The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-11-05

thus established and determined with the ad
dition of the time usually occupied by the short
est and most direct mode of conveyance from
Washington to the place of residence in tn,
i United States OF such officer.
SEC. 5. That from and after the first dav O.
July next, the annual salary Of consular clerk:
who shall have remained continuously in ser
vice as such for the period Of five years and up
ward shall be one thousand two hundred dol
| lars.
SEC. 6. That any vice-consul who may be
temporarily acting as consul during the absence
of such consul may receive compensation, not
withstanding that he is not Il citizen Of the
| United States.
| z. For loss by exchange on the above, forty
eight thousand dollars.
| :. For repaying to the Government Of Brazil,
money enormously claimed by and paid to the
| United States, fifty-seven thousand five hun
dred dollars, Or SO much thereof us may be ne
| cessary.
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 ia
| pan and China, Siam, and Turkey, including
loss by exchange, seven Thousand seven hundrt d
| dollars.
| For contingent expenses of foreign inter-
course proper, and of all the missions abroad,
such as stationery, bookcases, arms of the
United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent,
freight, postage, and other necessary mscella-
neous matters, including loss by exchange, one
hundred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred
and fifty dollars.
For Interpreters. guards, and other expenses
at the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna,
Gambia, Cairo, Jerusalem, and, and Beirut, in
the Turkish DominionS, three thousald dol
lars.
For payment of consular officers not citi-
zens Of the United States, ten thousand dol
lars. -
For salaries and expenses of the United
States and Spanish Claims Commission, name-
ly: For Commissioner, five Thousand dollars ;
for counsel, five thousand dollars: for secret;-
~, nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty
cents; for messenger, three hundred dollars :;
aud for rent, fuel and ice. three thousand sew
en- hundred and eighty-scven dollars and fifty
cents making, III all, the OF fifteen tlolls-
and dollars.
For salaries and expenses of United States
and Mexican Claims Commission For Com
missioner, four thousand five hundred dollars
for agent, four thousand dollars; for secretary.
two thousand five hundred dollars; for umpire,
three thousand dollars legal assistant to agent,
three thousand dollars two translators, ut one
thousand five hundred dollars each two clerks,
at one thousand four hundred dollars each one
messenger. six hundred dollars; one assistant
IucSSCu1GI, tIlICC uullttIeu sluu Tor con-
tingent expenses. five thousand dollars max
ing in all, the sum OF twcnty-eight thousand
seven hundred dollars.
Survey OF boundry between the United States
and British possessions: For expenses of the
commission appointed under act approved
March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and sew
enty-two, for the purpose of surveying and
marking the boundary between the territory
of the United States and the possessions Of
Iron Rritcip from tho al- of tI,o
the summit of the Rocky mountains, to be
available Immediately on the passage Of this
act, one hundred and tftyftllousantl dollars
For rent of prisons FOR American convcts in
Siam and Turkey, and for wages of keepers of
the same, including loss by exchange, four
thousand dollars.
For rent Of prison for American convicts in
China, one thousand five hundred dollars
For wages of keepers, care of offenders, and
and expenses, ten thousand dollars.
For rent OF prison for American convicts in
Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars
For wages of keepers, care Of offenders, and
expenses, five thousand dollars.
For bringing home from foreign countries
persons charged with crimes and expenses in
cidental thereto, including loss by exchange,
five thousand dollars.
For relief and protection OF American sea-
men i'll foreign countries, one hundred thous-
and dollars.
For expenses of acknowledging the services
of masters and crews of foreign vessels in res
cring American citizens from shipwreck, five
thousand dollars.
10 meet the necessary expenses attendant
upon the execution Of tine neutrality act, to be
expende under the direction of the President
pursuant to the third section of the act Of Con-
yress of May first, eighteen hundred and ten,
eutitled IAN act fixing the compensation of
ministers and coilsuls residing ON til, coast of
Barbary, and for other purposes, " twenty thou
sand dollars.
For annual proportion OF the expenses of
Cape Spartel light, Oh tie cast OF Morocco,
two hundred and eighty-!ive dollars.
For allowance to widows OF heirs of deceased
diplomatic and consular officers for the time
that would be necessarily occupied in making
the transit from the post Of duty Of the deceas-
ed to his residence in the United States, five
| thousand dollars
| For rent OF courthouse and Jail, with grounds
| appurtenant, in Yeddo, or such other place as
the United States mlltster in Japan may des-
iynate five thousand dollars.
| 10 pay the sums awarded to British subjects
for such claims us are enumerated In article
twelve of the treaty of May eighth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-one, which have been al
| lowed by the commission appointed under that
article in the manner prescribed by the follow
| ING articles to the seventeenth inclusive, one
million nine hundred and tWenty-nine thous-
and eight hundred and nineteen dollars.
Approved, June IL, 1874.