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Public Law 39–XCIX
making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.
Approved February 28, 1867
Statutory text
An Act
making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and for other Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, namely:—
Envoys extraordinary, ministers and commissioners.
For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of the United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Aus- THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 99. 1867. tria, Brazil, republic of Mexico, China, Italy, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, New Grenada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, Paraguay, Japan, and Salvador, three hundred and one thousand dollars: Provided, That no money shall be paid to the present Minister Resident at Portugal
Present minister resident at Portugal.
American legation at Rome.
out of any fund whatever; and this provision shall continue in force until repealed by Congress. And no money hereby or otherwise appropriated shall be paid for the support of an American legation at Rome, from and after the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven.
For salaries of secretaries of legation, thirty thousand dollars.
Secretaries of legation.
For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris,
Assistant secretaries.
three thousand dollars.
For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand
Interpreters.
dollars.
For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars.
For salary of the interpreter to the legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, fifty thousand
Contingent expenses.
dollars.
For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty-five thousand dollars.
For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, three thousand
Barbary powers.
dollars.
For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely: interpreters,
Consulates in the Turkish dominions.
guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, and Beirut, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,
American seamen in foreign countries.
1811, ch. 28. Vol. ii. p. 651.
per acts of February eighteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and eleven, two hundred thousand dollars.
For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of
Rescue from shipwreck.
the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens of the United States from shipwreck, ten thousand dollars.
For the purchase of blank books, stationery, book cases, arms of the
Blank books, stationery, &c. postages and exchange.
United States, seals, presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages, and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, including loss by exchange, fifty thousand dollars.
For office rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents
Office rent of certain consuls-general, &c.
who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon, forty-five thousand dollars.
For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, namely:—
I. CONSULATES GENERAL.
schedule b.
Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai.
II. CONSULATES.
schedule b.
Acapulco, Aix-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aspinwall, Bankok, Basle, Belfast, Beirut, Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brindisi, Boulogne, Barcelona, Cadiz, Callao, Candia, Canton, Chemnitz, in Saxony, Chin-Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Demarara, Dundee, Elsinore, Erie, Foo-choo, Funchal, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Guaymas, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Honolulu, Hong-Kong, Hankow, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston, Jamaica, Kingston in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, Lahaina, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Lyons, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Moscow, Munich, Nagasaki, Naples, Nassau, (West Indies,) Newcastle, Nice, Nantes, Odessa, Oporto, Palermo, Panama, Paris, Pernambuco, Pictou, Ponce, Port Mahon, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Revel, Rio de Janeiro, Rome, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan, (Porto Rico,) Saint John, (Canada East,) Santiago de Cuba, Port Sarnia, Singapore, Smyrna, Spezzia, Southampton, Saint John, (Newfoundland,) Saint Petersburg, Saint Pierre, (Martinique.) Saint Thomas, Stuttgardt, Swatow, Saint Helena, Tampico, Tangier, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Tripoli, Tunis, Turk’s Island, Valparaiso, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich. And the salary of the consul at Chemnitz shall be two thousand dollars per annum. And the salaries of the consuls at Rome, Quebec, Munich, and Spezzia, respectively, shall be fifteen hundred dollars, and the salary at Spezzia shall take effect from the beginning of the present fiscal year.
III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
Balize, (Honduras,) Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo.
IV. CONSULATES.
schedule c.
Aux Cayes, Bahia, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthagena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Piraeus, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, Saint Catharine, Santa Cruz, (West Indies,) Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Stettin, Tabasco, Tahita, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Venice, Zanzibar.
V. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
schedule c.
Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Lonndo [Loanda,] including loss by exchange thereon, four hundred and thirty-one thousand five
No pay to any consul, &c. unless a citizen of the United States.
hundred dollars. No money appropriated by this act shall be applied to the payment of salary or compensation to any diplomatic representative of any grade, or to any consul or commercial agent of the United States, who is not a citizen of the United States, native, or duly naturalized.
Interpreters to consulates in China.
For interpreters to the consulates in China, including loss by exchange thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars.
Bringing home persons charged with crime.
For expenses incurred under instructions from the Secretary of State, in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto, fifteen thousand dollars.
Marshals of consular courts.
For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, including that at Nagasaki, and in China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, nine thousand dollars.
Consulates established at Mahe and San Domingo; appropriations.
For the salary of consul at Mahe, Seyehelle islands, and at San Domingo, which consulates are hereby established and added to schedule B, fifteen hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars.
Prisons for American convicts in Japan, &c.
For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand dollars.
Ministers resident, &c. to Hayti and Liberia.
For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general to Hayti and Liberia, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses under the act of Congress, to carry into effect the treaty THIRTY-NINTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 99, 100. 1867. between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression
Suppression of slave-trade.
1862, ch. 140. Vol. xii. p. 531.
of the African slave-trade, seventeen thousand dollars.
For expenses under the act to encourage immigration, twenty thousand
Immigration.
1864, ch. 246. Vol. xiii. p. 385.
dollars.
For expenses under the neutrality act, twenty thousand dollars.
Neutrality.
For expenses of the commission to run and mark the boundary line
Boundary line on Washington Territory.
between the United States and the British possessions bounding on Washington Territory, twenty-eight thousand and seventy dollars.
For defraying the expenses which may be incurred by despatches over
Despatches over the Atlantic cable.
the Atlantic cable, thirty thousand dollars.
For the payment of the second annual instalment of the proportion
Second annual instalment towards the capitalization of the Scheldt dues.
Vol. xiii. p. 649.
contributed by the United States towards the capitalization of the Scheldt dues, to fulfil the stipulations contained in the fourth article of the convention between the United States and Belgium, of the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the sum of fifty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars in coin, and such further sum as may be necessary to carry out the stipulation of the convention providing for payment of interest on the said sum and on the portion of the principal remaining unpaid.
Approved, .