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 54 STAT.] 76TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CH. 189-MAY 14, 1940 FOREIGN INTERCOURSE AMBASSADORS AND MINISTERS Salaries, Ambassadors and Ministers: For salaries of ambassadors and ministers, including salaries as authorized by section 1740, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of April 24, 1939 (53 Stat. 583), as follows: Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Argen- tina, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Cuba, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Poland, Spain, Turkey, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Venezuela, at $17,500 each; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Belgium and Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Luxemburg, $17,500; Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Nether- lands, $12,000; Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers Plenipotentiary to Albania, Australia, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Dominion of Canada, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Ireland, Liberia, Lithuania, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, Portugal, Ruma- nia, Union of South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Uru- guay, and Yugoslavia, at $10,000 each; to Egypt and Saudi Arabia, $10,000; to Iran and Afghanistan, $10,000; and to Estonia and Latvia, $10,000; In all, not to exceed $660,000: Provided,That no salary herein appropriated shall be paid to any official receiving any other salary from the United States Government. SALARIES OF FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS Salaries, Foreign Service officers: For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the Act approved February 23, 1931 (22 U. S . C . 3, 3a), as amended by the Act of April 24, 1939 (53 Stat. 583), includ- ing salaries of such officers for the period actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes (22 U. S . C. 121); and salaries of Foreign Service officers or vice consuls while acting as Charges d'Affaires ad interim or while in charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer; $4,166,000. TRANSPORTATION, FOREIGN SERVICE Transportation, Foreign Service: To pay the traveling expenses, including travel by airplane when specifically authorized by the Secretary of State, of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service officers, and other employees of the Foreign Service, including For- eign Service inspectors, and under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of their families and expenses of transporta- tion of effects, in going to and returning from their posts, including not to exceed $170,000 for expenses in connection with leaves of absence; attendance at trade and other conferences and congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by the Act approved February 23, 1931 (22 U. S. C. 16, 17); preparation and transportation of the remains of those officers and employees of the Foreign Service, who have died or may die abroad or in transit while Post, p. 187. Salaries. Ambassadors. 22U.S. C. §121. 22 U. S. C., Supp. V, §§3, 3a. Ministers. Proviso. Restriction. Foreign Service of- ficers. 46 Stat. 1207. 22 U. S. C., Supp. V,§ 3,3a. Instruction and transit pay. Charges d'Affaires ad interim. Transportation. Leaves of absence. 46 Stat. 1209. Bringing home re- mains of officers, etc., dying abroad. 183

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