May 22, 1872.

cal disabilities

&c.

CHAP. CXCIII. — An Act to remove political Disabilities imposed by the fourteenth Article of the Amendments of the Constitution of the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Certain politi- States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each house concurremoved from all ring therein), That all political disabilities imposed by the third section of persons, except, the fourteenth article of amendments of the Constitution of the United States are hereby removed from all persons whomsoever, except Senators and Representatives of the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh Congresses, officers in the judicial, military, and naval service of the United States, heads of departments, and foreign ministers of the United States. APPROVED, May 22, 1872.

Vol. xv. p. 709. See Post, p. 956. pendix, pp. viii.,

ix.

May 22, 1872. CHAP. CXCIV.— An Act making Appropriations for the consular and diplomatic Service of the Government for the Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other Purposes.

Consular and diplomatic appro

priations for year ending June 30, 1873.

Envoys and ministers plenipotentiary.

Ministers resident.

One minister resident for Guatemala,

Costa Rica, &c., and his residence.

See Post, p. 471. Uruguay and Paraguay.

Havti and Liberia.

Secretaries of

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars.

To Spain, Austria, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, China, and Italy, at twelve thousand dollars each, eighty-four thousand dollars.

To Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.

For ministers resident at Portugal, Switzerland, Greece, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and Norway, Turkey, Ecuador, Columbia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, and Salvador, Hawaiian Islands, and the Argentine Republic, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, one hundred and forty-two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That on and after June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, there shall be but one minister resident accredited to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua, and that the President be authorized to select the place of residence for the minister in any one of those States.

For minister resident at Uruguay, also accredited to Paraguay, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.

For salary of minister resident and consul-general at Hayti, seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For minister resident and consul-general at Liberia, four thousand dollars.

For salaries of secretaries of legation at London, Paris, and Berlin, at legation, and as two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, seven thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.

sistants.

Private amanuensis for Robert C. Schenck.

To enable Robert C. Schenck, minister to Great Britain, to employ a private amanuensis, according to joint resolution approved January eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, two thousand five hunVol. xvi. p. 590. dred dollars.

Interpreters.

For salaries of secretaries of legation to Austria, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, Russia, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, ten thousand eight hundred dollars.

For salaries of assistant secretaries of the legations to France, Great Britain, and Germany, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.

For salary of the secretary of legation (acting also as interpreter) to China, five thousand dollars.

to do duty of sec

For salary of the interpreter of the United States legation and consulate Interpreter at general in Turkey, three thousand dollars; and on and after the passage of Constantinople this act the duties of secretary of legation shall be performed by the inter- retary of legapreter at Constantinople.

tion.

an.

Chargé d'affaires, &c.

No pay or

For salary of interpreter and secretary of legation to Japan, two thou- Secretary of sand five hundred dollars each, five thousand dollars; and the office of legation to Japsecretary of legation to Japan is hereby authorized and established. For compensation of chargé d'affaires ad interim, and for compensation of diplomatic officers of the United States abroad, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That no compensation or allowance shall be made to any such allowance to officer after the termination of his official functions other than for such any diplomatic time as shall necessarily be occupied in his direct return to the United officer after his States, and the proviso to the clause in the act of March third, eighteen official functions hundred and seventy-one, entitled "An act making appropriations to sup- cept, &c. ply deficiencies for the service of the government for the fiscal years Repeal of part ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, and June thirtieth, of 1871, ch. 115. eighteen hundred and seventy-one, and for other purposes," " For salaries Vol. xvi. p. 517. of United States ministers abroad," and so forth, be, and the same is hereby,

repealed.

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terminate, ex

Agents to examine consular accounts.

1870, ch. 237, § 2. Vol. xvi. p. 221.

For compensation of agents appointed by the President to examine consular accounts, as authorized by the second section of the act approved July eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy, ten thousand dollars; and from and after the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, said appropriation shall cease, and all acts or parts of acts inconsistent therewith be, and the same are hereby, repealed. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper, and of all the Contingent missions abroad, one hundred thousand dollars.

Appropriation to cease after, &c.

expenses.

Consuls-gen

For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, including loss by exchange, four hundred and eral, consuls, sixteen thousand dollars, as follows:

&c.

I. CONSULATES GENERAL.

Schedule B.-Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-theMain, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai, Beirut. Tampico, London, Paris.

Consulates general.

Schedule B.

Schedule B.-Aix-la-Chapelle, Acapulco, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Schedule B. Antwerp, Aspinwall, Bangkok, Basle, Belfast, Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brindisi, Boulogne, Barcelona, Cadiz, Callao, Canton, Chemnitz, Chin-Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Demerara, Dundee, Elsinore, Fort Erie, Foo-Choo, Funchal, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Honolulu, Hong-Kong, Hankow, Hakodadi, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston (Jamaica), Kingston (Canada), La Rochelle, Laguayra, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, Lyons, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Munich, Mahe, Nagasaki, Naples, Nassau (West Indies), New Castle, Nice, Nantes, Odessa, Oporto, Osacca, Palermo, Panama, Pernambuco, Pictou, Port Mahon, Port Said, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan (Porto Rico), Saint John's (Canada East), Santiago de Cuba, Port Sarnia, Rome, Singapore, Smyrna, Southampton, Saint Petersburg, Santa Cruz (West Indies), Saint Thomas, Spezzia, Stuttgardt, Swatow, Saint Helena, Tangier, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Tripoli, Tunis, Tunstall, Tien-Tsin, Turk's Island, Valparaiso, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Valencia, Windsor (Canada West), Zurich, Birmingham, Barmen, and Winnipeg (Selkirk settlement, British North America).

Consulates.
Schedule C.

Commercial

agencies. Schedule C.

Schedule B.
Interpreters.

Marshals for

III. CONSULATES.

Schedule C.-Aux Cayes, Bahia, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Candia, Cape Town, Carthagena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Guaymas, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Piræus, Rio Grande, Saint Catharine, Santiago (Cape Verde), Stettin, Tabasco, Tahiti, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Venice, Windsor (Nova Scotia), Zanzibar. And there may be appointed a consul at Windsor, Nova Scotia, at an annual salary of one thousand dollars.

IV. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.

Schedule C. Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loanda, Lauthala, Sabinilla.

V. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.

Schedule B.-Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo.

For interpreter to the consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, including loss by exchange, five thousand seven hundred dollars.

For marshals for the consular courts in Japan, including that of Naconsular courts. gasaki, and in China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.

&c.

Stationery,

"Public docu

ments" not to be supplied to legations, &c., except, &c.

Consulates in

For stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, and payment of rent, freight, postage, and miscellaneous expenses, including loss by exchange thereon, sixty thousand dollars: Provided, That none of the books published by the government, and usually known by the name of "public documents," shall hereafter be supplied to the legations and consulates of the United States, except such as shall have been first designated by the Secretary of State by an order, to be recorded in the State Department, as suitable for and required by the legation and consulate to which it shall be supplied.

For expenses for interpreters, guards, and other matters at the conTurkish domin sulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars.

ions.

Prisons for American convicts.

Bringing home persons charged

with crime.

American sea

men.

Rescuing from shipwreck.

Neutrality act. 1818, ch. 88.

Vol. iii. p. 447.

For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, including loss by exchange, four thousand dollars.

For rent of prison for American convicts in China, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, ten thousand dollars.

For rent of prison for American convicts in Japan, seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For wages of keepers, care of offenders, and expenses, five thousand dollars.

For expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars.

For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, eighty thousand dollars.

For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, five thousand dollars.

To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality act, to be expended under the direction of the President, in 1810, ch. 44, § 3. conformity with the third section of the act of May first, eighteen hunVol. ii. p. 609. dred and ten, entitled "An act fixing the compensation of ministers and consuls residing on the coast of Barbary, and for other purposes," twenty thousand dollars.

Scheldt dues.

To meet the payment of the ninth annual instalment of the proportion contributed by the United States toward the capitalization of the Scheldt Vol. xiii. p. 649. dues, sixty-six thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars.

The compensation of the chief clerk of the Department of State shall Pay of chief be at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, beginning ment of State olerk of Departwith the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.

APPROVED, May 22, 1872.

established.

CHAP. CXCV. — An Act making Appropriations for the naval Service for the Year May 23, 1872. ending June thirty, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and for other Purposes.

Navy appro

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the treas- priation for the ury not otherwise appropriated, for the naval service of the government June 30, 1873. year ending for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-three,

and for other purposes:

For pay of commissioned and warrant officers at sea, on shore, on Pay of officers special service, and of those on the retired list and unemployed, and for and seamen, mileage and transportation of officers travelling under orders, and for mileage, &c. pay of the petty-officers, seamen, ordinary seamen, landsmen, and boys, including men of the engineer's force, eight thousand five hundred men,

at an average pay of three hundred dollars each per annum, six million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Navy Department one hundred thousand dollars.

Contingent ex

penses. Bureau of

Bureau of Navigation. For foreign and local pilotage and towage navigation. of ships of war, fifty thousand dollars.

Pilotage and

Correcting,

For services and materials in correcting compasses on board ship, towage. and for adjusting and testing compasses on shore, three thousand dol- &c., compasses.

lars.

Nautical in

For nautical and astronomical instruments, nautical books, maps, charts, and sailing directions, and repairs of nautical instruments for ships of struments, war, ten thousand dollars.

books, charts,

&c.

Books for lib

For books for libraries for ships of war, three thousand dollars. For navy signals and apparatus, namely, signal-lights, lanterns, and raries. rockets, including running lights, drawings, and engravings for signal- &c. books, six thousand dollars.

Navy signals,

For compass-fittings, including binnacles, tripods, and other appen- Compass-fitdages of ship's compasses, to be made in the navy-yards, five thousand tings. dollars.

For logs and other appliances for measuring the ship's way, leads and Logs, &c. other appliances for sounding, three thousand dollars.

For lanterns and lamps, and their appendages, for general use on board ship, including those for the cabin, ward-room, and steerage, for the holds and spirit-room, for decks and quartermaster's use, six thousand dollars.

For bunting, and other materials for flags, and making and repairing flags of all kinds, five thousand five hundred dollars.

Lanterns, &c.

Bunting and

flags.

For oil for ships of war other than that used for the engineer depart- Oil. ment, candles when used as a substitute for oil in binnacles, runninglights, for chimneys and wick and soap used in navigation department, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For stationery for commanders and navigators of vessels of war, four thousand dollars.

For musical instruments, and music for vessels of war, one thousand dollars.

Stationery.

Musical in

struments.

munication.

For steering signals and indicators, and for speaking-tubes and gongs, Signal com for signal communication on board vessels of war, two thousand five hundred dollars.

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Civil establishment: For pay of writers and laborers, and for purposes incidental to the support of the civil establishment under this bureau at the several navy-yards, twelve thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of the bureau of navigation: freight and transportation of navigation materials; instruments, books, and stores; postage and telegraphing on public business; advertising for proposals; packing-boxes and materials; blank books, forms, and stationery at navigation offices, six thousand dollars.

For drawing, engraving, and printing and photo-lithographing charts, electrotyping and correcting old plates, preparing and publishing sailing directions, and other hydrographic information, seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars.

For surveying in the Pacific, fifty thousand dollars.
For making charts, twenty thousand dollars.

For fuel, lights, and office furniture; care of building and other labor; purchase of books for library, drawing materials, and other stationery; postage, freight, and other contingent expenses, seven thousand dollars.

For rent and repair of building, two thousand eight hundred dollars.
For expenses of naval observatory, namely:

For pay of one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

For three assistant observers, four thousand five hundred dollars. For wages of one instrument-maker, one messenger, three watchmen, and one porter; for keeping grounds in order and repairs to buildings; for fuel, light, and office furniture; and for stationery, purchase of books for library, chemicals for batteries, postage, and freight, and all other contingent expenses, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

For computation for theory and tables of the moon, two thousand dollars. For fitting up transit-circle room, and completing its arrangement, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For transcribing astronomical observations upon sheets for publication, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For erection of tower and dome for the new refracting telescope, ten thousand dollars.

For payment, in part, for the great refracting telescope now in the course of construction, ten thousand dollars.

For expenses of Nautical Almanac :

For pay of computers and clerk for compiling and preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and the Nautical Almanac, twenty thousand dollars.

For preparing elements and tables of new planets discovered by American astronomers, three thousand dollars.

For rent, fuel, labor, stationery, boxes, expresses, and miscellaneous items, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Bureau of Ordnance. For one thousand two hundred and fifty barrels of gunpowder, twenty-five thousand dollars.

For fuel and materials necessary in carrying on the mechanical branches of the ordnance department at the navy-yards and stations, one hundred thousand dollars.

For labor at all the navy-yards, three hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That laborers shall be employed in the several navy-yards by the proper officers in charge with reference to skill and efficiency, and without regard to other considerations.

To enable the Secretary of the Navy to carry on his experiments towards converting heavy smooth-bore guns into rifled guns, with a view to obtain a combination gun possessing the qualities of both smooth-bore and rifle, forty thousand dollars.

For repairs to ordnance buildings, magazines, gun-parks, machinery, and other necessaries of the like character, forty-seven thousand six hundred and one dollars.