Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-04-16
OEFIC IAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Passed at Second Session Of Fortieth Coneress
fPUBLIO-No. 3O.l

fPUBLIO-No. SOL
An ACT making appropriations for the consul
lar and diplomatic expenses of the Govern
ment for the year ending thirtieth June,
eighteen hundred and sixtY-nlne, and for
other purposes.
Be e1 endcted By the Senate asd House Of Rspre-
sentdtsoes Of the Jnited States of America IN Con-
sress assembled, That the following sums be,
and the same are hereby, Appropriated, eut of
any money ia the treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated, for the objects hereafter expressed,
Tor the fiscal year ending the thirtieth Of June,
eighteen handred and sixty mine, namely:
For salaries of ENJOYS extraordinary, minis
ters, and commissioners of the United states
at Great Britain. France, Russia, Prussia.
Spain, Austria, azil, republic Of Mexico
China, Italy, ChiIi Peru, Portugal. SwItzer-
land, Belgium, lE!land, Denmark, Sweden,
Turkey, Greece, Ecaador, United States of
Columbia, Bolivia Venezuela, Guatemala,
Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica,
Honduras, Argentine Confederaties, Paraguay,
Japan, and Salvador, three hundred and one
For salaries Of secretaries Of legation, as fol-
lows:
At London and Paris, two thousand six hun
dred and twenty five dollars each.
At Saint Petersburg, Madrid, Berlin, Flor
enee, Vienna, and Mexico, eighteen hundred
dollars each.
For salaries of assistant secretaries of lc-a
ton at London and Paris, three thousand dol
lars.
For salary of the in terpreter to the legation to
China, five thousand dollars.
For salary of the secretary of legation to
Turkey, scting as interpreter, three thousand
dollars.
For salary Of the interpreter to the lega
tion TO Japan, two thousand five hundred dol
lars.
For contingent expenses Of all the missions
abroad, thirty thousand dollars.
For contingent expenses of foreign inter-
course, thirty thousand dollars: Prorided, That
this sum shall beexpended for purposes of for
eign intercourse only.
For expenses of the consulates in the Turx
ish dominions, namely: interpreters, guards,
ard other expenses of the consulates at Con-
stantnople, Smyrna, Gambia, Alexandra, and
Beirut two thousand five hundred dollars
For the relief and protection Of American
seamen in foreign countries, per acts of Feb
ruary eighteen, eighteen hundred and three
and February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred
and eleven, two hundred thousand dollars.
For expenses which may be incurred in ac-
knowledging the services of the masters aud
crsw[sl of foreign vessels rescuing citizens
of the United States from shipwreck, five
thousand dollars.
For the purchase of blank books, stationery,
bookcases, arms OF the United States, seals,
presses, and flags, and for the payment of
postages, and miscellaneous expenses Of the
consuls of the United States, including loss by
exchange, thirty thousand dollars.
For office rent for those consuls general, con.
suls, and commercial agents who are not al
low ed 10 trade, including loss by exchange
thereon, forIy-hve thousand dollars.
For salaries OF consuls general, consuls,
commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks
namely:
CONSULATEss GENERAL.
SCHEDULE Il.
Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantine ople, Frank
fort-on-the- Main, Hayana, Montreal, Shanghai
IL. CONSULATES.
SCHEDULE Il.
Acapulco, A1x-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Annoy,
amsterdam, Antwerp, Aspinwail, Bankok,
Basle, Belfast, Beirut, Buenos Ayres, Bor-
deaux, Bremen, Brindisi, Boulogne, BARGE
Iona, Cadiz, Callao, Gambia, Canton, Chem
nitz, Chin Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork,
Demdraro, IDemerara,1 Dundee, Elsinore, Fort
Erie, Foo Choo, Funchal, Geneva, Genoa, Glib
raltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Halifax, Hamburg,
Havre, Honolulu, Hong Kong, Hankow, Jera-
salem, kanagawa, Kingston, JAMAICA kings
ton in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, La
haina, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liv-
erpool, London, Lyons, Malaga, Malta, Man
chester, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Mel
bourne Messina, Moscow, Munich, Nagasaki,
Naples, Nassau, West lndies,) NEWCASTLE
Nice, Nantes, Odessa, Oporto, Palermo, Pan
Mahon, Prescott, Prince Edward Island Que
bee, Reyel, Rio de Janeiro Rotterdam, San
Juan del Sur, San Juan, (Porto Rico,) Saint
John, Canada East,) Santiago de Cuba, Port
Sarnia, Rome, Singapore, Smyrna, Southamp-
ton, SAINT lonn, lNewioundland,) Saint Pc
tersburg, Saint Pierre, Martinique, Saint
Tampico, Tangier, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad
de Cuta, Tripoli, Tunk, Turks Island, Val
paraIso, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich.
III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
SCHEDULE B.
BaliZe, (Honduras,) Madagascar, San Juan
del NOrte, Saint Domingo.
". CONSULATES.
SCHEDULE T..
Aux Cages, Bahia, Batavia, Bay of Islands
Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthagena, Cay
Guayaqull, Guaymas, Lanthala, Maranhan,
Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta
Para, Paso del Norte, Pireus, Rio Grande, Sa-
ba nills, Saint Catharine, Santa Cruz, West
Indies Santiago, (Cape Yerde,) Spezzia, Ste:-
tin, Tabasso, Tahitd, [Tahit,l Talcauhano,
Tumbez Venice, Zanzibar.
v. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
SCHEDULE
Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de
LodHdo, [Loanda,l including loss by exchange
thereon, four hundred thousand dollars and
the salary Of the consul at Guaymas shall be
one thousand dollars per annum: Provided,
That all moneys received tor fees at any vice.
cons ulate or consular agencies of the United
States, hey ond the sum Of one thousand dollars
in any one year, and all moneys received by
any consul or consul general from consular
agencies or vice-consulates in excess OF one
thousand dollars in the aggregate from all such
agencies or vice -consulates shall be accou n ted
for and paid into the treasury of the United
St ates, and no greater sum than five hundred
do liars shall be allowed for the expenses of
any vice-cons ulate or consular agency for any
one year. Progided, That hereafter the compen-
sation of corsuls, whose annual salaries do
not, under existing law, exceed one thousand
five hundred dollars, and the fees collected at
into the treasury of the United States amount
to three thousand dollars, shall be two thou.
sand dollars per annum.
For interpreters to the consulates in China,
including loss by exchange thereon, five thou.
sand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses incurred, under instructions
from the Secretary of State, in brin ging home
from foreign countries persons charged with
crime, and expenses incident thereto, ten thou
rand dollars.
For salaries Of the mars halls for the con sular
courts in Japan, including that at Nagasaki,
and in China, Siam, and Turkey, including
loss by exchange thereon, nine thousand dol
lars.
For the salaries Of the consuls at Osaca and
Yeddo, Japan, whose salaries are hereby fixed
at three thousand dollars each, six thousand
dollars.
For rent of prisons for American convicts
in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, and for
wages of the keepers Of the same, nine thou
sand dollars.
For salaries Of ministers resident and consuls
general to Hayn and Liberia, eleven thousand
Ave hundred dollars.
For expenses under the act Of Congress to
carry into effect the treaty between the United
States and her Britanic Majesty for the sup
preston Jf the African slave trade, twelve
thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses under the neutrality act, twen-