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 THIRTY—-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 108. 1852. 89 provisions in the treaties between the United States and China and the 1848,ch. 150. Ottoman Porte, eighteen thousand dollars. For salary of the interpreter and secretary to said mission, two thousand five hundred dollars. For compensation to the consuls at the five ports in China, viz. 2 Kwang Chow, Amoy, Fuchow, Ning-po, and Shanghai, five thousand dollars. For salary of the consul-general at Alexandria, three thousand dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, America;) Sea. one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. mm- For clerk hire, office rent, and other expenses of the office of the consul of the United States at London, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For salary of the consul at Beyrout, five hundred dollars. For compensation to the acting charge fafatres to Russia from the fifteenth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-eight, to the fifteenth of January, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, one thousand and forty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents. To compensate Dabney S. Carr, for expenses incurred while in the Dabney S. Carr. diplomatic service of the country, to be allowed in the settlement of his accounts with the government, seven thousand one hundred and forty- four dollars. To the secretary of legation at the court of St. James, for services as charge dafaires at said court, from the thirty-first of August, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the eleventh of October, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, three hundred and one dollars and thirty-two cents. To enable the President of the United States to make compensation Compensation to the Spanish consul and other subjects of Spain residing at New Or- ts *3;*, Slfmlsh leans, and subjects of Spain at Key West, for losses occasioned by vic- §°nSv,0§;,cgsS;j lence in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-one, arising from intelligence NYOr1eans. then recently received at those places of the execution of certain persons at Havana who had recently invaded the Island of Cuba, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That before payments be made under this ynvcstigmon appropriation the President of the United States shall cause an investi- #0 be first r¤¤d¤· gation to be made of such alleged losses, and that the same, together with the reasonable costs of the investigation, shall be paid on the certificate of the Secretary of State that the same are proven to the satisfaction of the President. For compensation to Peter Parker, as acting charge dafcires at Canton, Peter Parker. China, for two years from the twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and fifty, to twenty-fourth May, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, which shall bein full for all demand for such services for the period named, four thousand dollars. For compensation of ,Charles D. Arfwedson, consul of the United Charles D. States at Stockholm, Sweden, for diplomatic services rendered as charge A*'f”‘·'°dS°"· dnfcires at that place, by the instruction of the Secretary of State, from the recall of Mr. Ellsworth to the arrival of Mr. Schrorder, appointed charge d’a_faires from the twenty-fourth July, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, to the twenty-second day of April, eighteen hundred and fifty, a period of eight months and twenty-nine days, being one half of the salary of a charge d’d_#`d?:7'0S, and in full for all such service for the period named, sixteen hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. That the Secretary of State cause the accounts of Joseph Balestier, J A§<§>;1¤*~°_°*` late special agent of the United States in Asia, to be settled in such mp mm" manner as to allow him his travelling and other necessary expenses incurred in returning to the United States after receipt of notice of the termination of his mission; and that his salary as such agent be also allowed from the time when it was discontinued until a reasonable time {br his return, not exceeding six months, to be paid out of any money in the treasur not otherwise a propriated. To Antldiny Ten Eyck, fh additional compensation as late commis— igftgihouy Tm VOL. X. Pon.- 12