Consulates general. I. CONSULATES-GENERAL. Schedule B. Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Maine, [Main,] Havana, Montreal, Shanghai, Beirut, Tampico, London, Paris; and on Consulates at and after the fourth of March, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, the consulates at Paris and London shall be known and designated as consulatesconsulates-gen- general. Paris and London to be called eral. Appointment of consul at Salary of con sul at Valencia; at Hakodadi and Buenos Ayres. Consul to be appointed at Winnepeg, pay. II. CONSULATES. Schedule B. Aix-la-Chapelle, Acapulco, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aspinwall, Bankok, Basle, Belfast, Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux, Bremen, Brindisi, Bologne, Barcelona, Cadiz, Callao, Canton, Chemnitz, Chin Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Demarara, [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 in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, Lahaina, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, Lyons, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Moscow, Munich, Mahe, Nagasaki, Naples, Nassau, (West Indies,) Newcastle, Nice, Nantes, Odessa, Oporto, Osacca, Palermo, Panama, Pernambuco, Pictou, Port Mahon, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Revel, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan, (Porto Rico,) Saint John, (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, Trinadad de Cuba, Tripoli, Tunis, Tunstall, Turk's Island, Valparaiso, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Valencia, Windsor, Yeddo, Zurich. And there shall be appointed a consul at Birmingham, at an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; and a consul at Tunstall at an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars; and a consul at Barmen at an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars; and the consul at Valencia shall receive an annual salary of fifteen hundred dollars. The consul at Hakodadi and Buenos Ayres shall receive an annual salary of two thousand five hundred dollars; and there shall be appointed a consul at Winnepeg, Selkirk Settlement, British North America, who shall receive an annual salary of one thousand five hundred dollars. Commercial agencies. Consulates. III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo. IV. CONSULATES. 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, Saint John, (Newfoundland,) Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Stettin, Tabasco, Tahiti, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Venice, Zanzibar. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. Amoor River, Apia, Belize, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loanda, Lanthala, Sabanilla. For interpreters to the consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, includ- Interpreters. ing loss by exchange thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars. For expenses incurred, under instructions from the Secretary of State, Persons in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and charged with expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars. crime. For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, includ- Marshals for ing that at Nagasaki, and in China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by consular courts. exchange thereon, nine thousand dollars. American convicts. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, Prisons for and Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand dollars. For the restoration of the Protestant American cemetery at Acapulco, in Mexico, one thousand dollars. For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general to Hayti and Liberia, eleven thousand five hundred dollars. Cemetery at Suppression of slave-trade. 1862, ch. 140. Vol. xii. p. 531. Salaries of judges, &c. to be paid only on condition, &c. For expenses under the act of Congress to carry into effect the treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the suppression of the African slave-trade, twelve thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the salaries of the judges and other officers shall be paid to them only upon the condition that they reside at the places where the courts are to be held, as provided by law, and only for so much of the time as they reside at such places: And provided further, That the President be, and he is hereby, requested to apply to the government of Request to be Great Britain to put an end to that part of the treaty of April seventh, tion of part of made for abrogaeighteen hundred and sixty-two, which requires of each government to treaty providing keep up mixed courts, and upon the consent of the government of for mixed courts, Great Britain being obtained, then the salaries of all the officers of the Vol. xii..p. 1227. United States connected with said courts shall cease. For expenses under the neutrality act, ten thousand dollars. For the payment of the fifth annual instalment of the proportion contributed by the United States towards the capitalization of the Scheldt dues, to fulfil the stipulations contained in the fourth article of the convention between the United States and Belgium of the twentieth of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, the sum of fifty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars in coin, and such further sum as may be necessary to carry out the stipulation of the convention providing for payment of interest on the said sum and on the portion of the principal remaining unpaid. &c. Neutrality. 1818, ch. 88. Vol. iii. p. 447. Scheldt dues. Vol. xiii. p. 649. Diplomatic, &c. officers not to receive pay while absent from posts be yond, &c. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no diplomatic or consular officer shall receive salary for the time during which he may be absent from his post (by leave or otherwise) beyond the term of sixty days in any one year: Provided, That the time equal to that usually occupied in going to and from the United States in case of the return, on leave, of such dip- Proviso. lomatic or consular officer to the United States may be allowed in addition to said sixty days; and section three of act of March thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, is hereby repealed. Repeal of 1868, ch. 38, § 3. Ante, p. 58. Fee for verifi to cover what. Penalty upon consular officers SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fee provided by law for the verification of invoices by consular officers shall, when paid, be held cation of invoices to be a full payment for furnishing blank forms of declaration to be signed by the shipper, and for making, signing, and sealing the certificate of the consular officer thereto; and any consular officer who, under pretence of charging for blank forms, advice, or clerical services in the preparation for illegal of such declaration or certificate, shall charge or receive any fee greater charges, &c. in amount than that provided by law for the verification of invoices, or who shall demand or receive for any official services, or who shall allow any clerk or subordinate to receive for any such service any fee or reward other than the fee provided by law for such service, shall be deemed Dismissal from guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be dismissed from office, and on con- office, fine, imviction before any court of the United States having jurisdiction of like prisonment. VOL. XV. PUB.-21 Consuls, &c. in Canada not to be allowed tonnage fees. offences be punished by imprisonment not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding two thousand dollars. And hereafter no consul, vice-consul, or consular agent in the dominion of Canada, shall be allowed tonnage fees for any services, actual or constructive, rendered any vessel owned and registered in the United States that may touch at a Canadian port; and that in the collection of official fees they shall receive foreign moneys at the rate given in the treasury schedule of the value of foreign coins. And hereafter, in cases of vessels making regular daily trips between not to be charged any port of the United States and any port in the dominion of Canada, vessels making wholly upon interior waters not navigable to the ocean, no tonnage regular daily trips between the or clearance fees shall be charged against such vessels by the officers of the United States, except upon the first clearing of said vessel in each year. Tonnage or clearance fees United States and Canada, except, &c. Examinations the accounts of Agents to be appointed; their power, pay, &c. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the President is authorized, to be made into on the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, to cause consular officers examinations to be made into the accounts of the consular officers of and the business the United States, and into all matters connected with the business of of their offices. their said offices, and to that end he may appoint such agent or agents as may be necessary for that purpose; and any agent, when so appointed, shall, for the purpose of making said examinations, have authority to administer oaths and take testimony, and shall have access to all the books and papers of all consular officers. And any agent appointed in this behalf shall be paid for his services a just and reasonable compensation, not exceeding five dollars per day for the time necessarily employed, in addition to his actual necessary expenses, the same to be paid out of the sum appropriated for expenses of collecting the revenue, but no greater sum than five thousand dollars shall be expended as compensation of such agent or agents in any one year. And the President shall Names, &c. of communicate to Congress, at the commencement of every December agents to be com- session, the names of the agents so appointed, and the amount paid to each, together with the reports of such agents. Limit to expenditure for agents. municated to Congress. Consular officers wilfully neglecting to render accounts, &c. or to pay over moneys due the United States, to be deemed guilty SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That any consular officer of the United States who shall wilfully neglect to render true and just quarterly accounts and returns of the business of his office, and of moneys received by him for the use of the United States, or who shall neglect to pay over any balance of such moneys which may be due to the United States, at the expiration of any quarter, before the expiration of the next succeeding quarter, shall be deemed guilty of embezzlement of the public moneys, and shall, on conviction thereof, before any court of the United States Penalty, fine, having jurisdiction of like offences, be punished by imprisonment not imprisonment, and disqualifica- exceeding one year and by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and shall be forever disqualified from holding any office of trust or profit in the United States. of embezzlement. tion for office. ercise duties of Consul-general SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That no consul-general or consul or consul to ex- now holding, or who shall hereafter hold, either of said offices, shall be only one office. permitted to hold the office of consul-general or consul at any other conLimit to allow-sulate, or exercise the duties thereof; and hereafter there shall only be ance to vice-con- allowed to any vice-consulate or consular agency, for expenses thereof, an amount sufficient to pay for stationery and postage on official let sulates or consular agencies. ters. Expenses of SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the entire expense of prison prison, &c. at and prison keepers at the consulate of Bankok, in Siam, shall hereafter Bankok. Salary of con- not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars annually; and the salary of sul and of inter- the interpreter shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars annually; and no salary shall hereafter be allowed the marshal at that consulate; and the annual salary of the consul at Bankok shall be three thousand dollars, to commence July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. preter. No salary to marshal. See Vol. xvi. p. 12. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. CHAP. CXXVI. — An Act making Appropriations for the Service of the Post-Office March 3, 1869. Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy. 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 Appropriation for Post-Office the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the Post-Office Department. Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and 1836, ch. 270. Vol. v. p. 80. seventy, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six: For inland mail transportation, including pay of route agents, postal Inland mails. clerks, and mail messengers, thirteen million thirty-seven thousand six hundred and fifty-three dollars: Provided, That no part of said sum shall be paid for inland transportation between Fort Abercrombie and Helena. For foreign mail transportation, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Proviso. Foreign mails. Ship, &c. letters. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars. For compensation to postmasters, four million five hundred and forty- Postmasters, six thousand dollars. clerks, and letter-carriers. For letter balances, four thousand dollars. For compensation to blank agents and assistants, eight thousand dollars. For office furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars. For advertising, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be paid to any papers published in the District of Columbia for advertising mail routes, except in Virginia and Maryland. For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, five hundred thousand dollars. For detecting and preventing mail depredations and for special agents, one hundred thousand dollars; and no greater sum shall be paid special agents than is hereby provided. For mail-bags, and mail-bag catchers, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Paper and twine. Blank agents. Advertising. Postage stamps and stamped enveSpecial agents. lopes. Mail-bags, locks and keys. For mail-locks, keys, and stamps, thirty-seven thousand dollars. For miscellaneous payments, including payment of balances to foreign Foreign balcountries, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For preparing and publishing post-route maps, sixteen thousand dollars. ances. Post-route maps. For retransfer to money-order account, being money transferred by Money-order postmasters and deposited in the treasury as postage receipts, one million dollars. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, viz: For steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, five hundred thousand dollars. For steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For steamship service between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, seventy-five thousand dollars. For supplying deficiency in the revenues of the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy, five million seven hundred and forty thousand dollars. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. account. March 3, 1869. CHAP. CXXVII. - An Act to authorize the Transfer of Lands granted to the Union Pacific Railway Company, Eastern Division, between Denver and the Point of its Connection with the Union Pacific Railroad, to the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, and to expedite the Completion of Railroads to Denver, in the Territory of Colorado. Union Pacific R. R. Co. may contract with Denver Pacific R. and T. Co. for the construc tion, &c. of its road and telegraph between Denver City and Cheyenne, &c.; shall extend its railroad and telegraph to, &c. so as to form continuous line from Kansas City to Cheyenne. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division, be, and it hereby is, authorized to contract with the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, a corporation existing under the laws of the Territory of Colorado, for the construction, operation, and maintenance of that part of its line of railroad and telegraph between Denver City and its point of connection with the Union Pacific railroad, which point shall be at Cheyenne, and to adopt the roadbed already graded by said Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company as said line, and to grant to said Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company the perpetual use of its right of way and depot grounds, and to transfer to it all the rights and privileges, subject to all the obligations pertaining to said part of its line. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division, shall extend its railroad and telegraph to a connection at the city of Denver, so as to form with that part of its line herein authorized to be constructed, operated, and maintained by the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company, a continuous line of railroad and telegraph from Kansas City, by way of Denver to CheyLaws to apply. enne. And all the provisions of law for the operation of the Union Pacific railroad, its branches and connections, as a continuous line, without discrimination, shall apply the same as if the road from Denver to Cheyenne had been constructed by the said Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division; but nothing herein shall authorize the said eastern division company to operate the road or fix the rates of tariff for the Denver Pacific Railway and Telegraph Company. Operating of road and rates of tariff not affected. The companies may mortgage their roads; to receive patents for altermate sections of land; but not entitled to subsidy in United States bonds. March 3, 1869. commissions to SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That said companies are hereby authorized to mortgage their respective portions of said road, as herein defined, for an amount not exceeding thirty-two thousand dollars per mile, to enable them respectively to borrow money to construct the same; and that each of said companies shall receive patents to the alternate sections of land along their respective lines of road, as herein defined, in like manner and within the same limits as is provided by law in the case of lands granted to the Union Pacific Railway Company, eastern division: Provided, That neither of the companies hereinbefore mentioned shall be entitled to subsidy in United States bonds under the provisions of this act. APPROVED, March 3, 1869. -- CHAP. CXXVIII. An Act to provide for the Execution in the District of Columbia of Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Provision for States of America in Congress assembled, That any party to any suit detaking testimony of witnesses in pending in any court of any State or Territory of the United States, or the District of of any foreign nation, may obtain the testimony of any witness residing Columbia under in, or temporarily within, the District of Columbia, to be used in such suit. When a commission to take such testimony shall have issued from the court in which such suit is pending, or a notice shall have been given according to the rules of practice prevailing in such court, on producing the same to a justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, and on due proof being made to such officer that the testimony of any witness residing in the District, or temporarily within it, is material to the party desiring the same, such officer shall issue a summons to such wit be used in suits pending elsewhere. Witnesses to be summoned. |