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CHAP. 161.— AN ACT Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. March 3, 1917.[[H. R. 19390](/us/bill/64/hr/19390).][[Public, No. 379](/us/pl/64/379).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled,* That the following sums be, Diplomatic and consular appropriations.and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, out of any money in the 1048Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: salaries or 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, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, $230,000;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania, Serbia, and Bulgaria, $10,000; Minister resident and consul general. Agents, etc. Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000; Agent and consul general at Tangier, $7,500; Agent and consul general at Cairo, $6,500; *Proviso.* Salary restrictions. *Provide,* That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Total, $534,500. salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim.
Chargés d’affaires. For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, $50,000. salaries of secretaries in the diplomatic service. Secretaries, Diplomatic Service. Vol. 38, p. 805. For secretaries in the Diplomatic Service as provided in the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $186,000; 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; Total, $202,800. salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits.
Instruction and transit pay. To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, vice 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 R. S. sec. 1740, p. 309.to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, $65,000, or so much thereof 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. 1049 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 be Student interpreters.
In China.citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation and consulates in China, at $1,000 each, $10,000: *Provided,* *Provisos.* Nonpartisan selection.Term of service.That said students 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 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 at the Tuition.legation to China, at the rate of $180 per annum each, $1,800; For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall In 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 $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;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters Tuition.at the embassy to Japan, at the rate of $125 per annum each, $750; For ten student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, who shall In 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 $1,000 each, $10,000: *Provided,* That said *Provisos.* Nonpartisan selection.Term of service.student interprétera shall be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: *And provided further,* That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the embassy and consulates in Turkey so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters Tuition.at the embassy to Turkey, at the rate of $125 per annum each, $1,250; No person drawing the salary of interpreter or student as above Restriction on salaries.provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer; Total, $32,800. quarters for the student interpreters at embassies. Quarters for student interpreters. For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Japan, $600;
In Japan. For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Turkey, $600; In Turkey. Total, $1,200. contingent expenses, foreign missions. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such Contingent expenses, foreign missions.stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, nags, and signs, as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs, 1050postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of intenweters, and the Dispatch agents.compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses Printing in Department of State.of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Deportment 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, $398,585. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts.
Traveling expenses. To pay the actual and necessary expenses of transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under 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 fob embassy at constantinople. Steam launch, Turkey. Hiring of steam launch for use of embassy at Constantinople, $1,800. ground rent of embassy at tokyo, japan.
Ground rent, Japan. Annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $250. 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, $250. bringing home criminals. Bringing home criminals. Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, $5,000. 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, $4,500. emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. Emergencies. 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 and to meet the necessary Neutrality Act expenses.
R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.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, $150,000, together with the unexpended Balance available.*Ante,* p. 255.balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, which is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad.
Allowance for officers dying abroad. R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311. 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. 1051 transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular assistants to their homes for interment. For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic Bringing home remains of officers.and consular officers of the United States, including consular assistants, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, $5,000. international bureau of weights and measures.
Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of International 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, $2,895. international bureau for publication of customs tariffs. To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense International Customs Tariffs Bureau.
Vol. 28, p. 1518.for the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $1,500. international boundary commission, united states and mexico. To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties International Boundary Commission, Mexican. Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512;
Vol. 34, p. 2953.of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, nineteen hundred and five, and the protocol of May sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, between the United States and Mexico, $22,500. boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada. To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary, and make Boundary, 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 demarcation Boundary, 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 the salaries of the commissioner and the necessary engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, computers, and clerks in the field and at the seat of government, rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing and necessary traveling, for payment for timber necessarily cut in determining the boundary line hot to exceed $1,000, 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, $105,000, together with the unexpended balances of previous appropriations for these objects: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Advances to commissioner.That hereafter advances of money under 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 1052States and by his authority to chiefs of parties, who shah give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of State may direct, and accounts arising under 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.
Bureau for Repressing 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 eighteen, $125. 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 commission, including preparation of reports, $2,550. pan american union. Pan American Union. *Provisos.* Use of moneys received. Pan American Union, $85,000: *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 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 Monthly bulletins.said governing board: *And provided further,* That the Public Printer 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 eighteen. second pan american financial conference.
Second Pan American Financial Conference. Invitation to be extended. Vol. 38, p. 1127. The President is authorized to extend to the Governments 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 the Second Pan American Financial Conference in the city of Washington, at such date as shall be determined by the President, with a view to carrying on the work initiated at the First Pan American Financial Conference and establishing closer and more satisfactory financial relations between their countries and the Participation of United States citizens.United States of America, and authority is given to the Secretary of the Treasury to invite, in his discretion, representative citizens 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 delegates during the conference, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $50,000. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.
International Bureau, Permanent Court of Arbitration. To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year nineteen hundred and sixteen of the International Bureau 1053of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article twenty-two of the convention concluded at The Hague, July twenty-ninth, Vol. 32, p. 1793.eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, $2,000. international commission on annual tables of constants, and so forth.
To the International Commission on Annual Tables of Constants International Commission on Tables of Constants, etc.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.
For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance Interparliamentary Union to Promote Arbitration.of the Interparliamentary Union for the Promotion of International Arbitration at Brussels, Belgium, $2,000. international institute of agriculture. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support International Institute of Agriculture. Quota.of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $8,000.
For salary of one member of the permanent committee of the Member of committee.International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,600. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the cost of Translating publications.translating into and printing in the English language the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $5,000. Total, $16,600. international sanitary bureau. For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of International Sanitary Bureau.the International Sanitary Bureau for the year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $2,830.79. salaries and expenses, united states court foe china.
United States Court for China. Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal, $3,000; clerk, Salaries.$3,000; stenographer, $1,800; court expenses, including reference law books, $9,000; The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when Judge and district attorney. Sessions other than at Shanghai.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 or said purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby appropriated;
Total, $28,800. international office of public health. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the year nineteen International Office of Public Health.hundred and seventeen toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement 1054 Vol. 35, p. 2061. Vol. 35, p. 1834.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.
International Seismological Association. For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations of the United States as a member of the International Seismologit!al 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. Expenses. Vol. 37, 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, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, as follows;
Agency salaries and expenses. Salaries, United States agency: One counsel and joint secretary, at $2,750; stenographer, at $1,200; Expenses, United States agency: Necessary and contingent expenses, $300; rent of rooms, not more than $1,000; In all, $5,250. 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.
International Radiotelegraphic Convention. Vol. 37, p. 1569. For the share of the United States for the calendar year nineteen hundred and eighteen, as a party to the international radiotélégraphie conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, Switzerland, $2,250. fisheries convention, united states and great britain. Canadian Fisheries Commission. Vol. 35, p. 2000. 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 eighteen, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain.
Canadian Boundary Waters Commission. 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 expenses, 1055and 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 Vol. 36, p. 2448.use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, $75,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be expended *Proviso.* Subsistence when absent from Washington.for subsistence of the commission or secretary, except $8 per day each, when absent from Washington on official business.
For payment of services rendered and expenses incurred under the Preparation of cases.direction of the Secretary of State in the examination and preparation of cases involving the obstruction, diversion, and use of boundary waters and all 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 appearing before and representing the interests of the United States involved in all matters or investigations before the International Joint Commission created by said treaty, $6,000. fifth international conference of american states.
The appropriation of $75,000 “to meet the actual and necessary Fifth Pan American Conference. Reappropriation for expenses of.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 Secretary of State,” made in the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year *Ante,* p. 269.ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, by the Diplomatic and Consular Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, by the Diplomatic and Consular Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. payment to the government of panama.
Panama. To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Annual payment to.Panama the sixth annual payment due on February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article fourteen of the Vol. 33, p. 2238.treaty of November eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, $250,000. international geodetic association for the measurement of the earth. To enable the Government of the United States to pay, through International Geodetic Association.
Quota.the American Embassy at Berlin, its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the *Proviso.* Maintenance of Ukiah latitude observatory.Earth, $1,500: *Provided, however,* That the sums expended by the United States for the maintenance of the International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California, and for the continuance of the international latitude work there until the International Geodetic Association shall find it possible to resume its support of the observatory, shall be deducted from the quota due from the United States as such adhering member.
The duly appointed representative of the United States on the Representative authorized to vote.permanent commission of the International Geodetic Association is hereby granted authority to vote with the representatives on the 1056permanent commission from other nations on all matters coming before the association, including the extension of its existence subject to the approval of Congress. nineteenth conference interparliamentary union. Interparliamentary Union Conference.Appropriation for expenses extended.*Ante,* p. 260.
The appropriation of $40,000 “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, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe,” made in the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and extended and made available for the calendar years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen by the Diplomatic and Consular Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby extended and made available for the calendar *Provisos.* Discretionary expenditures.Report to Congress.year nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided,* That said sum may, in the discretion of the Secretary of State, be expended within the United States, but not elsewhere: *Provided further,* That an itemized account of all expenditures shall be reported to Congress. fifteenth international congress against alcoholism.
International Congress Against Alcoholism.Expenses.*Ante,* p. 260. To complete the arrangements and provide for the entertainment of the Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism to be held in the United States, to be expended under such rules and regulations in the Secretary of State may prescribe, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, together with the unexpended balance of previous appropriations for the holding of said congress in the *Proviso.* Report to Congress.United States: *Provided,* That an itemized account of all expenditures shall be reported to Congress. international commission on public and private international law.
International Commission on International Law. Reappropriation. Vol. 37, p. 1554. 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 International 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 Vol. 37, p. 1557.
Vol. 38, p. 451.of the United States of the expenses incident to the preparation 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, and extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, by the Diplomatic and Consular Act approved March fourth, nineteen *Ante,* p. 260.hundred and fifteen, and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, by the Diplomatic and Consular Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. salaries of the consular service.
Consular Service. Salaries. Vol. 38, p. 805. For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls as provided in the Act approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and 1057fifteen, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” $1,208,500. No portion of this sum shall be paid as compensation to Restriction on vice consuls. *Proviso.* Temporary service.vice consuls who are not American citizens: *Provided,* That if in any case the Secretary of State deems it impracticable immediately to secure a competent vice consul who is an American citizen, he may appoint or retain as vice consul and compensate from this fund a person not an American citizen until such time as he is able to designate a competent American citizen for such post.
Every consul Citizenship requirements.general, consul, and, wherever practicable, every consular agent shall be an American citizen; For salaries of five consular inspectors, at $5,000 each, $25,000; Consular inspectors. Total, $1,233,500. expenses of consular inspectors. For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of Traveling, etc., expenses. *Proviso.* Subsistence.consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, $15,000: *Prowled,* That inspectors shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses for subsistence, itemized, not exceeding an average of $5 per day. salaries of consular assistants.
Consular assistants. For forty consular assistants, as provided for by law, $46,600. post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers. Post allowances. To enable the President, in his discretion and in accordance with Special provisions for officers in belligerent, etc., countries.such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to consular and diplomatic officers in belligerent countries and countries contiguous thereto in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $200,000. allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates.
Allowance for clerk hire at consulates; to be expended under the Clerks 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, $53,700. 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, $35,000. expenses of prisons for american convicts.
Consular prisons. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts Shanghai.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, and of those convicted by the United States Court 1058 *Proviso.* Limited cost.for China, $9,000: *Provided,* That no more than 50 cents per clay 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; Total, $16,000. relief and protection of american seamen. Relief of American seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, $40,000. foreign hospital at cape town.
Foreign hospital, Cape Town. Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (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. Contingent expenses, consulates. Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), 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, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $625,000. acquisition of legation premises at san jose, costa rica.
San Jose, Costa Rica, Legation building. For the purchase of grounds and buildings at San Jose, Costa Rica, and for such alteration, repair, and additional furnishing of the same as may be necessary for the use of the legation to Costa Rica, both as a residence of the minister and for the office of the legation, $40,000. seamen’s mission at rio de janeiro, brazil. Annual contribution toward the support of the seamen’s mission at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, $50. Approved, March 3, 1917.