78 FIFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 272. 1902. Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Persia, one thousand dollars , — Inteizpreter to legation and consulate-general to Korea, five hundred dollars Interipreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, five hundre dollars; mS(§‘{,‘§,§},’f*“’*’P’°'·“’“ For ten student inteipreters at the legation to China, who shall be citizens of the United tates, and whose duty it shall be to study the Chinese language with a view to supplying interpreters to the legations and consulates IH China, at one thousand dollars each, ten thousand P¤*¤*•·>·· dollars: Provided, That said student inte reters shall be chosen In Noupartisan selec- . . rp . ‘ nom. such manner as will make the selections nonpartisan so far as may be consistent with aptness and fitness for the intended work: And provided T¢¤¤ of ¤¢¤’*¢¢- rther That u n receivin sucha intment each student inte reter » P° 2 _ PPO _ _ YP shall sign an agreement to continue In the service as Interpreter to the legations and consulates in China so long as his said services may be reguired within a period of ten years. ‘ otal, twenty thousand five hundred dollars. ' mlf,‘;*e*§° ¤“"*°° °°* But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided ` shall be al owed any part of the salary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other officer. LEGATION TO SPAIN. §{’Q,*{‘,,,,,,_ d clerk hire at legation to Spain, one thousand two hundred 0 . OONTINGENT Ex1·ENsEs,, FOREIGN MISSIONS. °°“"“,¥,,°,,°° °*‘ To enable the President to provide at the public expense all such ite:-;,' { mw stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, llags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, tele— garams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of vasses, guards, dragomen, and porters, including conapensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at angiers, and m“*‘°°°h ‘*°““" the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San _ Francisco, and for traveling an miscellaneous expenses of embassies
- ’*'*““”¥- and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for
”°°”*" °’°*‘°°¤°· loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, one hundred and seventydive thousand dollars. s·rEAM LAUNCH Fon LEGATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE. ,,£$f°““‘ ‘°“““"~ T‘"‘ Hiring of steam launch for use of the lcgation at Constantinople, one thousan eight hundred dollars. RENT or LECATION BUILDINGS AND EXTENSION or LECArION oIz0UNDs IN CHINA. 5§§‘,§;,_ Rent of buildings for and other purposes at Pekin, or such other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand six hundred dollars. ERECTION or BUILDINGS ron LEGATION TO CHINA. p,§§$f°,€‘{,'}¤l§YjIdi“g" For the erection of necessary buildings for legation premises at PekIn, China, sixty thousand dollars. GROUND RENT or LEcA1"I0N AT trokro, JAPAN. §;*l$;h_ annual ground rent of the legation at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, two hundred and fifty ollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
