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 38 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 34. 1896. RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF Amnnrcm SEAMEN. nsiarorsmmm ·Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and ’°}F{,’}’,_",,_ M also on the coast of Alaska, or so much thereof as may be necessary, fifty thousand dollars. FOREIGN HOSPITALS AT PANAMA. lovin MMM. Annual contributions toward the support of foreign hospitals at P""` Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suilering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals. PUBLICATION OF c0NsULA1z AND orimn COMMERCIAL REPORTS. Pr¤p¤·i¤z»¤f·¤-. Mn. Preparation, printing, publication, and distribution, by the Depart- · f ment of State, of the consular and other commercial reports, twenty mts0f thousand dollars: Provided, That all terms of measure, weight, and urged 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 termsthat each issue of consular reports shall not exceed seven thousand Purchase •f ¤•·>1¤. copies: And providcdfurther, That a sum not exceeding two hundred °*°‘ and fifty dollars of this appropriation may be expended in the purchase of such books, maps, and periodicals as may be necessary to the editing of the consular and commercial reports. LOSS BY Excnucn, CONSULAB smzvmm. I·¢¤¤ *1 ¤¤°¤¤8·- Actual cost and expense of making exchange of money to and from the several consulates and consulates-general, four thousand dollars. GONTINGENT Exmnsns, UNITED saunas CONSULATES. mi°•;¤$g‘j;s¤*·¤P•¤•••· Expense of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other ` books, seals, presses, iiags, signs, rent, postage, furniture, statistic , 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. tN’nsnNA·r10NAL BUREAU or AMERICAN REPUIBLICS. mB¤TG¤¤fAm¤¤cw Commercial Bureau of American Republics, twenty-eight thousand }·°:»»¢3[ dollars: Provided, That any moneys received from sale of the Bureau · 1>¤•r¤·•l¤f *¤¢¤iv*·— mblications, from rents, or other sources shall be aid into the Treasur I _ _ P Y as a credit in addition to the appropriation, and may be drawn therefrom upon requisitions of the Secretary of State for the purpose of meeting the expenses of the Bureau. PUBLICATION on INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF nxronrs AND rmronrs. ¤g;{£¤£¤n<;_°* ¤¤¤· For completion of the compilation and publication, under the direc- ' tion of the Secretary of State, of a uniform nomenclature of articles of merchandise, exported and imported, in the English, Spanish. and Portuguese languages, as provided by the International American Conference, five thousand dollars. Approved, February 27, 1896.