Charles City intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Floyd County, Iowa) 1864-1866, 1864-09-01

in China, including loss by exchange
thereon, five thousand eight hundred
dollars. ~
For expenses incurred, under in
structions from the Secretary OF State,
in bringing home from foreign coun-
tries persons charged with crime, and
expenses incident thereto, ten thou
sand dollars.
For salaries of the marshals for the
consular courts in Japan, China, ST.
am, and Turkey, including loss by ex'
change thereon, nine thousand dollars.
For rent Of prisons for American
conv.cts in Japan, China, Siam, and
Turkey, and for wages of the keepers
of the same, nine thousand dollars.
For salaries of commissioners and
consuls general to Hayti and Liberia,
eleven thousand five hundred dollars
For expenses under the act of Con.
gress to carry into effect the treaty
between the United States and her
Britannia Majesty for the suppression
of the African slave trade, seventeen
thousand dollars. .......... ..... =.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted,
That the President be, and is hereby,
authorized, whenever he shall think
the public good will be promoted
thereby, to appoint consular clerks,
not exceeding thirteen in number at
any one time, who shall be citizens of
the United States, and over eighteen
years of age at the time of their APP
pointment, and shall be entitled to
compensation for their services re-
spectively at q rate not exceeding one
thousand dollars per annum, to be de-
termned by the President; and to
assign such clerks, from time to time,
to such consulates and with such du-
ties as he shall direct and before the
appointment of any such clerk shall
be made, it shall be satisfactorily
shown to the Secretary Of State, after
due examination and report by an ex-
amining board, that the applicant is
qualified and fit for the duties to which
he shall be assigned; and such re-
port shall be laid before the President.
And no clerk SO appointed shall be re-
moved from Office except for cause
stated in writing, which shall be sub
mitted to Congress at the session first
following such removal.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted,
That the third section of an act cnti-
tied" An act making appropriations
for the consular and diplomatic ex-
penses of the Government for the year
ending the thirtieth Of June, eighteen
hundred and sixty" approved March
third, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine,
is hereby repealed. And the fee for
certifying invoices to be charged by
the consul general for the British
North American Provinces, and his
subordinate consular officers and
agents, for goods not exceeding one
hundred dollars in value, shall be one
dollar, and the same fee shall be charg'
ed for certifying the growth or pro,
duction of goods made duty free by
the reciprocity treaty Prortded, her.
erer, That no such certificate of growth
or production shall be required for
goods not exceeding in value the sum
of two hundred dollars.
Sec. A. And be it further enacted,
That the office of commercial agent at
Nakodadi, Japan, may, at the discre-
ton of the Secretary of State, be
changed to that of consul, to be class
ed with consuls other than those nam
ed in schedule B and G in the act APP
proved August eighteen, eighteen
hundred and fifty-six.
Approved, june 90, 1864.