The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-07-27

ECUADOR.
"'"4'i'' NETHERLANDS.
Batavia.
Maranham, Para. Rio Grande de Sui.
HONDURAS.
Omca and Truxillo.
TURKISH COMMONS.
Cyprus, Bucharest.
MEXICO.
Guaymas. ,,o
Zanzibar.
PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS.
Santiago Cape Verde Islands.)
SOCIETY ISLANDS.
Tahiti.
FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATORS' ILSANDS.
Apia. , rc ns
COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
SCHEDULE C-Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loanda,
COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
SCHEDULE B.-Madagascar San Juan del Norte.
SEC 2. That there shall be allowed for the hire of
clerks, when actually expended therefor, as follows:
To the consul-general at Havana and consul at Liv
erpool, each sum not exceeding the rate of three
thousand dollars for any one year; and to the con-
a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand dol
lars for any year, to the consusgeneral at Ber-
lin, Vienna, Frankfort and Montreal, and to ,, the
chester, Beirut Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford,
Chemnitz sheffield, Sonneburg, Dresden. Havre,
CART, and Tunstall, each sum not exceeding fifteen
hundred dollars for any one year.,
SEC g. That the President shall be, ard is hereby,
authorized appoint Interpreters to the consulates
at Shanghai, Iien Tsin, Fowchow, and Kanagawa,
and allow them salaries not to exceed, in either
to appoint Interpreters to the consuates at Hankow,
Annoy, Canton, and Hong-Kong. and to allow them
salaries not to exceed, in either case the rate Of
allow at his discretion not exceeding the rate
of five hundred dollars for any one year to any one
in named for expenses of Interpretation; and that
section six of the act entitled "An act to regulate
the diplomatic and consular systems of the United
States" approved August eighteenth, eighteen hun
dred and tifty-six, is hereby repealed.
SEC 4. That the Secretary Of State shall, as soon
as practicable, establish and determine the maxi
mum amount of time actually necessary to make
the transit between each diplomatic and consular
post and the city of Washington and vice versa and
shall make the same public. He may also, from time
to time, revise his decision in this respect; but in
each case the decision is to be in like manner made
public. And the allowance for time actually and
necessarily occupied by each diplomatic and consular
officer who may be entitled to such allowance shall
exceed that for the time thus established
and determined, with the addition of the time
ally occupied by the shortest and most direct mode
of conveyance from Washington to the place Of resi-
uence III the Onlteu SIaGeS Oh sucQ OHC6r.
SEC 5. That from and after the first day of July
next, the annual salary of consular clerks who shall
have remained continuously in service as such for
tie period of five years and upward shall be one
thousand two hundred dollars.
SEC. 6. That any vce-consul who may be Tempo
rarily acting as consul during the absence of such
consul may receive compensation, notwithstanding
that he is not citizen of the United States.
For loss by exchange on the above, forty-eight
For repaying to the government of Brazil money
enormously claimed by and paid to the United
States fty-seven thousand five hundred dollars or
SO 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 marshas for the consular courts in Japan and
China, Silm, and Turkey, including loss by ex-
change, seven thousand seven hundred dollars
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse
proper, and of all the missions abroad, such as sta
tionery, bookcases, arms OF the United States,
Sher ana .ea sr
loss by exchange one hundred and thirty-one thou
sand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at
| the consulate at Constantnople, Smyrna Gambia,
Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish Do
minions, three thousand dollars.
For payment of consular officers not citizens Of
| the United States ten Thousand dollars.
For salaries and expenses Of the United States and
| Spanish Claims Commission namely: For Commits
sioner five thousand dollars; for counsel, five thou
sand dollars Tor secretary nine hundred and twelve
dollars and fifty cents; for messenger, three hun
bred dollars and for rent fuel and ice three thou
| sand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and
fifty cents; making, in ALL the sum of fifteen thou
| sand dollars.
| 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 dOlars for umpire, three thousand dollars;
legal assistant to agent three thousaHd doars two
transators, at one thousand five hundred dollars
| dollars each; one messenger. six hundred dollars;
assistant messenger three hundred dollars; and
for contingent expenses five thousand dollars; MAX
ing in ALL the of twenty EIGHT thousand seven
| Survey of boundary between the United States
and British possessions: For expenses of the COM
mission appointed under the act approved March
nineteenth eighteen hundred and seventy-two, for
between the territory of the United States and the
possessions of Great Britain from the Lake of Woods
to the summit of the Rocky Mountains, to be availa
BILE Immediately on the passage of this act, hun
| dred and fifty thousand dollars.
| For rent Of prisons for American convcts in ST.
| am 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 ex-
| penses, ten thousand dollars.
For rent Of prison for Americon conyicts in Japan
seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages OF keepers, care of offenders, and ex-
penses five thousand dollars.
For bringing home from foreign countries persons
charged with crimes and expenses Incidental thereto
including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars
For relief and protection of American seamen
in foreign countries one hundred thousand dollars
| For expenses of acknowledging 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 execution of the neutrality act, to be expended
| under the direction Of the President pursuant to
the third section of the of Congress of MAY first
eighteen hundred and ten, entitled can act fixing
the compensation of ministers and consus residing
on the coast of Barbary, and for other purposes,
twenty thousand dollars.
For annual proportion of the expenses of Cane
Sparte light, on the coast of Morocco, two hundred
and eighty-five dollars.
For allowance to widows or heirs of deceased di-
plomatic and consular officers for the time that
would be necessarily occupied in making the transit
f1om the post of duty of the deceased to his resi-
dence in the United States, five thousand dollars
For rent of courthouse and Jail, with grounds
appurtenant, in Yeddo, such other place as the
United States minister in Japan may designate,
| five thousand dollars.
To pay the sums awarded to British subjects for
such claims as are enumerated in article twelve of
the treaty of May eighth. eighteen hundred and
seventy which have been allowed by the COM
mission appointe ed under that article in the manner
prescribed by the following articles to the seven
teenth inclusive, one million nine hundred and
twenty mine thousand eight hundred and nineteen
dollars.
Approved, June H. 1874.