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 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 278. 1889. 699 T0 `enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in U¤F°¤*S€<’>¤ emerthe diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial geucwd and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the reguirements of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Re- R·S··¤°°-2°1·P·49· ygsed tatutes, eighty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may necessary. - For the payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hun- _Puy¤wn1:'t.oheirs or dred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, of ,‘?·}.’{,‘,§§“,i§S’,,‘§g°§{,‘,“.},‘,'*},' the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the B-S·,¤¤¤- 1749, r- 311: United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five thousand dollars. For defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of minis- 'i‘_r¤¤¤p<>rr.i¤g¤> ters and diplomatic officers, consuls and consular clerks of the §'QTT;"L$,§§,,}§’“‘S°“'“ United States. who may have died, or may die, abroad, while in the dischange of their oihcial duties, to their former homes in this country, an for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, ten thousand dollars. Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of lure:-pauomnemmu Weitghts and Measures for the year ending June thirteenth, eighteen ggmghw ““° Mm' hun red and ninety, in conformity with the terms of the convention _ of May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same, Vol-¤¤.p.=’14. or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said Bureau on its certificate of apportionment, two thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. For salary and expenses of a commercial agent at Boma, in the Commercial agent Lower Congo Basin, with authority to visit and report upon the "° B°“‘“· C°“€°· commercial resources of the Upper and Lower Congo Basin, their products, their minerals, their vegetable wealth, the openings for American trade, and to collect such information on the sub act of that country as shall be thought of interest to the United States, four thousand dollars. ' To enable the President to cause to be paid to the Government of mfmfggowoggpepé J apan, to be by it distributed among the families of the Japanese rroinxri s. s. omni;. su jects accidentally killed or injlured ly the explosion of shells from the United States steamer Oma a whi e engaged in target practice near the Island of Ikesima on the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and eight -seven, fifteen thousand dollars, the same to be received as full indremnit for the loss and injuries caused as aforesaid, said_ sum to be immmhatel available. For the execution of, the obligations and the protection of the in- mmann of rpm terests of the United States, existing under the treaty between the §,’{f;`{,.Q?'},,‘§,§,,},,{{,{‘;;{ United States and the Government of the Samoan Islands, five hun- ¤¤¤#· dred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as maybe necessary, to be expended under the direction of the President, this appropriation to be immediately available. SCHEDULE B. Scheiuie B· SALARIES CONSULAR SERVICE. Salaries. Consnls-general at Havana, London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro, €¤¤S¤1¤z¢¤¤¤>1- at six thousand dollars each, twenty-four thousand dollars. . Consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, at nve thousand dollars each, ten thousand dollars. Consul-general at Melbourne. four thousand five hundred dollars. Consnls-general at Berlin, Honolulu, Kanagawa, Montreal, and Panama. at four thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars. Consul-general at Halifax, three thousand five hundred dollars. Consuls-general at Constantinople, Ecuador. Frankfort. Ottawa, Rome, Saint Petersburg, and Vienna,at three thousand dollars each, twenty-one thousand dollars.