THIRTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 97. 1853. 203 Intercourse with Foreign Natio1zs.—For salaries and outfits of Min- F°¥°l8¤ I¤*°¥'· isters of the United States to Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia., cmu5e' Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Chili, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars ; For salary and outnt of a Minister to Central America, to be accredited to such one or more of the Governments included in that name as gh?] President of the United States may designate, eighteen thousand 0 ars ; For salaries of Secretaries of Legation to the same places, twenty thousand dollars; For salary of the Minister resident to Turkey, six thousand dollars ; For salary of the Dragoman to the Legation to Turkey, two thousand tive hundred dollars; For salaries and outfits of Charges des Affaires or Ministers resident to Portugal, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Naples, Sardinia,the Papal States, New Grenada,Venezuela,Buenos Ayres, Bolivia, Guatemala, Ecuador, Switzerland, and Nicaragua, one hundred and fifty- three thousand dollars: Provided, That the Ministers resident herein proviso_ authorized shall not receive more compensation than is now allowed to a charge des atfaires; For salary of Clerk to the United States Legation at London, eight Salarieshundred dollars; For the payment of Theodore S. Fay of the diiference between the T- S- Fay- salary of a Secretary of Legation and a Charge d’AE`aires, during the time, on several diiferent occasions, he discharged the duties of the latter office at Prussia, four thousand and thirty-four dollars and seventy-three and two-ninth cents, the same to be in lieu of all former appropriation; and also, if received, in full for all diplomatic services rendered in that capacity; For compensation of Edward Kent, for one quarter’s salary as Charge Edward Kent. d’Aifaires at the legation at Rio de Janeiro, during the absence of the Minister, and under the instructions of the Department of State, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. To reimburse David Tod, late Minister of the United States at Brazil, David Tod. a sum of money advanced by him to William E. Anderson, who was sent by the Minister from Rio de Janeiro to the United States in the spring of eighteen hundred and fifty-one as a witness against two persons engaged in the slave trade, seventy-five dollars; For payment of Buckingham Smith, late Secretary of Legation in _Buckinghsm Mexico, the difference between his salary as Secretary of Legation and Sm“ih• that of Charge d’Aii"aires from the twenty-sixth July, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, to the eighth of October following, during which period he discharged the duties of Charge d’AH'aires in Mexico, in the absence of the Minister of the United States, who had returned home on leave, one thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and ninety-five cents; the same, if he received, to be in full for all charges during the period aforesaid. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, forty thousand dollars; For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, forty thousand dollars For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, nine thousand dollars; For salary of the Consul at London, two thousand dollars; For salary of the Commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, five thousand dollars; For interpreters, guards, and other expenses of the Consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, and Alexandria, two thousand dollars; For office rent of the consul at Basle, in Switzerland, one hundred dollars;
