Chapter 145. Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen
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CHAP. 145.— An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. March 4, 1915.[[H. R. 21201](/us/bill/63/hr/21201).][[Public, No. 294](/us/pl/63/294).] *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 sixteen, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: salaries of ambassadors and ministers.Salaries.
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; 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 Montenegro, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, $240,000;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania, Servia, and Bulgaria, $10,000; 1117 Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000;Minister resident and consul general.Agent, etc., Cairo.*Proviso.*Salary restriction. Agent and consul general at Cairo, $6,500; *Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Chargés d’affaires ad interim and vice consuls, $50,000;Chargés d’affaires.*Ante*, p. 806.
Total, $587,000. salaries of secretaries in the diplomatic service.Secretaries in the Diplomatic Service. For secretaries in the Diplomatic Service as provided in the act ofSalaries.*Ante*, p. 805. February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service, ” approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $157,500. *Provided*, That the amount *Proviso*.New grades for year 1915.*Ante*, p. 443.appropriated for “Salaries of secretaries of embassies and legations” contained in the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby made available for the salaries of secretaries in the Diplomatic Service at the rate of compensation specified in the Act entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service, ” approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen; and there is also hereby appropriated for salaries of secretaries inAdditional for year 1915. the Diplomatic Service, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of the said Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the additional sum of $7,500.
Japanese secretary of embassy to Japan, $3,600; Turkish secretary of embassy to Turkey, $3,600; Chinese secretary of legation to China, $3,600; 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. salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits.
To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, and otherInstructions and transit pay. officers of the United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred[R. S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309). and forty of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary. clerks at embassies and legations.
For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies andClerks at embassies and legations. legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, $100,000. salaries of interpreters to embassies and legations. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $1,000.Interpreters, etc. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $1,500. For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall beStudent interpreters.In China. citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation 1118*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 Term of service.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.
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 and consulates in Japan, at $1,000 each, $6,000: *Provided*, *Provisos.*Nonpartisan selection.Term of service.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 *Provisos.*Nonpartisan selection.Term of service.consulates 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 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, $32,300. quarters for the student interpreters at embassies.Quarters for student interpreters. In Japan.For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Japan, $600.
In Turkey.For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Turkey, $600. Total, $1,200. 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, repairs, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and the Dispatch agents.compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses 1119of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department ofPrinting in Department of State.
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, $398,585. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts. To pay the cost of the transportation of diplomatic and consularTraveling expenses. officers in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of 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 the yearGround rent, Japan. ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $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 the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to beNeutrality Act expenses. expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, $75,000, together with the unexpended[R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).Balance available.*Ante*, p. 446. balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, 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.[R. S., Sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311). 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. 1120 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 sixteen, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, this appropriation to be immediately available, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $1,500. international boundary commission, united states and mexico.
International Boundary Commission, Mexican.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 hunched and five, $14,000: *Provided*, That 88,000 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, and to enable the water commissioner to study the questions connected with the equitable distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande River between the citizens of the United Plan for preserving boundary line, etc., to be submitted.States and Mexico, and to make an investigation, under the supervision of the Secretary of State, as to the best and most feasible method of preserving the boundary line between the United States and Mexico by preventing the flood waters of the Rio Grande and its tributaries where the said Rio Grande constitutes said boundary line from disturbing and changing the channel, and also the best and most feasible mode of impounding, regulating, and utilizing said waters in such manner as to secure to each country and its inhabitants their legal and equitable rights and interests in said waters, and to report in detail plans, findings, and conclusions to Congress not later than December tenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen. boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada.
Boundary, and Canada.To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and make the surveys incidental thereto between the Territory of Maska 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 demarcation Vol. 32. p. 1961.and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April eleventh, nineteen 1121hundred and eight, between the United States and Great Britain, ofBoundary, United States and Canada.Vol. 35, p. 2003. 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 clerics as are necessary, and commutation to members of the field force while on field duty or actual expenses not exceeding $2. 50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of State, $40,000, together with the unexpended balance of previous appropriations for these objects: *Provided*, That hereafter advances of money under*Proviso*.Advances to commissioner. the appropriation “Boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and the United States and Canada, ” may be made to the commissioner on the part of the United States and by his authority to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of State may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the commissioner on the part of the United States to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties. 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 sixteen, $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 orders of said governing board: *And provided further*, That the Public Printer be,Monthly bulletin. 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 sixteen. international bureau of tile permanent court of arbitration.
To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for theInternational Bureau, permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 32, p. 1793. calendar year nineteen hundred and fourteen 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. 1122 international commission on annual tables of constants, and so forth.
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.
Interparliamentary 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 sixteen, $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 sixteen, $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 Rail-way Congress.To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member of the International Railway Congress for the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $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 sixteen, $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 actual expenses during such sessions, not to exceed $10 per day for the judge and $5 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 sixteen, is hereby appropriated.
Rent.For rent of premises for the use of the United States court for China at Shanghai, $2,400. Judicial authority of vice consul at Shanghai.Vol. 34, p. 814.Vol. 35, p. 679.The judicial authority and jurisdiction in civil and criminal cases vested in and reserved to the consul general of the United States at Shanghai, China, by the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act creating a United States Court for China, and 1123prescribing the jurisdiction thereof,” and vested by the diplomatic and consular appropriation Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and nine, in the vice consul general of the United States to be designated from time to time by the Secretary of State, shall subsequent to the approval of this Act be vested in and exercised by a vice consul of the United States at Shanghai, China. 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 fifteen toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, in pursuance of article one hundred and eighty-one of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December third, nineteen hundred and three, $3,015. 62. international seismological association.
For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations ofInternational Seismological Association. the United States as a member of the International Seismological Association, including the annual contribution to the expenses of the association, $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 pecuniaryExpenses.Vol. 37, p. 1625. 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 there-under, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, as follows:
Salaries, United States agency: One counsel and joint secretary, atAgency salaries and expenses. $2,750 per annum; stenographer, at $1,200 per annum; Expenses, United States agency: Necessary and contingent expenses, $200; rent of rooms, $600; In all, $4,750. Peace Palace at The Hague: For the payment of the contributionPeace Palace at The Hague. 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: For the share ofInternational Radiotelegraphic Convention.Vol. 37, p. 1569. the United States for the calendar year nineteen hundred and sixteen, as a party to the international radiotelegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the Inter-national Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, Switzerland, $1,000. Fisheries convention, United States and Great Britain: ForCanadian Fisheries Commission.Vol. 35, p. 2600. 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 sixteen, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 1124 waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain.
Canadian Boundary Waters Commission.Vol. 36, p. 2448.For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and 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 Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January eleventh, Preparation of cases, etc.nineteen hundred and nine, as well as not to exceed the sum of $5,000 for the payment of necessary expenses incurred and for services rendered under the direction of the Secretary of State in the examination and preparation of cases involving the use, 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, $ 55,000, together with the unexpended Use of balance.Vol. 37, p. 695.balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, said amounts to be disbursed under the *Proviso.*Subsistence limited.direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation shall be expended for subsistence of the commission, counsel and secretary, except a sum not exceeding $10 per day each, when absent from Washington on official business. salaries of the consular service.Consular service.
Salaries.*Ante*, p. 805.For salaries of consuls general and consuls, as provided in the Act approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An *Proviso.*New grades for 1915.*Ante*, p. 451.Act for the improvement of the foreign service, ” $1,069,000: *Provided.*That the amount appropriated for salaries of consuls general and consuls contained in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, ” approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby made available for salaries of consuls general and consuls at the rate of compensation specified in the Act entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service, ” approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen;
Additional for year 1915.and that there is also hereby appropriated for salaries of consuls general and consuls from February fifth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, both dates inclusive, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of the said Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, the additional sum of $13,333. 35. 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 *Proviso.*Subsistence limited.from the Secretary of State, $15,000: *Provided*, That no inspector shall be allowed expenses for subsistence in excess of $5 per day. salaries of consular assistants.
Consular assistants.For forty consular assistants as provided for by law, $46,600. 1125 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, $493,000. salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, chosen, japan, and siberia. Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Chosen, Japan,Interpreters at consulates. and Siberia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State $48,700. 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, 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 for the consular courts in China, Chosen, and Turkey,Marshals, consular courts.$11,000. expenses of prisons for american convicts.Consular prisons. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convictsShanghai. in China, $1,200; for contingent expenses, $1,800; for the wages of a keeper of such prison, $1,200; and for the wages of an assistant keeper of such prison, $800; $5,000.
Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Chosen,Keeping prisoners. Siam, and Turkey, $9,000: *Provided*, That no more than 50 cents per *Proviso.*Limit of cost.day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding. This is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such prisoners. Rent of prison for American convicts in Smyrna, Turkey, and forRent, etc., Turkey. 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. Wages of prison keepers in Chosen, $600.Keepers, Chosen. Total, $16,600. relief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, andRelief of American seamen. shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, $20,000. foreign hospital at cape town.
Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset HospitalForeign hospital, Cape Town. (a foreign hospital), at Cape 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. 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 1126(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, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $465,000.
Yokohama, Japan.Purchase of building.For the purchase of a building located upon the land now leased to the consul general of the United States at Yokohama, Japan, $2,275; international commission on public and private international law.International Commission on international Law. Reappropriation.The appropriation of $15,000, “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 InternationalVol.37, p. 1554.
American 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 international law; and for the payment of the quota of the United States of the expenses incident to the preparationVol. 37, p. 1556.*Ante*, p. 451. of such drafts, including the compensation of experts under article four of the convention, made in the “Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, ” is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. fifth international conference of american states.Fifth Pan American Conference.
Reappropriation.The appropriation of $75,000 “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, to be expended in the discretion of the *Ante*, p. 450.Secretary of State, ” made in the “Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, ” is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. second pan american scientific congress.Pan American Scientific Congress.
Additional amount.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, 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, to be immediately available, $15,000, which sum is in addition to the $35,000 appropriated for the same purposes by the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the *Ante*, p. 450.Reappropriation.Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, ” approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State; and the said appropriation of $35,000 is hereby made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. 1127 fifteenth international congress against alcoholism.International Congress Against Alcoholism.
The appropriation of $40. 000 “For the purpose of defraying theReappropriation. expenses incident to the Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism, to be held in the United States in nineteen hundred and fifteen, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, ” made in the “Act making appropriations*Ante*, p. 453. for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, ” is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
The Secretary of State is hereby authorizedInvitations to be extended. and requested to extend an invitation to the Governments of the world with which we maintain diplomatic relations to participate in and appoint delegates to said congress: *Provided*, That an itemized*Proviso.*Report to Congress. account of all expenditures shall be reported to Congress. That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorizedPan American Medical Congress.Invitation to be extended. and requested to invite the several Governments of the Republics of Mexico, Central and South America, Haiti, and Santo Domingo and Cuba, to send official delegates to the meeting of the Pan American Medical Congress, to be held in the city of San Francisco, California, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, June seventeenth, eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available and to be expended for the entertainment of the foreign delegates. international engineering congress.International Engineering Congress.
The President is hereby authorized to extend invitations to otherInvitations to be extended. nations to appoint delegates or representatives to the International Engineering Congress to be held at San Francisco, California, September twentieth to twenty-fifth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and fifteen: *Provided*, That no appropriation shall be granted for the*Proviso.*No appropriation. expenses of delegates or for other expenses incurred in connection with the said congress. exposition in city of panama.Panama Exposition.
That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized to accept an Acceptance of invitation authorized.invitation extended by the Government of Panama to the Government of the United States to participate in an exposition to be held in the city of Panama; and the sum of $25,000 be, and the same isPreparation of exhibit, etc. hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable suitable participation in said exposition by this country, for an appropriate exhibit of the arts, industries, manufactures, products of the soil, mines, and waters of the United States, and, as far as practicable, of the functions of the General Government, and an exhibit of such other articles as the President may direct, including an exhibit relating to the Panama Canal. conference of american financiers.Conference of American bankers.
The President is hereby authorized to extend to the GovernmentsInvitation to American Republics to be represented at. of Central and South America an invitation to be represented by their ministers of finance and leading bankers, not exceeding three in number in each case, to attend a conference with the Secretary of the Treasury in the city of Washington at such date as shall be determined by the President, with a view of establishing closer and moreObjects, etc. satisfactory financial relations between their countries and the United States of America, and authority is hereby given to the Secretary of 1128Participation by bankers of the United States.Appropriation for expenses.the Treasury to invite, in his discretion, representative bankers of the United States to participate in the said conference, and for the purpose of meeting such actual and necessary expenses as may be incidental to the meeting of said conference and for the entertainment of the foreign conferees the sum of $50,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Approved, March 4, 1915.