Regulations Prescribed for the Use of the Consular Service of the United States

1168. An act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular service of the Govenrment for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty. eight, and for other purposes. (Approved March 3, 1887.)

SCHEDULE A.

SALARIES OF MINISTERS.

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to France, Germany, Great Britain, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars.

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to Austria, Brazil, China, Italy, Japan, Spain, and Mexico, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars.

Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Salvador (to reside at such place in either of said States as the President may direct), ten thousand dollars. Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to the United States of Colombia, the Argentine Republic, and Turkey, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. Ministers Resident in Belgium, Hawaiian Islands, Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, and Venezuela, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

Minister Resident and Consul-General to Roumania, Servia, and Greece, six thousand five hundred dollars.

Ministers Resident and Consuls-General in Bolivia, Corea, Denmark, Hayti, Persia, Portugal, Siam, and Switzerland, at five thousand dollars each, forty thousand dollars (and the Minister Resident and Consul-General in Hayti shall also be accredited as Chargé d'Affaires to San Domingo).

Minister Resident and Consul-General to Liberia, four thousand dollars. Agent and Consul-General at Cairo, five thousand dollars.

Chargé d'Affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay, five thousand dollars. Chargé d'Affaires ad interim and Diplomatic Officers abroad, twenty thousand dollars.

1169. SALARIES SECRETARIES OF LEGATIONS.

Secretaries of the Legations in Berlin, China, Japan, London, Paris, and Saint Petersburg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

Second Secretaries of the Legations at Berlin, London, and Paris, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.

Second Secretaries of the Legations in Japan and China, who shall be American students of the language of the court and country to which 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 dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars.

Secretary of Legation and Consul-General at Bogota, two thousand dollars.

Secretary of Legation in Central American States and Consul-General to Guatemala, two thousand dollars.

Secretaries of the Legations in Austria, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Spain, and Turkey, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.

Secretaries of the Legations in Chili and Peru, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, three thousand dollars.

Secretary of Legation and Consul-General at Corea, one thousand five hundred dollars.

1170. SALARIES INTERPRETERS TO LEGATIONS.

Interpreter to the Legation in Turkey, three thousand dollars; interpreter to the Legation in China, three thousand dollars; interpreter to the Legation in Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars; interpreter to the Legation and Consulate-General in Persia, one thousand dollars; interpreter to the Legation and Consulate-General in Corea, one thousand dollars; interpreter to the Legation and Consulate-General in Bangkok, Siam, five hundred dollars; eleven thousand dollars. But no person drawing the salary of interpreter as above provided shall be allowed any part of the salary appropriated for any Secretary of Legation or other officer.

1171. CLERK-HIRE AT LEGATIONS.

Clerk at the Legation in Spain, one thousand two hundred dollars.

1172. CONTINGENT EXPENLES FOREIGN MISSIONS.

For the purpose of enabling the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several Legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk-hire, compensation of cavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the Consulate at Tangier, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of Legations, and for printing in the Department of State, one hundred and five thousand dollars.

1173. MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES OF LEGATIONS.

Loss by exchange in remittances of money to and from Legations, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Hiring of steam launch for use of the Legation at Constantinople, one thousand eight handred dollars.

Rent of buildings for Legation and other purposes at Peking, or such other place in China, as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars.

For rent of Legation buildings in Tokio, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, three thousand four hundred dollars.

1174. MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES FOREIGN INTERCOURSE.

Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangier light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.

Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, five thousand dollars.

To enable the Secretary of State to comply with the requirement of the fourth section of "An act regulating fees and the practice in extradition cases," approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars.

For expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirements of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

For the payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty-nime of the Revised Statutes of the United States, of the widows or heirs-at-law of Diplomatic or Consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five thousand dollars.

For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of Ministers and Consuls of the United States to their former homes in this country for interment, where such Ministers or Consuls have died, or who may die, abroad, while in discharge of their official duties, ten thousand dollars.

Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in conformity with the terms of the convention of 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 two hundred and seventy dollars.

Haytian Arbitration Commission: For expenses of printing for joint commission which sat at Washington to arbitrate the claims of Antonio Pelletier and A. H. Lazare against the Government at Hayti, one thousand five hundred and seventy-seven dollars and forty-four cents; for

compensation of the arbitrator, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, four thousand and seventy-seven dollars and forty-four cents.

Venezuela and American Claims Commission: For compensation of one commissioner, at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum; onehalf compensation of third commissioner, the said one-half at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one-half compensation of secretary of commission, said one-half at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum; one-half of incidental expenses, or so much thereof as may be necessary, three thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars.

SCHEDULE B.

1175. SALARIES CONSULAR SERVICE.

Consuls-General at Havana, London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, at six thousand dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars.

Consuls-General at Calcutta and Shanghai, at five thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars.

Consul-General at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars. Consuls-General at Berlin, Honolulu, Kanagawa, Montreal, and Panama, at four thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.

Consul-General at Halifax, three thousand five hundred dollars. Consuls-General at Constantinople, Ecuador, Frankfort, Rome, Saint Petersburg, and Vienna, at three thousand dollars each, eighteen thousand dollars.

Consul-General at Mexico, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of Consuls, Vice-Consuls, and Commercial Agents, three hundred and seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars, as follows, namely:

Consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars.

Consul at Hong-Kong, five thousand dollars.

1176. CLASS II.

At three thousand five hundred dollars per annum.

China:

Consuls at Amoy, Canton, Chin-Kiang, Foo-Chow, Hankow, and TeinTsin.