CLASS VI.-At $1,500 per annum. GREAT BRITAIN. Bristol; New Castle; Auckland; Gibraltar; Cape Town; Saint Helena; Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island); Port Stanley; Clifton; Pictou; Winnipeg; Mahe; Kingston (Canada); Prescott; Port Sarnia; Quebec; Saint John's (Canada); Barbadoes; Bermuda; Fort Erie; Goderich (Canada West); Windsor (Canada West). Class six. Class soven. SCHEDULE C. CLASS VII.-At $1,000 per annum. GREAT BRITAIN. Ceylon; Gaspe Basin; Southampton; Windsor (Nova Scotia). For allowance for clerks at consulates, forty-two thousand six hundred dollars, as follows: For the consul-general at Havana and the consul at Liverpool, each a sum not exceeding the rate of three thousand dollars for any one year; and to the consuls-general at London, Paris, and Shanghai, each a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand dollars for any one year; to the consuls-general at Berlin, Vienna, Frankfort, and Montreal, and to the consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Leipsic, Lyons, Manchester, Hong-Kong, Ottawa, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheffield, Sonneberg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Rio de Janeiro, Nuremberg, Leith, Singapore, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Tunstall, each a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for any one year: Provided, That the total sum expended in any one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated. Clerks at consu lates. Proviso. Proviso. For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, Lon- Shipping and don, Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburg, to be allotted as may seem proper discharge of seato the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars: Provided, That the fees men. collected at these ports for shipping and discharging seamen shall be paid into the Treasury as required by law. And the President is requested to revise the tariff of consular fees and prescribe such rates sular fees. as will make them conform, as nearly as may be, to the fees charged by other commercial nations for similar services. Revision of con For salaries of the interpreters to the following consulates: at Shang- Interpreters. hai, two thousand dollars, and at Tien-Tsin, Foochow, and Kanagawa, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to the consulates at Hankow, Amoy, Canton, and Hong-Kong, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to twelve other consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars. For consular officers not citizens of the United States, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan and China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand dollars. For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars. Consular officers not citizens. Consular courts. Loss by ex Contingent expenses. Returns of exports For loss by exchange on consular service, eight thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of United States consulates, such as stationery, change. bookcases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and other necessary miscellaneous matters, including loss by exchange, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. And it shall be the duty of consuls to make to the Secretary of State a quarterly and imports. statement of exports from, and imports to, the different places to which they are accredited, giving, as near as may be, the market price of the various articles of exports and imports, the duty and port charges, if any, on articles imported and exported, together with such general Wages. Spanish Claims Commission. Prisons. Buildings for legation in China. Extradition. Relief and pro information as they may be able to obtain as to how, where, and through what channels a market may be opened for American products and manufactures. In addition to the duties now imposed by law, it shall be the duty of consuls and commercial agents of the United States, annually, to procure and transmit to the Department of State, as far as practicable, information respecting the rate of wages paid for skilled and unskilled labor within their respective jurisdictions. For salaries and expenses of the United States and Spanish Claims Commission, namely: For commissioner, three thousand dollars; for counsel, three thousand dollars; for secretary, nine hundred dollars; for messenger, three hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars; making in all the sum of seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, including loss by exchange, two thousand dollars. For rent of prison for American convicts in China, one thousand five hundred dollars; for wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of prison for American convicts in Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, five thousand dollars. For rent of court-house and jail, with grounds appurtenant, at Yeddo, or such other place as shall be designated, three thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking, or such other place as shall be designated, three thousand one hundred dollars. For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes, and expenses incidental thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, tection of seamen. fifty thousand dollars. Rescuing ship- For expenses of acknowledging the services of masters and crews of wrecked Ameri- foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars. cans. Cape Spartel light. Widows and For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel light, on the coast of Morocco, two hundred and eighty-five dollars. For allowance to widows or heirs of deceased diplomatic and consular heirs of diplomatic officers for the time that would be necessarily occupied in making the and consular offi- transit from the post of duty of the deceased to his residence in the Salaries herein to United States, five thousand dollars. And the salaries provided in this be in full. cers. Consular Regulations. Neutrality act. Jan. 28, 1879. Private landclaims. act for the officers within named respectively shall be in full for the annual salaries thereof from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine; and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. For expenses of revising and editing the Consular Regulations, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available immediately. 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, five thousand dollars. Approved, January 27, 1879. CHAP. 30.-An act defining the manner in which certain land-scrip may be assigned and located, or applied by actual settlers, and providing for the issue of patents in the name of the locator or his legal representatives Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever, in cases prose 1860, ch. 188, 12 Stat., 85. 1867, ch. 184, 14 Stat., 544. 1872, ch. 421, 17 Stat., 378. Certificates of lo cuted under the acts of Congress of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty, March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and the first section of the act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventytwo, providing for the adjustment of private land-claims in the States of Florida, Louisiana and Missouri, the validity of the claim has been, or shall be hereafter, recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States, and the court has decreed that the plaintiff or plaintiffs is or are entitled to enter a certain number of acres upon the public lands of the United States, subject to private entry at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, or to receive certificate of location for as much of the land the title to which has been established as has been disposed of by the United States, certificate of location shall be issued by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, attested by the seal of said office, to be cation. located as provided for in the sixth section of the aforesaid act of Congress of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and sixty, or applied according to the provisions of the second section of this act; and said certificate of location or scrip shall be subdivided according to the request of the confirmee or confirmees, and, as nearly as practicable, in conformity with the legal divisions and subdivisions of the public lands of the United States, and shall be, and are hereby declared to be, assign- Assignable. able by deed or instrument of writing, according to the form and pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, so as to vest the assignee with all the rights of the original own. ers of the scrip, including the right to locate the scrip in his own name. SEC 2. That such scrip shall be received from actual settlers only in payment of pre-emption claims or in commutation of homestead claims, pre-emption and in the same manner and to the same extent as is now authorized by law in the case of military bounty-land warrants. Subdivisions. Receivable for homestead claims. Entry proceed SEC 3. That the register of the proper land-office, upon any such certificate being located, shall issue, in the name of the party making the ings. location, a certificate of entry, upon which, if it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office that such certificate has been fairly obtained, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, a patent shall issue, as in other cases, in the name of the locator or his legal representative. Patent. Provisions ex SEC 4. That the provisions of this act respecting the assignment and patenting of scrip and its application to pre-emption and homestead tended. claims shall apply to the indemnity-certificates of location provided for by the act of the second of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, entitled "An act to provide for the location of certain confirmed private land-claims in the State of Missouri, and for other purposes." Approved, January 28, 1879. 1858, ch. 81, 11 Stat., 294. CHAP. 33. An act making appropriations to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of section two hundred and fifty-four of the Revised Statutes, and to appropriate forty thousand dollars for the miscellaneous expenses of the House of Representatives, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to meet the expenses of the transportation of coin and bullion sixty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated: Provided, that this appropriation be made available on and after the passage of this act, and that the amount paid for the transportation of gold coin from San Francisco to New York shall not exceed one fourth of one per cent, and for the transportation of silver one per cent, and for intermediate point at proportionate rates corresponding to the distance. House miscella To meet the miscellaneous expenses of the House of Representatives to be disbursed by the clerk of the House the sum of forty thousand neous expenses. dollars is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not |