Chapter 113. Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922
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CHAP. 113.— An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922. March 2, 1921. [[H. R. 15872](/us/bill/66/hr/15872).] [[Public, No. 357](/us/pl/66/357).] *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 are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap-1206propriated, in full compensation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
Salaries.salaries of ambassadors and ministers. Ambassadors.Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and Turkey, at S17,500 each, $227,500; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary.Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China, Cuba, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, at $12,000 each, $36,000; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Austria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czecho-Slovakia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Poland, Uruguay, Persia, Portugal, Rumania, Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, and to the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, $10,000; in all, $300,000;
Minister resident and consul general.Agents, etc.Minister resident and consular general to Liberia, $5,000; Agent and consul general at Tangier, $7,500; Agent and consul general at Cairo, $7,500; *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, $583,500. salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim. Charges d’affaires.For salaries for charges d’affaires ad interim, $50,000. salaries of secretaries in the diplomatic service.
Secretaries, Diplomatic Service.Vol. 38, p. 805; Vol. 39, p. 252.*Ante*, p. 740.For salaries of 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, and the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, approved June 4, 1920, $379,000;
Designated secretaries, Japan, Turkey, and China.Japanese secretary of embassy to Japan, $5,500; Turkish secretary of embassy to Turkey, $3,600; Chinese secretary of legation to China, $5,500; Chinese assistant secretary of legation to China, $4,000; Japanese assistant secretary of embassy to Japan, $4,000; Turkish assistant secretary of embassy to Turkey, $2,000; Total, $403,600. salaries, diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and in transit. 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 [R.
S., sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309).receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 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, 3300,000; and so far as practicable shall be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. 1207 salaries, interpreters to embassies and legations.
Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $2,000;Interpreters. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $2,000; For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, whoStudent interpreters.In China. shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the in china. Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation and consulates in China, at $1,500 each, $15,000:*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. *Provided,* That the 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 an interpreter at the legation or 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 studentTuition. interpreters in China, at the rate of $350 per annum each, $3,500; For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, whoIn Japan. 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 $1,500 each, $9,000:*Provisos.*Nonpartisan selection.Term of service. *Provided, *That the method of selecting said student interpreters shall be non-partisan: *And provided further,* That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as an interpreter at the embassy or 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 studentTuition. interpreters at Tuition, the embassy to Japan, at the rate of $200 per annum each, $1,200;. For four student interpreters at the embassy to In Turkey.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 *Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection.Term of service.interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Turkey, at $1,500 each, $6,000: *Provided,* That the 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 an 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 studentTuition. interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, at the rate of $200 per annum each, $800; No person drawing the salary of interpreter or studentRestriction on salaries. interpreter above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer; Total, $39,500. quarters for student interpreters at embassies. For rent of quarters for the student interpretersQuarters for student interpreters. attached to the embassy to Japan, $1,200;
For rent of Quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Turkey, $600; Total, $1,800. contingent expenses. foreign missions. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery,Contingent expenses, foreign missions. 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, drago-1208mans, and porters, including compensation of Dispatch agents.interpreters, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, Printing in Department of State.and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of Loss by exchange.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 *Proviso.*Paying persons not Americans for clerical services, prohibited.newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $800,000: *Provided,* That no part of this sum appropriated for contingent expenses, foreign missions, shall be expended for salaries or wages of persons not American citizens performing clerical services, whether officially designated as clerks or not, in any foreign mission. transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts.
Traveling expenses.To pay 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 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 witn leaves of absence, $300,000. steam launch for embassy at constantinople.
Steam launch, Turkey.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $1,800 for hiring of steam launch for use of embassy at Constantinople made in the Diplomatic and Consular Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 742.Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1921, is reappropriated and made available for the same purpose for the official use of the embassy at Constantinople for the fiscal year 1922. 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, 1922, $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 of exchange, $250. bringing home criminals. Bringing home criminals.Actual expenses incurred m bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, $2,000. rescuing shipwrecked american seamen. Life saving testimonials.Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgement of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck or other catastrophe at sea, $3,000. 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 1209expenses attendant upon the execution of the Neutrality Act,Neutrality Act.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 742. to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section 291 of the Revised Statutes, $200,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year 1921, which is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose. allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic or consular officers who die abroad.
Payment under the provisions of section 1749 of the Revised Statutes of theAllowances for officers dying abroad.R S., sec. 1749, p. 311. 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, $2,500. payment to mrs. anna gale white. To Mrs. Anna Gale White, widow of Jay White, late consul to Naples, Italy,Mrs. Anna Gale White.Payment to. 84,500, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty from illness incurred in the Consular Service. payment to mrs. mary a. higgins.
To Mrs. Mary A. Higgins, widow of Edward Higgins, late consulMrs. Mary A. Higgins.Payment to. to Bahia, Brazil, $4,000, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while at his post of duty from illness incurred in the Consular Service. transporting remains of diplomatic and consular officers, consular assistants, and clerks to their homes for interment. For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomaticBringing home remains of officers. and consular officers of the United States, including consular assistants and clerks, 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 BureauInternational Bureau of Weights and Measures.Vol. 20, p. 1714. of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May 20, 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, 1922, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, pursuant to the convention proclaimed December 17, 1890, $6,000. international boundary commission, united states and mexico.
To enable the President to perform the obligations of the UnitedMexican Boundary Commission.Vol. 24, p. 1011; Vol. 26, p. 1512; Vol. 34, p. 2953. States under the treaties of 1884, 1889, 1905, and 1906, between the United States and Mexico, including not to exceed $600 for rent, $5,000. 1210 boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada. Boundary, Alaska and Canada.Vol. 32, p. 1961.To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and make the survey 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 Boundary, United States and Canada.Vol. 35, p. 2003.government of such surveyors, computers, draftsmen, and clerks as are necessary; and for the more effective demarcation and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April 11, 1908, 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, 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 S5 per day each, to be expended in accordance with regulations from time to tune prescribed by the Secretary of State, $36,500, together with the unexpended balances of previous *Provisos.*Advances to commissioner.appropriations 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 Subsistence when absent from Washington.Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties: *Provided,* That when the commissioner is absent from Washington and from his regular place of residence 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 27 917 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 1922, $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.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 tne orders of the said governing board: *And provided further,* That the Public Printer 1211is authorized to print an edition of the monthly bulletin not to exceedMonthly Bulletin. 6,000 copies per month, for distribution by the union during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922. international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration.
To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendarInternational Bureau, Permanent Court of Arbitration.Vol. 32, p. 1793. year 1920 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. To the International Commission on Annual Tables of ConstantsInternational 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. international institute of agriculture.
For the payment of the quota of the UnitedInternational Institute of Agriculture.Quota. States for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1922, $8,000; For salary of the one member of the permanent committeeMember of committee. of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1922, $5,000;. For the payment of the quota of the United States for theTranslating publications. cost of translating into and printing in the English language the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $5,000;
Total, $18,000. international railway congress. To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering member of theInternational Railway Congress. International Railway Congress for the year ending April 15, 1922, $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 1922, $2,830.79. salaries and expenses, united states court for china.United States Court for China.
Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal,Salaries. $3,000; clerk, $3,000; stenographer and court reporter, $2,400: printing and binding opinions of the court and court expenses, including reference law books, $10,000;. The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall,Sessions other than at Shanghai. 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 $8 per day each, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, is appropriated;
Total, $30,400. 1212 bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international arbitration. Interparliamentary Union for promoting International Arbitration.For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the Bureau of the Interparliamentary Union for the promotion of International Arbitration at Brussels, Belgium, $2,000. international office of public health. International Office of Public Health.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the year 1922 toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, Vol. 35, p. 2061.Vol. 35, p. 2061.
Vol. 35, p. 1834.created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December 9, 1907, in pursuance of article 181 of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December 3, 1903, $3,860. arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the united states and great britain. British-American Pecuniary Claims Commission.Vol. 37, p. 1635.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 18, 1910, and the schedules of claims thereunder, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, and to be immediately available, as follows:
Expenses of tribunal.Salaries and expenses of the tribunal: For the payment by the United States of one-half of the following expenses: For three arbitrators for three months, at $1,200 each per month, $10,800; stenographer for arbitrators, for three months, at $120 per month, $360; traveling expenses of arbitrators, 84,000; reporting proceedings, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and for printing, stationery, and supplies, $500; in all, $10,330; Rent.For rent of office for joint secretaries, $480;
Agency.Salaries.Salaries, United States agency: Agent, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, $7,500 per annum; counsel, $5,000 per annum; counsel and joint secretary, who shall also act as disbursing clerk, $3,000 per annum; two counsel, at $2,750 each per annum; one law clerk, $2,240 per annum; two stenographers, at $1,440 each per annum; and messenger, $840 per annum; in all, $26,960; Expenses.Expenses, United States agency: Necessary and contingent expenses, $15,000;
Total, $52,770. international radiotelegraphic convention. International Radiotelegraphic Convention.Vol. 37, p. 1569.For the share of the United States for the calendar year 1922, as a party to the international radiotelegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, $2,250. united states section of the inter-american high commission. Inter-American High Commission.United States section.Expenses.Vol. 39, p. 8.To defray the actual and necessary expenses on the part of the United States section of the Inter-American High Commission, $25,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. 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 commis-1213sioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, expense of printing, cost of law books, books of reference, and periodicals, 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, $38,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided,* That no part*Provisos*.Subsistence when absent from Washington. 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 Rent allowance.Washington and from his regular place of residence on official business: *Provided further, *That a part of this appropriation may be expended for rent of offices for the commission in the District of Columbia, in the event that the Public Buildings Commission is unable to supply suitable office space.
For payment of services rendered and expenses incurredPreparation of cases. 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. payment to the government of panama.Panama.
To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the GovernmentAnnual payment to.Vol. 33, p. 2238. of Panama the tenth annual payment, due on February 26, 1922, from the Government of the Umted States to the Government of Panama under article 14 of the treaty of November 18, 1903, $250,000. international research council. To pay the annual share of the United States, as an adheringInternational Research Council. member of the International Research Council and of the Associated Unions, organized at Brussels, July 18–28, 1919, as follows:
International Research Council, $129; International Astronomical Union, $772; International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry, $290; International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, $1,338; International Union of Mathematics, $129; in all, $2,658, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. international commission on public and private international law. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $15,000 forInternational Commission on International Law.Reappropriation.Vol. 37, p. 1554. 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 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 Vol. 37, p. 1557.Vol. 38, p. 451.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 the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1915, is made available for the fiscal year 1922. 1214 seamen’s mission at rio de janeiro, brazil.
Seamen’s mission, Rio de Janeiro.Annual contribution toward the support of the seamen’s mission at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, $50. Reeducation of War Cripples.interallied committee for the reeducation of war cripples. Contribution to Interallied Committee for.For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the permanent Interallied Committee for the Reeducation of War Cripples, $6,000. Diplomatic and consular premises.embassy, legation, and consular buildings and grounds.
San Salvador.Improving grounds, etc.For filling and grading the grounds of the American legation building in the city of San Salvador, the construction on said grounds of driveways, sidewalks, tile court at back of building, fence, drains, water tank, and for such other minor improvements as may be found necessary, $11,000, to be immediately available. Paris, France.Land and buildings for embassy.For the acquisition of land and buildings in Paris, France, to be used as the American embassy under the provisions of the Act of February 17, 1911, $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
London, England.Gift of embassy premises by J. Pierpont Morgan accepted.The President is hereby authorized to accept, on behalf of the United States, for use as a residence by the diplomatic representatives of the United States the land and buildings thereon known as numbers 13–14 Prince’s Gate in the city of London, England, and such other lands and buildings as form a part of *Provisos*.Unconditional transfer.said property, presented by J. Pierpont Morgan: *Provided,* That the deed of transfer of said property to the United States shall be unconditional and free from encumbrance and shall convey such Title in fee required.estate as may be held by the said J.
Pierpont Morgan: *And provided further.* That the property is held on freehold tenure and not on customary London ground lease. Other sites for buildings.Places indicated.For the acquisition of embassy, legation, or consular buildings and grounds at any or all of the following places: Rome, Brussels, Berlin, Christiania, Athens, Belgrade, Bucharest, Prague, *Provisos*.Limit.Monrovia, Vienna, Budapest, Canton, Hankow, and Amoy, $300,000: *Provided,* That the limit of cost shall not exceed the Approval of commission.sum of $150,000 at any one place: *And provided further,* That such acquisition shall be subject to the approval of the commission hereinafter constituted.
Commission to make plans for buildings, etc.Composition of.There is hereby constituted a commission composed of the chairman and the ranldng minority member of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the chairman and the ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of the Treasury, of which the chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate shall be the chairman, whose duty it shall be to consider and formulate plans or proposals for the purchase of embassy, legation, and consular buildings and grounds under the authority contained in this Act.
Authority to purchase from owing foreign Governments.With the approval of said commission and within a limit of cost at any one place of $150,000, the Secretary of State shall have power to purchase from any foreign government suitable buildings, or buildings and grounds, for embassy, legation, and consular purposes, separate or combined, in any city specified in connection with the foregoing appropriation of Payment from debt to the United States.$300,000, and to effect payment therefor by causing the purchase price thereof to be credited upon the obligations or debts of such government then held by or owing to the United States, or by causing a part of such purchase price so to be credited, paying the remainder in money from applicable sums hereinbefore appropriated for the Credit of amount on unpaid debt of the Government.acquisition of embassy, legation, and consular buildings and grounds; and when the Secretary of State shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury that a purchase has been 1215made, the government from which made, and that a part or all of the purchase price is to be paid by crediting the same upon obligations or debts of said government then held by or owing to the United States, the date as of which said payment is to be made and the amount in United States dollars so to be credited, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to credit the amount so certified upon unpaid principal or interest of obligations Acceptance of unconditional gifts, etc.or debts of said foreign government held by the United States: *And provided further*, That the President is hereby authorized in his discretion to accept on behalf of the United States unconditional gifts of land, buildings, furniture, and furnishings, or any of them, for the use of diplomatic and consular offices and residences. international hydrographic bureau.
To enable the United States to become a member of the InternationalInternational Hydrographic Bureau. Hydrographic Bureau, and for the first annual contribution of the United States toward the creation and maintenance of such bureau, $2,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid by the Secretary of State when the exact quota shall have been ascertained. salaries of the consular service.Consular service. For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and viceSalaries.Vol. 38, p. 805. consuls, as provided in the Act approved February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” $1,874,500.
Every consulCitizenship requirement. general, 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, $1,909,500. expenses of consular inspectors. For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expensesExpenses of consular inspectors. of consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, $25,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Subsistence allowance. inspectors shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses for subsistence, itemized, not exceeding an average of $8 per day. salaries of consular assistants.
For twenty consular assistants, $35,000.Consular assistants. post allowances to diplomatic and consular officers.Post allowances. To enable the President, in his discretion, and in accordance withSpecial provisions for officers, to meet living expenses such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to diplomatic and consular 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, $250,000. allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates.
Allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under theClerksat consulates. direction of the Secretary of State, $1,400,000. Clerks, whenever hereafter appointed, shall, so far as practicable, be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. 1216 salaries and expenses of interpreters and guards to consulates. Interpreters and guards at consulates.Interpreters and guards to be employed at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $103,700. 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; assistant deputy marshal, $800; in all, $4,000; Keeping prisoners.Paying for the keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners in Cmna, Chosen, Siam, and Turkey and of those declared insane by United States Court for China, $9,000; Rent, etc., in 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, $15,000. relief and protection of american seamen. Relief of American seamen.Relief and protection of American seamen m foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, and the Virgin Islands, $150,000. foreign hospital at capetown. Somerset Hospital, Capetown.Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (a foreign hospital), at Capetown, $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, Loss by exchange.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, $1,000,000.
International Trade Mark Registration.international trade-mark registration bureau, quota of united states. Habana Bureau expenses.Vol. 39, p. 1680.*Ante*, p. 583.For the annual share of the United States for the expenses of the 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, $14,112. 1217 expenses, passport control act.Passport control.
For expenses of regulating entry into the United States, in accordance with theExpenses, regulating entry of aliens.Vol. 40, p. 559. provisions of the Act approved May 22, 1918, and of this Act, to be immediately available, $600,000; *Provided,* That the*Proviso*.Alien passports and visés requirements continued. provisions of the Act approved May 22, 1918, shall, in so far as they relate to requiring passports and visés from aliens seeking to come to the United States, continue in force and effect until otherwise provided by law. sixteenth international congress against alcoholism.
For expenses of delegates, not exceeding ten in number, to beSixteenth International Congress against Alcoholism. designated by the President, to the Sixteenth International Congress against Alcoholism at Lausanne, Switzerland, August, 1921, not to exceed $7,425, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for the Fifteenth International Congress against Alcoholism, said amount including secretarial and stenographic work and transcription of reports.
Sec. 2. No portion of the sums appropriated in this Act shall,Rent restriction. unless expressly authorized, be expended tor rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere in the United States. Sec. 3. No sums herein appropriated in connection with thePayment for personal expenses, etc., at international conferences, etc., forbidden. participation of the United States in international conferences, congresses, or meetings within the United States shall be expended in payment of the personal expense, subsistence, transportation, or entertainment of any person or for the purchase of medals, badges, or souvenirs.
Approved, March 2, 1921.