Chapter 132. Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen
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CHAP. 132.— An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen. June 30, 1914.[[H. R. 15762](/us/bill/63/hr/15762).][[Public, No. 123](/us/63/pl/123).] *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 the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
Salaries.salaries of ambassadors and ministers. Ambassadors.Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and Turkey, at $17,500 each, $227,500: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Payments for Argentina and Chile.*Ante*, p. 378.That of the amount appropriated for salaries of ambassadors to Argentina and Chile, so much as may be necessary shall be available for the payment of salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Argentina and Chile at the rate of $12,000 each per annum and shall continue to be available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, until such time as duly accredited ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary shall have been received by the Governments of the Argentine Republic and of Chile, respectively;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Belgium, China, Cuba, and the Netherlands and Luxemburg, at $12,000 each, $48,000; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece and Monte negro, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, $240,000; 443 Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Romania, Servia, and Bulgaria, $10,000:
Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000;Minister resident and consul general. Agent and consul general at Cairo, $6,500;Agent, etc., Cairo. *Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any*Proviso*.Salary restriction. official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Chargés d’affaires ad interim, $50,000;Chargés d’affaires. Total, $587,000. salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations.Secretaries of embassies and legations.
Secretaries of embassy to Austria-Hungary, Argentina, Brazil,Embassies. Chile, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and Turkey, at $3,000 each, $39,000: *Provided*, That of the*Proviso*.Payments for Argentina and Chile.*Ante*, p. 378. amount appropriated for salaries of secretaries of embassy to Argentina and Chile, so much as may be necessary shall be available for payment of salaries of secretaries of legation to Argentina and Chile at the rate of $2,625 each per annum and shall continue and be available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, until such time as duly accredited secretaries of embassy shall have been received by the Governments of the Argentine Republic and of Chile, respectively;
Japanese secretary of embassy to Japan, $3,600; Turkish secretary of embassy to Turkey, $3,600; Chinese secretary of legation to China, $3,600;Legations. Secretaries of legation to Belgium, China, Cuba, and the Netherlands and Luxemburg, at $2,625 each, $10,500; Secretaries of legation to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, Guatemala, Greece and Montenegro, Haiti, Honduras, Liberia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Paraguay, Sweden, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Venezuela, at $2,000 each, $42,000;
Secretary of legation to the Dominican Republic and consul general at Santo Domingo; secretary of legation to Salvador and consul general to San Salvador; and secretary of legation to Siam and consul general at Bangkok, at $2,000 each, $6,000; Secretary of legation and consul general to Romania, Servia, and Bulgaria, $2,000; Secretary of legation to Persia and consul general at Teheran, who shall be an American student of the language of that country, $2,000; Second secretaries of embassy to Austria-Hungary, Argentina,Second secretaries.
Brazil, Chile, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Mexico, and Russia, at $2,000 each, $24,000; Second secretaries of legation to China and Cuba, at $1,800 each, $3,600; Second secretary of embassy to Turkey, who shall be an American student of the language of that court and country, $2,000;Third secretaries. Third secretaries of embassy to Great Britain, France, Mexico, Germany, and Russia, at $1,200 each, $6,000; Third secretary of embassy to Japan, who shall be an American student of the Japanese language, $1,200;
Third secretary of embassy to Turkey, who shall be an American student of the Turkish language, $1,200. Total, $150,300. 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 necessarily444occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in [R.
S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309).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 and legations.For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, $100,000. 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, $2,000.
Assistant Japanese secretary to the embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000. Assistant Turkish secretary to the embassy to Turkey, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $1,000. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $1,500. 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 legation *Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.and consulates in China, at $1,000 each, $10,000: *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 Term of service.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.
Tuition.For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the legation to China, at the rate of $180 per annum each, $1,800. In Japan.For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Japanese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the embassy *Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service.and consulates in Japan, at $1,000 each, $6,000: *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 Japan so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years.
Tuition.For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, at the rate of $125 per annum each, $750. In Turkey.For ten student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, who shall 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 *Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service.in Turkey, at $1,000 each, $10,000: *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.
Tuition.For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, at the rate of $125 per annum each, $1,250; but Restriction on salaries.no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer. Total, $38,300. 445 quarters for the student interpreters at embassies.Quarters for student Interpreters. For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to theIn Japan. embassy to Japan, $600.
For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to theIn Turkey. embassy to Turkey, $600. 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, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, SanDispatch agents.
Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in thePrinting in Department of State. Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $388,435. 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 expense. officers in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of 5 cents per mile, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, $50,000. steam launch for embassy at constantinople.
Hiring of steam launch for use of embassy at Constantinople,Steam launch, Turkey. $1,800. ground rent of embassy at tokyo, japan. Annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for theGround rent, Japan embassy. year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $250. 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, $325. bringing home criminals.
Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countriesBringing home criminals. persons charged with crime, $5,000. 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, $4,500. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arisingEmergencies. in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, and to meet the446Neutrality act expenses.[R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, $75,000, together Balance available.Vol, 37, p. 691.with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, which is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad.
Allowance to officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311).Payment under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $5,000. transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular assistants to their homes for interment. Bringing home remains of officers.For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic 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, $5,000. international bureau of weights and measures.
International Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 714.Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, 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, $2,895. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs. International Customs Tariff Bureau.Vol. 28, p. 1518.To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and Publication of customs tariffs, $1,500; this appropriation to be immediately available, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety.
International Boundary Commission, Mexican.international boundary commission, united states and mexico. Continuance of work.Vol 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512.*Proviso*.Water distribution.To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and nineteen hundred and five, $15,000: *Provided*, That $10,000 thereof is made immediately available to resume and continue the work relating to the distribution of water, under the direction of the Secretary of State, and as authorized by and in pursuance to the protocol of May sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, between the United States and Mexico.
Payment of salaries and expenses authorized.Vol. 9. p. 938. Vol. 10, p. 1035.Vol. 26, p. 1516.The commissioner appointed by the Secretary of State under article twenty-one of the treaty of eighteen hundred and forty-eight, and reaffirmed under article seven of the treaty of eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and article five of the treaty of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and article eight of the treaty of eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, to carry on this work, is hereby authorized and directed447to pay the salaries, compensation, wages, and allowances heretofore authorized or approved by the Secretary of State, and any and all persons employed by or under the direction of the commissioner appointed by the Secretary of State to study the questions in connection with the distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande, from the date to which such salaries, compensation, wages, and allowances were last paid up to and including the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and fourteen, or until said employees shall be separated from the service; and the appropriation made by the Diplomatic andUse of former appropriation.Vol. 37, p. 692.
Consular appropriation Act, approved February twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and thirteen, “To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and nineteen hundred and five” is hereby reappropriated and made available for the payments herein authorized and directed. 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; and for the more effective demarcationBoundary, United States and Canada.Vol. 35, p. 2003. 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 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, $100,000, together with the unexpended balance of previous appropriations for these objects. 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 Repressing 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 fifteen, $125. international prison commission.
For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of theInternational Prison Commission. International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commission, including preparation of reports, $2,550. pan american union. Pan American Union, $75,000: *Provided*, That any moneysPan American Union.*Provisos*.Use of moneys received. 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 chairman of the governing board of the Union for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Union and of carrying out the ordersMonthly bulletin. of said governing board: *And provided further*, That the Public448Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized to print an edition of the monthly bulletin not to exceed six thousand copies per month, for distribution by the Union during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.
International Bureau. 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 thirteen 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, $1,250. International Commission on Tables of Constants, etc.To the International Commission on Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, Chemical, Physical, and Technological, as established by the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London and as continued by the eighth congress in New York, as a contribution by the United States toward the publication of annual tables of constants, chemical, physical, and technological, $500. bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international arbitration.
Inter parliamentary Union to Promote Arbitration.For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the Interparliamentary Union for the Promotion of International Arbitration at Brussels, Belgium, $2,000. international institute of agriculture. International Institute of Agriculture.Quota.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $8,000. Member of committee.For salary of one member of the permanent committee of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,600.
Translating publications.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the cost of translating into and printing in the English language the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $5,000. international railway congress. International Railway Congress.To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member of the International Railway Congress for the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $400. international sanitary bureau. International Sanitary Bureau.For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of the International Sanitary Bureau for the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,830.79.
United States Court for China,united states court for china. Salaries.Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,000; stenographer, $1,800; court expenses, including reference law books, $9,000; in all, $28,800. Judge and district attorney.Sessions other than at Shanghai.The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries, their necessary expenses during such sessions, not to exceed $10 per day for the judge and $5 per day for449the district attorney, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby appropriated.
For rent of premises for the use of the United States court forRent. China at Shanghai, $2,400. international office of public health. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the yearInternational Office of Public Health.Vol 35, p. 2061.Vol. 35, p. 1834. nineteen hundred and fourteen toward the support of the Inter-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, $3,015.62. international seismological association.
For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligationsInternational Seismological Association. of the United States as a member of the International Seismological Association, including the annual contribution to the expenses of the association, $800. arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the united states and great britain.British-American Pecuniary Claims Arbitration. For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claimsExpenses.Vol. 37, p. 1625. 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, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, as follows:
Salaries and expenses of the tribunal: For the payment by theTribunal salaries and expenses. United States of one-half of the following expenses: For three arbitrators for three months, at $1,200 each per month, $10,800; stenographer for arbitrators, for three months, at $100 per month, $300; messenger, for three months, at $60 per month, $180; traveling expenses of arbitrators, $2,000; reporting proceedings, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and for printing, stationery, and supplies, $500; in all $9,390.
For rent of office for joint secretaries, $360. Salaries, United States agency: Agent, to be appointed by theAgency salaries and expenses. Appointment of agent. President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, $7,500 per annum; counsel, $5,000 per annum; two counsels, at $2,520 per annum each; two law clerks, at $1,800 per annum each; joint secretary, who shall also act as disbursing clerk, $3,000 per annum; two stenographers, at $1,200 per annum each; and messenger, $720 per annum; m all, $27,260.
Expenses, United States agency: Necessary and contingent expenses, $12,700. compilation of chinese treaties. The appropriation of $2,500, or so much thereof as may beCompilation of Chinese treaties.Vol. 37, p. 694.Reappropriation. necessary, for the printing and binding of a compilation by the Department of State of the treaties, contracts, and international arrangements entered into by the Empire and Republic of China with other governments, made in the Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, making appropriation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen. 450 international conference on maritime law.
International Conference on Maritime Law.Vol. 37, p. 695.Reappropriation.The appropriation of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, “for the expenses of participation by the United States by officially appointed delegates in the International Conference on Maritime Law to meet at Brussels in nineteen hundred and thirteen,” made in the Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, making appropriation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby extended and made available for the meeting of the said conference during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Peace Palace at The Hague.Peace Palace at The Hague: For the payment of the contribution on the part of the United States toward the expenses of the Palace of Peace at The Hague, $1,045.25, or so much thereof as may be necessary. International Radiotelegraphic Convention.Vol. 37, p. 1569.International radiotelegraphic convention: For the share of the United States for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifteen, as a party to the international radiotelegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, Switzerland, $1,000.
Canadian Fisheries Commission.Vol. 35, p. 2000.Fisheries convention, United States and Great Britain: For the payment of the actual and necessary expenses of a commissioner 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 United States and the Dominion of Canada, signed at Washington on April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, while engaged in work under the convention, including clerical expenses that may be incurred in carrying out the convention during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Fifth Pan American Conference.*Post*, p. 1126.Fifth International Conference of American States: To meet the actual and necessary expenses of the delegates of the United States to the Fifth International Conference of American States, to be held at the city of Santiago, Chile, beginning in September, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and of their clerical assistants, $75,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of State. International Customs Regulation Congress.International Congress on Customs Regulations:
To defray the expenses of an expert of the Treasury Department to represent the United States in the International Congress on Customs Regulations, to convene at Paris in June, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $750. Pan American Scientific Congress.*Post*, p. 1126.Second Pan American Scientific Congress: To enable the Government of the United States suitably to participate in the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, to be held at the city of Washington in October, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for the necessary expenses for clerks, printing (including the publication of the proceedings of the congress in English and Spanish), stationery and supplies, and other incidental expenses, including rent in the District of Columbia, and for the entertainment of the delegates, $35,000, to be Invitations to be extended.expended under the direction of the Secretary of State; and authority is hereby given to the Secretary of State to invite the Governments of the American Republics to be represented by delegates at the said congress.
Interparliamentary Union Conference.Nineteenth Conference, Interparliamentary Union: For the purpose of defraying the expenses in Washington City, incident to the Nineteenth Conference of the Interparliamentary Union, to be held in Washington in nineteen hundred and fifteen, $40,000, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of State Invitations to be extended.may prescribe. The President is hereby requested to extend an invitation to the members of the Interparliamentary Union. 451 Acquisition of embassy premises, Mexico City:
For theMexico City, Mexico.Acquisition of premises for embassy.Vol. 36, p. 917. purchase of a site and the construction of a building thereon at the City of Mexico, and for the furnishing of the building, or, as to the Secretary of State may seem best, for the purchase at said city of a site and a building already erected, and for the alteration, repair, and furnishing of such building and the construction of an addition thereto, if necessary, for the use of the embassy to Mexico, both as the residence of the diplomatic officials and for the offices of the embassy, $150,000.
Acquisition of embassy premises, Tokyo, Japan: For theTokyo, Japan.Construction of building for embassy at.Vol. 36, p. 917. construction of a building on ground now held by the Government of the United States at Tokyo, Japan, for the use of the embassy to Japan, both as a residence of the diplomatic officers and for the offices of the embassy, and for furnishing the same, $100,000. International Commission on Public and PrivateInternational Commission on international Law.*Post*, p. 1126.
International Law: For the payment of compensation to, and the necessary expenses of, the representative or representatives of the United States on the International Commission of Jurists, organized under the convention signed at the Third International AmericanVol. 37, p. 1554. Conference August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, approved by the Senate February third, nineteen hundred and eight, and ratified by the President February eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, for the purpose of preparing drafts of codes of public and private inter-national law; and for the payment of the quota of the United States of the expenses incident to the preparation of such drafts, including the compensation of experts under Article IV of the convention,Vol. 37, p. 1556. $15,000. waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain.
For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners andCanadian Boundary Waters Commission. salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, including rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing, and necessary traveling and other expenses, and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great BritainVol. 36, p. 2448. concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, as well as for the payment of necessary expenses, not to exceed the sum of $5,000, incurred, and compensation for services rendered under the direction of the Secretary of State in the examination and preparation of cases involving the use,Preparation of cases, etc. distribution, or division of waters and other questions or matters of difference covered by the treaty of January eleventh. nineteen hundred and nine, between the United States and Great Britain, and in representing this Government and the American interests involved in the presentation of such cases before the International Joint Commission constituted under that treaty, $50,000, together with theUse of balance.Vol. 37, p. 695. unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, said amounts to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State. salaries, consular service.Consular service.
For salaries of consuls general and consuls, as provided in the ActSalaries. approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “AnVol. 35, p. 101. Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to provide for theVol. 34, p. 99. reorganization of the consular service of the United States,’ approved April452fifth, nineteen hundred and six,” and amendments thereto, as follows: Consuls general, $303,000; consuls, $734,000; in all, $1,037,000. Consular inspectors.For salaries of five consular inspectors, at $5,000 each, $25,000. expenses of consular inspectors.
Traveling, etc., expenses.For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, $15,000. salaries of consular assistants. Consular assistants.For forty consular assistants as provided for by law, $46,000. 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, $375,200. salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, chosen, japan, and siberia.
Interpreters at consulates.Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Chosen, Japan, and Siberia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $41,700. expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions, and so forth. Interpreters, guards, etc.Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions, Persia, Morocco, northern Africa, and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $30,000. salaries of marshals for consular courts.
Marshals, consular courts.Marshals for the consular courts in China, Chosen, and Turkey, $11,000. Consular prisons.expenses of prisons for american convicts. Shanghai.Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts in China, $1,200; for contingent expenses, $1,200; for the wages of a keeper of such prison, $1,200; and for the wages of an assistant keeper of such prison, $800; $4,400. Keeping prisoners.Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Chosen, *Proviso*.Limit of cost.Siam, and Turkey, $9,000: *Provided*, That no more than 50 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 Smyrna, Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000. Rent of prison for American convicts in Constantinople, Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000. Keepers, Chosen.Wages of prison keepers in Chosen, $600. In all, $16,000. 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, $20,000. 453 foreign hospital at cape town.
Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset HospitalForeign hospital, Cape Town. (a foreign hospital), at Capo Town, $50, 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. Contributions toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute atSeamen’s Institute, Kobe. 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, $25. 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 officer’s salary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, 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, $465,000, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized. fifteenth international congress against alcoholism.
For the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to the FifteenthInternational Congress against Alcoholism.*Post*, p. 1127. International Congress Against Alcoholism to be held in the United States in nineteen hundred and fifteen, $40,000, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe. The Secretary of State is hereby authorized and requested to extendInvitations to be extended. an invitation to the Governments of the world with which we maintain diplomatic relations to participate in and appoint delegates to*Proviso*.Account of expenditures. said Congress: *Provided*, That an itemized account of all expenditures shall be reported to Congress.
Approved, June 30, 1914.