Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-07-31

JNiIE ED oIA ! l.S Of COlOM pa
S,ntuiiiJ.
ECUADOR.
NEriIERLANDS.
Batavia.
BRAZIL.
MarauhanI, Para, Rio Granle de Sui.
HONDURAS.
Omua and TruXillo.
TURKISH COMMONS.
Cyprus, Bucharest.
MEXICO.
MUSCAT.
Zanzibar.
PORTUGUESE COMMONS.
Santiago, Cape Verde Islands.)
SOCIETY ISLANDS.
Tahita.
FRIENDl.Y AND NAYIG ATORS
ISLANDS.
FEJEE ISLANDS.
ITALY.
Venice, Milan.
COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
SCHEDULE C.-GlbJon, Saint Paul de
Luanda, Lauthala.
COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
SCHEDULE B.-Muua5 dScar, San Juan
del Nurte.
SEC. >. That there shall he allowed for the
hire OF clerks, when actually expended
therefor, aI follows: To the consul general
at Havana and consul at Liverpool, each a
SUN not exceeding the rate Of three thous-
aud dollars for any one year; and to the
cUnsuls general OF London, Paris, and
Shanghai, each sum not exceeding the
rate Of two thousand dollars for any one
year to the cUnsuls-general at Berlin, vi
al l..rf Il Irnu ~ In
cOnsuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Leipsc, Ly-
ons, Manchester, Beirut, Belfast, Birmng-
ham, Bradford, ChemuItZ, Sheffield, Son
neberg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Fay
al, Nuremberg, Leith, Naples, Stuttgart.
and Tunstall, each sum not exceeding
| fifteen hundred dollars for any one year.
SEC. ). That the President shall be, and
| is hereby, authorized 10 appoint interpret
ers to the cOnSulaies AT Shanghai, Tien
| Tsin, Fowchow, and kanaga~a, and TO al
| low them salaries not TO exceed, in either
case, the rate of two thousand dollars a
| year; and to appoint Interpreters to the
cOusuates at lIaukow, Annoy, Caution, and
| Hong Kong, aud to allow them salaries not
| to exceed, III either case, the rate OF seven
hundred aud Hily dollars year; and also
TO allow, at his discretion, a sum not ex-
| ceeding the rate of five hundred dollars for
any one year TO any one consulate in Chi
| ma or Japan, respectively, not herein
named, for expenses Of Interpretation ;
| and that section six of the act entitled IAN
| act TO regulate the diplomatic and consular
systems OF the United Slates,' approved
| August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and
| filty-siX, is hereby repealed.
| SEC. 4. That the Secretary OF State shall,
| as soon as practicable, establish and deter
| mine the maximum amount OF time actu-
| ally necessary to make the transit between
| each diplomatic and consular post and the
city of Washington, and vice vera, and
shall make the same public. He may al
| so, from time to time, revise his decision
| in this respect; but in each case the decis-
lou is to be in like manner made public.
| And the allowance Tor time actually and
| necessarily occupied by each diplomatic
| and consular officer who may be entitled
to such allowance shall in no case exceed
| that for the titnc thus established and de-
| termined, with the addition of the time us
| ually occupied by the shortest and most d.
| rect mode of conveyance from Washington
| TO the place Of residence IN the United
| States of such officer.
| SEC. 3. That from aud after the first day
| of July next, the annual salary OF consular
cler ks who shall have remained continu-
| OuSly in service as such for the period OF
five years and upward shall be one thous-
| and two hundred dollars.
| SEC. q. That any vice-c.nsul who nay
| be temporarily acting as consul during the
absence ofsuch cousul may receive compen-
| satiOn, notwithstanding That he Is not cit
| zen of the United States.
For loss by exchange on the above, for
| ty-eight thousand dollars.
| For repaying to The Government OF Bra
| zil, money enormously claimed and paid
To the United States, hfty-seven thousand
| hive hundred dollars, or 81 much thereof
| as may be necessary.
For Interpreters to the consulates in
China, Japan, and Siam, including loss by
exchange, five Thousand seven hundred
| dollars.
For marshals for the consular courts in
Japan aud China, Sam, and Turkey, in
GLIDING loss by exchange, seven thousand
| seven hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses Of foreign inter-
course proper, ana of all the missions
| abroad, such as stationery, book eases,
arms Of the United States, seals, presses,
and flags, rent, freight, postage, and other
| necessary miscellaneous matters, includ-
| ing loss by exchange, one hundred and
thirty.one thousand eight hundred and If
ty dollars.
For interpreters, guards, and other eX-
| penses at the consulateS at Conslantinople,
Smyrna, Gambia, Cairo, Jerusalem and Bel
rut in the Turkish Donlinions, three thous-
and dollars.
For payment of consular officers not cit
liens of the United States, ten thousand
| dollars.
For salaries and expenses of the United
States and Spanish Claims Commission,
namely: For Commissioner, five thousand
| dollars for counsel, five thousand dollars
| for secretary, nine hundred and lively q
| dollars and fifty cents for messenger,
three hundred dollars and for rent, fuel
aud ice, three thousand seven hundred and
eighty-seven dollars and tiny cents max.
| ing, in all, the sum Of fifteen thousand dol
| lars.
For salaries and expenses OF United
| States and Mexican Claims Commission ;
For Commissioner, four thousand five
hundred dollars; for agent, four thousand
| dollars for secretary, two thousand five
| hundred dollars for umpire, three thous-
| and dollars legal assistant TO agent. three
| thousand dollars two translators. at one
| thousand live hundred dollars each two
| clerks, at one Thousand four hundred dol
lars each; one messenger, six hundred
| dollars; one assistant messenger, three
| hundred dollars and for contingent cx-
| penscs, five thousand dollars making, in
all, the sum of twenty. eight thousand sew
en- hundred dollars.
Survey of boundary between the United
States and British possessions: For ex-
| penses of the commission appointed under
act approved March nineteenth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-two, for the purpose
! OF surveying and marking the boundary
| between the territory of the United States
and the possessions Gof Great Britain from
| the Lake of the Woods to the summit of
the Rocky Mountains, TO he available Inn
| medlately on the passage of this act, one
hundred and tiftY thousand dollaKS