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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. IL. Ch. 831. 1901. 1011 the account of the payment of the awards of the late Spanish and American Claims Commission, and to pay and distribute the same pro miggyglgfxggsggbgtigg rata to the claimants, their heirs or assigns, to whom said awards were tions uipon fund? Sc., made as shown by the report of the?Sgcretary of State, trarésmittlgd to “““‘°‘ “d· the President in his messa e dated e ruary twenty-sevent, ei teen hundred and eighty-eight,gand printed as Senate Executive Dotgiment Numbered N inety-three, first session Fiftieth Congress, fourteen thousand four hundred and thirty-five dollars and fifty cents. For payment to Ella Lowery Moseley, widow of Robert E. Moseley, ,;*1** L°W*=*Y M°S‘* who died while consul-general at Singapore, a sum equal to three Paymemm. mouths’ salary as such consul-general, seven hundred and fifty dollars. ISTHMIAN CANAL CoMM1ss1oN: To defray the expenses necessarily Cgnjfrggggn Caml incurred in making the investigation authorized by sections three and Approprmiion mr four of the river and harbor appropriation Act aygproved March third, °X€}§{1(Zf‘p_u50_ eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seventy-five thousand dollars. Foamex Inrrzncounsn. Fcreiznlnrercourse. To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such p,,‘f,§g;‘;,{‘,§,;;g;S_ °"‘ stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and I signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomen, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangiers, and ‘ the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State; and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, seventy- five thousand dollars. For expense of providing all such stationery, blanks,_ record and p§,Q€';_“QO§,§§,Qfes_°x' other books, seals, presses, iiags, signs, rent,_postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight ( foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular oizlicers and consular clerks, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, 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, thirty thousand dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, United States consulates," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eighteen thousand four hundred dollars and eighty-seven cents. ‘ To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury _ on account of the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, United States consulates," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety- nine, four thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy cents. . ., To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in Em°*g°¤°i°S·€*°· the di lomatic and consular service; and to exten the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to R·S·»S€°·29*·P-*9- the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Loss by exchange, diplomatic ,,,f.j°“ by °x°h*‘“g‘°’· service," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one hundred and sixty-eight dollars and seventy-eight cents. _ To pay amguglts found due by the accclgungng of}ice¥s(pf Qthe Treasury m§,"fp°"S· p“b“°“‘ on account 0 the appropriation for “ ub ication o ip omatic, consulzilr, glnd con&n&e{pial)reI;>orts," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eig t thousand o‘ ars. ‘