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 FORTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 179, 184. 1873. 471 CHAP. CLXXIX.-An Act to provide for the Ererrion of a P0st·o_§Ece Building at Feb. 21, 1873. Dover, in the State of Delaware. __--_*__—__ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treas- Building to be ury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause to be con-  EQ':" structed a suitable brick building, with a iire-proof brick vault, at Dover, posmincé. Delaware, for a post-office; and the sum of forty thousand dollars is Appropriation. hereby appropriated for the purpose aforesaid, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause proper plans and estimates to be made, so that no expenditure Plans and mb shall be made or authorized for the full completion of said building beyond ‘““°°*" the sum herein appropriated: Provided, That no money hereby appro- Money notto priated shall be used or expended until a valid title to the land for a site, :?‘:,““;l };“Y‘l independent and unexposed to danger from fire in adjacent buildings, OQ;;:,? ,3; shall be vested in the United States, nor until the State of Delaware shall i¤riSdi¤¤i<>¤ il cede its jurisdiction over the same, and also duly release and relinquish ;?d§;l;"gx to the United States the right to tax or in any way assess said site or the redeased. property of the United States that may be thereon, during the time that the United States shall be or remain owner thereof. Approved, February 21, 1873. CHAP. CLXXXIV.—An Act making Ap iropriuticns for the consular and drjilomalirx Feb- 22, 1873- Service y` the Gcvemmentjbr the Year ending June thirly, eighteen hundred and seventy- jaur, an for other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States q‘ America, in Congress assembled, That the ibllowing sums be, and _Consu'l:ar and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending d;l‘;Q;;‘;‘;’$°:F§;:; the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, out of any sndgng Jung $0, money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects herein- 1874- after expressed, namely: For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Envoy!. and. Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen thousand live gQl;f:f;fypl°‘”` hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars. ` To Spain, Austria, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, China, and Italy, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars. To Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars. For ministers resident at Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium, Ministers msi- Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Ecuador, Colom- dmtbia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, and the Argentine Republic, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, one hundred and five thousand dollars. For minister resident accredited to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Gultfeynulz Salvador, and Nicaragua, to reside at the place that the President may C°;:;2}ff§j19‘; select in any one of the States named, as by act making appropriations Anne, p.142. for the consular and diplomatic service, approved May twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, ten thousand dollars: Provided, That Pxoviso. the pay and allowances of said minister resident shall hereafter be ten thousand dollars per annum, and no more. For minister resident at Uruguay, also accredited to Paraguay, ten U,·ugq,,,_y and thousand dollars: Provided, That the pay and allowances of said minis- P¤1{_¤¤¤}y· ter resident shall hereafter be ten thousand dollars per annum, and no more. r°w?°‘ For salary of minister resident and consul-general at Hayti, seven thou- Luligf md sand five hundred dollars. For minister resident and consul-general at Liberia, four thousand dollars. _ For salaries of secretaries of legation at London, Paris, Berlin, and 18 S¤9*`°*¤¤°¤ °*` , . ganou and Saint Petersburg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-Eve dollars mm,,mS_ each, ten thousand five hundred dollars.