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 Annual contributions toward the support of foreign hospitals at Panama, five hundred dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals.

Expenses of rewriting the consular regulations, under the supervision of the Secretary of State, three thousand dollars.

Contribution toward the expense of a wall, gates, keeper's house, and so forth, in the foreign cemetery at Tangier, four hundred dollars.

Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute of Kobe, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that relief will be afforded by the said institute to indigent American seamen, twenty-five dollars.

Expenses 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, 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, two hundred and eighty thousand dollars.

Approved, March 3, 1905.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of General Orders, Numbered Forty-nine, office of the United States military governor in the Philippine Islands, dated October twenty-third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, relating to customs duties on imports and exports of the Philippine Islands, and tonnage duties and wharf charges therein, and the several orders supplemental thereto and amendatory thereof, are hereby amended to read as follows: That duties shall be collected on all articles, goods, and merchandise imported into the Philippine Islands at the rates hereinafter provided, except when expressly exempted from duty by this Act. That merchandise in transit at the time the present revision goes into effect may be entered under the provisions of law existing at the time of shipment: Provided, however, That this privilege shall not be extended beyond the period of sixty days after the date of the enforcement of the present tariff of duties and taxes. That duties shall be collected at the rates hereinafter provided on such articles, goods, and merchandise exported from the Philippine Islands as are hereinafter specifically prescribed in this Act.