Chapter 97. Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen
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CHAP. 97.— An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.April 30, 1912.[[H. R. 19212](/us/bill/62/hr/19212).][[Public, No. 139](/us/pl/62/139).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Diplomatic and consular appropriations. That the following sums be, and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for 95 the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, 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 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-five thousand dollars; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to the ArgentineEnvoys extraordinary and minister 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 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; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the Dominican Republic, ten thousand dollars;
Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, five thousandMinister resident and consul general. dollars; Agent and consul general at Cairo, six thousand five hundredAgent, etc., Cairo. dollars; *Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any*Proviso*.Salary restriction. official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Charges d’affaires ad interim, forty-five thousand dollars;Charges d’affaires. Total, five hundred and fifty-five 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; Japanese secretary of embassy to Japan, three thousand six hundred dollars; Turkish secretary of embassy to Turkey, three thousand six hundred dollars; Chinese secretary, legation to China, three thousand six hundredLegations. 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, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Nor-way, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at two thousand dollars each, thirty-four thousand dollars; Secretary of legation to the Dominican Republic and consul general at Santo Domingo, two 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; 96 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, Servia, and Bulgaria, two thousand dollars; Secretary of legation to Persia and consul general at Teheran, 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 thirty-nine thousand one 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, [R.
S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309).in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary. 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, seventy-five thousand dollars. SALARIES OF INTERPRETERS TO EMBASSIES AND LEGATIONS. Interpreters, etc.Assistant Chinese secretary to the legation to China, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, two thousand dollars;
Assistant Japanese secretary to the embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, two thousand dollars; Assistant Turkish secretary to the embassy to Turkey, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, two thousand dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, one thou-sand dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, one thousand five hundred dollars; Student interpreters.In China.For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the 97 legation and consulates in China, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said student interpreters shall be*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. 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 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, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shallIn Japan. 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 and consulates in Japan, at one thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars: *Provided*, That said student interpreters shall be*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. 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 atTuition. 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*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. 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 atTuition. 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, thirty-seven thousand seven 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. quarters for the student interpreters at the embassy to japan.Quarters for student interpreters.
For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to theIn Japan. embassy at Tokyo, Japan, six hundred dollars. quarters for the student interpreters at the embassy to turkey. For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to theIn Turkey. embassy to Turkey, six hundred dollars. contingent expenses, foreign missions. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all suchContingent expenses, foreign missions. stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs, 98 postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation Dispatch agents.of interpreters, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and Printing in Department of State.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 fifty-live 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, thirty-five thousand dollars. steam launch for embassy 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.
Ground rent, Japan embassy.Annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, two hundred and fifty dollars. 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, including 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, five 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. Expenses, neutrality act.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of 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, five thousand dollars. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service.
Unforeseen emergencies.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising 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 Revised Statutes, fifty thousand dollars, together with the unex- 99 pended balance of the appropriation made for this object for theBalance available.Vol. 36, p. 1031. fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, which is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad.
Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred andAllowance to 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 assistants t o their homes for interment. For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomaticBringing home re-mains 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 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, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same 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 forInternational Customs Tariffs Bureau.Vol. 26, p. 1518. the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, 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 twelve, 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 and nineteen hundred and five, twenty-five thousand dollars. boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada. To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and makeBoundary, Alaska and Canada.Vol. 32, 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, draftsmen, and clerks as are necessary to reduce field notes; and for the moreBoundary, United States and Canada.Vol. 35, p. 2003. effective demarcation and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, between the United States 100 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 the Secretary of State, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, draftsmen, and clerks as are necessary to reduce field notes, seventy-five thousand dollars, together with the unexpended balance of previous appropriations for these objects. international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade.
Bureau for Repression of African Slave Trade.Vol. 27, p. 917.To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the special bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded at Brussels July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression 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 thirteen, one hundred and twenty-five dollars. international prison commission.
International Prison Commission.For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commissioner, including preparation of reports, two thousand dollars. Continuance as member.The United States shall continue as an adhering member of the International Prison Commission and participate in the work of said commission. Pro rata share, etc., authorized annually.The Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized annually to pay the pro rata share of the United States in the administration expenses of the International Prison Commission and the necessary expenses of a commissioner to represent the United States on said commission at its annual meetings, together with necessary clerical and other expenses, out of any money which shall be appropriated for such purposes from time to time by Congress. international geodetic association for the measurement of the earth.
International Geodetic Association.To 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. pan american union. Pan American Union.*Provisos*.Use of moneys received.Pan American Union, seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the union 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 Monthly Bulletin.expenses of the union: *And provided further*, That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized to print an edition of the Monthly Bulletin, not to exceed five thousand copies per month, for distribution by the union during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.
International Bureau of Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 32, p. 1793.To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year nineteen hundred and eleven of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article 101 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. For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenanceInterparliamentary Union to Promote Arbitration. of the Bureau of the Interparliamentary Union for the Promotion of International Arbitration at Brussels, Belgium, two thousand five hundred dollars. international institute of agriculture.
For the payment of the quota of the United States for the supportInternational Institute of Agriculture.Vol. 35, p. 1918. of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and thirteen, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of one member of the permanent committee of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and thirteen, three thousand six hundred dollars. For the payment of the expenses of delegates to the next GeneralDelegates to General Assembly.
Assembly of the International Institute or Agriculture, to be held at Rome, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of State. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the costTranslating publications. of translating into and printing in the English language the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, five thousand dollars. international railway congress.
To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member ofInternational Rail-way Congress. the International Railway Congress for the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, four hundred dollars. international sanitary bureau. For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance ofInternational Sanitary Bureau. the International Sanitary Bureau, two thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars and seventy-nine cents. 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 thou-sand eight hundred dollars; for court expenses, eight thousand dollars; total, twenty-seven 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 tor said purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby appropriated.
For rent of premises for the use of the United States court for ChinaRent. at Shanghai, two thousand four hundred dollars. international office of public health.. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the calendarInternational Office of Public Health.Vol. 35, p. 2061.Vol. 35, p. 1884. year nineteen hundred and twelve toward the support of the Inter- 102 national 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 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. arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the united states and great britain. British-American pecuniary claims arbitration.*Post*, p. 1625.For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the United States and Great Britain, in accordance with the special agreement concluded for that purpose August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and the schedules of claims thereunder, including office rent in the District of Columbia, and the compensation of arbitrator, umpire, agent, counsel, clerical and other assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, and to be immediately available, fifty thousand dollars. international congress of hygiene and demography.
International Congress of Hygiene and Demography.Vol. 34, 1422.To enable the Government of the United States suitably to participate in the Fifteenth International Congress of Hygiene and Demography which is to be held at the city of Washington, District of Columbia, in nineteen hundred and twelve, 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, forty thousand dollars. permanent international council for the exploration of the sea.
International Council for Exploration of the Sea.For the pro rata share of the United States in the administrative expenses of the Permanent International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, in the interests of the commercial fisheries, five thousand nine hundred and fifty-six dollars; for the necessary expenses of an expert official representative in attendance at the annual meeting of the council and clerical and other expenses connected with the investigations, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand one hundred and fifty-six dollars. international radio-telegraphic conference.
International Radiotelegraphie Conference.*Post*, p. 1565.For the expenses of expert delegates to the International Radio-telegraphic Conference, to be held at London in June, nineteen hundred and twelve, five thousand dollars, and for the payment of the share of the United States in the necessary expenses of the conference and in the necessary expenses of the radio telegraphic service of the International Telegraph Bureau at Berne, nine hundred dollars; in all, five thousand nine hundred dollars, to be immediately available. 103 salaries, consular service.Consular service.
For salaries of consuls general and consuls, as provided in the ActSalaries.Vol. 35, p. 101. Vol. 84, 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. salaries of consular assistants. For thirty consular assistants as provided for by law, thirty-sixConsular assistants. thousand six 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, three hundred and forty thousand dollars. salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, chosen, and japan. Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Chosen, andInterpreters at consulates. Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, forty thousand dollars. Interpreter at Vladivostok, Siberia, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Interpreter at Tangier, one thousand two 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, nineteen thousand dollars. salaries of marshals for consular courts. Marshals for the consular courts in China, Chosen, and Turkey,Marshals. eleven thousand dollars. expenses of prisons for american convicts.
Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convictsConsular prisons.Shanghai. in China, one thousand two hundred 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; four thousand four hundred dollars. 104 Keeping prisoners.Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Chosen, *Proviso*.Limit of cost.Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no more than fifty cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding.
This is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such prisoners. Rent, etc., Turkey.Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, one thousand dollars. Keeper, Chosen.Wages of prison keeper in Chosen, six hundred dollars. In all, fifteen 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, twenty thousand dollars. foreign hospital at cape town.
Foreign hospital, Cape Town.Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (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. seamen’s institute at kobe. Seamen’s Institute, Kobe.Contributions toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute at 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.
Contingent expenses, consulates.Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (allowance for rent not to exceed in any case thirty per centum of the officer’s salary), postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, 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, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, April 30, 1912.