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FORTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. HI. Ch. 125. 1869. 319 CHAP. CXXY. — An Act making Appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic Ex- March 3, 1869. Z;;;;?) [1y)` if;" (;;»:f;r;;;nt_/or the Year ending June thtrtzet/z, czghtcen lzundrezl and seventy, i; Ik ft enacted by the Senate and House of Representives of the United Consular and States of Americcc in Clmgress assembled, That the following sums be, and ‘lll’l°*“*"l° °X‘, the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury gmis approprinot otherwise appropriated, for the objects liereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy, namely : For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of_ E¤V<>yS·mi¤— the United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Aus- °°m' tria, Brazil, Mexico, China, Italy, Chili, Peru, Portugal. Switzerland,' Greece, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Ecuador, New Granada, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, Paraguay, Uruguay, Japan, and Salvador, three hundred and sixteen thousand dollars. For additional salary of tnini~ter resident to the Argentine Republic, appointed Additional _ also to the Republic of Uruguay, at the rate of three thousand seven hun- f;l‘*lf;,g;n;"¥;‘s' drcd and fifty dollars a year, such salary to commence October thirteenth, (hg Am,,,;;,,,, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, and to continue while acting as minister R¢t>¤bl*¢ Md *0 to Uruguay. Uruguay For salaries of secretaries of legation, as follows: S09*`<’*=¤‘l<¤S vt At London and Paris, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dol- and as` lars each. At Saint Petersburg, Madrid, Berlin, Florence, Vienna, Rio Janeiro, and Mexico, eighteen hundred dollars each. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, two thousand dollars each. 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 dol- cxggsséggénb lars.' For contingent expenses of Foreign intercourse, fifty thousand dollars. For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely: in- __Cnnsn1ates_in terpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, ,{);;l"$1‘ ‘l"“““' Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Beirut, three thousand dollars. . For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, mgwgmmn Sem per acts of February eighteenth, [twenty-eiglwh,] eighteen hundred and 1803, ch. 9. three, and February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and eleven, fifty wjlltfgygbsl thousand dollars. 651. For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of llescuing $0** the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens of the United mw` States from shipwreck, five thousand dollars. For the purchase of blank-books, stationery, book-cases, arms of the ‘B]¤¤l<:b<><>ks, United States, seals, presses, and {lags, and for the payment: of postages, St‘m°"°ly’ &°‘ and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, including loss by exchange, and for office rent; for those cousuls-general, consuls, and emce rentand commercial agents who are not allowed to trade, including loss by ex- °"°h*“‘g°· change thereon, eighty thousand dollars; and there shall be allowed out 0f the tees of the office one thousand dollars per annum, and no more, for wFs1R‘;;;’l';‘ I`Ol\lZOf the consul’s offices at Paris. rms, For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen Consuls·genconsular clerks, including loss by exchange thereon, tour hundred thou- °ml¤°°’”¤l$»&°· sand dollars, namely: