The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1874-11-05
W s
l. VS.
OF TILE UNITED STA TIES,
PASSED AT THE FIRST SESSION
of the
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
GENERAL NATURE-No. 43.l


AN ACT making appropriationsior the cor
sular and diplomatic service of the Govern
: ment, for the year ending june thrtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-tiyc, and for
other purposes.
BE 1t enacted bu the Senate and House of
REPRESENTATIVES Of the United States Of Anasri-
ca in Conoress assembled, That the following
sums be, and are hereby, appropriated for the
ser,i ice of the fiscal year, endgJune thin tieth.
eighteen hundred and seventy-five, ont OF
any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated. for the objects hereinafter eX-
pl essed namely:
For salaries OF ENJOYS extraordinary and
ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain,
France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen
thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy
thousand dollars.
For salaries of ENJOYS extraordinary and
ministers plenipotentary to Spain, Austria,
Brazil, Mexico, Japan. China, and Italy, at
twelve thousand dollars each, eiglity-four
thousand dollars.
For salaries of ENJOYS extraordinary and
ministers penipotentiary to Chilli and Peru, at
ten thousand dollars each twenty thousand
dollars.
For ministers resident at Portugal, Swtzer-
land, Greece, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark,
Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Ecuador. Col
omhia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands,
and the Argentine Republic, and seven thou
sand five hundred dollars each, one hundred
and five thousand dollars.
For ministers resident accredited to Gtlate-
malta, Co sta RIGA, Honduras, Salvador and
Nicaragua, to reside at the place that the
President may select in any one OF the states
named, as by act making appropriations for
the consular and diplomatic service approved
May twenty-second, eighteen hundred and
seventy-two, ten thousand dollars.
For minister resident at Uruguay, also ac-
credited to Paraguay, ten thousand dollars.
For minister resident and consul-general to
Hayti, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For minister resident ard consul-general to
Liberia, four thousand dollars.
For charges d'af1aires al interim and dip
lomatc officers abroad, forty thousand dollars.
For salaries to secretaries to legations at
London, Paris, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg,
ut two thousand six hundred and twenty-five
dollars each. ten thousand five hundred dollars.
And the Secretary OF State is authorized to
allow and pay to the secretary of legation and
to the second secretary of legation and to the
messenger CT the legation in Paris, from the
moneys collected at the legation for the trans
mission of consular invoices, an amount not to
exceed in the aggregate six hundred dollars in
any one year. to be divided and distributed as
| the Secretary of State may direct, provided
that the surplus receipts are sufficient for that
| purpose.
For salary of secretary to legation at Japan,
| two thousand five hundred dollars.
| For secretaries to legations at Austria, Braz-
| ill., Italy, Mexico, and Spain, at enc thousand
| ciyht hundred dollars each, nine thousand
| dollars.
| For second secretal les to legations at Great
Britain, F.ancc, and Germany, at two thou
| sand dollars each, six thousand dollars.
For secretary to legation (actny also as in
terpreter) at China, five thousand dollars.
| For salary of the Interpreter to legation in
Turkey, three thousand dollars
| For the interpreter to the legation at Japan,
| two thousand five bundled dollars.
10 enable Robert G. Schenck, minister to
| Great Britain, to employ q private amanuensiS,
| according to joint resolution approved January
| eleventh, eighteen hundred AID seeenty-one,
two thousand five hundred dollars.
| For contingent expenses Of foreign inter
course proper and of all the missions abroad,
one hundred thousand dollars.
For consuls-gcneral, consuls, vlce-consnls,
commercial agents, and thirteen consular
clerks, three hundred and siNty-four thousand
| five hundred dollars; and the bonds which
! consular officers who are not compensated by
salaries are required by the thirteer til section
of the act of August eighteenth eighteen hum
dred and fifty-six, to enter into shall hereafter
be made with such sureties as the Secretary OF
State shall approve.
! That Schedules B and in section three of
an act entitled can act to regulate the Dip
| lolnatic and consular system of the United
States,'' approved August eighteenth, eighteen
hundred and fifty six, shall, from and after the
| first day of July next, read as follows:
SCHEDULE B.
The agent and consul.general at Cairo shall
be entitled to compensation for his services at
! the rate of four thousand dollars per annum.
| The consllls-general at London. Paris, Hav-
ana. and Rio Janero shall each be entitled to
| conversation for their services at the rate OF
| six thousand dollars per annlm.
| The consuls-general at Calcutta and Snangg-
hal shall each be entitled to compensation for
| their services at the rate of five thousand dol
| lars per annum.
TEe consul-general at Melbourne shall be
entitled to compensation for his services at the
| rate of fonr thousand tive-hundrcd dollars per
annum.
| The consuls-general at Kanagawa, Montreal,
| and Berlin shall each be entitled to compensa-
ton for their services at the rate OF four thou
| sand dollars per annum
The consuls-eeneral at Vienna, Frankfort,
Rome and Constantinople shall each be ell
titled to compensation for .heir services at the
rate of three thousand dollars per annum
The consuls-general at Saint petersburg ana
Mexico shall eaCn De eHli.iCu w CoiiPoii*e-
ton for their services at the rate OF two thotl-
sand dollars per annum
The consul at Liverpool shall re entltlea TO
compensation for his services at the rate OF SIX
thousand dollars per annuln. 80.
The following consulates snail ne dlVlded
into seven classes. to be known, respectively. as
classes one. two, three, four, i've. SIX, ana
seven. and the consuls ut sue: consulates snail
each be entitled to compensation TOT their ser
vices ner annum at the rates respectively specl-
fed herein, to wit:
class one. four thousand dollars.
Class two three thousand five hundred dol
lars. u
Glass three three thousand dollars.
Glass four two thousand five hundred dol
lars.
Glass six. one thousand tive hnllufeu uol-
lars. ,.u.
Glass seven, one thousand dollars
Class /.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Hong Kong.
Glass II.
CHINA.
Fowchow, Hankow, Canton, Alhoy' ohii-
Kiang, Tien-Tsiu, Ningpo, SWaIo"'
Callao,
Class Ill.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Manchester GLASGOW. Bradford. Demcrara.
IREN Gil DOMlNlONS'