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For deputy clerks as authorized by law, so much therefor as may benecessary.
DISTRICT COURTS: For salaries of the sixty-four district judges of District judges.the United States, at five thousand dollars each;
For salary of the judge of the United States court in the Indian Ter- Judge, IndianTerri-ritory, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and tory Co-ttwenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
To pay the salaries of the United States judges retired under section Retiredjudges.
seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be R S., sec. 714, p. 135
necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundredand ninety-three, is hereby appropriated.
SUPREME COURT, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For salaries of the Supreme Court, Dis-chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and thefive associate judges, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars.
DISTRICT ATTORNEYS: For salaries of the district attorneys of the District attorneys.United States, twenty thousand seven hundred dollars.
MARSHALS: For salaries of the district marshals of the United MarshalsStates, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the P
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marshal, district attorney, and clerks of the circuit and district courts aRnlgls, et' .io"of the districts of Washington, Montana, and North Dakota shall for tana, and North Da-the services they may perform, during the fiscal year herein provided kota.for, receive the fees and compensation allowed by law to like officersperforming similar duties in the districts of Oregon and Idaho.
COURT OF CLAIMS: For salaries of five judges of the Court of Court of Claim'sClaims, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three udges etc.thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; bailiff,one thousand five hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand twohundred dollars each; and one messenger; in all, thirty-four thousandsix hundred and forty dollars.
For stationery, law books, fuel, gas, and other miscellaneous ex- Contingent ex-penses, three thousand dollars. penes.
For reporting the decisions of the court, and superintending the Reportingdecisions
printing of the twenty-seventh volume of the Reports of the Court ofClaims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars;said sum to be paid to the reporter, notwithstanding section seventeen s., sec. 1765, p. 314 .hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the vol. 18,p.109
act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapterthree hundred and twenty-eight.
SEC. 2. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, Rate of pay, assist-laborers, and charwomen provided for in this act, unless otherwise nt metsengers, fire-
specifically stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, fire-men, and watchmen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollarsper annum each; for laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixtydollars per annum each, and for charwomen, at the rate of two hun-dred and forty dollars per annum each.
SEC. 3. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with Repeal.the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.
Approved, July 16, 1892.
CHAP. 197.-An act making appropriations for the diplomatic and eousular serv- July 16,1892.ice of the United States for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hun-dred and ninety three.
Be it enacted by the Semnte and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Diplomatic and con-and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for slar appropriations.the diplomatic and consular service of the fiscal year ending Junethirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, out of aIy money in theTreasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter ex-pressed, namely:
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 197. 1892.
Schedule A. SCHEDULE A.
Salaries. SALARIES OF MINISTERS.
nvoys etraordi- Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain,nary and ministerspipotentary. France, Germany, Russia, and Mexico, at seventeen thousand five hun-dred dollars each, eighty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to China, Japan,Spain, Austria, Italy, and Brazil, at twelve thousand dollars each,seventy-two thousand dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Argentine Re-public, Columbia, Peru, Turkey, and Chile, at ten thousand dollarseach, fifty thousand'dollars;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Nicaragua,Costa Rica and Salvador, ten thousand dollars;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Guatemala andHonduras, ten thousand dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Belgium,Hawaiian Islands, Netherlands, Venezuela, and Paraguay and Uruguayat seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-seven thousandfive hundred dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Sweden andNorway, and to Denmark, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each,fifteen thousand dollars;
Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, andEcuador, at five thousand dollars each; ten thousand dollars;
Ministers resident Minister resident and consul-general in Korea, seven thousand fiveandconsuls-geeri. hundred dollars;
Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Switzerland,five thousand dollars;
Minister resident and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, andGreece, six thousand five hundred dollars;
Ministers resident and consuls-generalin Siam, Persia, Portugal, andHaiti, at five thousand dollars each (and the minister resident andconsul-general in Haiti shall also be accredited as charge d'affaires toSanto Domingo), twenty thousand dollars;
Minister resident and consul-general in Liberia, four thousand dol-lars;
Agent, etc.. Cairo. Agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars;Charg6sd'alfaires. Charges d'affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twenty
thousand dollars;Total, three hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
SALARIES OF DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICERS WHILE RECEIV-ING INSTRUCTIONS AND MAKING TRANSITS.
Miniaters. consuls, To pay the salaries of ministers, consuls, and other officers of the-etc., while raceivinginstructions, ret.eivg United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in re-
ceiving instructions, and in making transits to and from their posts,and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in pursuance of
R... sec.740, p.309. the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the RevisedStatutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending Junethirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, is hereby appropriated.
SALARIES, SECRETARIES OF LEGATIONS.
secretariea of legs Secretaries of the legations in London, Paris, Berlin, Saint Peters-4ion s
. burg, China, and Japan, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-fivedollars each, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars;
Secretary of legation in Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars;Secretary of legation in Korea, one thousand five hundred dollars;
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Secretary of legation and consul-general at Bogata, two thousanddollars;
Secretary of legation in Guatemala and Honduras and consul-generalto Guatemala, two thousand dollars;
Secretaries of the legations in Turkey, Austria, Italy, Spain, andBrazil, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thousand dol-lars;
Secretaries of legations in Argentine Republic, Venezuela, Chile, andPeru, at one thousand five hundred each, six thousand dollars;
Second secretaries of the legations at London, Pari, and Berlin, attwo thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars;
Second secretaries of the legations in Japan and China, who shall beAmerican students of the language of the court and country to whichthey are appointed, respectively, and shall be allowed and required,under the direction of the Secretary of State, to devote their time tothe acquisition of such language, at one thousand eight hundred dollarseach, three thousand six hundred dollars;
Total, forty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty dollars.
SALARIES, INTERPRETERS TO LEGATIONS.
Interpreters to the legations in China and Turkey, at three thousanddollars each, six thousand dollars;
Interpreter to the legation in Japan, two thousand five hundreddollars;
Interpreter to the legation and consulate-general in Persia, one thou-sand dollars;
Interpreter to the legation and consulate-general in Korea, one thou-sand dollars;
Interpreter to the legation and consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam,five hundred dollars;
Total, eleven thousand dollars.But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided
shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretaryof legation or other officer.
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Second secretaries.
Interpreters,
CLERK-HIRE AT LEGATIONS.
Clerk-hire at the legation in Spain, one thousand two hundred dol-lars.
CONTINGENT EXPENSES, FOREIGN MISSIONS.
To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all suchstationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, andsigns as he shall think necessary for the several legations in the trans-action of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture,messenger service, clerk-hire, compensation of cavasses, guards, drag-omans, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, andArabic clerk at the consulate at Tangier, and the compensation of dis-patch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for trav-eling and miscellaneous expenses of legations, and for printing in theDepartment of State, ninety thousand dollars.
Clerk, Spain.
Co ti Inge)nt ex-peties, floreigu mis-sionlls.
Dispatch agents.
Printing.
LOSS BY EXCHANGE, DIPLOMATIC SERVICE.
Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from legations, two Los by exchange.thousand five hundred dollars.
STEAM LAUNCH FOR LEGATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE.
Hiring of steam launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, one Steam aUnch, Con-thousand eight hundred dollars. stantiople.
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BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS FOR LEGATION IN CHINA.
Rent of buildings for legtfion and other purposes at Peking, or suchother place in China as shall be designated, three thousand one hun-dred dollars.
RENT OF LEGATION BUILDING IN TOKYO, JAPAN.
Rent of legation building in Tokyo, Japan, for the year endingMarch fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, four thousand dol-lars.
ANNUAL EXPENSES OF CAPE SPARTEL LIGHT, COAST OF MOROCCO.
Cape Spartel andTangier Light. Annualproportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light,
on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred andtwenty-five dollars.
BRINGING HOME CRIMINALS.
Bringg home per- Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countriesrme. ge persons charged with crime, five thousand dollars.
FEES AND COSTS IN EXTRADITION CASES.
Extradition expen- To enable the Secretary of State to comply with the requirements ofVol.22, p.216. the fourth section of "An act regulating fees and the practice in extra-
dition cases," approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.
RESCUING SHIPWRECKED AMERICAN SEAMEN.
Lie-saving testimo-hials.
Expenses, neutralityact.
R. S., sec. 291, p. 49.
Unforeseen emergendies.
IS.. sa. .291.p.49.
Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the serv-ices of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American sea-men or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars.
EXPENSES UNDER THE NEUTRALITY ACT.
To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of theneutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President,pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one ofthe Revised Statutes, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof asmay be necessary.
EMEUL(;ENCIES ARISING IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERV-ICE.
To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in thediplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial andother interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to therequirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the RevisedStatutes, sixty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be neces-sary.
ALLOWANCE TO WIDOWS OR HEIRS OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS WHODIE ABROAD.
Payment to heirsf Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred anddiplomatic or consularoffcers dyingabroald forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the wid-
ows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the UnitedStates dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, fivethousand dollars.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 197. 1892.
TRANSPORTING REMAINS OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS, CONSULS, ANDCONSULAR CLERKS TO THEIR HOMES FOR INTERMENT.
Defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic andconsular officers of the United States, including consular clerks, whohave died or may die abroad, while in the discharge of their official du-ties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for theordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, ten thousand dollars.
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Remains of minis-ters, consuls, etc.
INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of International Bu-Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen MeaSurfeihts andhundred and ninety-three, in conformity with the terms of the conven- vol. 20, p. 714.tion of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same,or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid, under the directionof the Secretary of State, to said bureau, on its certificate of apportion-ment, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.
INTERNATIONAL UNION OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS.
Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, for the prompt col- BureauoftheAmer-lection and distribution of commercial information, as recommended by i
c an epublics.the International American Conference, thirty thousand dollars. Thesums contributed by the other American Republics for this purpose,when collected, shall be covered into the Treasury.
CONTINENTAL RAILWAY SURVEY. Continental railwaysurvey.
For payment of the share of the United States of the expense of a Preliminarysurvey.preliminary survey for a continental railway recommended by the Inter-national American Conference, sixty-five thousand dollars: Provided, Provisos.That this sum shall be in full of the share of the United States for the To bein full.expense of said preliminary survey: and provided further, That it shall Officers prohibitednot be lawful for any officer of the United States or persons connected buldilg the road.with the international commission of engineers as a representative of theUnited States to participate in any action as to proposals to build thewhole line of the intercontinental railroad or any part thereof: Providedfurther, That to avoid any misunderstanding on the part of the Cen-tral and South American Nations it is hereby declared that no officerof the government of the United States shall commit or attempt to United States not tocommit it to the approval of the surveys, the terms of proposal, the approve survey, etc.protection of the concessionaires, the inspection of the work, the legis-lation affecting it, the neutrality of the road, the free passage of themerchandise in transit thereon, or to aid in the construction thereof inany form, either alone or in connection with other nations interested, andthat the President of the United States cause notice of this declaration Notice.to be communicated to these several nations.
PUBLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF EXPORTS AND IM-PORTS.
For completion of the compilation and publication, under the directionof the Secretary of State, of a uniform nomenclature of articles of mer-chandise, exported and imported, in the English, Spanish, and Portu-guese languages, as provided by the International American Confer-ence, ten thousand dollars; and the Public Printer is hereby directedto issue an edition of one thousand copies for the use of the customsand consular service of the United States and five hundred for the gov-ernments of the several American Republics, and he is hereby author-ized to furnish copies to the public, on application, at a price not to ex-ceed the cost of publication with ten per centum added.
Catalogue of com-mercial terms.
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Schedule B. SCHEDULE B.
SALARIES, CONSULAR SERVICE.
Salaries. Consul-general at Havana, six thousand dollars;Consuas-general. Consuls-general at London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, at five thousand
dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars.Consuls-general at Shanghai and Calcutta, at five thousand dollar;,
each, ten thousand dollars;Consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars;Consuls-general at Berlin, Montreal, Kanagawa, Panama, Mexico
(city), and Honolulu, at four thousand dollars each, twenty-four thou-sand dollars;
Consuls-general at Halifax and Vienna, at three thousand five hun-dred dollars each, seven thousand dollars;
Consuls-general at Apia, Constantinople, Dresden, Ecuador, Frank-fort, Ottawa, Rome, Saint Petersburg, and Saint Galle, at three thou-sand dollars each, twenty-seven thousand dollars;
Consul general at Nuevo Laredo, two thousand five hundred dollars;Consul-general at Tangier, two thousand dollars;Total, ninety-eight thousand dollars.
Consuls,etc. For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, threehundred and ninety-seven thousand dollars, as follows namely:
Consul at Liverpool, five thousand dollars.Consul at Hongkong, five thousand dollars.
Commercial agent, For salary and expenses of a commercial agent at Boma, in the LowerBoas. Kongo Basin, with authority to visit and report upon the commercial
resources of the Upper and Lower Kongo basins, their products, theirminerals, their vegetable wealth, the openings for American trade, andto collect such information onl the subject of that country as shall bethought of interest to the United States, five thousand dollars.
Class II, a,50 a CLASS II.year.
At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum.China:
Consuls at Amoy, Canton, and Tien-Tsin.France:
Consul at Havre.Peru:
Consul at Callao.Class III, $3,000 a CLASS III.
year.
At three thousand dollars per annum.Austria:
Consul at Prague.Belgium:
Consul at Antwerp.Chile:
Consul at Valparaiso.Colombia:
Consul at Colon (Aspinwall).China:
Consuls at Chin Kiang, Fuchau, and Hangkow.France:
Consul at Bordeaux.Germany:
Consul at Barmen.Great Britain and British Dominions:
Consuls at Belfast, Bradford, Demerara, Glasgow, Kingston (Ja-maica), Manchester, and Singapore.
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Japan:Consuls at Nagasaki, and Osaka and Hiogo.
Mexico:Consul at Vera Cruz.
Spanish Dominions:Consul at Matanzas (Cuba).
Switzerland:Consul at Basle.
Uruguay:Consul at Montevideo.
CLASS IV.
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Class IV, $2,500 ayear.
At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum.Argentine Republic:
Consul at Buenos Ayres.Austria:
Consul at Reichenberg.Belgium:
Consul at Brussels.China:
Consul at Ningpo.Danish Dominions:
Consul at Saint Thomas.France:
Consuls at Lyons, and Marseilles.Germany:
Consuls at Annaberg, Aix-la-Chapelle, Bremen, Brunswick, Chem-nitz, Hamburg, Nuremberg, and Mayence.
Greece:Consul at Athens.
Great Britain and British Dominions:Consuls at Birmingham, Dundee, Leith, Nottingham, Sheffield,
Tunstall, Victoria (British Columbia), and Huddersfield.Mexico:
Consul at Paso del Norte.Spanish Dominions:
Consuls at Cienfuegos, and Santiago de Cuba.Turkish Dominions:
Consul at Smyrna.CLASS V. Class V, $2,000 a
year.
At two thousand dollars per annum.Austria-Hungary:
Consul at Trieste.Brazil:
Consul at Pernambuco.Columbia:
Consul at Barranquilla.Costa Rica:
Consul at San Jose.France:
Consuls at Rheims, and Saint Etienne.Germany:
Consuls at Cologne, Crefeld, Dusseldorf, Leipsic, Stuttgart, Sonne-berg, and Magdeburg.
Great Britain and British Dominions:Consuls at Belize (British Honduras), Cardiff, Chatham, Cork, Dub-
lin, Dunfermline, Hamilton (Ontario), Leeds, Nassau (New Providence),Port Louis (Mauritius), Port Stanley and Saint Thomas (Canada), SaintJohn (New Brunswick), Sherbrooke (Canada), Sydney (New SouthWales), and Toronto (Canada).
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. SEss. I. 0m -197. 1892.
Honduras:Consul at Tegucigalpa. , - ,
Italy:Consul at Palermo.
Madagascar:Consul at Tamatave.
Mexico:Consuls at Acapulco, and Piedras Negras.
Netherlands:Consul at Rotterdam.
Nicaragua:Consuls at Managua, and San Juan del Norte.
Russia:Consul at Odessa.
Salvador:Consul at San Salvador.
Spain and Spanish Dominions:Consuls at Baracoa, Manila (Philippine Islands), San Juan (Puerto
Rico), and Sagua la Grande (Cuba).Switzerland:
Consuls at Horgen, and Zurich.Turkish Dominions
Consuls at Beirut, and Jerusalem.Venezuela:
Consul at Maracaibo.
Clas VI, $1,500 a oLASS VI.year.
At one thousand five hundred dollars per annum.Brazil:
Consuls at Bahia, Para, and Santos.Belgium:
Consul at Liege and Verviers.Denmark:
Consul at Copenhagen.France and French Dominions.
Consuls at Cognac, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Nice.Germany:
Consuls at Breslau, Kehl, Mannheim, and Munich.Great Britain and British Dominions:
Consuls at Amherstburg (Canada), Antigua (West Indies), Auck-land (New Zealand), Barbadoes, Bermuda, Bristol, Brockville (Onta-rio), Cape Town, Coati.ook (Canada), Ceylon (India), Charlottetown(Prince Edward Island), Clifton (Canada), Fort Erie (Canada), Goder-ich (Canada), Gibraltar, Guelph (Canada), Kingston (Canada), Lon-don (Canada), Malta, Morrisburg (Canada), Newcastle-on-Tyne, Pictou(Canada), Port Hope (Canada), Port Sarnia (Canada), Port Stanley(Falkland Islands), Prescott (Canada), Quebec, Southampton, SaintHelena, Saint Johns (Quebec), Saint Stephens (Canada), Stratford(Ontario), Three Rivers (Canada), Wallaceburg (Canada), Windsor(Ontario), Winnipeg Manitoba, Woodstock (New Brunswick), and Yar-mouth Nova Scotia.
Italy:Consuls at Castel-a-Mare, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Leghorn, Mes-
sina, Milan, and Naples.Mexico:
Consuls at Matamoras, Merida, Nogales, and Tampico.Netherlands:
Consul at Amsterdam.Paraguay:
Consul at Asuncion.
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Portuguese Dominions:Consuls at Fayal (Azores), and Funchal (Madeira).
San Domingo:Consul at Santo Domingo.
Spain:Consuls at Barcelona, Cadiz, Cardenas, Denia, and Malaga.
Switzerland:Consul at Geneva.
Sweden and Norway:Consuls at Gottenberg, and Stockholm.
Turkey:Consul at Sivas.
Venezuela:Consuls at La Guayra, and Puerto Cabello.
SCHEDULE 0. Schedule C.
CLASS VII. Class VII, $1,000 ayear.
At one thousand dollars per annum.Belgium:
Consul at Ghent.Chile:
Consul at Talcahuano.France and French Dominions:
Consul at Nantes.Germany:
Consul at Stettin.Great Britain and British Dominions:
Consuls at Gaspe Basin (Canada), Sierra Leone (West Africa), TurksIsland, and Windsor (Nova Scotia).
Haiti:Consul at Cape Haitien.
Honduras:Consul at Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utilla).
Italy:Consul at Venice.
Netherlands:Consul at Batavia.
Portuguese Dominions:Consuls at Mozambique (Africa), and Santiago (Cape Verde Islands).
Society Islands:Consul at Tahiti.
Sweden and Norway:Consul at Christiania.And in the estimates for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eight- Estimates.
een hundred and ninety-four, there shall be estimated for specifically,under classified consulates, all consulates and commercial agencieswhere the fees collected or compensation allowed for the fiscal yearending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, exceed onethousand dollars.
SALARIES, CONSULAR CLERKS.
Eight consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars per Consularclerks.annum each, nine thousand six hundred dollars; five consular clerks,at one thousand dollars per annum each, five thousand dollars; total,fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.
FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. SESS. I. CH. 197. 1892.
SALARIES, CONSULAR OFFICERS NOT CITIZENS.
Consularof^fe The salary of a consular officer not a citizen of the United States,fnCitamount fbor tihe shall be paid out of the amount specifically appropriated fbr salary atoffice. the consular office to which the alien officer is attached or appointed.
ALLOWANCE FOR CLERKS AT CONSULATES.
Catertcnsulat tes. Allowance for clerks at consulates, as follows:Liverpool, two thousand dollars;Havana, two thousand six hundred dollars;London, one thousand six hundred dollars;Shanghai, onethousand six hundred dollars;Paris, one thousand six hundred dollars;Rio de Janeiro, one thousand six hundred dollars;Antwerp, one thousand five hundred dollars;Berlin , Bremen, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Frankfort, Hamburg, Havre,
Hongkong, Kanagawa, Lyons, Manchester, Mexico (city), Montreal, Bar-men, and Vienna, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, eighteenthousand dollars.
Halifax, six hundred and forty dollars;Belfast, one thousand dollars;Birmingham, Bradford, Marseilles, at nine hundred and sixty dollars
each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars;Bordeaux, Brussels, Calcutta, Colon, Dresden, Dundee, Glascow,
Leipsic, Melbourne, Nuevo Laredo, Nuremberg, Panama, Port au Prince,Sheffield, Singapore, Sonneberg, Toronto, and Tunstall, at eight hundreddollars each, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars;
Kingston, Jamaica, eight hundred dollars;Maracaibo, eight hundred dollars;Ecuador, eight hundred dollars;Messina, Ottawa, Palermo, Saint Gall, Smyrna, and Tangier, at eight
hundred dollars each, four thousand eight hundred dollars;Leith and Victoria, at six hundred and forty dollars each, one thou-
sand two hundred and eighty dollars;Beirut, four hundred and eighty dollars;Piedras Negras, six hundred and forty dollars;Paso del Norte, six hundred and forty dollars;Aix la Chapelle, six hundred and forty dollars;Prague, four hundred and eighty dollars;Horgen, six hundred dollars;Berne, Demerara, Florence, Genoa, Malaga, Mannheim, Naples,
Stuttgart, and Zurich, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, fourthousand three hundred and twenty dollars;
Consulates not Allowance fo r clerks at consulates, to be expended under the direc-srpcilied. tion of the Secretary of State at consulates not herein provided for in
respect to clerk hire, no greater portion of this sum than five hundredProvisos. dollars to be allowed to any one consulate in any one fiscal year: Pro-
vided, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the.;Tli amount appropriated: And prorided further, That out of the amount
hereby appropriated the Secretary of State may make such allowanceInterpreters. as may to him seem proper to any interpreter for clerical services in
addition to his pay as interpreter, twenty-five thousand dollars.Total, ninety-three thousand dollars.
Interpreters
SALARIES, INTERPRETERS TO CONSULATES IN CHINA, KOREA, ANDJAPAN.
Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, andJapan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State,fifteen thousand dollars.
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EXPENSES OF INTERPRETERS, GUARDS, AND SO FORTH, IN TURKISHDOMINIONS AND SO FORTH.
Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish Dominions Interpreters, guards,and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretaryof State, six thousand dollars.
SALARIES, MARSHALLS FOR CONSULAR COURTS.
Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, Japan, and Turkey, Marshals, consularnine thousand three hundred dollars. coorts.
BOAT AND CREW FOR CONSUL AT OSAKA AND HIOGO.
Boat for official use of the United States consul at Osaka and Hiogo, Boat hire Osaka andand pay of boat's crew, five hundred dollars. Hiogo.
BOAT AND CREW FOR CONSUL AT HONGKONG.
Boat for official use of United States consul at Hongkong, and for pay Hongkong.of boat's crew, five hundred dollars.
EXPENSES OF PRISONS FOR AMERICAN CONVICTS.
Expenses of a prison and prison-keeper, at the consulate-general in consllar risons.Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars. Bangkok Sia n.
Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts Sh"aghai, China.in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeperof such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundred andfifty dollars;
Actual expense of renting a prison in Kafiagawa for American con- Kanagawa, Japan.victs in Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of akeeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundredand fifty dollars;
Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea, Keeping, etc.. pris-Japan, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: Provided, That no °Pronio.s.more than seventy-five cents per day for the keeping and feeding of Maximn.. o alloweach prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any a...esuch keeping and feeding. This is not to be understood as coveringcost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such pris-oners: And provided further, That no allowance shall be nmade for thekeeping and feeding of any prisoner who is able to pay, or does pay, Se.lf -pportingthe above sum of seventy-five cents per day, and the consular officer prisoner"shall certify to the fact of inability in every case;
Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of Rent, etc., prisonskeepers of the same, one thousand five hundred dollars. in Turkey.
Total, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.
RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN.
Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, or Relief of Americanso much thereof as may be necessary, fifty thousand dollars. eamen.
FOREIGN HOSPITALS AT PANAMA.
Annual contributions toward the support of foreign hospitals at Pan- Foreign hospitals,amia, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon Panamathe assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United Stateswill be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals.
234 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. SESS. 1. CH. T97-199. 1892.
PUBLICATIQN OF CONSULAR AND OTHER COMPWERCIAL REPORTS.
Publication, etc., Preparation, printing, puilication, and distribution, by the Depart-cons lar repo ment of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, including
circular letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars.
LOSS BY EXCHANGE, CONSULAR SERVICE.
Loss,,by eTxchange Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and fromthe several consulates and consulates-general, four thousand dollars.
CONTINGENT EXPENSES, UNITED STATES CONSULATES.
oentingent expen- Expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and otherbooks, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics,newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising,messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consularclerks, compensation of Chinese writers, and such other miscellaneousexpenses as the President may think necessary for the several consu-lates, consular agencies, and commercial agencies in the transaction oftheir business, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Approved, July 16,1892.
July 16,18s2. CHAP. 198.-An act to amend section seven of the act approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, entitled ' An act to authorize the con-struction of a bridge over the Missouri River at or near the city of Omaha,Nebraska," and for other purposes.
Missouri River.Time extended for
bridging, at Omaha,Nebr.
Vol., p. 199.
July 16,1892.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the UnitedStates of America in Confgess assembled, That section seven of the actapproved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight,entitled "An act to authorize the construction of a bridge over theMissouri River at or near the city of Omaha, Nebraska," is herebyamended so as to require said bridge to be completed within threeyears from the date of the approval of this act, and all the other pro-visions of said act are hereby revived and determined to be in fullforce and effect.
Approved, July 16,1892.
CHAP. 199.-An act authorizing the Saint Joseph's Church, in the parish of EastBaton Rouge, in the State of Louisiana, to use the land quit-claimed to it by theUnited States for school purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unitedsaint Joseph'1 States of America in Congress assembled, That Saint Joseph's Church,
Catr.d. Baton Rouge, in the parish of East Baton Rouge, in the State of Louisiana, be, andMay use lald tur it is hereby, authorized to use the land quit claimed to said church by
cemetery pIurpose. the terms of an act approved September thirtieth, eighteen hundredand ninety (chapter eleven hundred and twenty-four, first session,Fifty-first Congress), for religious, school, or charitable purposes, in
Vol. 26, p. 503. addition to the right to use the same for cemetery purposes, as ex-pressed in the terms of the act aforesaid.
epeal. SEC. 2. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisionsof this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.
Approved, July 16, 1892.