Public Law 64–208

That the following sums be, and they are hereby, severally appropriated, in full compensation for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

salaries of ambassadors and ministers. Ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Austria-Hungary, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and Turkey, at $17,500 each, $227,500; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Belgium, China, Cuba, and the Netherlands and Luxemburg, at $12,000 each, $48,000; Envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Greece and Montenegro, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Uruguay, Persia, Peru, Portugal,. Salvador, Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, and Venezuela, at $10,000 each, $240,000; Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Roumania, Servia, and Bulgaria, $10,000; Minister resident and consul general to Liberia, $5,000; Agent and consul general at Cairo, $6,500; Provided, That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government; Chargés d’affaires ad interim $50,000; Total, $587,000.

salaries of secretaries in the diplomatic service. For secretaries in the Diplomatic Service as provided in the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $186,000: Provided, That the President may, whenever he considers it advisable so to do, designate and assign any secretary of class one as counselor of embassy or legation: And provided further, That section sixteen hundred and seventy-four of the Revised Statutes, fifth paragraph, as amended by section six of the Act approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service” is hereby amended to include after the words “chargé d’affaires” the word “counselors.” Japanese secretary of embassy to Japan, $3,600; Turkish secretary of embassy to Turkey, $3,600; Chinese secretary of legation to China, $3,600; Assistant Chinese secretary to the legation to China, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000. Assistant Japanese secretary to the embassy to Japan, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000. Assistant Turkish secretary to the embassy to Turkey, to be appointed from the corps of student interpreters, $2,000.

salaries of diplomatic and consular officers while receiving instructions and making transits. To pay the salaries of ambassadors, ministers, consuls, vice-consuls, and other officers of the United States for the periods actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act, in pursuance of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty of the Revised Statutes, $65,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

clerks at embassies and legations. For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, $100,000.

salaries of interpreters to embassies and legations. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Persia, $1,000. Interpreter to legation and consulate general to Bangkok, Siam, $1,500. For ten student interpreters at the legation to China, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legation and consulates in China, at $1,000 each, $10,000: Provided, That said student interpreters shall be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: And provided further, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the legation and consulates in China so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years. For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the legation to China, at the rate of $180 per annum each, $1,800. For six student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the Japanese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Japan, at $1,000 each, $6,000: Provided, That said student interpreters shall be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: And provided further, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the embassy and consulates in Japan so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years. For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the embassy to Japan, at the rate of $125 per annum each, $750. For ten student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, who shall be citizens of the United States, and whose duty it shall be to study the language of Turkey and any other language that may be necessary to qualify them for service as interpreters to the embassy and consulates in Turkey, at $1,000 each, $10,000: Provided, That said student interpreters shall be chosen in such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan: And provided further, That upon receiving such appointment each student interpreter shall sign an agreement to continue in the service as interpreter to the embassy and consulates in Turkey so long as his said services may be required within a period of five years. For the payment of the cost of tuition of student interpreters at the embassy to Turkey, at the rate of $125 per annum each, $1,250. No person drawing the salary of interpreter or student as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer. Total, $32,300.

quarters for the student interpreters at embassies. For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Japan, $600. For rent of quarters for the student interpreters attached to the embassy to Turkey, $600. Total, $1,200.

contingent expenses, foreign missions. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs, as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $398,585.

transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts. To pay the cost of the transportation of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts, or when traveling under the orders of the Secretary of State, at the rate of 5 cents per mile, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, $50,000.

steam launch for embassy at constantinople. Hiring of steam launch for use of embassy at Constantinople, $1,800.

ground rent of embassy at tokyo, japan. Annual ground rent of the embassy at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $250.

annual expenses of cape spartellight, coast of morocco. Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, $250.

bringing home criminals. Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, $5,000.

rescuing shipwrecked american seamen. Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, $4,500.

emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service and. to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, $200,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, which is hereby reappropriated and made available for this purpose: Provided, That in his discretion the President may employ part of this fund for payment for personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, notwithstanding the provisions of any existing law.

allowance to widows or heirs of diplomatic officers who die abroad. Payment under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, $5,000.

transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular assistants to their homes for interment. For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic and consular officers of the United States, including consular assistants, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, $5,000.

international bureau of weights and measures. Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, $2,895.

international bureau for publication of customs tariffs. To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, of sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, this appropriation to be immediately available, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $1,500.

international boundary commission, united states and mexico. To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of eighteen hundred and eighty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, nineteen hundred and five, and the protocol of May sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, between the United States and Mexico, $22,500.

boundary line, alaska and canada, and the united states and canada. To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and make the surveys incidental thereto between the Territory of Alaska and the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, including employment at the seat of Government of such surveyors, computers, draftsmen, and clerks as are necessary; and for the more effective demarcation and mapping, pursuant to the treaty of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, between the United States and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada, as established under existing treaties, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including the salaries of the commissioner and the necessary engineers, surveyors, draftsmen, computers, and clerks in the field and at the seat of government, rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing and necessary traveling, for payment for timber necessarily cut in determining the boundary line not to exceed $500, and commutation to members of the field force while on field duty or actual expenses not exceeding $2.50 per day each, to be expended, in accordance with regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of State, $111,000, together with the unexpended balance of previous appropriations for these objects: Provided, That hereafter advances of money under the appropriation “Boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and the United States and Canada,” may be made to the commissioner on the part of the United States and by his authority to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of State may direct, and accounts arising under advances shall be rendered through and by the commissioner on the part of the United States to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties.

international bureau at brussels for repression of the african slave trade. To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the special bureau created by article eighty-two of the general act concluded at Brussels, July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the repression of the African slave trade and the restriction of the importation into and sale in a certain defined zone of the African Continent, of firearms, ammunition, and spirituous liquors, for the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $125.

international prison commission. For subscription of the United States as an adhering member of the International Prison Commission, and the expenses of a commission, including preparation of reports, $2,550.

pan american union. Pan American Union, $85,000: Provided, That any moneys received from the other American Republics for the support of the union shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit, in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the chairman of the governing board of the union for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the union and of carrying out the orders of said governing board: And provided further, That the Public Printer be, and he is hereby, authorized to print an edition of the monthly bulletin not to exceed six thousand copies per month, for distribution by the union during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.

international bureau of the permanent court of arbitration. To meet the share of the United States in the expenses for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifteen of the International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration, created under article twenty-two of the convention concluded at The Hague, July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the pacific settlement of international disputes, $2,000.

international commission on annual tables of constants, and so forth To the International Commission on Annual Tables of Constants and Numerical Data, Chemical, Physical, and Technological, as established by the Seventh International Congress of Applied Chemistry in London and as continued by the eighth congress in New York, as a contribution by the United States toward the publication of annual tables of constants, chemical, physical, and technological, $500.

bureau of interparliamentary union for promotion of international arbitration. For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance of the Interparliamentary Union for the Promotion of International Arbitration at Brussels, Belgium, $2,000.

international institute of agriculture. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the support of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,000. For salary of one member of the permanent committee of the International Institute of Agriculture for the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,600. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the cost of translating into and printing in the English language the publications of the International Institute of Agriculture at Rome, $5,000.

international sanitary bureau. For the annual share of the United States for the maintenance of the International Sanitary Bureau for the year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,830.79.

salaries and expenses, united states court for china. Judge, $8,000; district attorney, $4,000; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,000; stenographer, $1,800; court expenses, including reference law books, $9,000; in all, $28,800. The judge of the said court and the district attorney shall, when the sessions of the court are held at other cities than Shanghai, receive in addition to their salaries their necessary actual expenses during such sessions, not to exceed $10 per day for the judge and $5 per day for the district attorney, and so much as may be necessary for said purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby appropriated. For rent of premises for the use of the United States court for China at Shanghai, $2,400.

international office of public health. For the payment of the quota of the United States for the year nineteen hundred and sixteen toward the support of the International Office of Public Health, created by the international arrangement signed at Rome, December ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, in pursuance of article one hundred and eighty-one of the International Sanitary Convention signed at Paris on December third, nineteen hundred and three, $3,015.62.

international seismological association. For defraying the necessary expenses in fulfilling the obligations of the United States as a member of the International Seismological Association, including the annual contribution to the expenses of the association, $800.

arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the united states and great britain. For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the United States and Great Britain, in accordance with the special agreement concluded for that purpose August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and the schedules of claims thereunder, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, as follows: Salaries, United States agency: One counsel and joint secretary, at $2,750; stenographer, at $1,200; Expenses, United States agency: Necessary and contingent expenses, $300; rent of rooms, not more than $1,000; In all, $5,250. Peace Palace at The Hague: For the payment of the contribution on the part of the United States toward the expenses of the Palace of Peace at The Hague, $1,045.25, or so much thereof as may be necessary. International radiotelegraphic convention: For the share of the United States for the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as a party to the international radiotelegraphic conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the International Bureau of the Telegraphic Union at Berne, Switzerland, $2,250. Fisheries convention, United States and Great Britain: For the payment of the actual and necessary expenses of a commissioner on the part of the United States under the convention between the United States and Great Britain concerning the fisheries in waters contiguous to the United States and the Dominion of Canada, signed at Washington on April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, while engaged in work under the convention, including clerical expenses that may be incurred in carrying out the convention during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

waterways treaty, united states and great britain: international joint commission, united states and great britain. For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States, with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, including rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing, and necessary traveling expenses, and for one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, $69,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, said amounts to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for subsistence of the commission or secretary, except $8 per day each, when absent from Washington on official business. For payment of services rendered and expenses incurred under the direction of the Secretary of State in the examination and preparation of cases involving the obstruction, diversion, and use of boundary waters and all other questions or matters of difference covered by the treaty of January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, between the United States and Great Britain, and in appearing before and representing the interests of the United States involved in all matters or investigations before the International Joint Commission created by said treaty, $6,000. Fifth International Conference of American States: The appropriation of $75,000 “To meet the actual and necessary expenses of the delegates of the United States to the Fifth International Conference of American States to be held at the city of Santiago, Chile, beginning in September, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and of their clerical assistants, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of State,” made in the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, by the Diplomatic and Consular Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. Payment to the Government of Panama: To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Panama the fifth annual payment due on February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article fourteen of the treaty of November eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, $250,000. International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth: To enable the Government of the United States to pay, through the American Embassy at Berlin, its quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth, $1,500: Provided, however, That the sums expended by the United States for the maintenance of the International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California, and for the continuance of the international latitude work there until the Interna-tional Geodetic Association shall find it possible to resume its support of the observatory, shall be deducted from the quota due from the United States as such adhering member. The duly appointed representative of the United States on the Permanent Commission of the International Geodetic Association is hereby granted authority to vote with the representatives on the permanent commission from other nations on all matters coming before the association, including the extension of its existence, subject to the approval of Congress. Nineteenth Conference Inter parliamentary Union: The appropriation of $40,000 “For the purpose of defraying the expenses in Washington City incident to the Nineteenth Conference of the Interparliamentary Union to be held in Washington in nineteen hundred and fifteen, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe,” made in the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby extended and made available for the calendar years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism: To complete the arrangements and provide for the entertainment of the Fifteenth International Congress Against Alcoholism to be held in the United States, to be expended under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, together with the unexpended balance of previous appropriations for the holding of said congress in the United States: Provided, That an itemized account of all expenditures shall be reported to Congress: Provided further, That no part of the appropriation herein made shall be expended for entertainment outside the city of Washington. Building at Shanghai, China: For purchase, alteration, and repair of consular premises or purchase of a site and the erection thereon of a suitable building or buildings, for the use of the consulate general and the United States court, jail, post office, marshal’s and other Government offices at Shanghai, including the residences of officers, $355,000. International Commission on Public and Private International Law: The appropriation of $15,000 for the payment of compensation to and the necessary expenses of the representative or representatives of the United States on the International Commission of Jurists, organized under the convention signed at the Third International American Conference August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, approved by the Senate February third, nineteen hundred and eight, and ratified by the President February eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, for the purpose of preparing drafts of codes of public and private international law; and for the payment of the quota of the United States of the expenses incident to the preparation of such drafts, including the compensation of experts under article four of the convention, made in the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June, thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, by the Diplomatic and Consular Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby extended and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. Acquisition of Legation Premise s at Habana, Cuba: For the purchase of a site and the erection of a building thereon, or for the acquisition of suitable premises in the city of Habana, Cuba, and for such alteration, repair, and furnishing of the same as may be necessary for the use of the legation to Cuba, both as a residence of the minister and for the offices of the legation, $100,000.

salaries of the consular service. For salaries of consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls, as provided in the act approved February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An Act for the improvement of the foreign service,” $1,139,000. No portion of this sum shall be paid as compensation to vice consuls who are not American citizens: Provided, That if in any case the Secretary of State deems it impracticable immediately to secure a competent vice consul who is an American citizen, he may appoint or retain as vice consul and compensate from this fund a person not an American citizen until such time as he is able to designate a competent American citizen for such post. Every consul general, consul, and, wherever practicable, every consular agent, shall be an American citizen. For salaries of five consular inspectors, at $5,000 each, $25,000.

expenses of consular inspectors. For the actual and necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of consular inspectors while traveling and inspecting under instructions from the Secretary of State, $15,000: Provided, That inspectors shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses for subsistence, itemized, not exceeding an average of $5 per day.

salaries of consular assistants. For forty consular assistants as provided for by law, $46,600. Post allowances to consular officers: To enable the President, in his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to consular and diplomatic officers in belligerent countries and countries contiguous thereto in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $150,000.

allowance for clerk hire at united states consulates. Allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $493,000.

salaries of interpreters to consulates in china, chosen, japan, and siberia. Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Chosen, Japan, and Siberia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $48,700.

expenses of interpreters, guards, and so forth, in turkish dominions, and so forth. Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions, Persia, Morocco, northern Africa, and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $30,000.

salaries of marshals for consular courts. Marshals for the consular courts in China and Turkey, $10,000.

expenses of prisons for american convicts. Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts in China, $1,200; for contingent expenses, $1,800; for the wages of a keeper of such prison, $1,200; and for the wages of an assistant keeper of such prison, $800; $5,000. Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Chosen, Siam, and Turkey, and of those convicted by the United States Court for China, $9,000: Provided, That no more than 50 cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding. This is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such prisoners. Rent of prison for American convicts in Smyrna, Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000. Rent of prison for American convicts in Constantinople, Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000. Total, $16,000.

relief and protection of american seamen. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, $40,000.

foreign hospital at cape town. Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, $50, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital.

contingent expenses, united states consulates. Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $597,000.