,* That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government;*Proviso.*Salary restriction. Chargés d’affaires ad interim, forty thousand dollars;Chargés d'affaires. Total, five hundred and fifty thousand five hundred dollars. SALARIES OF SECRETARIES OF EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS.Secretaries of embassies and legations.

Secretaries of embassy to Austria-Hungary, Brazil, Great Britain,Embassies.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;Legations. Secretaries of legation to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Sweden, 338Switzerland, 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, Senna, and 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.Second secretaries of embassy to Austria-Hungary, Brazil, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and Russia, at two thousand dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars; Second secretaries of legation to China and Cuba, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six 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; Third secretaries.Third secretaries of embassy to Great Britain, France, Mexico, 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. 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 their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in pursuanceR.

S. .sec. 1740, p. 309.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 eleven, 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.Interpreter to embassy to Turkey, three 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; 339Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Persia, one thousand dollars;

Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, one thousand five hundred dollars; For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be Student interpreters.citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study In China.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 bo chosen *Provisos.*in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: *And provided further.* Nonpartisan selection.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 China so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years;

For the payment of the cost of tuitionTuitionof 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; For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan,In 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 embassy anti consulates in Japan, at one thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided,* That said student interpreters shall be chosen*Provisos.*in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan:

Nonpartisan selection.*And provided further,* That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service Term of 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 Tuition.at the embassy to Japan, at the rate of one hundred and twenty-five dollars per annum each, seven hundred and fifty dollars;

For ten student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, who shallIn Turkey.be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the language of Turkey and any other language that may be necessary to qualify them for service as interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Turkey, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand 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 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 the 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-five thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriatedRestriction on salaries.for any secretary of legation or other officer. QUARTERS FOR THE STUDENT INTERPRETERS AT THE EMBASSY TO JAPAN.Quarters for interpreters.

For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy at Tokyo, Japan,In Japan.six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. QUARTERS FOR THE STUDENT INTERPRETERS AT THE EMBASSY TO TURKEY. For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Turkey,In Turkey.six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 340Furniture.For the purchase of the necessary furniture for the quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy at Constantinople, Turkey, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

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, Dispatch agents.including compensation of interpreters, and the 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, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

TRANSPORTATION OF DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICERS IN GOING TO AND RETURNING FROM THEIR POSTS. Traveling expenses.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 eaves of absence, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, thirty thousand dollars.

STEAM LAUNCH FOR LEGATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE. Steam launch, Turkey.Hiring of steam launch for use of embassy at Constantinople, one thousand eight hundred dollars. GROUND RENT OF EMBASSY AT TOKYO, JAPAN. Japan.Annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.Ground rent, embassy. ANNUAL EXPENSES OF CAPE SPARTEL LIGHT, COAST OF MOROCCO. Cape Spartel Light.Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light on the coast of Morocco, ineluding loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.

BRINGING HOME CRIMINALS. Bringing home criminals.Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, seven thousand dollars. 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. Neutrality act expenses.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. 341EMERGENCIES ARISING IN TUE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE. To enable the President to meet unforseen 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-oneR.S., sec.291, p. 49.of tire 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 and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the widowsAllowance to heirs of officers dying abroad.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 officers.and consular officers of the United States, including consular assistants, 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 CONGRESS ON HYGIENE AND DEMOGRAPHY.

International Congress of Hygiene and DemographyThe appropriation of ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be required, provided by the diplomatic and consular appropriation ActVol. 35, p.680.for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, approved March second, nineteen hundred and nine, to meet the expenses actually and necessarily incurred by the United States by reason of its participation in the Twelfth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, which was to be held in the city of Washington during the. year nineteen hundred and ten, is hereby extended and made available and shall remain available for such participation in the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, to be *Post*, p. 874.held at some place in the United States, to be selected by the President, in the year nineteen hundred and eleven or nineteen hundred and twelve.

INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Contribution to the maintenance, of the International Bureau of Weights and MeasuresInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, in conformity with the terms of the convention Vol. 20, p. 714.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 eight hundred and ninety-five dollars.

INTERNATIONAL BUREAU FOR PUBLICATION OF CUSTOMS TARIFFS. To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year International Customs Tariff Bureau.ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eleven, of Vol. 26, p. 1518.sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand five hundred dollars; 342this appropriation to be available on April first, nineteen hundred and ten, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety.

INTERNATIONAL (WATER) BOUNDARY COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. Mexican Water Boundary Commission.To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty- nine,Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26. p. 1512.and nineteen hundred and five, thirty-five thousand dollars. INTERNATIONAL BUREAU AT BRUSSELS FOR REPRESSION OF THE. AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. Bureau for Repression of African Slave Trade.To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the special bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded Vol. 27, p. 917.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 eleven, one hundred dollars.

INTERNATIONAL PRISON COMMISSION. International Prison Commission.For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the Internatio al Prison Commission, and the expenses of a com- missioner, including preparation of reports, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. INTERNATIONAL GEODETIC ASSOCIATION FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF THE EARTH. International Geodetic AssociationTo enable the Government of the United States to pay, through the American embassy at Berlin, its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, one thousand five hundred dollars.

REPAIRS TO LEGATION AND CONSULAR PREMISES. Repairs to legations and consulates.To enable the Secretary of State to keep in repair the legation and consular premises owned by the Government of the United States and occupied by its agents, ten thousand dollars. INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Bureau of American Republics.International Bureau of American Republics, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* *Provisos.*That any moneys received from the other American republics for the support of the bureau shall be paid intoUse of moneys received.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 he 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 eleven.

INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION. International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration.To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the year nineteen hundred and nine of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, Vol. 32, p. 1793.created under article twenty-two of the 343convention 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.of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year Vol. 85, p. 1918.nineteen hundred and ten, four thousand eight hundred dollars.*Post,* p. 774. 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 eleven, four hundred dollars.International Railway Congress.

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 eleven, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy- nine cents.International Sanitary Bureau. REPORTS RELATIVE TO THE WORK OF THE JOINT HIGH COMMISSION. For the preparation of reports and material necessary to enable theJoint High Commission.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 settlementPreparation of reports, etc.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.

BOUNDARY LINE, ALASKA AND CANADA. To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and make the surveys incidental thereto, between the Territory of Alaska andBoundary. Alaska and Canada.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 draftsmenVol. 32, p. 1961.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.

SALARIES AND EXPENSES, UNITED STATES COURT FOR CHINA. Judge of the United States court for China, eight thousand dollars; United States court for China.district attorney of the United States court for China, four thousand dollars: marshal of the United States court for China, three thousand dollars; Salaries.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, Judge and district attorney.when the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, Sessions other than at 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 eleven, is hereby appropriated. 344Deputy marshals.For compensation of deputy marshals at Canton and Tientsin, so much as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities.

Deputy clerks.For compensation of deputy clerks at Canton and Tientsin, so much as may be necessary during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, at the rate of five dollars each for each day the sessions of the court are held at their respective cities. Rent.For rent of premises for the use of the United States court for China at Shanghai, two thousand four hundred dollars. BOUNDARY LINE, UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Boundary. United States and Canada.For the more effective demarcation and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, between the United States and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line Vol. 35, 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, one hundred and five thousand dollars, or so mudi thereof as may be necessary.

FISHERIES CONVENTION, UNITED STATES AND CANADA. Fisheries commission, Canadian.For the payment of the compensation of a commission on the part of the United States under the convention between the United States and Great Britain concerning the fisheries in waters contiguous to the Vol. 35, p. 2000.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 carrying out the convention during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

INTERNATIONAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH. International Office of Public Health.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the year nineteen hundred and ten toward the support of the International Office of Public Health,Vol. 35, p. 2061.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 Vol. 35, p. 1834.International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December third, nineteen hundred and three, three thousand and fifteen dollars and sixty-two cents.

INTERNATIONAL SEISMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. International Seismological Association.For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations of the United States as a member of the International Seismological Association, including the annual contribution to the expenses of the association, and the expenses of the United States delegate in attending the meetings of the commission, one thousand three hundred dollars. INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY, PASSAMAQUODDY BAY. Boundary. Passa maquoddy Bay.For the payment of the share of the United States of the expenses in the settlement by arbitration, under article one of the treaty Vol. 35, p. 2003.between the United States and Great Britain of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, of the Post, pp. 775, 2477.international boundary line in Passamaquoddy Bay, including one-half of the honorarium to be 345paid to the arbitrator and one-half of his expenses, compensation of the counsel on the part of the United States for the preparation of the statement of facts and the brief, and their disbursements in connection therewith, including printing and the reproduction of such charts as may be necessary, fifteen thousand dollars.

ANNUAL PAYMENT TO COLOMBIA UNDER TREATIES. For the payment of the annual installment for the calendar yearColombia.nineteen hundred and ten, under the assignment and transfer made by the Republic of Panama to the Republic of Colombia, in manner Annual payment on account of Panama Canal.and form as contained in the treaty between the Republic of Colombia and the Republic of Panama of January ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, the recognition of which assignment and acceptance of notice thereof are given by the United States in Article V of the treaty between the United States and the Republic of Colombia concluded January ninth, nineteen hundred and nine, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITIONS AT ROME AND TURIN, ITALY. To enable the United States to participate in the International International expositions, Rome and Turin, Italy.Exposition of Art and History, to be held at Rome, Italy, and the International Exposition of Industry and Labor, to be held at Turin, Italy, during the calendar year nineteen hundred and eleven, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Kingdom of Italy, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. All expenditures necessary in .the participation of said expositions shall be made under the direction and control of the Department of State and shall be reported to the first regular session of Congress after the close of said expositions.

BUREAU OF THE INTERPARLIAMENTARY UNION FOR THE PROMOTION OF INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION. For contribution by the United States toward the maintenance of International arbitration.the Bureau of the Interparliamentary Union for the Promotion of Interparliamentary Union.International Arbitration, two thousand five hundred dollars. SALARIES, CONSULAR SERVICE.Salaries. For salaries of consuls-general and consuls, as provided in the ActConsular service.approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for the reorganization Vol. 35. p, 101;

Vol. 34, p. 99.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 dollars each, twenty-five thousand dollars.Consular inspectors. EXPENSES OF CONSULAR INSPECTORS. For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses Traveling, etc., expenses.of consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars.

SALARIES OF CONSULAR ASSISTANTS. For twenty-five consular assistants as provided for by law, thirty- one thousand six hundred dollars.Consular assistants. 346 ALLOWANCE FOR CLERK HIRE AT UNITED STATES CONSULATES. Clerks at consulates.Allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, three hundred thousand dollars. 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, forty 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, guards, ete.Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions, Persia, and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, nineteen 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. Shanghai.Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts in China, one thousand two hundred dollars; for repairs and furnishings, two thousand dollars; for contingent expenses, one thousand two hundred dollars; for the wages of a keeper of such prison, one thousand two hundred dollars; and for the wages of an assistant keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; six thousand four hundred dollars.

Keeping prisoners.Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no more than fifty cents*Proviso.*per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding.Limit of cost.This is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such prisoners. Rent, etc., Turkey.Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, one thousand dollars.

Wages of prison keeper in Korea, six hundred dollars.Keeper, Korea. Total, seventeen thousand dollars. RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. Relief of American seamen.Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, 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.

Cape Town.Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, fifty dollars, to be paid by the 347Secretary 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 KOBE. Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute at Kobe, Seamen's Institute, Kobe.to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that relief will be afforded by the said institute to indigent American seamen, twenty-five dollars. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, UNITED STATES CONSULATES. Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other Contingent expenses, consulates.books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (allowance for rent not to exceed in any case thirty percentum of the officer’s 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.

PURCHASE OF LAND, CONSULAR PREMISES AT AMOY. For purchase of small plot of land contiguous to the consular Amoy.premises at Amoy, two hundred and fifteen dollars.Lamí at consulate. Approved, May 6, 1910.