[PUBLIC-No. 47.]

AN ACT making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, 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 they are hereby, severally appropriated for the consular and diplomatic service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars.

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Japan, China, Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil, and Mexico, at twelve thousand dollars each, in all eighty-four thousand dollars.

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars. For salary of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to be accredited to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua, and to reside at such place in either of said states as the President may direct, ten thousand dollars.

For salary of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Turkey, ten thousand dollars.

For salary of envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of ministers resident in Belgium, Netherlands, Hawaiian Islands, and Sweden and Norway, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty thousand dollars.

For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general in Venezuela and Argentine Republic, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars.

For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general in Liberia, Switzerland, Denmark, Portugal, Siam, Persia, Corea, Hayti, and Bolivia, at five thousand dollars each, forty-five thousand dollars; and the minister resident and consul-general in Hayti shall also be accredited as charge d'affaires to Santo Domingo.

For salary of minister resident and consul-general to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand five hundred dollars.

For salary of agent and consul-general at Cairo, five thousand dollars.

For salary of agent to the States of the Congo Association, five thousand dollars; said agent to be charged with introducing and extending the commerce of the United States in the Congo Valley; and for such purpose the further sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For salary of charge d'affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, five thousand dollars; and section sixteen hundred and eighty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby repealed.

For charges d'affaires ad interim and diplomatic officers abroad, twelve thousand dollars.

For salaries of the secretaries of the legations in London, Paris, Berlin, and Saint Petersburg, at two thousand six hundred and twentyfive dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For salary of the secretaries of legation in China and Japan, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, five thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; and section sixteen hundred and eighty of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby repealed.

For salaries of the secretaries of the legations in Spain, Turkey, Austria, Italy, Brazil, and Mexico, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, in all, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.

For salaries of the secretaries of the legations in Chili and Peru at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars.

For salaries of the second secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, and Berlin, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.

And hereafter no secretary or second secretary of any legation shall be entitled to or receive any compensation over and above his salary as such secretary for acting as charge d'affaires during the temporary or other absence without leave of the minister to whose duties he may succeed.

For salaries of second secretaries of the legations in Japan and China, who shall be American students of the language of the court and country to which they are appointed, respectively, and shall be allowed and required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to devote their time to the acquisition of such language, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars.

For the salaries of interpreters to the legations in China, at three thousand dollars, and in Japan and Turkey, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand dollars. But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer. For secretary of legation and consul-general at Bogota, two thousand dollars.

For secretary of legation in Central American states and consulgeneral at Guatemala, two thousand dollars.

For salary of interpreter to the legation and consulate-general in Persia, one thousand dollars.

For salary of interpreter to the legation in Corea, one thousand dollars.

For salary of the clerk to the legation in Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For the purpose of enabling the President to provide at the public expense all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, and traveling expenses, including for miscellaneous expenses fifteen thousand dollars, in all, seventy-five thousand dollars. For actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, five thousand dollars.

For loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from legations, two thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of State to comply with the requirements of the fourth section of "An act regulating fees and the practice in extradition cases," approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.

For rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or

such other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars.

For repairing United States legation buildings at Tangier, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier light, on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars

For printing and distributing the publications by the Department of State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of such reports discussing partisan political, religious, or moral questions shall be published.

For contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said Bureau on its certificate of apportionment, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.

For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of ministers and consuls of the United States to their former homes in this country for interment, where such ministers or consuls have died or who may die abroad while in discharge of their official duties, ten thousand dollars.

SCHEDULE B.

For salaries of the consuls-general at Constantinople and Rome, at three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.

For salaries of the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro, at six thousand dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars.

For salaries of the consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars.

For salary of the consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of the consuls-general at Berlin, Kanagawa, Montreal, Honolulu, and Panama, at four thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.

For salaries of the consuls-general at Saint Petersburg, Frankfort, Halifax, Vienna, and in Ecuador, at three thousand dollars each, fifteen thousand dollars.

For salary of the consul-general at Mexico, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For salary of the consul at Liverpool (Great Britain), six thousand dollars.

For salary of the consul at Hong-Kong (Great Britain), five thousand dollars.

For salaries of thirteen consular clerks, fourteen thousand six hundred dollars.

For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, and commercial agents, three hundred and nineteen thousand dollars, namely:

CLASS II.-At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum:

CHINA.

Foochow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; Tien-Tsin; Chin-Kiang.

Callao.

PERU.

CLASS III.-At three thousand dollars per annum:

GREAT BRITAIN.

Ottawa; Manchester; Glasgow; Bradford; Demerara; Belfast; Singapore.

CLASS IV.-At two thousand five hundred dollars per annum :

GREAT BRITAIN.

Tunstall; Birmingham; Sheffield; Dundee; Leith; Nottingham; Victoria (British Columbia).

FRENCH DOMINIONS.

Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons.

ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.

Buenos Ayres.

GERMANY.

Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden.

SPANISH DOMINIONS.

Cienfuegos; Santiago de Cuba.

BELGIUM.

Brussels; Antwerp.