264 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 55. 1898. they are appointed, respectively, and shall be allowed and required, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to devote their time to the acquisition of such language, at one thousand eight hundred dol- " lars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; Second secretary of the embassy to Italy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Total, sixty-two thousand and seventy-five dollars. f'¤*'**ljYr,_*{’,_,’f*,“°$; The appropriations in this Act for the salaries of the ambassador to mgiysvasnnu. Russia and for the iirst and second secretaries of said embassy are hereby made immediately available. sALA1m:s OF INTEBPBETEBS TO LEG-ATIONS. rnmpnms Interpreters to legations to China and Turkey, at three thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars; Interpreter to legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars; Interpreter to legation and consulate-general to Persia, one thousand dollars- ‘ lpterlpreter to legation and consulate-general to Korea, five hundred dollars- · Interzpreter to legation and consulate-general to Bangkok, Siam, live . hundred dollars; . Total, ten thousapd nve lliundred dollars. Gd 1••l¤r1¤•¤f ¤·¤r•¢·•- ut no person wing the sal of interpreter as above provid f'$",,,;:*,,;,'§{‘*°"' "°° shall be allowed any part of the s·dlyary appropriated for any secretary of legation or other onicer. spam. 1.E¤ATION T0 SPAIN. · cm-k um. For clerk hire at legation to Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, FOREIGN mssrons. °°¤'·l¤!B°¤° °¤P¤¤· To enable the President to provide at the public expense, all such °°°’f°mg° mI°°1°°°’ stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, ilags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legatious in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, po tage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of . kavasses, guards, dragomen, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangiers, and 1¤•v•wh•g¤¤¤¤· the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies P¤'*¤¤¤¢· and legatious, and for printing in the Department of State, one hundred and twenty-tive thousand dollars. Loss BY EXCHANGE, m1>LOMAT1o SERVICE. Loss by manga. Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from embassies and legations, two thousand five hundred dollars. STEAM LAUNCH Fon LEGATION AT c0NsTANT1NOPLE. 8,,,,,,,, 1,,,,,,,,;,, Tu,. Hiring of steam launch foruseof the legation at Constantinople, one kw- thousand eight hundred dollars. xm, RENT or LEGATION BUILDINGS AND G1z0UN1>s m CHINA. Ohm Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or such other place in China as shall be designated, three thousand six hundred dollars. GROUND RENT or LEGATION AT TOKYO, JAPAN. ,y.,,,,,_ Annual ground rent of the legation at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
