238 FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 65. 1877. For salaries of the interpreters to the consulates at Hankow, Annoy, · Canton, and Hong Kong, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to twelve other consulates in China, - Japan, and Siam, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars. C<>¤}¤}¤i¤f officofs For consular officers not citizens of the United States, ten thousand 11011 Glthens. dollars. Marshals. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan and China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand seven hundred dollars. In therpreters, For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at Con- °*°·» i¤ T¤’k°Y· stantinople Smyrna, Cairo Jerusalem, and Beirut in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars. Lo ss b y ex . For loss by exchange on consular service, ten thousand dollars. oi¤¤~¤zo; _ For contingent expenses of United States consulates, such as station- C°““”g°“°‘°“· ery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and other necessary miscellaneous matters including loss by exchange, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. Spanish Claims For salaries and expenses of the United States and Spanish Claims Commission- Commission, namely: For commissioner, three thousand five hundred dollars; for counsel, three thousand five hundred dollars; for secretary, nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents; for messenger, three hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars; making in all, the sum of eight thousand nine hundred and sixty two dollars and fifty cents. Boot of prisons. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, and °‘°°· _ for wages of keepers of the same, including loss by exchange, two thousand dollars. _ For rent of prison for American convicts in China, one thousand tive hundred dollars; for wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, nine thousand five hundred dollars, For rent of prison for American convicts in Japan, seven hundred and fiftv d_ollars. ' d For wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, five thousand ollars. Root of oourt- For rent of court-house and jail, with grounds appurtenant, at Yeddo, h°“*’°> °“°·· Y°dd°· or such other place as shall be designated, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. _ Root of build- For rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or ‘“~‘"<S· P°k*“g·°”°· Supp other place as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred o ars. Bringing homo For bringing home from foreign counties persons charged with crimes, P9“°‘}° °b“’€°d and expenses incidental thereto, including loss by exchange five thou- WM] °"m°‘ sand dollars. _ ’ Renef of Ameri- For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries omi scomon- eighty thousand dollars. Rescue from For expenses of acknowledging the services of masters and crews of ‘ shipwreck. foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. Nsumiity mt. To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the R_ g_ 29]_,p_248_ neutrality act, to be expendend under the direction of the President, pursuant to requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, ten thousand dollars. . ‘ _ Cape spar-tel For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel light, on the hehe · coast of Morocco, two hundred and eighty-tive dollars. Wid ews an A For allowance to widows or heirs of deceased diplomatic and consular l;?!?;! of gcceaseg officers for the time that would be necessarily occupied in making the
- £S;’,;“r”‘0&;c;“ transit from the post of duty of the deceased to his residence in the
' United States, five thousand dollars. _ Approved, February 26, 1877.
