Denmark: Consul at Copenhagen. France and French Dominions: Consuls at Cognac, Guadelupe, Martinique, Nice, and Limoges. Consuls at Breslau, Kehl, Mannheim, Munich, and Freiburg. Consuls at Amherstburg (Canada), Antigua (West Indies), Belize (British Honduras), Bristol, Brockville (Ontario), Coaticook (Canada), Ceylon (India), Charlottetown (Prince Edward Island), Clifton (Canada), Fort Erie (Canada), Goderich (Canada), Gibraltar, Guelph (Canada), Kingston (Canada), London (Canada), Malta, Morrisburg (Canada), Newcastle-on-Tyne, Pictou (Canada), Port Hope (Canada), Port Sarnia (Canada), Port Stanley (Falkland Islands), Prescott (Canada), Quebec, Saint Helena, Saint Johns (Quebec), Saint Stephens (Canada), Stratford (Ontario), Three Rivers (Canada), Wallaceburg (Canada), Windsor (Ontario), Winnipeg (Manitoba), Woodstock (New Brunswick), Yarmouth (Nova Scotia), Hull, and Saint Johns (Newfoundland). Italy: Consuls at Castellamare, Catania, Florence, Genoa, Leghorn, Messina, Milan, Naples, and Venice. Great Britain and British Dominions: Consuls at Gaspe Basin (Canada), Sierra Leone (West Africa), and Windsor (Nova Scotia). Haiti: Consul at Cape Haitien. Honduras: Consul at Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utilla). Italy: Consul at Turin. Netherlands: Consul at Batavia. Schedule C. Class VII, $1,000 a year. Portuguese Dominions: Society Islands: Consul at Tahiti. Sweden and Norway: Consul at Christiania. Inspection of con sulates. Expenses. Consular clerks. Payments to consu INSPECTION OF CONSULATES. To provide for the expenses of an inspection of consulates to be made by officers of the Government, such officers not to receive any compensation in addition to their regular salaries, which shall continue to be paid to them during the period of their employment in this special service, ten thousand dollars, to be immediately available. SALARIES OF CONSULAR CLERKS. Eleven consular clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand two hundred dollars; and two consular clerks, at one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; total, fifteen thousand two hundred dollars. SALARIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS NOT CITIZENS. The salary of a consular officer not a citizen of the United States lar officers not citi shall be paid out of the amount specifically appropriated for salary at the consular office to which the alien officer is attached or appointed. zens. ALLOWANCE FOR CLERKS AT CONSULATES. Clerksat consulates. Allowance for clerks at consulates, as follows: Bradford, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Rio de Janeiro, one thousand six hundred dollars; Antwerp, one thousand five hundred dollars; Berlin, Bremen, Chemnitz, Crefeld, Frankfort, Hamburg, Havre, Southampton, one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; Belfast and Sonneberg, one thousand dollars each, two thousand dollars; Birmingham, and Marseilles, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each, one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; Bordeaux, Brussels, Calcutta, Colon, Dresden, Dundee, Glasgow, Leipsic, Melbourne, Nuevo Laredo, Nuremberg, Panama, Port au Prince, Sheffield, Singapore, Toronto, and Tunstall, at eight hundred dollars each, thirteen thousand six hundred dollars; Kingston (Jamaica), eight hundred dollars; Maracaibo, eight hundred dollars; Guayaquil and Victoria, eight hundred dollars each, one thousand six hundred dollars; Messina, Palermo, Saint Gall, Smyrna, and Tangier, at eight hundred dollars each, four thousand dollars; Leith, at six hundred and forty dollars; Cairo, Cologne, Constantinople, Huddersfield, Mayence, Munich, Nottingham, Odessa, Para, Pernambuco, Tampico, Vera Cruz, Horgen, and Zurich, at six hundred dollars each, eight thousand four hundred dollars; Beirut, four hundred and eighty dollars; Berne, Demarara, Florence, Genoa, Malaga, Mannheim, Naples, and Stuttgart, at four hundred and eighty dollars each, three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars; Allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State at consulates not herein provided for in respect to clerk hire, no greater portion of this sum than five hundred dollars to be allowed to any one consulate in any one fiscal year, twentyfive thousand dollars: Provided, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated; Total, one hundred thousand seven hundred and seventy dollars. SALARIES OF INTERPRETERS TO CONSULATES IN CHINA, KOREA, AND JAPAN. Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, and Japan, Interpreters. to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, fifteen thousand dollars. EXPENSES OF INTERPRETERS, GUARDS, AND SO FORTH, IN TURKISH Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish Dominions and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, eight thousand dollars. SALARIES, MARSHALS FOR CONSULAR COURTS. Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, Japan, and Turkey, nine thousand three hundred dollars. EXPENSES OF PRISONS FOR AMERICAN CONVICTS. Expenses of a prison and prison keeper at the consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars; Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; Actual expense of renting a prison in Kanagawa for American convicts in Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars; Interpreters, guards, etc. Marshals, consular courts. Consular prisons. Shanghai. Kanagawa. Provisos. ance. Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea, Keeping prisoners. Japan, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: Provided, That no more than fifty cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding. This is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such prisoners: And provided further, That no allowance shall be made for the keeping prisoners. and feeding of any prisoner who is able to pay, or does pay, the above sum of fifty cents per day, and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case; Self-supporting Rent of prison for American convicts in Turkey and for wages of Rent, etc. keepers of the same, one thousand dollars; Rent of prison for American convicts in Madagascar and for wages for keeper of the same, one thousand dollars; Total, fifteen thousand one hundred dollars. Relief of American seamen. Post, p. 186. Foreign hospitals, Panama. Preparing, etc., con. sular reports. Post, p. 148. Provisos. Equivalents of meas. ures, etc. RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and also on the coast of Alaska, or so much thereof as may be necessary, fifty thousand dollars. FOREIGN HOSPITALS AT PANAMA. Annual contributions toward the support of foreign hospitals at Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals. PUBLICATION OF CONSULAR AND OTHER COMMERCIAL REPORTS. Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the Department of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, twenty thousand dollars: Provided, That all terms of measure, weight, and money shall be reduced to, and expressed in, terms of the measure, weight, and coin of the United States, as well as in the foreign terms; that each issue of consular reports shall not exceed seven thousand Purchase of books, copies: And provided further, That a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars of this appropriation may be expended in the purchase of such books, maps, and periodicals as may be necessary to the editing of the consular and commercial reports. etc. Bureau of American LOSS BY EXCHANGE, CONSULAR SERVICE. Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and from the several consulates and consulates-general, four thousand dollars. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, UNITED STATES CONSULATES. Expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular clerks, compensation of Chinese writers, 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, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF AMERICAN REPUBLICS. Commercial Bureau of American Republics, twenty-eight thousand dollars: Provided, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau Disposal of receipts. publications, from rents, or other sources shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau. PUBLICATION OF INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF EXPORTS AND IMPORTS. For completion of the compilation and publication, under the direction of the Secretary of State, of a uniform nomenclature of articles of merchandise, exported and imported, in the English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, as provided by the International American Conference, five thousand dollars. Approved, February 27, 1896. CHAP. 35.-An Act To change and fix the time for holding the district and cirenit courts of the United States for the northern division of the eastern district of Tennessee. February 27, 1896. eastern Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Tennessee States of America in Congress assembled, That the terms of the circuit judicial district. and district courts of the United States for the northern division of Terms, Knoxville. R. S., secs. 572, 658, the eastern district of Tennessee, held at Knoxville, Tennessee, shall pp. 101, 122. commence on the first Mondays in March and September of each year, instead of the second Mondays in January and July, as is now provided by law; and each of said terms shall continue as long as the presiding judge may deem necessary. SEC. 2. That no action, suit, proceeding, information, indictment, Pending causes. recognizance, bail bond, or other process in either of said courts shall abate or be rendered invalid by reason of the change of time in the holding of the terms of said courts, but the same shall be deemed to be returnable to, pending, and triable at the terms herein provided for. SEC. 3. That this Act take effect from and after its passage, the pub- Repeal, etc. lic welfare requiring it; and that all laws and parts of laws conflicting with this Act be, and are hereby, repealed. Approved, February 27, 1896. CHAP. 36.-An Act Authorizing and directing the Secretary of the Navy to donate one condemned cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to W. H. Wallace Post, Numbered Sixty-six, Grand Army of the Republic, of Eldorado, Kansas, and for other purposes. February 27, 1896. Donated to Grand Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Navy Condemned cannon. be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to donate one condemned Army Post, Eldorado, cannon and four pyramids of condemned cannon balls to W. H. Wallace Kans. Post, Numbered Sixty-six, Grand Army of the Republic, of Eldorado, Kansas, for the soldiers' monument to be erected in said town: Provided, That in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy, such articles can be spared without detriment to the public interest: And provided further, Expenses. That the United States shall not be subjected to any expense on account of such donation. Approved, February 27, 1896. Provisos. March 2, 1896. CHAP. 37.-An Act To amend section fifty-two hundred and ninety-four of the Remission of fines, etc. R. S., sec. 5294, p. Remission of fines, etc., on vessels ex "SEC. 5294. The Secretary of the Treasury may, upon application therefor, remit or mitigate any fine, penalty, or forfeiture provided for tended to forfeitures. in laws relating to vessels or discontinue any prosecution to recover penalties or relating to forfeitures denounced in such laws, excepting the penalty of imprisonment or of removal from office, upon such terms as he, in his discretion, shall think proper; and all rights granted to informers by such laws shall be held subject to the Secretary's powers of remission, except in cases where the claims of any informer to the share of any penalty shall have been determined by a court of competent jurisdiction prior to the application for the remission of the penalty or forfeiture; and the Secretary shall have authority to ascertain the facts upon all such applications in such manner and under such regulations as he may deem proper." Approved, March 2, 1896. |