Chapter 123. Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920
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CHAP. 123.— An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. March 4, 1919.[[H. R. 14516](/us/bill/65/hr/14516).][[Public, No. 346](/us/65/pl/346).] *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 30, 1920, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: salaries of ambassadors and ministers.Salaries.
Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary toAmbassadors. Austria-Hungary, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain,Peru added Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Spain, and Turkey, at $17,500 each, $245,000; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Belgium,Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. China, Cuba, and the Netherlands and Luxemburg, at $12,000 each, $48,000; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Czechoslovakia and Poland.From March 1 1919, to June 30, 1920.Czechoslovakia and Poland, at the rate of $12,000 per annum each from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1920, both dates inclusive, $32,000; 1326 Bulgaria and Serbia.From March 1 to June 30, 1919.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bulgaria, and Serbia, at the rate of $10,000 per annum each, from March 1, 1919, to June 30, 1919, both dates inclusive, $6,660.68.
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, Bulgaria, Colombia. Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece and Montenegro, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Persia, Portugal, Rou mania, Salvador, Serbia, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, $250,000; Ministerresident 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.*Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Total, $600,666.68. salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim. Chargés d’affaires.For salaries for chargés d’affaires ad interim, $50,000. salaries of secretaries in the diplomatic service. Secretaries, Diplomatic Service.Vol. 38, p. 805; Vol. 39, p. 252.For secretaries in the Diplomatic Service, as provided in the Act of February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” as amended by the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917, approved July 1, 1916, $289,458.33, of which sum $5,083.33 shall be immediately available.
Secretary-interpreters.Secretary-interpreter of embassy to Japan, $3,600; Secretary-interpreter of embassy to Turkey, $3,600; Secretary-interpreter of legation to China, $3,600; Assistant secretary-interpreter to the legation to China, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000; Assistant secretary-interpreter to the embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000; Assistant secretary-interpreter to the embassy to Turkey, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters $2,000;
Total, $306,258.33. Embassy in Berlin.Acceptance of plate presented by British Government to persons connected with American.The following persons formerly connected with the American Embassy at Berlin be, and they are hereby, authorized to accept pieces of plate presented to them by the British Government m recognition of services rendered by the embassy while in charge of British interests in Germany: Mr. Joseph C. Grew, counselor of embassy; Messrs. Hugh R. Wilson, Albert B.
Ruddock, Alexander C. Kirk, L. Lanier Winslow, Lithgow Osborne, Oliver B. Harriman, Robert M. Scotten, and Charles H. Russell, junior, secretaries of embassy or legation; Brigadier General Joseph E. Kuhn and Major George T. Langhorne, United States Army; Lieutenant Colonel C. L. Furbush, Medical Corps, National Army; Major Albert H. Roler, Medical Reserve Corps, United States Army; Lieutenant Grafton W. Minot, Ordnance Reserve Corps, United States Army; Lieutenant Jerome P. Webster, Medical Reserve Corps;
Mr. H. R. Pyne, Aviation Service, United States Army; Commander Walter R. Gherardi and Surgeon Karl Ohnesorg, United States Navy; Director A. E. Taylor, War Trade Board; Mr. Christian A. Herter, Department of State; Mr. E. L. Dresel and Miss G. de Courcy, employed at American Legation at Berne. 1327 salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits. To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, vice consuls,Instruction and transit pay. and other officers of the United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes, $65,000, or so much thereof 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, $688,000. salaries of interpreters to embassies and legations. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $2,000;Interpreters, etc. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $2,000; For ten student interpreters in China, who shall be citizens of theStudent interpreters.In China.
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 $1,500 each, $15,000: *Provided*, That the method*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. of selecting said student interpreters shall be 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 services may be required within a period of five years;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters inTuition. China, at the rate of $200 per annum each, $2,000; For six student interpreters in Japan, who shall be citizens of theIn Japan. 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 $1,500 each, $9,000: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. method of selecting said student interpreters shall be 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 services may be required within a period of five years;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters inTuition. Japan, at the rate of $200 per annum each, $1,200; For ten student interpreters in Turkey, who shall be citizens of theIn Turkey. 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 $1,500 each, $15,000: *Provided*, That the method of*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. selecting said student interpreters shall be 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 services may be required within a period of five years;
For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters inTuition. Turkey, at the rate of $200 per annum each, $2,000; No person drawing the salary of interpreterRestriction on salaries. or student interpreter as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer; Total, $48,200. 1328 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;
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 Printing in Department of state.Loss by exchange.of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, including such loss on bills of exchange to officers of the United States Court for China, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $1,310,000, of which sum $10,000 shall be immediately available. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts.
Traveling expenses.To pay the itemized and verified statements of the actual and necessary expenses of transportation and subsistence under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of diplomatic and Families and effects added.consular officers and clerks in embassies, legations, and consulates and their families and effects in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under orders of the Secretary of State, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, $145,000. steam launch for 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 15, 1920, $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 crimi nals.Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, $5,000. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen.
Lifesaving 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. 1329 emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising inEmergencies. the Diplomatic and Consular Service and to extend the commercialNeutrality act expenses. and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised[R.
S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49). Statutes, $700,000, together with the unexpended balance of theBalance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 522. appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year 1919, 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 1749 of the RevisedAllowance for officers dying abroad.[R. S., sec. 1749, p. 311](/us/rs/s1749/p311). 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.
For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains ofBringing home remains of officers. 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 tins 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 ofInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 1714.
Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May 24, 1875, 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 forInternational Customs Tariffs Bureau.Vol. 28, p. 1518. the year ending March 31, 1920, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, pursuant to the convention proclaimed December 17, 1890, $1,500. international boundary commission, united states and mexico.
To enable the commission to continue its work under the treatiesMexican Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 20, p. 1512; Vol. 34, p. 2953. of 1884,1889, 1905, and 1906 between the United States and Mexico, $50,000. 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 11, 1908, between the1330United 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 not to exceed $500, and commutation to members of the field force while on field duty or actual expenses not exceeding $5 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 balances of previous appropriations *Provisos*.Advances to commissioner.for these objects: *Provided*, 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 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 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: *Provided*, Subsistence when absent from Washington.That when the commissioner is absent from Washington on official business he shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses of subsistence, not in excess of $8 per day. 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 82 of the general Act concluded at Brussels, July 2, 1890, 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 1920, $125. pan american union. Pan American Union.*Provisos*.Use of moneys received.Pan American Union. $100,000: *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 Bulletin.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 6,000 copies per month, for distribution by the union during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. 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 1918 of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article 22 of the convention concluded at The Hague, July 29, 1899, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, $2,000. 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, as1331established 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. international institute of agriculture.
For the payment of the quota of the United States for the supportInternational Institute of Agriculture.Quota. of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1920, $8,000; For salary of one member of the permanent committee of theMember of committee. International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1920, $3,600; For the payment of the quota of the United States for the cost ofTranslating 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 maintenanceInternational Sanitary Bureau. of the International Sanitary Bureau for the year 1920, $2,830.79. salaries and expenses, united states court for china.United States Court for China. Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal, $3,000; clerk,Salaries. $3,000; stenographer, $1,800; printing and binding opinions of the court, $1,000; court expenses, including reference law books, $9,000; in the settlement of salaries for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918,Allowance for loss by exchange. by the disbursing officer to the officials of the United States Court for China, the same rate of exchange used in the payment of salaries to consular officials in China, for said fiscal year, is hereby authorized and approved, these settlements to be made from the total amounts appropriated for salaries and court expenses for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1918, and June 30, 1919.
The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, whenJudge 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 $8 per day each, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, is hereby appropriated; Total, $29,800. 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. 1920 toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December 9, 1907, m pursuance of article one hundred and eighty-one of the Vol. 35, p. 1834.International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December 3, 1903, $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.
For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniaryBritish-American Pecuniary Claims Commission. claims between the United States and Great Britain, in accordance1332Vol. 37, p. 1625.with the special agreement concluded for that purpose August 18, 1910, 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; In all, $4,250. 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 radio telegraphic convention.Vol. 37, p. 1569.For the share of the United States for the calendar year 1920, as a party to the international radiotelégraphie conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelégraphie service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, Switzerland, $2,250. international high commission.
International High Commission.United States section.Vol. 39, p. 8.To defray the actual and necessary expenses on the part of the United States section of the International High Commission, arising in such work and investigations as may be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $25,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. 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 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 11, 1909, $75,000, to be disbursed *Proviso*.Subsistence when absent from Washington.under the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for subsistence of the commission or secretary, except for actual and necessary expenses, not in excess of $8 per day each, when absent from Washington on official business.
Preparation of cases.For payment of services rendered and expenses incurred under the direction of the Secretary of State in the examination and preparation of cases involving the obstruction, diversion, and use of all boundary waters and all other questions or matters of difference covered by the treaty of January 11, 1909, between the United States and Great Britain, and in appearing before and representing the interests of the United States in all matters or investigations before the International Joint Commission created by said treaty, $6,000.
Fifth Pan American Conference.fifth international conference of american states. Reappropriation tor expenses.Not exceeding $50,000 of the appropriation of $75,000 “to meet the actual and necessary expenses of the delegates of the United1333States to the Fifth International Conference of American States to be held at the city of Santiago, Chile, beginning in September, 1914, 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 ending June 30, 1915, and extended and made available for the fiscal years ending*Ante*, p. 527.
June 30, 1916, 1917, 1918, and 1919, not having been expended, is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920. payment to the government of panama.Panama. To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government ofAnnual payment to.Vol. 33, p. 2238. Panama the eighth annual payment due on February 26, 1920, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article 14 of the treaty of November 18, 1903, $250,000. international geodetic association for the measurement of the earth.
To enable the Government of the United States to pay its quotaInternational Geodetic Association. as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, $1,500: *Provided, however*, That*Proviso*.Maintenance of Ukiah Latitude Observatory. 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. international commission on public and private international law.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $15,000 for theInternational Commission on International Law.Reappropriation.Vol. 37, p. 1554.Vol. 37, p. 1557. payment of compensation to and the necessary expenses of the representative or representatives of the United States on the International Commission or Jurists, organized under the convention signed at the Third International American Conference August 23, 1906, approved by the Senate February 3, 1908, and ratified by the President February 8, 1908, 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 preparation of such drafts, including the compensation of experts under article 4 of the convention, made in the Act making appropriations for theVol. 38, p. 451.
Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, is hereby made available for the fiscal year 1920. salaries of the consular service.Consular Service. For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls, as providedSalaries.Vol. 38, p. 805. in the Act approved February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service, ” $1,974,500. Every consul general,Citizenship. consul, vice consul, and, wherever practicable, every consular agent shall be an American citizen.
For salaries of seven consular inspectors, at $5,000 each, $35,000;Consular Inspectors. Total, $2,009,500. payment to mrs. natalie bummers.Mrs. Natalie Summers. To Mrs. Natalie Summers, widow of Madden Summers, late consulPayment to. general to Moscow, $5,500, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died at his post of duty. 1334 Consular Inspectors.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.from the Secretary of State, $25,000: *Provided*, That inspectors shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses for subsistence, itemized, not exceeding an average of $8 per day. salaries of consular assistants.
Consular assistante.Proviso.Salary ratings.For forty consular assistants, $75,425: *Provided*, That from and after the 1st day of July, 1918, the salaries of consular assistants shall be at the rate of $1,500 for the first year of continuous service, $1,650 for the second year of continuous service, $1,800 for the third year, and $2,000 for the fourth year of continuous service and for each year [R. S., sec. 1704, p. 304, amended](/us/rs/s1704/304).Vol. 18,p. 70.Vol. 34, p. 923, amended.thereafter, and section 1704, Revised Statutes, its amendatory Act of June 11, 1874, and all other Acts inconsistent with this provision are hereby so amended.
Post allowances.post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers. Special provisions for officers, to meet living Costs.To enable the President, in his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by wav of additional compensation to consular and diplomatic officers and consular assistants and officers of the United States Court for China in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $600,000. 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, $1,200,000. 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, $53,700. 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, $35,000. expenses of prisons for american convicts.
Consular prisons. Shanghai.Expenses of maintaining at Shanghai, under charge of the United States marshal for China, an institution for incarcerating American convicts and insane in China, $2,000; for salary of deputy marshal, $1,200; in all, 33,200; Keeping prisoners.Paying for the keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners in China, Chosen, Siam, and Turkey and of those declared insane by the United States Court for China, $9,000; 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, $14,200. 1335 relief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,Relief of American seamen. 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, $100,000. 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. 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, andLoss by exchange. 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, $1,168,000. seamen’s mission at rio de janeiro, brazil.
Annual contribution toward the support of the seamen’s mission atSeamen’s mission, Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, $50. interallied committee on reeducation of war cripples. For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenanceReeducation of War cripples.Contribution to Allied Committee for. of the permanent Interallied Committee for the Reeducation of War Cripples, $6,000. international trade-mark registration bureau, quota of united states. For the annual share of the United States for the expenses of theInternational trademark registration.Expenses, Habana bureau.Vol. 39, p. 1680. maintenance of the International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau at Habana, including salaries of the director and counselor, assistant director and counselor, clerks, translators, secretary to the director, stenographers, and typewriters, messenger, watchmen, and laborers, rent of quarters, stationery and supplies, including the purchase of books, postage, traveling expenses; and the cost of printing the bulletin; the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $56,450 for thisReappropriation.*Ante*, p. 1023. purpose, carried in deficiency Act for 1919, approved November 4, 1918, is hereby reappropriated and made availably for the fiscal year 1920.
Approved, March 4, 1919.