Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1873-04-11
TIL E DAILY CHRONICLE.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
Passed at the Third Session Of the Forty
Second Congress.
PUBLISHED By AUTHORITY !
GENERAL NATURE-No. SO.
TIT COOCTITATES

d.
Rio Grande Saint Catharine, Santiago, lCape
Verde) Stettin, Santerem, Tabasco. Tahiti, TAI
cahuano, Tumbez Venice. Windsor, (Nova
Scotia) ZANZIBAR.
GERS not citizens of the United States, ten thous.
and dollars: Provided, That the Secretary OF
State shall each year report to Congress the
names of consular officers not citizens OF the
United States to whom salaries have been PAID
and also the circumstances under which they
were appointed and the allowance authorized
by section twenty-five Of the act OF August
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty SIX, en-,
titled IAN act to regulate the dipiomnuc ana
consular systems OF the United S.a.e 20 Se
Office rent, may be increased to twenty per CEN
tum of the amount of annual compensation sub
ject to the same limitation in said section con-
tanned. bcg .LL.., e
the United States at Strasburg, for unavoidable
expenses, incurred by the sudden dIscontlnu-
ance of that consulate in consequence OF the IN,
vasion of France by Germany, one Thousand
dollars. nat a5 ie
IV.-COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
Schedule C.-Amoor River, Apia, Gsboon,
Saint Paul de Loanda, Lanthala, SabinlHa. II aa
y.-COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. p
Schedule B,-Madagascar, San Juan del
For Interpreters to the consulates in China,
Japan and Siam; including loss BY exchange
1--WE thousand seven hundred dollars. i
| For marshals for the consular court in Japan,
including that of Nagasaki, and in China, Siam.
and Turkey, including loss by exchange there
on. seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
| For marshals for consular courts in Japan,
including that of Nagasaki, and in China, Siam,
and Turkey, including loss by exchange there
or, seven thousand seven hundred dollars
For stationery, book cases, arms OF the Uni>
ted States, seals, presses, and flags, and pay
ment of ront, freight, postage, and misscella-
neous expenses including loss BY exchange
thereon, one hundred thousand dollars; and the
Secretary of State is hereby authorized to iur,
nish soals to consular agents OF the United
States the cost of which shall be betrayed out
of the sum hereby appropriated.
For expenses for interpreter, guards, and
other natter at the consulates at Constantino>
Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thou
For rent of prisons for American convicts in
Siam and Turkey and for wages of the keepers
of the same, including loss by exchange, four
| thousand dollars. r..
For rent of prison for American convi,ts in
China, one thousand five hundred dollaes
For wages of keepers. care of offenders, and
expenses, ten thousand dollars. No. ~
For rent of prison for American convicts In
Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars. 1ir.
For wages of keepers, care of offenders, and
expenses, five thousand dollars,
For expenses incurred in bringing home from
foreign countries persons charged with crime,
and expenses incident thereto, including loss by
exchange; five thousand dollars.
For relief and protection of American sea.
men in foreign countries, one hundred thousand
dollars. ie o a
For expenses which may be incurred in acs
knowledging the services of masters and crews
of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens
from shipwreck, five thousand dollars.
To meet the necessary expenses attendant
upon the executed of the neutrality act to be
expended under the direction of the President,
conformity with the third section of the act of
May first eighteen hundred and ten, entitled
IAN act fixing the compensation of ministers
and consuls residing on the coast of Barbary,
and for other purposes, twenty thousanp dol"
lars. u-THT .er
! To meet the payment of the last annual in
stallment of the proportion contributed by the
United States toward the capitalization of the
Scheldt Dues sixty six Thousand five hundred
and eighty four dollars.
For the annual proportion due from the gov
eminent of the United States of the expenses
of Cape Spartel light, on the coast of Mexico,
two hundred and eighty five dollars. s7
United States and British claims commits
sion
For salaries of secretary assistant, messenger
and Waterman, four thousand four hundred
dollars.
For contingent expenses. nomely: Rent, fuel,
stationery, books, gas, printing, temporary
clerks, and other miscellaneous expenses of
| similar character, twelve thousand two hundred
and forty dollars.
United States and Spanish claims commits
| sion: ~ ~
For salaries of commissioner, COUNSEL, secre-
| tary and messenger, eleven thousand two hun
dreS and twelve dollars III. 81.
For contingent expenses, three thousand seven
hundred and eighty eight dollars. Aha.
| =. United States and Mexican claims commits
| sion:
For salaries of commissioner, umpire, agent,
legal assistant to agent secretary; two clerks at
translators at one thousand five hundred dollars
| each, messenger, and assistant messenger, TWEEN
ty three thousand seven hundred dollors,
| For contingent expenses, five thousand dol
| lars
Sec. 2. That when any diplomatic or consular
officer of the United States shall die in for
| eign country in the dischare Of his duty, there
shall be aaid to his widow, or, if no widow sur
vive him, then to his heirs at law, q sum Of
money equal to the allowance now made to such
officer for the time necessarily occupied in mak>
| ing the transit from his post of duty to his
residence in the United States. To meet the
expense of this provision, there is hereby ap>
! propriated, for the year ending juno thirty,
| exceeding five thousand dollars.
Sec. g. That no consular officer of the nited
States shall hereafter grant certificate for goods
4 wares, or merchandise shipped from countries
4
/ passed consulate after purchase for shipment.
i Approved February 2, 1873.
GENERAL MATURING. Al
An Act to define the limits of the collection
district of the Teche, in the State of Louisiana,
and for other purposes.
l Be it enactedby the Senate and House of Rep
res entatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That all that portion OF
the State of Louisiana described as follows to
wit: commencing at the town of Plaquemine,
in the parish of Iberville; thence down the wes-
lern bank of the Mississippi river to the town of
thence down the Bayou Lafouche, and along
4 its eastern bank to the sea; thence westerly
4 along the coast including all the islands, bays,
and so FORTH to the mouth of the Sabine river !;
thence up the said Sabine river, along its ears
tern bank to point due west from the said
town of Plaquemine; and thence to the place of
beginning. shall be, and the same is. hereby,
constituted and created the collection district Of