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 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 333. 1884. 235 telegram, furniture, and traveling expenses including for miscellaneous expenses, fifteen thousand dollars, in all seventy-five thousand dollars. For the expenses of an international exchange of books, documents, I¤t¤r¤¤ti¤¤=¤ and productions of the United States with foreign countries, in accord- :f:h;“:‘§lf1‘$€;’°‘£1“; ance with the Paris convention of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, mg}, to emp1O*§,,,,,,_ including salaries and compensation to all necessary employees, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, ten thousand dollars. For the payment of the actual and necessary expenses of two civilian Cixjiliau experts experts as delegates of the United States to an international commission °* ’F*'E’:;“E:';:]_ for the establishment of electrical units, three thousand dollars. m,ut of electrical units. For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Taugier Orme S_p¤r¢¤l light, on me coast or Morocco, mms hundred dollars. -¤¤ '1`·¤z¤¤= 1=¢¤¤~ For printing and distributing the publieations by the Department of Con su 1 sr re- State of the consular and other commercial reports, including circular ffbmzwgxgax letters to chambers of commerce, twenty thousand dollars, Provided, ti}; That no part of such reports discussing partisan political, religions, or mma. moral questions shall be published. For contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of I¤i=¤r¤¤*¤i¤¤¤1 Weights and Measures for the calendar year eighteen hundred and £:3'°]}‘;:;‘;°lYe:*¢h“ eightyfive, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May 20 S,,t__y0g twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, to be expended uude; the direction of the Secretary of State, or so much thereof as may be necessary, two thousand two hundred aud seventy dollars. For contribution to the maintenance of the International Prison Com- I;¤¢¤r¤¤ti¤¤¤l mission, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, £;.“°“ c°"““i“‘ two hundred and tlfty dollars. For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of ministers Trsnspomuou and consuls of the United States to their former homes in this country f°!' .m'*°*’m°:* °f for interment, where such ministers or consuls have died or may die mB""°"d°y°§;:b$°?Q abroad while in discharge of their odicial duties, ten thousand dollars. For loss by exchange in remittances of money to sud irom legutions, L 0 ¤¤ b Y 0*- two thousand dollars. °h‘“g°· For repairing and inclosiug with an iron railing the monument in the Repairs. ew-. of foreign cemetery of Bogota above the grave of Benjamin A. Bidlack, z‘§‘;""?;‘lQ}l]?Af§3‘;f1‘f formerly charge d’affaires of the United States to the Republic of New mkm Grenade, six hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. · For an agent to the states of the Congo Association, Eve thousand fQ§:"g°;°0'*“! '°“ dollars; said agent two be charged with introducing and extending the Zim,,, . fppom, commerce of the United States in the Congo Valley, and for such purpose ment or, e u nes, the further sum of een thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be ¤¤¤¤p¤¤¤¤¢i¤¤- necessary: and the President is hereby authorized to appoint in the recess of the Senate such agent whose commission shall expire at the end of the next session of the Senate. To enable the Secretary of State to comply with the requirements of Fees, etc., in •>x· the fourth section of “Au act. regulating fees and the practice in extra- ***23*;***** °;:9°- ditiou cases," approved August third, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, mt" '°' to be disbursed by the Secretary of State, five thousand dollars. _ _ For three commissioners to be appointed by the President, by and C°¤¤¤¤€°‘::°’°· with the advice and consent of the Senate, at a compensation of seven :’f°::f“':nf," Q5': thousand five hundred dollars each. Said commissioners shall ascertain mgygigl mission. the best modes of securing more intimate international and commercial between United relations between the United States and the several countries of Central S°*3*°g°°°3_C°I“*“l and South America, and for that purpose they shall visit such countries fg; ° in Central and South America as the President may direct. compsmsuon, · duties. For one secretary to said commission; to be a. pointed by the Presi· WWF °°"" dent, by and with the advice and consent of the genate, three thousand P°°°° °°` dollars; and in addition to the foregoing amounts such further sum as may be required for the reasonable expenses of said commission, such Exyeuses cl commission.