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 Statutes, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The Secretary of State is authorized to apply in his discretion such portions of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, foreign missions," for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, to the maintenance, driving, and operating such carriages or vehicles as may be necessary for the use of the Assistant Secretaries of the Department of State in the duties officially devolving upon them, and further to apply upon the order of the Resident such proportion of any fund which may properly be applied to the entertainment of visiting functionaries of foreign governments to such temporary hire of carriages as may be required for the use of such Assistant Secretaries in emergencies arising in connection with the necessary entertainment of such functionaries of foreign governments in the United States, or in such other emergencies as may require such expenditures to be made.

ALLOWANCE TO WIDOWS OR HEIRS OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS WHO DIE ABROAD. Payment, under the provisions of section seventeen hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, to the widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers of the United States dying in foreign countries in the discharge of their duties, five thousand dollars.

TRANSPORTING REMAINS OF DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS, CONSULS, AND CONSULAR CLERKS TO THEIR HOMES FOR INTERMENT. Defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic and consular officers of the United States including consular clerks, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, five thousand dollars.

INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures for the year ending June thirtieth. nineteen hundred and six, in conformity with the terms of the convention of May twenty-fourth. eighteen hundred and seventy-five, the same 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 three hundred and six dollars and ninety-three cents.

INTERNATIONAL BUREAU FOR PUBLICATION OF CUSTOMS TARIFFS. To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the year ending March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six, of sustaining the International Bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariffs, one thousand five hundred dollars: this appropriation to be available on April first, nineteen hundred and five, pursuant to convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety.

INTERNATIONAL (WATER) BOUNDARY COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of eighteen hundred and eighty-four and eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, five thousand dollars.