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LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES
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GENERAL NATURB-No. 43.

lar and diplomatic service OF the Government
Tor the year ending June thirtieth, Gig htsen
hundred and seyenty-hve, and for other pur-
posee.
BE It enacted by the Senate AVID House Of Repre-
senfdttres y TIE tatted States Of Ameriod in Con-
SreSs assembled. That the following sums be,
and the same are hereby, appropriated for the
service OF the fiscal year ending June thirtieth,
eisnteeh nuhdred and seventy i've, out of any
money In the Treasury not other wise apprJpri-
ated, for the objects hereinafter expressed,
namely:
For salaries of ENJOYS extraordinary AMI min
isters plenipotentiary to Great Britain, France.
Germany and Russia, At seventeen thousand
five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand
dollars.
For salaries of ENJOYS extraordinary and min
listers plenipOtentiary 20 Spain, Austri,,
Brazil, Mexico, Japan, China, and Italy, 81
WE'VE Thousand dollars each, eighty-four thou
For salaries of ENJOYS extraordinary and min
listers plenipotentisTy TO Chill and Peru, at ten
thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars
For ministers resident at Portugal Switzer-
land, Greece, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark,
sweden ana Norway, Turkey, Ecuador, Co
lombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands,
and the Argentine Republic. at seven thousand
I'VE hundred dollars each, one hundred and i've
thousand dollars.
For minister resident accredited to Guate-
mals, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, aud
Nicaragua, to reside At the place that the Pres.
ident may select in any one OF the states smed,
sulsr and diplomatic service approved May
twenty second, eighteen hundred and seventy
two, ten thousand dollars.
For minister resident at Uruguay, also &C
credited to Paraguay, ten thousand dollars.
For minister resident and consul general 70
Hsyu, seven thousand five hundred dollars.
For minister resident and consul general 70
Liberia, four thousand dollars.
For charges d'sffsires ad interim and diplo-
matte officers abroad, forty thousand dollars.
For salaries TO secretaries to legations at Lon
don, Paris, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg, at
two thousand six hundred and twenty five dol
lars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars.
And the Secretary Of State Is authorized 10 al
low and pay to the secretary Of legation and TO
the second secretary of legation and to the mes
senger OF the legation in Paris, from the moneys
collected at the legation for the Transmission OF
consular invoices, an amount not 70 exceed in
the aggregate six hundred dollars in any one
year, 10 be divided and distributed a. the Sec
rotary 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, Brazil,
Italy, Mexico, and Spain, at one thousand eight
hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars.
For second secretaries to legations at Great
Britain, France, and Germany, at two thousand
dollars each, six thousand dollars.
For secretary to legation acting also as inter
pTeter) at China, i've thousand dollars.
For salary OF the Interpreter to legation In
Turkey, three thousand dollars.
For the Interpreter 70 the legation at Japan,
two thousand i've hundred dollars.
To enable Robert G. Schenck, minister TO
Great Britain, to employ private smanuensis,
according TO joint resolution approved January
eleventh, eighteen hundred and seyenty-one,
two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse
proper and Of all the missions abroad, one hun
dred thousand dollars.
For consuls- general, consuls, vice-consuls,
commercial agents, and thirteen consular
clerks, three hundred and sixty-four thousand
five hundred dollars; and the bonds which con-
sulsr officers who are not compensated by sala
ries are required by the thrte enth section OF she
act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and
fity-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
the act entitled San act TO regulate the az plo-
matte and consular systems of the United
States" approved August eighteenth, eighteen
hundred and fifty-six, shall, from and after the
first day Of July next, read a. 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 snnum.
The consuls general at London, Paris, Ha-
compensation for their services at the rate Of
six thousand dollars per annum.
The consuls- general at Calcutta and Shang-
hal shall each be entitled to compensation for
their services at the rate Of five thousand dOl-
lars per annum.
The consul-general at Melbourne shall be en-
titled to compensation for his services at the
rate Of four thousand five hundred dollars per
annum.
The consuls- general at Ksnsgawa, Montreal,
and Berlin shah each be entitled 70 compenss-
ton for their services at the rate OF four thous-
and dollars per annum.
The consuls- general at Vienna, Frankfort,
Rome, and COnstantinople shall each be entitled
to compensation for their services at the rate OF
three thousand dollars per annum.
The consuls general at Saint Petersburg and
Mexico shall each be entitled decomposition
for their services at the rate OF two thousand
dollars per annum.
The consul at Liverpool shall be entitled to
compensation for his services at the rate OF six
thousand dollars per annum.
The following consulstes shall be divided into
seven classes, TO be known, respectively, as
classes one, two, three, four, five, six and seven,
and the consuls at such consulates shall each be
entitled to compensation for their services per
snnum at the rates respectively specified here
in, to wit:
Class one, four thousand dollars.
Glass two, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Glass three, three thousand dollars.
Class four, two thousand i've hundred dollars.
Class I'VE. two thousand dollars.
Glass six, one thousand i've hundred dollars.
Class seven, one thousand dollars;
SOdiidn acknowledgements.
CLASS Observation-Disclosures, Hsnkow, Can
ton, Annoy, Chin, Kiang, Tien-Tsn, Ningpo,
CLASS lII.-Gredt OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES las-
gov, Bradford, Demerara. French rOminiOns-
Havre. Spanish DOns,nions- Matsnzas. Bar
barry Stotes-Tripoh, Tunls, Tangiers. japan
Nagssaki, Osaka, and Hiogo. Aerioo-Vers
Cruz. Sidm-Bsngkok. United States Of Colom-
Iid-Panama, Colon, tAsPinwslll argentine
CLASS IV.-Gredt Britain Birmingham,
Sheffield, Belfast, Singapore, Tunstsn. French
Dominions-Marseilles, Lyons. Bordeaux. Span
ish Do,ninions-Trinidad de Cuba, Santiago de
Cuba. Belgium-Antwerp, Brussels. Ddnisk
DOminions-Saint Thomas. Germdny-Ham-
burg, Bremen, Dresden. Japan-Hskodadi.
GLASS V.-Gredt Britdin-Leeds, Southsmp-
ton, Dundee, Leith, Cork, Dublin, Toronto,
Hamilton, Costicook, Halifax, Saint Johns,
New Brunswick,) Kingston, (Jamaics.) Mas
sau, New Providence, Turks Islands, Cardiff,
Port Louis, (Mauritius.) Rsssia-Odessa,
AMOR River. Spanish DomiBiOns-San Juan,
porto Rico.) Portugdl-Lisbon. Dominion Of
Che Observation-Disclosures Germany-Sonne-
berg, Nuremberg, Bsrmen, Chemntz, Leipsic,
Aix-la-Chapelle- Austria- Hungary Trieste,
Prague. Spitserlznd-Basle, Zurich. Turkish
Dominions-Smyrna, Beirut Madagascar
Tamstave. Merioo-Acapulco, Matamoras.
Bro-it-Pernambuco. Craguay-Montevideo.
CLASS VI.-Great Britain Bristol, New
Castle, Aukland, Gibraltar, Malta, Cape Town,
Saint Helena, Goderich, lCanads west,)
Kingston, fCanada,) Prescott, Port Sarnia.
windsor, (Canada West Quebec, Saint Johns,
[Canads East Pictou, Chariottetown, prince
Edward Island,) Winnipeg, Barbados, Ber-
%nda, Port Stanley, Mshs, SseychellssS Fort
r d. II. a