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UNITED STATES
THIRD SESSION OF THE FoRTY.FIRsT
CONGRESS-.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 261
AN ACT making appropriations for the consu,ar
anu upiomatic expenses OF the government for the
year endns june thirty. eighteen hundred and
seVonty-two, and for other purposes.
1s enacted by ths Senate and House of Repre-
gress assembled. That the following sums be. and
% .he same are hereby appropriated out of money in
ects here natter or The vea, s1s
june thirty eighteen hundred and SEVENTY two
ror salary of enveys extraordinary and m,,,sto,.
plenpotentary to Great Britain aud France at seven
teen thousand FIVE hundred dollars EACH thirfV We
Thousand dollars. "
To Russia, Prussia, Spain. Austria, Brazil, Mex.
niney-six thousand dollars.
TO Chill Peru: and Japan, ten thousand dollars
For ministers resident at Portugal, Switzerland,
Greece, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Tur-
eesy .sseSa ss. sv C
Rica, Honduras, and salvador. at seven thousand
I've hundred dollars each. one hundred and thirty.
For minister resident at the Argentine Republic,
se ven Thousand i've hundred dollars.
aof munster to Uruguay, accredited also to Para.
suESy, essen thousand two hundred and aity dollars:
at Hayti, seven thousand i've hundred dollars.
E9r salary OF minister resident and consul general
at doer1a four thousand dollars.
For salaries Of secretaries OF legation AZ tollows
and and t.snty,nve dollars EACH i've thousand two hun
AT Saint Petersburg, Madrid, Berlin. Florence.
yienna, Mo De Janelro, and Mexico, one thousand
S,gnt n1nored donars each twelve thousand six hun
For salaries OF assistant secretaries of legation at
London and Paris, two thousand dollars each, four
thousand dollars.
dollars. NV '.'A'"--N
For salary Of the secretary of legation to Turkey
Japan, TWO thousand Ave hundred dollars.
proper and ali conria sent =, m
abroad, one hundred thousand dollars.
To enable Robert G. Schepck, minister to Great
Britain, to employ private amauuensis, according
to joint resolution approved January eleven eight
zen hundred and seventy-one, two thousand I've
For salaries Of eonsus general, censuls, vIce-con.
suIs. commercial agents, and thirteen consular
clerks, inciuing loss by exchange thereon, NAMELY
three huedred and ninety.one thousand and two
hun1red dollars:
!. CoNsULATEs GENERAL.
SCHEDULE b.
Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople. Frankfort
0n-the- main. Havana. Montreal, Shanghai, Beirut,
Tampico, London, Paris.
II. CoNsULATEs.
SCHEDULE B.
.Ai1-ls-Chapele. Acapulco. Algiers, Annoy, Am
sterdam, Antwerp, AspInwall, Bangkok, Basle, Bel
BouIogne, BarcslOna. Csdis Cailao, Cant On, Chem.
nitz Cbio Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Demer-
ara, Dundee. E!snore, Fort Erie, foo-Choo, Fun
Hsitax, Hamburg. Aavre. Honolulu, Hong Kong,
Hankow, AakoaAdi, Jerusalem. Kanagawa, Kings"
ton, !Jamaics? Kingston, Canada, La Rochelle,
pool, Lyons, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Matanzas,
Marseilles. Mauritius, Melbourne Mess ma, Munich,
ss@ c.s see Nasts: os::
hon, Port Said, Prescott, Prince Ed1ard Island,
Sur, San Juan, Porto Rico.) saint Johns Canada
East Santiago de Cuba. Port Sarnia, Rnrs, Sing
sp0ts' % S@yraa. Soat.ha~Pton, .h Saint PetersbnIg,
Stu1sgsrdt' Swatow, saint Helena, Tanner, Toron-
Ysenca windsor, YsadS zss,eh
Harmon. and Winnepss, (Selkirk t.emenr British
North AmeTica)
III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
SCHEDULE 3.
Madagascar, San Juan del Norte. San Domingo.
w. CoNsULATEs.
SCHEDULE O.
Aux Cages, Bahia, Batavia, Bay Of Islands, Cape
Haytien, Gambia, Cape Town, Csrthagena, Ceylon,
Gob1s, Cyprus. falkland Islands. Fayal, Quay aquil.
Rio araode, saint cstisrine, @ saint Sal JOIN John, New New
Hsnes
COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
Amoor River, Apia, Be izs. Gaboon, Saint Paul de
fs 6s son.u.tes In csna Japan
Siam, and Turkey, incqoing lo,s by exchange there
on, i've Thousand eight hundred dollars.
For salaries OF the marshaIs tor the consular
courts in JAPAN including that at Nagasaki and IN
thereon, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
For stationery. book Cases, arms Of the United
States, seals, presses, and flags, and payD ent Of
including ioss By exchange, sixty thousand dollars.
For expenses tor Interpreters, guards and Other
matters st the consulates at Constantinople. Smyr
ma, Candia, Alexandria, Jerusa,em, and Beirut
in the Turkish doninions. three thousand dollars.
For rent Of prisons for American Convicts in Jap.
an, China, Siam, and Turkey, and wages for the
twenty-one thousand seven hondred and fifty dol.
lars.
For expenses under the neutrality act, twent,
thousand dollars.
For expenses incurred under instructions Of the
Secretary OF State of bringing home from foreign
countries persons charged with crimes and
incident thereto, including loss by exchange, five
thousand dollars.
For relief ana protection OF American seamen in
foreign countries, one hundred thousand dollars.
For expenses which may be incurred in ackoow.
Lodging the services Of masters and crews Of foregn
vessels in rescuing American citizens from ship
wreck, Ase thousand dollars.
For payment OF the seventh annual installment Of
the portion contributed by the United States toward
the capitalization Of the ScheIdt dues, iii y-fv.
thousand i've hundred and eighty -four doll ,rs ant
for such farther sum, not exceeding five thousand
dollars, AZ may be necessary to carry out the stIpu
lations OF the treaty between the United States ant
| Belgium.
To pay to the government of Great Britain an
Ireland the second and last installment of the am
ount awarded BY the commissioners under the treat
| OF July one, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, Il
| eetshcton OF the claims OF the Hudson's Bay an
OF lne Puget Sound Agricultural Company, thre
ccin: Provided, That before payne MT shall be mad
OF that 20 tion OF the above sum awarded to tn
Puget Sound Agricultural Company al taxes legal
~ assessed upon any Of the property Of sal com
| pany covered BY said award, before the same wa
made, and still unpaid shall be evtinguished by sai
Puget Sound Agricultural Company; or the anioun
OF such taxes shall be withheld by the Governmen
OF the United States from the sum hereby appaopri
| ated.
| j. g. BLAINE,
| Speaker Of tie House Of Representatives
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
Vice-President Of tie United States and Presiden
Of the Senate.
Approved, February q, 1871.
U.S.. GRANT.