88 FIFIY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Cns. 272, 273. 1902. is authorized to expend not exceedinggfive thousand five hundred dollars for services of emgyloyees in the ureau of Foreign Commerce (igormerlyhtlhe Biérsau of tatisticsk Departmelpt of Stage, in tlie work 0 comp`an `stributing suc reports· the sum 0 two t ousan 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 collectinglcertain data where it seems to be warranted; and not exceeding two undred and fifty dollars in the purchase of such books, maps, and periodicals as may be necessary to the edituagl of diplomatic, consular, and other {jl°{’j{'$_,“" 0, commercial reports: Prmnfded, at all terms of measure, weight, and mmm, aw. money shall be reduced to and expressed in terms of measure, weight, ml;;?' °* **¤° °*’°‘ and coin of the United States, as well as in` the foreign terms; that each issue of diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports shall not exceed ten ousand copies. CONTINGENT uxrnusns, UNrrm> srams coxsmmrms. C,°,”°*“¤°”* °" Expenses of providing all such stationery blanks, record and other 'cwmsm books, seals, presses, ilags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, eight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular clerks, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates, consular agencies, and commercial agencies in the transaction of their business, two hundred and five thousand dollars. _ ~ · INTERNATIONAL UNION or Ammon narunmcs. Burtegu trams;-mu Commercial Bureau of American Republics, thirty-six thousand R§j dollars: Provided, That any monpys received from the other Amerin,L;§£;;$,‘{§,¥gf;’f: can Republics for the support of e Bureau, or from the sale of the ew.' Bureau publications, from rents, or other sources shall be paid into ' the Treasury as a credit in addition to the a propriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Sgcretardy of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau: An ·ova`dedfw·o‘/cer, mglvrmlulred Bullwn hat the Public Printer be, and is hereby, authorized to rint an edi- '° ° tion of the Monthly Bulletin, not to exceed five thousand copies. for distribution by the Bureau eve month during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundredand three. . Approved, March 22, 1902. March 22,1902. CHAP. 278.-An Act For the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments in “T'p, the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico affecting land situate in the District of Colum- `` bia or any Territory of the 'United States. _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and [Ima pZfRq>reae¢z¢atives of the United ,,.l;;h#,¥§,’2§’if,,,,}’l““‘l’ SWW8 of America in Oongrees assemble , That deeds and other instru- _ nefdsé ments affecting land situate in the District of Columbia or any Territo {,'}*'(·,,'{€,,§,i,{’,,,d Te,. of the United States may be acknowledged in the Philippine Islanxdys Q,m{$"e,,;';gY f,,:;; and Porto Rico before any notary public appointed therein by proper ¤<·m¤-leon. authority or any officer therein who has ex officio the powers of a FQ3i2g;,,,,, O; ,,0. notary public: Provided, That the certificate by such notary in the ¤**>"¤P°"°*'· Philippine Islands or in_ Porto Rico, as the case may be, shall be accompanied by the certificate of the attorney-general of Porto Rico or the governor or attomey-general of the Phi ippine Islands to the effect that the notary taking said acknowledgment was in fact the officer he purported to be. Approved. March 22, 1902.
