New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-12
Brazil-Maranham, Para, Rio Grande de

Brazil-Maranham, Para, Rio Grande de
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Honduras Omoa and Truxillo.
Turkish Dominions-Cyprus, Bucharest.
Mexico-Guaymas.
Muscat-Zanzl0ar.
Portuguese Misunderstanding, (Cspe
Verde Islands.)
Society Islands-Tahiti.
-Chili-TalcahuanO.
Friendly and Navigator's islauds-Apia.
Fejee islands-Ovalau. - WI.
Italy-Venice, Milan.
COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
Schedule C.-Gaboon. St. Paul de Loanda,
Lauthala.
Schedule B-sIadagascar, 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 Liverpool, each
sum not exceeding the rate of three thou
sand dollars SOr any one year; and to the
consuls general Of London, Paris and
Shanghai, each sum not exceeding tha
rate of two Thousand dollars for any one
year: to the consuls general at Berlin,
Vienna, Frankfort and Montreal, and to the
consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Leipsic,
Lyons, Manchester. Beirut, Belfast, Birm-
ingham, Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheffield, Son.
neberg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Fayal,
nuremberg, LcItu, NopiCe, anu
Tunstall, each sum not exceeding fifteen
fifteen hundred dollars for any one year.
Sec. g. That the President shall be, and
is hereby authorized to appoint interpreters
to the consulates at Shanghai, Tien Tsin,
Fowchow, and Kanagawa, and to allow
them salaries not to exceed, in either case,
the rate of two thousand dollars year;
and to appoin. interpreters to the consulates
Of HaEkow, Annoy, Canton, and Hong
Kong, and to allow them salaries not to
exceed, in either case, the rate of seven
hundred and fifty dollars q year; and also
to allow, at his discretion, q sum not exceed
ing the rate of five hundred dollars for any
one year to any one consulate in China or
Japan, respectively, not herein named, for
expenses of Interpretation; and that section
six OF the act entitled 'AH act to regulate
the diplomatic and consular systems of the
United States" approved August eighteenth,
eighteen hundred and tifty-six, is hereby
repealed.
Sec. A. That the Secretary of State shall,
as soon 81 practicable, establish and deter
mine the maximum amount of time actually
necessary to make 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 IOr Ulu10 ACTUALLY anu u6CocS6rlly
occupied by each diplomatic and consular
officer who may be entitled to such allow
ance shall in no case exceed that for the
time thus established and determined, with
the addition of the time usually occupied
by the shortest and most direct mode of
conveyance from Washington to the place
of residence in the United States Of such
officer.
SEC. 5. That from and after the first day
of July next the annual salary Of consular
clerks who shall have remained continu-
ously in service as such for the period of
| five years and upward shall be one thousand
| two hundred dollars.
Sec. G. That any vice consul who may be
| temporarily acting as consul during the
obsence Of such consul may receive COM
pensation, notwithstanding that he is not
citizen of the United States.
For loss of 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
hundred dollars, or 80 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 and China, Siam. and Turkey, in.
Guiding loss by exchange, seven thousand
seven hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of foreign inter
course proper, and of all the missions
abroad, such as stationery, book cases,
arms of the United States, seals, presses
| and flags. rent, freight, postage and oths'
necessary miscellaneous matters, includln-
| loss by exchange, one hundred and thirty
| one thousand eight hundred and fifty dol
lars.
For interpreters, guards and other ex-
penses at the consulates at CorstantlnOple :.
| Smyrna, Gambia, Cairo, Jeruralem and
Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three
| Thousand dollars.
For payment of consular officers not
| citizens of the United States, ten thousand
| dollars. III
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 twelve dol
lars and fifty cents; for messenger. three
hundred dollars; and for rent, fuel and ice,
three thousand seven hundred and eighty
seven dollars and fifty cents; making, in
all, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
For salaries and expenses OF United
States and Mexican Claims Commission: For
Commissioner, four thousand five hundred
dollars; for agent, four thousanded dollars;
for secretary, two thousand five hundred
dollars; for Umpire, three thousand d0llars;
legal assistant to agent, three thousand dol
| lars; two translatOrs, at one thousand five
hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one
thousand four hundred dollars each; one
| messenger, six hundred dollars; one assist
ant messenger, three hundred dollars; and
for contingent expenses, five thousand dol
lars; making, in all, the sum of twenty
eight thousand seven hundred dollars.
Survey Of boundary between the United
States and British possessions: For expenses
of the commission appointed under act ap-
proved March nineteenth, eighteen HIM
dred and seventy two, for the purpose OF
surveying and marking the boundary be.
tween the territory of the United States and
the possessions of Great Britain from the
Lake of the Woods to the summit of the
Rocky Mountains, to be available imme-
diately on the passage of this act, one hun.
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of prisons tor American cOnvicts
in Siam and Turkey, and for wages o!
keepers of the same. including loss by ex
change, four thousand dollars.
For rent Of prison for American convicts
} in China, one thousand tivehundred dollars
For wages OF keepers, care of offenders
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
incidental thereto, including loss by exc
change, five thousand dDllars.
For relief and protection of American
seamen in foreign coua.fes, one hundred
thousand dollars.
For expenses of acknowledging the sere
| vices of masters and craW3 of foreign vess