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 590 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. H. Gus. 268, 269. 1897. PUBLICATION OF DIPLOMATIC, CONSULAR, AND orrmn. commumn REPORTS. s¤§°§_‘j;_‘Q,'}§_°*°•·°°”' Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the Department oi State, of the diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports, zmpmyws. em. twenty-five thousand dollars; and of this sum the Secretary of State is authorized to use not exceeding three thou and one hundred and twenty dollars for services of employees in the Bureau of Statistics, Department of State, in the work of compiling and distributing such reports, and not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars in the purchase of such _ books, maps, and periodicals as may be necessary to the editing of §Q`,°}',‘;Q’,f_,,,,,, ,,,· diplomatic, consular, and other commercial reports: Provided, That all mums. cw- terms of measure, weight, and money shall be reduced to, and expressed in, terms of the measure, weight, and coin of the United States, as well · as in the foreign terms; that each issue of consular reports shall not b1§b·;r¤¤·;$'§f1•*;*:*i:*; exceed seven thousand copies: And provided further, That the Secre- Fmgyqmmx tary of State be, and he is hereby, authorized to change the name of the Bureau of Statistics to the Bureau of Foreign Commerce, and that the foregoing provision shall apply with the same force and effectto the Bureau of Foreign Commerce as to the Bureau of Statistics. Loss BY EXCHANGE, CONSULAR SERVICE. . I·"""¤'°‘°""'¥°· Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and from the several consulates and cousulates·general, four thousand dollars. comrmcnum EXPENSES, Uxrman STATES c0NsULAms. Expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent, postage, furniture,_statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular clerks, compensation of Chinese writers, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates, consular agencies, and commercial agencies in the transaction » of their business, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars. INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF AMEBIGAN REPUBLICS. R:’*;*,*j;}:·°€·*¤*°'*°*¤ Commercial Bureau of American Republics, twenty-eight thousand }°m·<mZ dollars: Provided, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau "E:f’§,Qf’°°°""° "°'" publications, from rents, or other sources shall be paid into the Treasury as a credit in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn _ _ therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose ogg? :Qg{;$:*l{¤°*` of meeting the expenses of the Bureau: Provided, That the provisions mn, pm.of the fifth and sixth sections of the Act entitled “An Act establishing post routes, and for other purp0ses," approved March three, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, for the transmission of official mail matter, be, and they are hereby, extended and made applicable to all official mail matter of the Bureau of the American Republics established in Washington by recommendation of the International American Conference, representing the International Union of American Republics. Approved, February 20, 1897. F¤bY¤-VY 20-1897- HCHAP. 269.-An Act To reorganize the judicial districts of Arkansas, and for 0 8F p\1l'p0S88. Bc ·i thenacted by the Senate and House of Represcntatires of the United »;·;£¤;,¤¤éistrict_ States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of Arkansas is ciemgm. _ hereby divided into two districts, which shall be called the eastern and mff,~D§,·é,;°”· **3- P- "°· western districts of Arkansas. The western district shall hereafter xvpmm sigma. include the counties of Benton, Washingmn, Carroll, Boone, Madison,