FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 128. 1899. 833 sum of fifty cents per day; and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case; Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of Bantam keepers of the same, one thousand dollars; Total, fourteen thousand one hundred dollars. RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMEBIGAN SEAMEN. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and mma: American shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, or so much °°’""°"‘ thereof as may be necessary, thirty thousand dollars. FOREIGN HOSPITALS AT PANAMA. Annual contributions toward the support of foreign hospitals at rmign hospit •1¤, Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State P““‘“"“· upon the assurance that suifering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals. PUBLICATION or DIPLOMATIC, CONSULAR, AND ornmz COMMERCIAL nnronxrs. Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution by the Deparf mp¤mg,m.,m. ment of State of the diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports: ”‘“’“' "°’°"’· thirty thousand dollars; and of this sum the Secretary of State is 1¤¤¤r1¤y¤¤•.¤w· authorized to expend not exceeding five thousand five hundred dollars for services of employees in the Bureau of Foreign Commerce (formerly the Bureau of Statistics), Department of State, in the work of compiling and distributing such reports; the sum of two thousand dollars for the cost of cablegrams in instructing consular officers to report upon matters of immediate importance to commerce and industry, and of cablegrams of consuls on such subjects; also to defray the extra expense imposed upon consular officers in collecting certain data where it seems to be warranted; and not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars in the purchase of such books, maps, and periodicals as maybe necessary to the editing of diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports: Provided, That all terms of measure, weight, and money shall Pmqua. be reduced to and expressed in terms of measure, weight, and coin of ,,,]§“,§{g{'°"”°°*“‘°"* the United States, as well as in the foreign terms; that each issue of Limit. of issue or diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports shall not exceed ten '°P°”°· thousand copies. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, UNITED STATES CONSULATES. Expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other Conunzent oxbooks, seals, presses, nags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, "°““"‘ °°"'“1“"’“‘ newspapers, neight (toreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular clerks, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates, consular agencies, and commercial agencies in the transaction of their business, two hundred thousand dollars. . INTERNATIONAL UNION on AMERICAN BEPUDLIGS. Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousand dol. mB¤r`$a¤¤fA¤¤¤¤¤ lars: Provided, That any moneys'received from the other American 1Q;l»»€$` _ Republics for the support of the Bureau, or from the sale of the Bureau __H,g° °‘ *°°°*P*¤‘¤"¤ publications, from rents, or other sources shall be paid into the Treasury ' as a credit in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn there from upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau. Approved, February 9, 1899. VOL xxx--53
