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OFFICIAL.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES,
l'A.SSKl) AT THF. FIRST SESSION OK THE
FoltTY-TIIIRIl CONGRESS.
AN ACT for the government of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and for other pur
poses. Re it enicted bu the Ornate anl ITmisc ot
Representatives of the t'nibtt States of Amer
ica in GastjgresM assembled.
That all provisions of law providing for
an exeeutiiie, for a secretary for the Dis
trict, for a legislative assembly, for a board
of public works, and for a delegate in Con
gress in tin- District of Columbia are here
by repealed: Proeideil, That this repeal
shall not affect the term of office of the
present delegate in Congress.
See. 2. That the President of the United
Slates, by and with the advice and con
sent of the Senate, is hereby authorized to
apiioiuta commission, consisting of three
persons, wlo shall, until otherwise pro
vided by law, exercise all the power and
authority now lawfully vested in the gov
ernor or lmuil of public works of said Dis
trict, except as hereinafter limited: and
shall be subject to all the restrictions and
limitations now imposed by law on said
governor or lioard; and shall have power
to apply the taxes or other revenues of
said District to the payment ot the current
expenses thereof, to the support of tile
public schools, the lire department, and
the police and to the payment of the debts
of said District seenred by a pledge of the
seenritics of said district or board of pub
lic works as collateral, ond also to the pay
ment of debts due to lalorcrs and employ
ees of the district and board of public
works: and for that purpose shall take
lwissession and supervision of all the offices
Looks, papers, records, moneys, credits,
securities, assets; and accounts belonging
or appertaining to the business or interest
of the government of the District of Co
lumbia and tne board of public works, and
exercise the power and authority afore
said: but said commission, in the exercise
of such power or authority, shall make no
contract, nor incur any obligation oilier
than such contracts and obligations as
may le necessary to ihe faithful adminis
tration of the valid laws enacted for the
irovemment of said district, to the exeeu-
lion oi existing legal oniigni ions ana in
t facts, and to the protection or preserva
tion ot lnipnivouienis existing, or com
menced and not completed, at the time of
the passage of this act. All taxes hereto
fore lawfully assessed and due or to be
come due shall be collected pursuant to
la a; , except as herein otherwise provided;
but said commissioners snail nave no pow
er to anticipate taxes, or evidence thereof:
PracUled, That nothing In this clause con
tained shall afleet any provisions ot law
authorizing or reoiiirmg a deposit of cer
tificates of assessment with the sinking
fund commissioners of said district; and
said commissioners are hereby authorized
to abolish any office, to consolidate two or
more offices, reduce the numlier ot em
ployees except teachers ill the public
schools, officers and employees in the fire
department, shall be reducer twenty per
centum per annum, said commisssonert
shall each, before entering upon the dis
charge of his duties, take an oath tosun-
port the Constitution of the United states
and to taitliluily uisctiarge tne amies im
posed upon him by law: and shall each
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s-oul ilrillurs to tie mmroved bv the Secre-
taryofthe Treasuay, for the faithful dis-
cnaigcoi tne ouucjioi hi. tnutr, inui suoii
each receive tor his services a compensa
tion at the rate of tie thousand dollars per
annum : Provided, That nothing in t his
act shall be construed to abate or in any
wis liitertere with any suit penning lu
favor of or agninst the District of Colum
bia; tml provitterf furtlter. That in suits
hereafter commenced against the Dislrict
of Columbia, process may be served on
any one of said commissioners, until
otherwise provided by law.
Sec. 3. That the President of the United
States shall detail an officer of the Engin
eer Corps of the Army of the United
States, who shall, subject to the general
supervision and direction of the said board
of commissioners, hare the control and
cliarge of the work of repair and improve
ment of all street s, avenues, alleys, sewers
and roads, and bridges of the District of
Columbia; and he Is hereby vested with
nil the power and authority of, and shall
perform t he duties heretofore devolved up
on, the chies engineer of puMle works,
lie shall take possession of, and preserve
and keep, all the instruments pertaining
to said office, and all the maps, charts, sur
veys, books, records, and jiapers relating
to said district, or to any of the avenues,
streets, alleys, public spaces, squares, lots
and buildings thereon, sewers, or any of
them, as are now in or lielongitig to the
office of said engineer of the lioard of pub
lic works, and shall, in books provided for
that purpose, keep and preserve the record
now required ts lie kept, and such as may
lie required by regulations of said board.
He may, with the advice and consent of
aid board of commissioners, appoint not
more than two assistant engineers from
civil life, who shrll each receive a salary
of one thousand eight hundred dollars per
annum, and shall lie sudject to his direc
tion and control. Ae shall receive no addi
tional compensation for such services.
Ami he shall not lie deemed by reason of
anything in this act contained to hold a
civil oftce under the laws of the United
States. And no salary or compensation
shall lie paid to the surveyor of the dis
trict, or any of his sulxirdinates, except
such ties fo'r special services as are allow
ed by law. And tbeoffices of assistant sur
veyor and additional assistant, surveyor of
the District of Columbia are hereby abol
ished. Sec. 4. That for the support of the gov
ernment of the District of Columbia, and
maintaining the eredit thereof, for the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-five, there shall be
levied upon real estate in said district, ex
cept that belonging to the United States
anil to the District of Columbia, and that
used for educational rnd charitable pur
poses, the following taxes, namely : Up
on all ,uch real estate in the city of Wash
ington, three dollars on each one hundred
dollars of the prescn t assessed value there
of; upon all such real estate In the city of
Georgetown, two dollars and fifty cents on
each one hundred dollars of the present
assessed value thereof; and upon such real
estate in the District of Columbia outside
of the cities of Washington and George
town, twp dollars on each one hundred
dollars of the present assessed value there
of; which said taxes shall become due and
payable on the first day of November,
eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and,
If not paid, shall lie In arrears and delln
linquent lrom the date; and shall, except
as herein modified, be assessed and col
lected as now provided by law for the as
sessment and collection of general taxes
for the District of Columbia; and of the
sums so collected, one-fourth thereof shall
lie adplied, first, to re-imburse the United
States for its advances on account of In
terest' whlcn shall have been paid by the
United States on the funded debt of the
District of Columbia and Washington and
Georgetown, due and payable July first,
eighteen hundred and seventy-four; and
the remainder shall be used to pay defi
ciencies in the various funds for the fiscal
year ending Jane thirtieth, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-four. And u the re
mainder of said taxes not required for the
aforesaid purposes shall be distributed for
for the pu rposes and in the proportion
provided by the act of the legislative as
sembly of the District of Columbia, ap
proved June twenty-six, eighteen hunred
and seventy-three, entitled '-An act im
posing taxes for the fiscal year ending
June thirt ieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four,"
so far as said appointment is
not Inconsistent with this act : prodded.
That no evidence of debt issued by the
District of Columbia, or any branch there
of, or by the board of public works, sliall
in any manner lie received in payment for
said taxes : And provided further That no
payment shall be made on account of the
militia of said district, or for the purpose
of erecting a district Jail. Upon, all pay
ments of said taxes hereby Imposed which
shall be made in advance of the said first
day of November, eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, there shall be an abatement
allowed one per centum per month for
each and every month so paid In advance;
and that upon all said taxes which shall be
delinquent and upaid on Bald first day of
November, there shall be added a penalty
of one per centum to the amount thereof,
to be collected with such taxes; and a like
penalty of one per centum upon the
amount thereof shall be added on the first
day of each succeeding month to all of said
taxes as are then delinquent and unpaid,
to be collected as aforesaid. It shall be, the
dutv of the collected of taxes to, prepare a
complete list of all taxes and property up
on which the same are assessed In arrears
on tne mat uy "-t ""TnJEiJSCr tZZ
within tea days therearcer, ruuiish
same, with the notice of sale, pi a new
SSer published in said district, to be dea
CnateS by said board of commissioners,
for the time and In the manner required
by the provisions of the act of tbe Jslr
t lve assembly entifled "An act prescribing
t he dudles of certain officers for the Dls
trtet ot umbia,Tand fixing t$eir coin.
pensation," approved August twenty
third, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.
And all the provisions of saiil act as to the
sale of property and the collection of taxes
in arrears are "hereby made applicable to
the taxes hereby imposed and In arrears
as aforesaid, except that the deed convey
ing the property so sold shall be executed
by the said board of commissioners in
stead of the governor and secretary.
See. ft. That a joint select committee
shall Ik1 npiximted. consisting ot two Sena
ators, to lie appointed by the presiding
officer of the Senate, and two memliers of
the Hou-e, to lie appointed by the Speaker
of the. House of Representatives, whose
duty it shall be to preiiare a suitable frame
of government for the District of Colum
bia anil appropriate uraugius oi statutes
to be enacted by Congress for carrying the
same into effect, and report the same to
the two Houses, respectively, on the first
day of the next session thereof; and they
shall also preiiare and submit to Congress
a statement of the proper proportion of
tne expenses or said government, or any
branch thereof. Including interest on the
funded dobt, which should lie borne by
said district and the United States, re-
snectivelv. toeetlier with the reasons up
on which their conclusions may lie based;
ana m tne discharge ot tne duty nereoy
imposed, said committee is authorized to
CTimlov such nsKistnncc ns it may deem
advisable, ai an expense not to exceed the
sum oi nve t nousana dollars; anu said sum
or so much thereof as may be necessary,
lie, and the same Is hereby, appropriated
for t hat purpose.
See. 9. That it shall lie the duty of the
First Comptroller of the Treasury and the
Second Comptroller of the Treasury of the
United Ttatcs. who are hereby constituted
a lioard of audit, to examine and audit for
settlement all the unfunded or floating
debt of the District of Columbia and of the
lioard of public works, hereinafter speci
fied namely : first the debt evidenced by
sewer eertfOcates; secondly, the debt pur
porting to be evidenced and ascertained
liv certificates of the auditor of the lioard
of public works: thirdly, the debt evidenc
ed by the certificates of the auditor and
the comptroller of the District of Colum
bia; fourthly, ciaims existing or hereafter
crmted for which no evidence Indebted
ness lias been issued, arising out of con
tracts, written or oral, made by the board
of public works; fifthly, olaims, for which
no evidence 01 mwuicuncsa mc ii-v-n is
sued, arising out of contracts, written or
oral, made, by or on lienalf of the District
of Columbia; sixthly, all claims for pri
vate property taken by the ixiard of public
works from "the avenues, streets, and all
eys of the cities of Washington and
Georgetown; and, seventhly, all unad
justed claims for damages that may have
oeen presented to the board of public
works, pursuant to an act of the legisla
tive assembly of the district of Columbia,
entitled "An act providing for the pay
ment of damages sustained by reason of
public improvements or reiiairs," approv
ed June twentieth, eighteen hundred and
seventy -two, which tast-nanied claims
shall severally lie examined anil audited
without regard to any examination here
tofore made; and shall make a detailed
tnd tabular statement of all claims pre
sented, the persons or conxiratioiis own
imr the same, and the amount found to lie
due on account of each; together with a
tabular f tatoment of the funded debt of
the District of Columbia and of the cities
of Washington and Georgetown of every
kind and character whatsoever, giving
the date of issue, time of maturity, and
the rate of Interest. And it shall further
be the nuty of said board to ascertain the
amount of sewer-tax or asaessnient paid
bv any nerson. persons, or corporation.
Under the act of the legislative assembly
o "said district, entitled "An act creating
drainaga and sewerage sections m the
citirs of Washiilgton and Georgetown, in
the District of Columbia, and providing
for the payment of the construction of
sewers and"drains therein by assessments,
and issuing certificates therefor," approv
ed the twenty-sixth day of June, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, and to pre
pare a tabulated statement thereof. Said
board of audit shall also issue to each
claimant a certificate, signed by each of
said board and countersigned by the
comptrtjller of said district, stating the.
amount found to lie due to each on what
account; and a register thereof shall be
kept by said board, to be transmitted to
Congress, and also by the comptroller of
said district; and said board of audit shall
also ascetain and report to Congress, at
the next session thereof, t3ie amount equi
tably to the street railroad companies on
account of paving along and within the,
tracks of said companies, pursuant to the
charters of eoid companies oo the acts of
Congress relating thereto, together witu
their reasons therefor. It shall further lie
the dutv of said board of audit to examine
Into and adudlt all of the accounts of the
auditor and the treasurer of the lioard of
public works, and of the auditor, and of
the treasurer, the collector, and the comp
troller of the District of Columbia, from
the date of the organization of said board
and of the present government of said
District; and for the purposes hereiulie
fore specified shall have the power co sulv
piena witnesses, administer oaths, and ex
amine witnesses under oath, and shall
full access to all of the records, liooks, 11a
pers, and vouchers of every kind whatso
ever of the lioard of public works and of
the- District of Columbia; and to tile end
that said books and accounts may lie
thoroughly examined, and the Indebted
ness of said district, and of the Uiard of
public works, and the state of the books
anil accounts of each of the officers afore
said, may be accurately ascertained, shall
employ one or more skillful and impartial
accountants non-resident of the. District of
Columbia, and such other assistants as
they may Jleem necessary, to make ex
amination of said liooks, veuchers, and
papers, and discharge their other duties
under this act, and shall procure Inspec
tion of sucli blank liooks and papers as
may be necessary; and they are hereby
authorized to allow for the services of
suchaccouiitant or accountants and assist
ants such sums as they may deem proper
which sliall be paid by the lioard of com
missioners out of the revenues of snhl dis
trict. And said accountant or- account
ants shall take an oath to faithfully dis
charge the dutii'S imposed by this act.
Said board of audit shall give notice for
the presentation of the claims hereinbe
fore specified in such manner as may lie
deemed necessary; and no claim shall tie
audited or allowed unless presented with
in ninety days after the first publication
of such notice, and said board shall make
full report of their acts and proceedings to
the President, to be by him transmitted to
Congress on the first day of the next sess
ion thereof. KacU of the said officers con
stituting said board shall lie paid the sum
of two thousand dollirs for his services
under this act, out of the funds of said
district, In addition to his present com
pensation. Sec. 7. That the sinking-fund commis
sioners of said district are hereby contin
ued; and it shall lie the duty of said sinking-fund
commissioners to cause bonds of
the District of Columbia to be prepared, in
sums of fifty and five hundred dollars,
bearing date August first, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-four, payable fifty years
after date, bearing interest at the rate of
three and sixty-live hundredths per cent
um per annum, payable semi-annually, to
be signed by the secretary and the treas
urer of said sinking-fund commissioners
and countersigned by the comptroller of
said district, and sealed as the board may
direct; which bonds shall be exempt from
taxation by Federal, State, or municipal
authority, engraved and printed at the
expense of the District of Columbia, and
in form not Inconsistent herewith. And
the faith of the United States is hereby
pledged that the United States will, by
proper proport lonal appropriations as con
templated in this act, and bo causing to lie
levied upon the property within said dis
trict such taxes as will provide the reve
nues necessary to pay the Interest on said
bonds as the same may become due and
payable, and create a sinking fund for the
payment of the principal thereof at ma
turity. Said bonus shall be numbered con
secutively, and registered in the office of
the comptroller of said district, and shall
also be registered in the office of the Reg
ister of the Treasury of the United States
for which last named registration the Sec
retary of the Treasury shall make such
provision as may be necessary. And the
commissioners shall use all necessary
foa the prevention of any unauthorized or
fraudulent issue of any such bonds. And
the said sinking fund commissioners are
hereby authorized to exchange said bonds
at par for like sums of any class of indebt
edness in the preceding section of this act
named, including sewer taxes or assess
ments paid, evidenced by certificates of
of the auditing board provided for in this
act.
Sec 8. That the authority conferred on,
the board of public works to issue addi
tional certificate of indebtedness by sec
tion four of the act of the legislative as
sembly approved on the twenty-ninth day
of May, eighteen hundred, and seventy
three, if hereby annulled. No property
shall be advertised for sale or sold for the
collection of any assessment authorized by
the act entitled "An act creating drainage,
and sewerage sections in the cities of
Woahington and; Georgetown, in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and providing for the
payment of the construction ot sewers
and drains therein by assessments and
issuing certificates therefor" approved on
the twenty-sixth day of June, eighteen
hundred and seventy-three, nut 11 other
wise ordered by Congress: and It shall lie
unlawful to Issue any further certificaies
of indebtedness ahthorized by said act.
Sec. 8. That no board or commission of
which the governor is ex officio a metnlier
(the lioard of public works excepted) shall i
ik auoiisned uy tins act. nut tne members
of the same, other than the governor,
shall constitute such board or commission.
Sec. in. That the act of the legislative
assembly of the District of Columbia en
titled "An act to fund unsettled liabilities
of the cits of Wrashington, and providing
for the issuing of the lxmds, and levying
and collecting taxes to pay the sameV ap
proved June twentieth, eighteen hundred
and seventy-two. is hereby ratified and
approved: but none of the lion ds author
ized bv said act remaining unsold shall be
negotiated or sold less than par.
Approved, June -Jo, 1874.
Convention for the Regulation, of the
Postal Intercourse liettwn the United
Suites of America and Belgium.
The Post-Office Departments of the
United States of America and of Belgium
being desirous to regulate, by a new Con
vention, the postal intercourse lietween
the two countries, the undersigned, being
duly authorized by their respective gov
ernments, liave agreed upon the following
articles:
Artici.e 1.
There shall he an exchange of correspon
dence, by means of their respective Post
Departments, between the United States
of America and Belgium, and this corres
pondence sliall embrace :
1. Letters, ordinary and registered.
2. Newspapers, liook-iiackets, prints of
all kinds, (comprising maps, plans, engrav
ings, drawings, photographs, lithographs,
and all other like productions of mechani
cal processes, sheets of music, &c.) and
patterns or samples of merchandise, in
cluding grains and seeds.
And such correspondence may lie ex
changed, whether originating in either of
said countries and destined for the other,
or originating in or destined for foreign
countries to which they may respectively
serve as intermediaries.
Article 2.
The offices for the exchange of mails
shall lie
(a) On the part of the United States:
1. New York.
2. Boston.
ib) On the part of Belgium :
1. Antwerp.
2. Ostend, traveling office.)
3. Ostend. (local.)
The two Post Departments may at any
time discontinue either of said "offices of
exchange or establish others.
Article 3.
Kach office shall make its own arrange
ments for the dispatch of its mails to the
other office by regular lines of communi
cation, and shall, at its own cost, pay the
expense of such intermediate transporta
tion. It is also agreed that the cost of in
ternational ocean and territorial transit of
the closed maits, lietween the respective
frontiers, shall be first defrayed bv that
one of the two departments which shall
have obtained from the intermediaries the
most favorable pi-cuniary terms for such
conveyance: and any amount so advanced
by one for account "of the other shall be
promptly reimbursed.
Article 4.
The standard weight for the single rate
of postage and rule of progression shall
lie: '
1. For letters, 15 grammes.
2. For all other correspondence men
tioned In the second paragraph of the first
article- that which each department shall
adopt for the malls which it dispatches to
tho other, adapted to the convenience and
habits of its interior administration.
But each office shall give notice to the
other of the standard weight it adopts, and
of any sol-sequent changes thereof.
The rule of progression shall alWays be
an additional single rate for iach addition
al single weight or fraction thereof.
The weight stated by the dispatching
office shall always be accepted saving the
case of manifest mistake.
Article 5.
The single rate of post age on the direct
correspondenco exchanged between the
United States and Belgium sliall lie as fol
lows :
1. On prepaid letters from the nnited
States, 15 cents.
2. On prepaid letters from Belgium, 80
centimes.
On all other correspondence mentioned
in the second paragraph of the first article,
the rate shall toe, for the mail sent, that
which the dispatching office shall adopt in
in conformity widi the convenience and
habijs of its Interior administration. But
each offline shall give notice to the other of
the rato it adopts and of any subsequent
change thereof.
Article 0.
Whenever there shall be established a
direct line of steam communication lie
tween the ports of the United States and
of Belgium, adapted to the regular trans
portation of the mails lietween the two
countries and acceptable to the two de
partments, it, is agreed that the interna
tional single letter .tate applicable to this
route shall be reduced to 10 cents In the
United Stales and 50 centimes in Belgium,
of which six cents (30 centimes) shall re li
re sent the maritime rate; and for the other
correspondence mentioned in the second
paragraph of t he first article t he marlt ime
rate in such case sliall lie 10 cents (50 cen
times) per kilogram nic.
But this article shall not be carried into
effect until a time upon which the two
Post Departments shall hereafter agree.
Article 7.
The prepayment of postage on ordinary
letters shall lie optional, subject to the
condition in Article VIII, mentioned; but
on regislered letters, and on all other cor
respondence mentioned in the second
paragraph of the first article, it shall be
compulsory.
Article 8.
If, however, the postage on any article
shall tie prepaid insufficiently, it sliall nev
ertheless lie forwarded to its destination
charged with the deficient postage. Upon
the delivery of any unpaid or insufficiently
paid letter, or of any other insufticiently
paid correspondence, there shall lie levied
a fine, in the United States of five cents,
in Belgium of 30 centimes. This fine as
well as the deficient postage on other arti
cles than letters shall not enter into the
accounts between the two offices, but shall
be retained to the use of the office collect
ing the same.
Article 9.
Registered articles shall, in addition to
the postage, be subject to a register fee of
ten cents in the United States, and of 50
centimes in Belgium, and this fee shall al
ways lie prepaid.
Kach office Is at liberty to reduce this fee
for the mails it dispatches.
Article 10.
Any correspondence may be registered,
not only for international correspondence,
but also for correspondence originating in
or destined for othtr countries to which
these two administrations may respective
ly serve as intermediaries for the trans
mission of such registered articles.
Kach Iepnrtraerit shall notify the other
of the countries to which it may t hus serve
as intermediary.
Article 11.
Accounts between the two offices shall
he fixed on the following basis: from the
total amount of International postages,
and register fees collected In each country
on letters, added to the amount of prepaid
postages and register fees on otherartieles
sent, the dispatching office shall deduct
the amount required at. the agreed rate
for the intermediate transit thereof be
tween the two fjontiers, and tho amount
of the two net sums shall lie equally di
vided between the two offices.
Article 12.
The corrcsxondence mentioned in the
second paragraph of the first article shall
tie dispatched under regulations to be es
tablished by the dispatching office; but
these shall embrace the following :
1. No packet shall contain anything
which shall be closed against inspection ;
nor any written communication whatever,
except to state from whom or to whom
the packet is sent, and the numbers placed
upon the patterns or samples of merchan-
2. No. packet may exceed two feet in
length or oe foot in any other dimen
sion. 3. Ntrfher office shall be bound to deliver
any article the importation of which may
he prohibited by the laws or regulations
of the country of destination.
4. So long as any customs duty is charge
able on any article sent to the United
States, it may be levied for the use of the
customs.
5. Exceptasabovo.no charge whatever
s'lall be collected on, the mails exchanged
otherwise than herein, expressly provided.
Article 13.
The Post Deiwrtments of the United
States and of Belgium shall establish by
agreement, and in confoimity with the
arrangements in force at the time, the
conditions upon which the two offices may
exchange in open mails the correspondence
originating in or destined to other foreign
countries to which they may respectively
score as intermediaries.
His, however, always understood that,
such correspondence shall only be charged
with the rate applicable to direct interna
tioial correspondence, augmented by the
postage due to foreign countries and any
other tax for exterior service.
Article 14.
Each office accords to the other the priv
ilege of transit of the closed malls ex
changed in either direction betweon the
lattter and any country to which the for
mer may serve as inteomediary, by its
usual means of mail transportation,
whether on sea or land.
br such transit on Its part, the United
Stipes office shall receive as follows:
ll For transit across Its territory: For
letters, l.'i cent per single letter rate; for
other articles, 12 cents per kilogramme,
net weight.
2. For transit across the waters of the
Atlantic Ocean; For letters, 8 cents per
single tetter .rate ; for other articles, 12
cents per kilogrammec, net weight.
3. For transit across the waters of the
Pacific Ccean: For letters, 10 cents per
single letter rate; for other articles, 20
cents per kilogramme, net weight.
For such transit on its part the office of
Belgium shall receive as follows :
For transit across Its territory and the
English Channel : 1, for letters, 5 centimes
per single letter rate ; 2, for other articles,
40 centimes per kilogramme, net weight.
Article 15.
Mhe postal accounts between the two
offices shall be stated quarterly, trans
mitted and verified as speedilv as practi
cable; and the balance found due shall be
paid to the creditor office either by ex
change on London, or at the debtor office,
as the, creditor office may desire.
The rule for the conversion of the money
of the two countries shall be established
by common agreement between tho two
offices.
Article IB.
When in nny United States or Belgian
port a closed mail is transferred from one
vessel to another without any expense to
the office of the country where the trans
fer is made, such transfer shall not be sub
ject to any postal charge by one office
against the other.
Article 17.
Official communications addresed from
one office to the other shall not lie the oc
casion of accounts lietween the two offices.
Article 18.
The two offices shall bv mutual consent
make detailed regulations for carrying
these articles into execution ; and modify
such regulations in like manner from time
to time as the exigencies of the service
may require.
Article 19.
Letters wrongly sent, wrongly addressed,
or not deliverable for nny canse. shall be
returned to the dispatching office at its ex
pense for the return, if any shall be Incurr
ed. Registered articles in the second )ir
agraph of the first article mcnt ioned shall
also lie returned ; other articles shall lie
left to the disposition of the receiving of
fice. Any postasces not collected upon the
correspondence returned, but which shall
have been charged against the receiving
office, shall be deducted from the account.
Article 20.
In consideration of the concessions made
by the United States Post Department, it
Is agreed that a reduction of 20 per cent,
sliall lie made in favor of the United States
office from the charge of forty centimes
per kilogramme established in Article XIV
for the transit of the articles mentioned in
the second paragraph of the, first aft icle of
this convention, add which sliall be dis
patched from the United States.
Article 21.
From the time this Convention shall take
effect, all former Conventionsbetween tho
two offices shall cease to be In force, except
for the purpose of closing the accounts
arising thereunder.
This Convention sliall take effect on the
first day of January next. It shall contin
ue in force until canceled by agreement
of the two offices, or until one year from
the time when either office shall give
notice to the other of its wish to terminate
the same.
This Convention shall be. subject to the
approval of the Postmaster-General of the
United States and of tile Minister of Public
Works of Belgium.
Executed in duplicate at Brussels, this
21st dav of August, in the year of our Lord
18H7.
IL. B. JOHN A KASSON,
Sp. Ortij., tte., Ac.
fL. s.l M. FASSIAUX.
Director General of Railroads, l'osts, and
Tclefmjifts.
Post-Okkice Dkpartmekt,
IPiMit'iifton, October ft. 18fi7.
Having examined and considered the
foregoing articles of a Convention for the
regulation of the postal intercourse lie
tween the United States of America and
Belgium, which were agreed upon and
signed in duplicate at Brussels on the
twenty-first dav of August, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven, by the
Hon. John A. Kas? on. Special Commission
er, Ac., Ac, on behalf of this Department,
and by Mr. Fassiaux. Directos- ;cneral of
Railroads, Posts, and Telegraphs, on behalf
of the Belgian Post Departments, the same
are by me hereby ratified and approved,
by and with the advice and consent of the
President of the United States.
In witness whereof, I have caused the
seal of the Post-Office De.pai1nent to be
hereto affixed, with my slgnatuac, the day
and year first above written.
IL. s. ALEX. W. RANDALL,
Poslnuister Oenerai.
I hereby approve the aforegoing Con
vention, and in testimony thereof I have
caused the seal of the United States to lie
affixed.
fL. s. ANDREW JOHNSON.
By the President :
F. W. Seward,
Acting Secretary.
Department of State,
Washington. October 9, 1867.
DETAILED REGULATIONS.
Arraniteil between the Post-Office of the
United States and the Post-Office o f
IleJgtHm, for the execution of the Con
vention of the 21st dag of August, 1867.
Article L
The American exchange offices of New
Tork and Boston shall each dispatch a
mail for the Bchflan exchange offices of
Antwerp, of Ostend (local,) and of Ostend.
(sravenng.)
The Belgian excange offices of Antwerp,
of Ostend (local, and of Ostend (traveling.)
sliall each dispatch a mail to the Ameri
can exchange offices of New Tork and
Boston.
Table A, hereto annexed, indicates the
correspondence to be distributed to each
exchange office.
Article H.
Each mail exchanged between the re
spective offices shall lie accompanied by a
Letter-Bill, snowing the postages and the
charges of transit, t bo fees, etc., accruing
to each office upon the different kinds of
correspondence.
The form of this Letter-Bill, shall follow
the models B 1 and B 2" hereto annexed,
and shall lie consecutively numliered by
the dispat cliing office during each calen
dar year.
The receiving office shall acknowledge
its receipt by the next dispatch.
Article III.
The exchange offices shall divide the cor
respondence which they dispatch into a
suitable number of separate packages, ac
cording to the Letter-Bill.
Each of these packages shall bear the
properet tqjietto, and numbers correspond
ing to the Letter-Bill.
Article IV.
When more than a single rate is charge
able upon any letter or other article, the
number of rates to which it is subject shall
be indicated by the dispatching office by a
figure In the upper left corner of the ad
dress. Article v.
Registered correspondence shall be de
scribed in a Register List, following the
models C 1" and C 2, hereto annexed.
All registered letters and the Register
Ltst shall be enveloped together In strong
paper and securely fastened, and the pack
et, inscribed with the word Registered, or
Objets Charge, and placed In the mail.
The blank in the Letter List for express,
ing the number of registered articles sliall
be filled in letters expressing tho number.
In case no registered article are sent, the
proper blank of the Letter-Bill shall be
filled with the word Nihil or Nil.
Article VI.
he registered lists dispatched shall be.
retained by the receiving office, which
shall acknowledge, by the first mall, the
receipt of the registered articles, numer
ically, lrom No. to No. .
If the verification by the exchange office
discloses an error of any kind in the Reg
ister List, it shall lie also, bvthe first mail,
notitlep to the dispatching "office.
ARTiCLe VII.
The two administrations mutually en
gage to take needful measures for the eare
lul transmission of registered correspond
ence, and for pursuing it when lost ; out it
is lunderstood that neither assumes to
wards the other any pecuniary responsi
bility in case of loss.
Article VIII.
All letters exchanged lietween the two
offices shall Indlcateliy stamis or writing
thereon the office of origin.
Correspondence fully paid to destination
shall lie stamped in the United States Paid
All. and In Belgium P. IK
Registered articles shall be stamped R-g-istererl,
in the United States, and Charge in
Belgium .
Correspondence insufficiently prepaid
shall be statiijicii in the United States In
sufflcienVy paitt, and in Belgium Affranchis
sement insufflsant, and the amount- of defi
cient postage expressed In figures (black
on the face.
Chrrespondeneo dispatched by a direct
line between the two countries shall be
stamped Direct Service, or Service Direct.
If dispatched via England, it shall be
stamped to indicate British transit.
Article IX.
The two postal ail ministrations may px
chanse in the open mails letters and otker
correspondence with the foreign countries
and upon the conditions indicated in file
tables D 1" and D 2, hereto annexed.
Articek X.
The tables Dl"andD2,heretonnnexd,
also indicate the foreign countries with
which registered correspondence may be
exchanged in the open mails between fiie
two offices, and the conditions thereof.
Article XI.
The respective exchange offices shall
mark in red ink, in the upper corner of the
address at the right hand, of prepaid let
ters sent for transit in the open mall the
amount of the postage due to the foreign
office of destination; and in the same m Wi
ner, but in black ink, shall mark the
amount of the postage due totlie origihat
nig office upon the unpaid letters sent In
transit.
Article XII.
Articles under band which do not con
form to the conditions mentioned in Ar.
XII of the Convention, or which are in nb
part prepaid, shall be retained by the ad
ministration of origin, and shall remahl
subject to its disposition.
Article XUI.
Letters originating in or destiued fofi
foreign countries, sent in the open mail
for transit through the United States, or
through Belgium, and which are insuffi
ciently prepaid, sliall be transmitted as
wholly unpaid, and no account taken be
tween the two administrations of the
amount prepaid.
Article XIV.
Loiters and all registered articles not
deliverable shall lie respectively returned
to the dispatching administration at the
end of every month. (See Exhibits ti.
Hereto annexed.)
The postage on unpaid letters so re
turned shall lie deducted troni the account
against the office originally charged there-
wit n.
The postage on prepaid letters so return
ed shall remain in the account as origin
ally entered.
The expepse of transit of unpaid corres
pondence which has been transported by
either administration in closed mails, and
shall be returned to the dispatching office
as not deliverable, shall be deducted from
the original amsunt charged for transit
upon a declaration of the amount bv the
office claiming the reduction. Mo charge
will be made by either administration for
the transit of correspondence returned as
not peliverable.
Article XV.
All correspondence wrongly addressed
or missent shall lie returned without delay
by the. receiving office to the exchange of
fice which dispatched it.
Th receiving office shall also correct ac
cordingly, in the column of verification,
the original entries of tho Ietter-Bill re
lating to such correspondence. The arti
cles of a like nature addressed to persons
who have changed their residence shall lie
mutually forwarded or returned, charged
with the rate that would have been paid
at the first destination.
Article XVI.
The dispatching exchange office sliall
state on the Letter-Bill for the British
office tin exact n umber of single rates of
letters (or weight, if required) and the to
tal weight of the other correspondence
which shall be dispatched in closed mails
by the British transit.
Article XVH.
It is understood that the accounts be
tween t lie two offices shall lie established
on the respective Letter-Billi, in the prop
er money of the dispatching office. For
the inter national charges the reduction of
these moneys shall lie effected in the gen
eral accounts at the rate of five francs and
fifteen centimes of Belgium for one dollar
of the United states.
In entering the foreign charges on the
Letter-Bill, In the money of the sending
office. I be cent shall lie considered as the
equivalent of five centimes.
It Is also understood that tho quarterly
accounts shall beimld respectively in gold,
and in the denominations of the money of
the creditor office.
articee XVIII.
The quarterly accounts mentioned In
Art. XV of the Convention sliall be pre
pared by the respective dispatching offices
of exchange. They shall tie based upon
the acknowledgments of receipt, and shall
resp.K-tively be prepared according to the
models hereto annexed, end marked E 1"
and K 2". A recapitulation of these ac
counts, showing the definitive result, alike
for the debit and the credit, shall be pre
pared by the United States office, accord
ing to the form hereto annexed, and
marked F ; and shall then be transmitted,
with the quarterly accounts on which It
is based for the examination of the other
office.
Article XIX.
It is understood that Art. VI of the Con
vention, relative to a direct line of steam
packets between the 4wo conntries shall
lie carried into effect as soon as either ad
ministration shall notify the other of the
establishment of such n line which it has
adopted for the dispatcli of its mails.
Done In duplicate, and signed at Brussels
the2ith day of November, and at Paris
the 2iith day of November, one thousand
eight hundred and sixty-seven.
L, s. JOHN A. KASSON
Special Commissioner of the U. 8. Post De
partment. IL- s. FASSIAUX,
lHreetor-Qeneral of Railroads, Pofts, and
Telegraphs.
Post-Office Department,
Washington, January 15, 1S68.
Tho foregoing art icles of Detniled Regu
lations for carrying into execution the
Postal Convention of 21st August, 18W, be
tween the United States and Belgium, are
hereby rati lied and approved.
Witness my hand and the seal of lhe
Post-Office Dcpartmont this fifteenth day
of January, A. D. 188.
CL. S.J ALEX. W. RANDALL,
Postmaster-General.
AN ACT making appropriations for the
consular and diplomat ic service of the
(Jovernment for the year ending June
1 hirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy
five, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate- and House of
ica, in Congress assembled.
That the following sums be. ami the same.
are hereby, appropriated for the-service of
tne nscai year ending June thirtieth,
eighteen hundred and seventy-five, out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the objects hereinafter
expressed namely:
For salaries of envoys extraordinary and
ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain,
France, Germany, ana Russia, at sev
enteen thousand five hundred dollars each,
seventy thousand dollars.
For salaries of envoys extraordinary and
ministers plenipotentiary to Spain, Aus
tria, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, China, and
Italy, at twelve thousand dollars inch,
eighty-four thousand dollars.
For salaries of envoys extraordinary an d
ministers plenipotentiary to Chill and
Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twelve
thousand dollars.
For ministers resident at Portugal,
Switzerland, Greece, Belgium, Nether
lands, Denmark, Swecden and Norway,
Turkey. Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Ven
ezuela, Hawaiian Islands, and the Argen
tine Republic, at seven thousand five hun
dred dollars each, one hundred and five
thousand, dollars.
For minister resident, reerediteil to
Guatcmnla, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salva
dor, and Nicaragua, to reside at the place
that the President may select In any one
of the states named, as by act making ap
propriations for the the consular and di
plomatic service approved May twenty
second, olghteen hundred and. seventy
two, ten thousand dollars.
For minister resident at Uruguay, also
accredited to Paraguay, ten thousand dol
lars. For minister resident and consul-general
to Hayti, seven thousand five hunred
dollars.
For minister resident and consul-general
to Liberia, four thousand dollars.
For charges d'affaires ad Interim and
diplomatic officers abroad, forty thousand
dollars.
For salaries to secretaries to legations at
London. Paris, Berlin, and Saint Peters
burg, at two thousand six hundred and
twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand
five hundred dollars. And the Secretary
of State is authorized to allow 'and pay to
the secretary of legation and to the second
secretary" of legation and to the messenger
of the legation in Paris, from the moneys
collected at the legation for the trans
mission of consular invoices, an amount
not to exceed in the aggregate six hundred
dollars in any one year, tobe divided and
distributed os the Secretary of State may
direct, provided that the surplus receipts
are sufficient for that purpose.
For salary of secretary to legation at
Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For secretaries to legations at Austria,
Brazil, Italy, Mexico, and Spain, at one
thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine
thousand dollars.
For second secretaries to legations at
Great Britain, France, and Germany, at
two thousand dollars each, six thousand
dollars.
For secretary to legation (acting also as
Interpreter) at China, five thousand dol
lars. For salary of the interpreter to legation
in Turkey, three thousand dollars.
For the interpreter to the legation at
Japan, two thousand Ave hundred dollars.
To enable Robert C. Schneck, minister to
Creat Britain, to employ a private ama
nuensis, according to joint resolution ap
proved January eleventh, eighteen hun
dred and seventy-one, two thousand five
hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of foreign in
tercourse proper and of all the missions
abroad . one hundred thousand dollars.
For consul-general, consuls, vice consuls,
commercial agents, and thirteen consular
cterks. three hundred and sixty-four thou
sand five hnndred dollars; and the bonds
which consular officers who are not com
pensated by salaries are required by the
thirteenth section of the act of August
eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty
six, to enter intd sliall hereafter be made
with such sureties as the Secretary of
State shall approve.
That Schedules B and C in section three
of the act entitled "An act to regulate the
diplomatic and consular systems of the
United States," approved August eight
eenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six,
shall, from and after the first day of July
next, read as follows :
Schedule B.
The agent and consul-general at Cairo
shall be entitled to compensation for his
services at the rpte of four thousand dol
lars per annum.
The consuls-general at London. Paris,
Havana, and Rio Janeiro shall each be
entitled to compensation for their services
at the rate of six thousand dollars per
annum.
The consuls-general at Calcutta and
Shanghai shall each be entitled to compen
sation for their services at the rate of five
thousand dollars-per annum.
The consul-general at Melliourne shall
be entitled to compensation for his serv
ices at the rate of four thousand flve'hun
dretl dollars per annum.
The consuls-general at. Kanagawa, Mon
treal, and Berlin shall each be entitled to
compensation for their services at the rate
of four thousand dollars per annum.
The consuls-general at Vienna, Frank
fort, Rome, and Constantinople shall each
be entitled to compensation for his serv
ices at the rate of four thousand dollars
per annum.
The consuls-general at Saint Petersburg
and Mexico shall each be entitled to com
pensation for their services at the rate of
two thousand dollars per annum.
The consul at Liverpool shall be entitled
to compensation for his services at the
rate of six thousand dollars per annum.
The following consulates shall be divid
ed into seven classes, to be known, re
spectively, as classes one, two, three, four,
five, six, and seven, and the consuls at
such consulates shall each be entitled to
compensation for their servicesper annum
at the rates respectively specified herein,
io wit :
Class one, four thousand dollars.
Class two, three thousand five hundred
dollars.
Class three, throe thousand dollars.
Class four, two thousand five hundred
dollars.
Class five, two thousand dollars.
Class six, one thousand five hundred
uoi lars.
Class seven, one thousand dollars.
Class I.
GREAT BRITAIN,
nong Kong.
HAWAIAAN ISLANDS.
Honolulu.
Class II.
CHINA.
Fowehow, Hankow, Canton, Amoy,
Chin-Klang, Tien-Tsin, Ningpo, Swatow.
PERU.
Callao.
Class in.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Manchester, Glasgow, Bradford, Demer
ara. FRENCH DOMINIONS.
Havre.
SPANISH DOMINIONS.
Matanzas.
BARBARY STATES.
Tripoli, Tunis, Tangiers.
JAPAN.
Fogasakt, Osako, and Hiogo.
MEXICO.
Vera Cruz.
SIAM.
Bangkok.
UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.
Panama, Colon, (Aspinwall.)
ARGEFTINE REPUBLIC.
Buenos Ayres.
CHILI.
Yalaraiso.
Class IV.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Birmingham, Sheffield, Belfast, Singa
pore, Tunstall.
FRENCH DOMINIONS.
Marseilles, Lyons, Bordeaux.
SPANISH DOMINION8.
Trinidad de Cuba, Santiago de Cuba,
BELGIUM.
Antwerp, Brussels.
DANISH DOMINIONS.
Saint Thomas.
GERMANY.
Hamburg, Bremen, Dresden,
JAPAN.
Hakodadi.
Class V.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Leeds, Souehampton, Dundee. Leith,
Cork. Dublin. Toronto. Hamilton. i;oatl-
cook, Halifax, Saint Sohn's, (New Bruns
wick.) Kingston, (Jamacia,) Massan, (New
Providence,) Turk's Islands, Cardiff, Port
Louis, iMaurttlul.)
RUSSIA.
Odessa, Amoor River.
SPANISH DOMINIONS.
San Juan, (Porto Rico.)
PORTUGAL.
Lisbon.
DOMINION OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Rotterdam.
GERMANY.
Sonneberg, Nuremburg, Barmen, Che
mnitz, Lelpsic, AW-ia-unapeue.
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.
Trieste, Prague.
SWITZERLAND.
Basle, Zurich.
TURKISH DOMINIONS
Smyrna. Beirut .
MADAGASCAR.
Tamatave.
MEXICO.
Acapuloo, Mata moras.
BRAZIL.
Pernambuoo.
URUGUAY.
Montevideo.
' p Clash VI.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Bristol, New Castle, Ankland, Gibraltar,
Malta, Cape Town. Saint Helena, Goderich,
(Canada West,) Kingston, (Canada,) Pres
cott. Port Sam la, Windsor, (Canada West,)
Quebec, Saint John's, (Canada East,) Pic
tou, Charlotte-town, (Prince Edward Is
land,) Winnipeg, Barbadoes, Bermuda,
Port Stanley, Mahc, (Seychelles,) Fort Erie,
Clifton.
FRENCH DOMINIONS.
Nantes, Nice, La Roc belle, Algiers, Mar
tinique. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS.
Fayal, (Azores, Orpnto, Funchal.
BELGIUM.
Yer viers and Livu.
DOMINIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS.
Amsternnm.
DAKISH DOMINIONS.
Santa Cruz, Copenhagen.
GERMANY.
Mannheim. Munich. Stuttgart.
SWITZERLAND.
Geneva.
ITALY.
Genoa, Leghorn, Florence, Palermo,
Messina. Naples.
' TURKISH DOMINIONS.
Jerusalem, Port Said.
MEXICO.
Tampico.
VENEZUELA.
Laguayra. .
BRAZIL.
Bah la.
SAN DOMINGO.
San Domingo.
SCHEDULE C.
Class VII.
GREAT BRITAIN.
Ceylon, Gaspe Basin, Windsor, (Nov
Scotia.)
GERMANY.
Stettin.
HAYTI.
Capo Hnvtlen.
UNITED STATES OF COLOMBA.
Sabanilla.
ECUADOR.
Guyaqnil.
NETHERLANDS.
BaUtvia.
BRAZIL.
Maranham, Para, Rio Grande de Sul.
HONDZRAS.
Omoaand Truxillo.
TURKISH DOMINIONS.
Cyprus, Bucharest.
MEXICO,
Guaymay.
MUSCAT.
Zanzibar.
PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS.
Santiago. (Cape Verde Islands.)
SOCIETY ISLANDS.
Tahiti
CHILI.
Talcahnano.
FRIENDLY AND EAYIGATOR'S IS
LANDS. Apia.
FEJEE ISLANDS.
Ovalau.
ITALY.
Venice, Milan.
COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
Schedule C.
Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loan da, Lauthala.
COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
Madagascar, San Juan del Norte.
Sec. 2. That there shall be allowed for
the hire of clerks, when actually expended
therefor, as follows : To the consul-general
at Havana and consul at Livoi prr,
a sum not exceed idg ne rate of three
t bousand dollars for any one yean and to
the consuls-general of London, Paris, ami
Shanghai. eti a sum not exceeding the
rate of two thousand dollars for any one
year; to the consnls-general at Berlin, Vi
enna, Frankfort, and Montreal, and to the
consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Lelpsic,
Lyons, Manchester, Beirut, Belfast, Birm
ingham. Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheffield,
Sonneberg, Wresden. Havre. Marseilles,
Fayal, Nuremberg, Leith, Naples, Stutt
gart, and Tunstall, each a sum not exceed
ing hundred dollars for any one year.
Sec. 3. That the President shall be, and
is hereby authorized to appoint interpret
ers to the consulates at Shanghai, Tien
Tsin, Fowehow, and Kanagawa, and to al
low them salaries not to exceed, in either
case, the rate of two thousand dollars a
year; and to appoint interpreters to the
consulates at Hankow, Amoy, Canton,
and Hong-Kong, and to allow them sala
ries not to exceed. In either ante, the rato
of seven hundred and fifty dollars a year;
and also to allow, at his discretion, a sum
not exceeding the rate of five hundred'
dollars for any one year to any one consul
ate In China or Japan, respectively, not
herein named, for expenses of interpreta
tion; and that section six of the act en
titled "An act to regulate the diplomatic
and consular systems of the United States'
approved August eighteenth, eighteen
hundred and fifty-six, is hereby repealed.
Sec. 4. Hint the Secretary of State shall,
as soon as practicable, establish and deter
mine the maximum amount of time
actually necessary to make the transit be
tween each diplomatic and consular post
and the city of Washington, and vice
versa, and shall make the same public.
He may also, from time to time, revise
his decision in this respect; but in each
case the decision is to be in like manner
made public. And the allowance for time
actually and necessarily occupied by each
diplomatic and consular officer who may
be entitled to such allowance shall in no
case exceed that for the time thus estab
lished and determined, with the addition
of the time usually occupied by the short
est and most direct mode of conveyance
i mm wasmngton to tne place oi residence
in the Unitrd States of such officer.
Sec. 9. That From and after the first
day of July next, the annual salary oi oc
su tar clerks who shall have remained con
tinuously in service as such for the period
of five years and upward shall be one thou
sand two hundred dollars.
Sec. 6. That any vice cnasul who may
he temporarily acting as consul derifig the
absence of such consul may receive com
pensation, notwithstanding that he is not
a citizen of the United States.
For loss by exchange en the above, forty
eight thousand dollars.
For repaying to the Government of Bra
zil, money erroneously claimed by and
paid to tho the United States, fifty-seven
thousand five hundred dollars, or so much
thereof us may be necessary.
For interpreters to the consulates in Chi
na, Jadan, and Slam, including loss by
exchange, five thousand seven hundred
dollars.
For marshals for the eonsnlar courts in
Japan and China, Slam, and Turkey, in
cluding loss by exchange, seven thousand
seven hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of foreign in
tercourse proper, and all of the missions
abroad, such as stationery, book-cases,
arms of the United States, seals, paMCS.
and flags, rent, freight, postage, and other
necessary miscellaneous matters. Includ
ing loss by exchage, one hundred and
thirty-one 'thousand einht hundred and
fifty dollars.
For interpreters, guards, and other ex
penses at the consulates at Constanti
nople. Smyrna, Candla, Cairo; Jerusalem,
and Beirut, in tne Turkish Dominions,
three thousand dollars.
For payment of consular officers not citi
zens of the United States, ten thousand
dollars.
For salaries and expenses of the United
States and Spanish Claims Commission,
namely: For Commissioner, five thou
sand dollars; lor consul, five thousand
dollars; for secretary, nine hundred and
twelve dollars and fifty cents; for messen
ger, three hundred dollars; and for rent,
fuel, and ice, three thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty
cents; making m all, the sum of fifteen
thousand dollars. .
For salaries and expenses of United
States and Mexican Claim Commission :
For Commissioner, four thousand five
hundred dollars; for agent, four thousand
dollars; for secretary, two thousand five
hundred doUars; for umpire, three thou
sand dollars; legal assistant to agent, three
thousand dollars; two translators, at one
thousand five hundred dollars each: two
clerks, at one thousand four hundred dol
lars each; one messenger, six hundred dol
lars; one assistant messenger, three hun
dred dollars; and for contingent expenses,
five thousand dollars; making, in all. the
sum of twenty-eight thousand seven hun
dred dollars.
Survey of boundary between the United
States and British possessions: For ex
penses of the commission appointed under
act approved March nineteenth, eighteen
hundred and seventy-two, for the pur
pose of surveying and making the boun
dary between the territory of the United
States and the possessions of Great Britain
from the Lake of the Woods to the sum
mit of the Rockv Mountains, to be avail
able immediately on the pasaage of thia
act, one hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars. For rent of prisons for American con
victs in Slam and Turkey, and for wages
of keepers of the same. Including loss Tby
exchange, lour thousand dollars.
For rent of prison for American convicts
In China, one thousand five hundred dol
lars. For wages of keepers, care of offenders,
and expenses, ten thousand dollars.
For rent of prison for Americanconvicia
in Japan, seven hundred and flJtvao'iir"
For wages of keepers, care, of offenders,
and expenses, five thousand dollars.
For bring home from foreign countries
persons charged with erimejand -
Eenses Incidental thereto: inchjdjn lose
y exchange, five thousand ortw
For relief and protection J
seamen In foreign countries, one hundred
thousand dollars. .,,
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Ices of masters and crews
sols in rescuiiiK
shipwreck, five thousand
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