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 FORTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. IH. Ch. 28. 1879. 273 FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATOHS ISLANDS. Apia. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. C ommercial agencies. Scnnnurn C. Saint Paul de Loando; Lauthala. Scunnvrn B. San Juan del Norte. For allowance for clerks at consulates, forty-two thousand six hundred Clerks at consu dollars, as follows: lum- For the consul -general at Havana and the consul at Liverpool, each a sum not exceeding the rate of three thousand dollars for any one year; and to the consuls-general at Loudon, Paris, and Shanghai, each a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand dollars for any one year; to the consuls-general at Berlin, Vienna, Frankfort, and Montreal, and to the consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Leipsic, Lyons, Manchester, Hong-Kong, Ottawa, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheiiield Souneberg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Bio de Janeiro, Nruemberg, Leith Singapore, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Tunstall, each a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for any one year: Provided, That the Promo. total sum expended in any one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated. For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, Lon- Shipping and don, Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburg, to be allotted as may seem proper discharge 0 ¤¤¤- to the Secretary of State, six thousanddollars: Provided, That the fees m?,‘,;Wm_ collected at these ports for shipping and discharging seamen shall be ' paid into the Treasury as required by law. And the President is Revision of oonrequested to revise the tariff of consular fees and prescribe such rates Wh"` f°°·’· as will make them conform, as nearly as may be, to the fees charged by other commercial nations for similar services. For salaries of the interpreters to the following consulates: at Shang- I¤*¤1'D1‘¤#¤¢¤· hai, two thousand dollars, and at Tieu—Tsin, Foochow, and Kanagawa, at Hue thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to the consulates at Hankow, Amoy, Canton, and Hong-Kong, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to twelve other consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars. For consular officers not citizens of the United States, three thousand Consular omoers .d0HaI•S_ DOC 0ltl.ZBl1S. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan and Consular courts. China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand dollars. For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars. For loss by exchange on consular service, eight thousand dollars. LMS by GX- For contingent expenses of United States consulates, such as stationery, °hg;‘§,;`{u mt Bx_ bookcases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags rent, Pm50S_ g freight, postage, and other necessary miscellaneous matters, inciuding loss by exchange, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. And it Returns ofomoru shall be the duty of cousuls to make to the Secretary of State a quarterly “‘”d ”"I’°"’”- statement of exports from, and imports to, the different places to which they are accredited, giving, as near as may be, the market price of the various articles of exports and imports, the duty and port charges, if any, 011 articles imported and exported, together with such general xx-—1S