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 THIRTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. Sxss. III. Ch. 38. 1857. 159 CHAP. XXXVHI.——An Ac! making Appropriations for the Consular land Diplomatic Ex- Feb- pmzscs of the Government for the Y ewr ending the thu·tiet}n of June, ctghteen hundred and ji_j?_y·e1;q/xt. Be it enacted by the &mtc and House of Representatives of the United App¥0¥>¤¤tl°¤- States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be and the same are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, namely: For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of Envoys, ministhe United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Spain, Austria, t°FS·, wg "°m' Prussia., Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland, Rome, Naples, Sardinia, Belgium, mlssmm °` Holland, Portugal, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Peru, Chili, Buenos Ayres, New Grenada, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, China and Sandwich Islands, two hundred and seventy-one thousand dollars. For salaries of the secretaries of legation of the United States at S¤9r¤f¤fi<=¤ of Great Britain, France, Russia, Spain, Austria, Prussia, Brazil, Mexico, gggggs Md "' Peru, Chili, and Buenos Ayres, twenty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, three thousand dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation to China., acting as interpreter, Eve thousand dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation to Tnukey, acting as dragoman, three thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, seventy-five thou- Contingencies. sand dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, sixty thousand dollars. For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, six thousand Barbary powers. dollars. For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, viz: inter- Turkish consulpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, °·°°°· Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, and Beyrout, two thousand five hundred dollars. For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, Seamenone hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of Skipwrecks. the masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens and vessels of the United States from shipwreck, three thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the President of the United States. For the purchase of blank books, stationery, arms of the United States, Blank Books. seals, presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages for the oonsuls of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. For compensation of the commissioner provided in the first article of Commissioner, the reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, two thousand dollars. &tg;ig*“{}rg;,;°°*· For per diem of commissioner and eompensation of surveyor, four ijvieh l;reat"Brithousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. tam- For payment of all expenses attending the employment of steamer or sailing vessel; and for surveys and umpirage, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For travelling expenses, transportation, repairs of instruments, and all other expenses, seven hundred dollars. For compensation of the commissioner, secretary, chief astronomer and Commission to surveyor, assistant astronomer and surveyor, clerk, and for provisions, ¤{¤ *h°_b°¤¤d*¤'y trans ortation and ontin encies of the commission to run and m k the with rw pn` P c g ar tam on Washing boundary line between the United States and the British possessions ton Territory. bounding on Vifashington Territory, seventy-one thousand dollars. Provided, That the annual compensation of said officers shall not exceed the