Chapter 223. Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921
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CHAP. 223.— An Act Making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921. June 4, 1920. [[H. R. 11960](/us/bill/66/hr/11960).] [[Public, No. 238](/us/pl/66/238).] *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, 1921, 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 to Argentina, Belgium,Ambassadors. Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Peru, and Spain, at $17,500 each, $210,000; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China,Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary. Cuba, Czecho-Slovakia, the Netherlands and Luxemburg, and Poland, at $12,000 each, $60,000; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, Bulgaria, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic,740Ecuador, Finland, Greece and Montenegro, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Persia, Portugal, Roumania, Salvador, Serbia, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, $260,000;
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 restriction.>*Provided*, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Total, $549,000. 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 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 *Proviso*.Increased pay, etc.Vol. 38, p. 805, amended.June 30, 1917, approved July 1, 1916: *Provided*, That secretaries in the Diplomatic Service shall hereafter be graded and classified as follows:
Secretaries of class one, $4,000 per annum; secretaries of class two, $3,625 per annum; secretaries of class three, $3,000 per annum; secretaries of class four, $2,500 per annum; in all, $418,375. Designated secretaries.Japan, Turkey, and China.Japanese secretary of embassy to Japan, $3,600; Turkish secretary of embassy to Turkey, $3,600; Chinese secretary of legation to China, $3,600; Chinese assistant secretary of legation to China, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000;
Japanese assistant secretary of embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000; Turkish assistant secretary of embassy to Turkey, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000; Total, $435,175. 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 receiving instructions and in making transits [R.
S. sec. 1740, p. 309](/us/rs/s1740/p309),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, $480,000; and so far as practicable shall be appointed under civil service rules and regulations. salaries, interpreters to embassies and legations.
Interpreters, etc.Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $2,000; Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $2,000; Student interpreters.In China.For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the741Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation and consulates in China, at $1,500 each, $15,000: *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 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 student interpreters inTuition. China, at the rate of $200 per annum, each, $2,000; For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shallIn 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 $1,500 each, $9,000: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Nonpartisan selection. That the method of selecting said student interpreters shall be nonpartisan: *And provided further*, That upon receiving such appointmentTerm of service. 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 student interpreters atTuition. the embassy to Japan, at the rate of $200 per annum each, $1,200; For ten student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, who shallIn 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 $1,500 each, $15,000: *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 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 student interpreters at theTuition. embassy to Turkey, at the rate of $200 per annum each, $2,000; No person drawing the salary of interpreter or student interpreterRestriction on salaries. as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer; Total, $48,200. quarters for student interpreters at embassies. For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to theQuarters for student interpreters. 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. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, allContingent expenses, foreign missions. 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 compensation of dispatch agents at London, NewDispatch agents.
York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in thePrinting in the Department of State.Loss by exchange. Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations including such loss on bills of exchange to742officers of the United States Courts for China, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $900,000. 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 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. purchase of the embassy building and grounds at santiago, chile. Santiago, Chile.Purchase of embassy building and grounds.For the purchase of an embassy building and grounds at Santiago, Chile, and for making necessary minor repairs and alterations in the building to put it into proper condition, $130,000. 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, 1921, $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 or other catastrophe at sea, $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 Neutrality Act expenses.[R. S. sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).Balance reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 1329.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 Statutes, $400,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year 1920, which is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose. 743 allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic or consular 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. payment to mrs. winifred t. magelssen. To Mrs. Winifred T. Magelssen, widow of William C. Magelssen,Mrs. Winifred T. Magelssen.Payment to. late consul to Melbourne, Australia, $4,500, one year’s salary of her deceased husband, who died while returning to the United States from his post of duty from illness incurred in the Consular Service. transporting remains of diplomatic and consular officers 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, 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 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, 1921, 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 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, $5,000. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal yearUnexpended balance reappropriated.Vol. 40, p. 1329. ending June 30, 1920, is hereby made available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for the objects and purposes designated by said Act of appropriation. 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 demarcation andBoundary, United States and Canada.Vol. 35, p. 2003. mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April 11, 1908, between the744United 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 $55,000, together with the unexpended balances of previous appropriations for these objects: *Provisos*.Advances to Commissioner.*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 Subsistence when absent from Washington.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 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 1921, $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 the orders Monthly bulletin.of the 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, 1921. 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 1919 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. 745 pan pacific union. To meet the actual necessary expenses of delegates of the UnitedPan Pacific Union.Scientific Congress.
States to the first Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress, to be held in the city of Honolulu in August, 1920, and to pay for the necessary clerical work in connection with the Congress and in calling a second Congress, to be expended through the Pan-Pacific Union, at the discretion of the Secretary of State, $9,000. 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. bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international arbitration.
For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenanceInterparliamentary Union for Promoting International 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 supportInternational Institute of Agriculture.Quota. of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1921, $8,000; For salary of one member of the permanent committee of theMember of committee.
International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year 1921, $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 railway congress. To pay the quota of the United States as an adhering memberInternational Railway Congress. of the International Railway Congress for the year ending April 15, 1921, $400. international sanitary bureau.
For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance ofInternational Sanitary Bureau. the International Sanitary Bureau for the year 1921, $2,830.79. reimbursement of consul ross hazeltine. To reimburse Consul Ross Hazeltine for losses sustained throughRoss Hazeltine.Reimbursement for losses by fire at consulate. the destruction of official funds caused by the burning of the American consulate at Port Antonio, Jamaica, August 26, 1917, $164.25. 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 and court reporter, $2,400; printing and bind-746ing opinions of the court and court expenses, including reference law books, $10,000; Commissioner of court.Appointment for Shanghai district authorized.Powers conferred.The judge of the United States court for China is authorized to appoint, as in the district courts of the United States and with similar powers and tenure of office, a United States commissioner who shall be an attorney regularly admitted to practice before the said United States court for China and who, when appointed, shall be in addition ex officio judge of the consular court for the district of Shanghai, Vol. 38, p. 1122.with all of the authority and jurisdiction now exercised by the vice consul acting by virtue of the Act of Congress of March 4, 1915 (Thirty-eighth United States Statutes at Large, part 1, third session, chapter 145, page 1122), which authority and jurisdiction are hereby transferred: *Proviso*.Appointment of clerk.*Provided*, That at the discretion of the judge of said court, ho may appoint the clerk of the court to perform the duties of commissioner Acting commissioner.without additional compensation therefor.
In the event that it is not practicable or desirable so to appoint the clerk to act as commissioner, the judge may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, appoint some qualified attorney to act as commissioner who shall, if not an officer of the court, receive such compensation as may be fixed by the Secretary of State not exceeding $5 for each day of service actually rendered. Sessions other than at Shanghai.The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their necessary actual expenses during such sessions, not to exceed $8 per day each, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June 30, *Proviso*.Inheritance taxes to be collected from estates of decedents.1921, is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That in probate and administration proceedings, there shall be collected by said clerk, before entering the order of final distribution, to be paid into the Treasury of the United States, the same inheritance taxes from time to time collected under the laws enacted by the Congress of the United States from the estates of decedents residing within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States.
Total, $30,400. international office of public health. International Office of Public Health.For the payment of the quota of the United States for the year 1921 toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, 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, $3,015.62. 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 Seismological Association, including the annual contribution to the expenses of the association, $800. arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the united states and great britain. British-American Pecuniary Claims Commission.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 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; 747 Expenses, United States agency: Necessary and contingent expenses, $300; In all, $4,250. peace palace at the hague. For the payment of the contribution on the part of the UnitedPeace Palace at The Hague. States toward the expenses of the Palace of Peace at The Hague, $1,045.25, or so much thereof as may be necessary. international radiotelegraphic convention.
For the share of the United States for the calendar year 1921, asInternational radiotelegraphic convention.Vol. 37, p. 1569. a party to the international radio telegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radio telegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, Switzerland, $2,250. united states section of the inter-american high commission. To defray the actual and necessary expenses on the part of theInter-American High Commission.United States section.Vol. 39, p. 8.
United States section of the Inter-American 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 State. waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain. For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners andCanadian Boundary Waters Commission.Vol. 36, p. 2448. 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, $40,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: *Provided*, That no part of this*Proviso*.Subsistence when absent from Washington. 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 and from his regular place of residence on official business.
For payment of services rendered and expenses incurred under thePreparation of cases. 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. third pan american scientific congress.
To meet the actual and necessary expenses of the delegates of thePan American Scientific Congress.Expenses of United States delegates. United States to the Third Pan American Scientific Congress, to be held at the city of Lima, Peru, in the year 1921, and of their clerical assistance, $25,000, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of State. 748 Panama.payment to the government of panama. Annual payment to.Vol. 33, p. 2238.To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Panama the ninth annual payment, due on February 26, 1921, 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.
International Geodetic Association.To enable the Government of the United States to pay its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for *Proviso*.Maintenance of Ukiah Latitude Observatory.the Measurement of the 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. international commission on public and private international law.
International Commission on International Law.Reappropriation.The unexpended balance of 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 Vol. 37, p. 1554.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 Vol. 37, p. 1557.Vol. 38, p. 451.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 hereby made available for the fiscal year 1921.
Consular Service.salaries of the consular service. Salaries.Vol. 38, p. 805.For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls, as provided in the Act approved February 5, 1915, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” $1,974,500. Every consul general, consul, vice consul, and, wherever practicable, every consular Citizenship.agent shall be an American citizen. For salaries of seven consular inspectors, at $5,000 each, $35,000; Total, $2,009,500. Consular inspectors.expenses of consular inspectors.
Traveling, etc., expenses, inspectors.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. Consular assistants.salaries of consular assistants. For forty consular assistants, $75,425. 749 post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers.Post allowances.
To enable the President, in his discretion and in accordance withSpecial provisions for officers to meet living costs. such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way 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.
Allowance for clerk hire at consulates; to be expended under theClerks at consulates. direction of the Secretary of State, $1,200,000. Clerks, whenever hereafter appointed, shall, so far as practicable, be appointed under civil-service rules and regulations. salaries and expenses of interpreters and guards to consulates. Interpreters and guards to be employed at consulates, to be expendedInterpreters and guards at consulates. under the direction of the Secretary of State, $103,700. expenses of prisons for american convicts.
Expenses of maintaining at Shanghai, under charge of the UnitedConsular prisons. States marshal for China, an institution for incarcerating American convicts and insane in China, $2,000; for salary of deputy marshal,Shanghai. $1,200; assistant deputy marshal, $800; in all, $4,000; Paying for the keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners inKeeping prisoners. China, Chosen, Siam, and Turkey and of those declared insane by the United States Court for China, $9,000; Rent of prison for American convicts in Smyrna, Turkey, and forRent, etc., in Turkey. wages of keepers of the same, $1,000;
Rent of prison for American convicts in Constantinople, Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000; Total, $15,000. 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, consulates. 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,750newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular Loss by exchange.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. 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. interallied committee for the reeducation of war cripples. Reeducation of war cripples.Contribution to Interallied Committee.For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the permanent Interallied Committee for the Reeducation of War Cripples, $6,000. international trade-mark registration bureau—quota of united states. International trademark registration.Expenses, Habana bureau.Vol. 39, p. 1680.*Ante*, p. 533.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.
Passport control.expenses, passport-control act. Expenses, regulating entry of aliens.Vol. 40, p. 559.*Ante*, p. 353.For expenses of regulating entry into the United States, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May 22, 1918, and Public Act Numbered 79 of the Sixty-sixth Congress, when the Additional to balance.*Ante*, p. 354.latter Act shall have become effective, $250,000, in addition to the remaining $150,000 of the sum appropriated by section 4 of said Public Act Numbered 79.
Passports.FEES FOR PASSPORTS and vises. Section 1. Fees established for application and issue of. From and after the 1st day of July, 1920, there shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States quarterly a fee of $1 for executing each application for a passport and $9 for each passport issued to a citizen or person owing allegiance to or *Provisos*.Retention of fee by State officials.entitled to the protection of the United States: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to limit the right of the Secretary of State by regulation to authorize the retention by State Persons exempted.officials of the fee of $1 for executing an application for a passport: *And provided further*, That no fee shall be collected for passports issued to officers or employees of the United States proceeding abroad in the discharge of their official duties, or to members of their immediate families, or to seamen, or to widows, children, parents, brothers, and sisters of American soldiers, sailors, or marines, buried abroad whose journey is undertaken for the purpose and with the intent of visiting the graves of such soldiers, sailors, or marines, which facts shall be made a part of the application for the passport.
Section 2. Alien passports. From and after the 1st day of July, 1920, there shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States quarterly751a fee of $1 for executing each application of an alien for a visé andFees for vise and application for.*Proviso*.Persons exempt. $9 for each visé of the passport of an alien: Provided, That no fee shall be collected from any officer of any foreign Government, or members of his immediate family, its armed forces, or of any State, district, or municipality thereof, traveling to or through the United States, or of any soldiers coming within the terms of the publicVol. 40, p. 1014. resolution approved October 19, 1918 (Fortieth Statutes at Large, part 1, page 1014).
Sec. 3. The validity of a passport or visé shall be limited to twoValidity limited. years, unless the Secretary of State shall by regulation limit the validity of such passport or visé to a shorter period. Sec. 4. Whenever the appropriate officer within the UnitedReturn of passport fee if vise refused by foreign officer. States of any foreign country refuses to visé a passport issued by the United States, the Department of State is hereby authorized upon request in writing and the return of the unused passport within six months from the date of issue to refund to the person to whom the passport was issued the fees which have been paid to Federal officials, and the money for that purpose is hereby appropriated and directed to be paid upon the order of the Secretary of State.
Sec. 5. Section 1 of the Act approved March 2, 1907, entitledAuthority to issue passports to persons not citizens repealed.Vol. 34, p. 1228, repealed. “An Act in reference to the expatriation of citizens and their protection abroad” (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, part 1, page 1228), authorizing the Secretary of State to issue passports to certain persons not citizens of the United States is hereby repealed. Approved, June 4, 1920.