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 THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 175. 1855. 659 To complete the custom-house at Bath, Maine, ten thousand dollars. For the completion of the custom-house at Mobile with granite facing, in place of brick, hincty-five thousand dollars. Dztercourse with Foreign Nations.— For salaries of envoys extraor- Foreign interdinary and ministers plenipotentiary of the United States, two hundred °°“"S°· and sixty-seven thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of secretaries of legation, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars., For salary of the commissioner to the Sandwich Islands, six thousand dollars. For the dragoman to the mission to Turkey, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the interpreter to the mission to China, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the salaries of consuls of the United States, two hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, or so much thereof as may be necessary, ninety-six thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars and seventy-tive cents. F or contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, six thousand dollars. For office rent of the commercial agent at St. Martin,from the twelfth of November, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, to the end of the present fiscal year, at the rate of one hundred dollars per annum, two hundred and sixty-three dollars and thirty-three cents, the same being allowed because of unexpected losses sustained at said consulate. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed Jams, K,,(,,,m,_ to pay to James Keenan, consul at Hong Kong, in China, the sum of five hundred and eighty-one dollars and fifty-eight cents, expended by him for the relief of American citizens shipwrecked in Chinese waters in August last: Provided, That the account and vouchers shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State, and the claim be first approved b him. yFor the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Seamen. one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens and w£:;°“°* f'°m vessels of the United States from shipwreck, two thousand dollars: S' Provided, That the same shall be expended under the direction of the President of the United States. For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the United States, Consuis. presses, and Bags, and for the payment of postages for the consuls of the United States, ten thousand dollars. For compensation of a consul-general, to reside at Simodu, in Japan, Consnl·gcneral at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum, three thousand seven “*S““°°l°· hundred and fifty dollars. To reimburse Commodore M. C. Perry, of the United States navy, M. G. Pony. the extraordinary expenses incurred by him on his recent mission to Japan, and as a consideration for his eminent public service in effecting a treaty of amity and commerce with that power, twenty thousand dollars, to be received in full of all expenses or other charges incurred by him on that mission. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to pay, out. of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, to Robert C. Schenck, of Ohio, Scfgggg C- for his full compensation while employed as envoy extraordinary and ` minister plenipotentiary of the United States on special mission to the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, in the year eighteen hundred and- fifty— two, the sum of nine thousand dollars ; and for his full compensation as