52 TIURTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 127. 1856. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, August 16th, 1856. The Senate having proceeded, in pursuance of the Constitution, to reconsider the bill entitled "An act for continuing the improvement of the Des Moines Rapids, in the Mississippi River," returned to the Home of Representatives by the President of the Ilmted States, with his objec— tions, and sent by the House of Representatives to the Senate, with the message of the President returning the bill : Resolved, That the bill do pass, two thirds of the Senate agreeing to pass the same. Attest: ASBURY DICKINS, Secretary. Aug;. 18, 1856. CHAP. CXXVII.—An Act to regulate the Diplomatic and Consular Systems nf the ""_"""‘; United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of.Representatives of the United Pay of diplo- States of America in Congress assembled, That ambassadors, envoys matic mid °°¤· extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, ministers resident, commissum °m°°rS' sioners, chargés d’aH`aires, and secretaries of legation, appointed to the countries hereinafter named in Schedule A, shall be entitled to compensation for their services, respectively, at the rates per annum hereinafter specified; that is to say, ambassadors and euvoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary, the full amounts specified therefor in said Schedule A; ministers resident and commissioners, seventy-five per centum ; charges d’aH`aires, fifty per centum; and secretaries of legation, fifteen per centum, of the said amounts, respectively: Po~ovz'd'ed, That _Pay ofsecrem- the compensation of the secretary of the legation to China, acting as
- 3* égi;‘g%“*‘;§§ interpreter, shall be at the rate of five thousand dollars, and if not acting
Tu,k€y_ as such, at the rate of three thousand dollars, and that of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as dragoman, at the rate of three thousand dollars, and if not acting as such, at the rate of two thousand dollars, per annum. SCHEDULE A. Great Britain and France, each seventeen thousand Eve hundred dollars. Russia, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Brazil, Mexico, and China, each twelve thousand dollars. All other countries, each ten thousand dollars. thS13b oizicersoi Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and is L:ndg§“;§g“P:_ hercbylauthorized to appoint for the lcgations at London and.Pams, is and to mm,,,, respecuvcly, an assistant secretary of legauon, who shall be entitled to Md Turkey- compensation for their services, respectively, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum; for the legation to China, an interpreter, when the secretary of legation shall not be acting as such, who shall be entitled to compensation at the rate of five thousand dollars; and for the legation to Turkey, a. dragoman, when the secretary of lcgation shall not be acting as such. who shall be entitled to compensation at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum. cggylltgf cguzulas, Sec. And be it fztrther enacted, That consuls general, consuls, and and comiarcid commercial agents, appomted to the ports and places hereinafter spccidcd agents, in Schedules B and C, shall be entitled to compensation for their scrvxces, respectively, at the rates per annum hereinafter specined in said Schedules B and C ; and if the President shall think proper to appoint a consul to any port or place named in the said Schedules B and C for a commercial agent, instead of such commercial agent, or vice versa, and an appomtment shall be made accordingly, the compensation for such consular officer shall be the same in any such case as that Hxed for such port or place in the schedule embracing the same; and if he shall
