Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 32 Part 1.djvu/876

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F IFTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CI-1. 530. 1903. 811 ALLOWANCE TO wmows OR HEIRS or DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS WH0 DIE ABRoAD. Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and d,Pfg;1{$Qgg;>nlé€i;j)gf forty-nine of the Revise Statutes of the United States, to the widows win Gmcés dying - or_he1rs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States “l"°“d‘ dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five thousand dollars. _ For payment to Ellen B. Buck, widow of Alfred E. Buck, late min- *,§;§';;f, §§$Q§;,0W_ Ister p empotentiary to Japan, who died December fourth, nineteen · hundred and two, while minister, an amount equal to six months’ salary of said officer, six thousand dollars. For payment to the surviving children of Thomas T. Prentis, late ',E;‘$,”,Q§f1}`,(}°;f,’;§?{{,_ United States consul at Martinique, who with his wife and all their ing children. ppssessions were lost in the late disaster caused by the eruption of ount Pelee, five thousand dollars. TRANSPORTING REMAINS or DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS, CONSULS, AND ooN- SULAR CLERKS TO THEIR HOMES ron INTERMENT. Defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic Bmging h9¤?€ *°· and consular officers of the United 'States, including consular' clerks, iii>lisii5¤,°§cciD1ulSt€rS’ who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their oihcial duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, Eve thousand ollars. INTERNATIONAL BUREAU or WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. ` Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of ,e;’Q,"$,§”“,{}Q,';'}}m fg}, Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, nineteen Megsyrg- m hun red and four, in conformity with the terms of the convention of’p` ' May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said Bureau, on its certificate of apportionment, two thousand three hundred and six dollars and ninety-three cents. INTERNATIONAL BUREAU FOR PUBLICATION or CUSTOMS TARIFFS. To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for m{,§‘,f$»'Q,‘§§§g"},'{},,,_§Q{f“‘ the year ending March thirty·iirSt, nineteen hundred and four, of Vol- M v· 1618- sustaining the International Bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand three hundred and eighteen ollars and seventy-six cents; this appropriation to be availa le on April tirst, nineteen hundred and three, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety. INTERNATIONAL (WATER) BoUNDARr commissions, UNITED STATES AND MEx1co. . To enable the Commission to continue its work under the treaties of B0§ggj`jQ_*‘C0g;1*ij* eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty- ¤1qn.104' r V I nine. seventeen thousan four hundred dollars. 26, 3 _13i1L??M ‘ °° INTERNATIONAL BUREAU AT BRUSSELS FOR REI·RESsION or THE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. To meet the share of the United States in the expenses of the special ,ng“*f’(‘;;,f§{, ’°¥;§§$é bureau created by article eightvtwo of the general act concluded at r¤a;1$._}_ 9i_ Brussels July second. eighteen hundred and ninety. for the repression ° "" p' "