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CHAP. XXXVII.- An Act making Appropriations for the Service of the Post Office Marclı 80, 1868. Department during the fiscal Year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty

nine.

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 De- department. partment for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixtynine, out of any moneys in the treasury arising from the revenues of the 1836, ch. 270. said department, in conformity to the act of the second of July, eighteen Vol. v. p. 80. hundred and thirty-six:

For inland mail transportation, including pay of route agents, postal clerks, and mail messengers, ten million five hundred and twenty-six thousand dollars.

For foreign mail transportation, four hundred and twenty thousand dollars, under the act approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixtyfive, entitled "An act relating to the postal laws."

For ship, steamboat, and way letters, eight thousand dollars.
For compensation to postmasters, four million two hundred and fifty

thousand dollars.

For clerks for post-offices, two million dollars.

For payments to letter-carriers, seven hundred and fifty thousand dol

lars.

For wrapping paper, seventy thousand dollars.

For twine, fifteen thousand dollars.

For letter balances, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For compensation to blank agents and assistants, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

For office furniture, three thousand dollars.

For advertising, fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this sum shall be paid to any papers published in the District of Columbia except for advertising mail routes in Virginia and Maryland.

For postage stamps and stamped envelopes, four hundred and fifty

thousand dollars.

For mail depredations and special agents, one hundred thousand lars.

Inland mails.

Foreign mails. 1865, ch. 89. Vol. xiii. p. 504.

Ship, &c. letters. Postmasters, clerks, and letter carriers.

Paper and twine.

Blank agents.

Advertising.
Proviso.

Postage stamps and en

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For mail bags and mail-bag catchers, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

For mail locks, keys, and stamps, thirty thousand dollars. For payment of balances to foreign countries, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For miscellaneous payments, including allowances to postmasters for rent, light, fuel, fixtures, stationery, envelopes, and so forth, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

Mail bags, locks, and keys.

Foreign bal

ances.

Steamship

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 service. for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated:

For steamship service between San Francisco, Japan, and China, five Japan and

hundred thousand dollars.

China.

For steamship service between the United States and Brazil, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Brazil.

For steamship service between San Francisco and the Sandwich Islands, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Sandwich

Islands.

For preparing and publishing post-route maps, twenty thousand dollars.

Post-route

maps.

ficient.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the revenues of the Post- Appropriation Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations of this if revenue is de act, then the sum of eight hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid

out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply
deficiencies in the revenue of the Post-Office Department for the year
ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine.
APPROVED, March 30, 1868.

March 30, 1868. CHAP. XXXVIIL-An Act making Appropriations for the consular and diplomatic Expenses of the Government for the Year ending thirtieth June, eighteen hundred ana sixty-nine, and for other Purposes.

Consular and diplomatic appropriation.

missioners.

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

Envoys, min- For salaries of envoys extraordinary, ministers, and commissioners of isters, and com- the United States at Great Britain, France, Russia, Prussia, Spain, Austria, Brazil, Republic of Mexico, China, Italy, Chili, Peru, Portugal, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Greece, Ecuador, United States of Columbia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Sandwich Islands, Costa Rica, Honduras, Argentine Confederation, Paraguay, Japan, and Salvador, three hundred and one thousand dollars.

Secretaries of legation and assistants.

Interpreters.

Contingent expenses.

Consulates in

For salaries of secretaries of legation, as follows:

At London and Paris, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each.

At Saint Petersburg, Madrid, Berlin, Florence, Vienna, and Mexico, eighteen hundred dollars each.

For salaries of assistant secretaries of legation at London and Paris, three thousand dollars.

For salary of the interpreter to the legation to China, five thousand dollars.

For salary of the secretary of legation to Turkey, acting as interpreter, three thousand dollars.

For salary of the interpreter to the legation to Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For contingent expenses of all the missions abroad, thirty thousand dollars.

For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That this sum shall be expended for purposes of foreign intercourse only.

For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely: inTurkish domin- terpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, and Beirut, two thousand five hundred

ions.

American sea

men.

1803, ch. 9. 1811, ch. 28. Vol. ii. pp. 203,

651.

Rescuing sea

men.

Blank books,

dollars.

For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, per acts of February eighteen, [twenty-eight] eighteen hundred and three, and February twenty-eight, eighteen hundred and eleven, two hundred thousand dollars.

For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crew[s] of foreign vessels in rescuing citizens of the United States from shipwreck, five thousand dollars.

For the purchase of blank books, stationery, book-cases, arms of the stationery, &c. United States, seals, presses, and flags, and for the payment of postages, and miscellaneous expenses of the consuls of the United States, including loss by exchange, thirty thousand dollars.

Office rent.

For office rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon, forty-five thousand dollars.

For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, namely:

I. CONSULATES-GENERAL.
SCHEDULE B.

Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai.

II. CONSULATES.
SCHEDULE B.

Acapulco, Aix-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp,
Aspinwall, Bankok, Basle, Belfast, Beirut, Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux,
Bremen, Brindisi, Boulogne, Barcelona, Cadiz, Callao, Candia, Can-
ton, Chemnitz, Chin Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Demarara,
[Demerara,] Dundee, Elsinore, Fort Erie, Foo Choo, Funchal, Geneva,
Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Hono-
lulu, Hong-Kong, Hankow, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston, (Jamaica,)
Kingston in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, Lahaina, Leeds, Leghorn,
Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Lyons, Malaga, Malta, Manchester,
Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Moscow, Munich,
Nagasaki, Naples, Nassau, (West Indies,) Newcastle, Nice, Nantes,
Odessa, Oporto, Palermo, Panama, Paris, Pernambuco, Pictou, Ponce,
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 John, (Newfoundland,) Saint Petersburg,
Saint Pierre, (Martinique,) Saint Thomas, Stuttgardt, Swatow, Saint
Helena, Tampico, Tangier, Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Tripoli,
Tunis, Turk's Island, Valparaiso, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich.

III. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.
SCHEDULE B.

Balize, (Honduras,) Madagascar, San Juan del Norte, Saint Domingo.
IV. CONSULATES.

SCHEDULE C.

Aux Cayes, Bahia, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Carthagena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Falkland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Guaymas, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Piræus, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, Saint Catharine, Santa Cruz, (West Indies,) Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Spezzia, Stettin, Tabasco, Tahita, [Tahiti,] Talcahuano, Tumbez, Venice, Zanzibar.

V. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.

SCHEDULE C.

Consuls-general, consuls, &c.

Commercial

agents.

Salary of consul at Guaymas established.

Amoor River, Apia, Gaboon, Saint Paul de Loando, [Loanda,] including loss by exchange thereon, four hundred thousand dollars, and the salary of the consul at Guaymas shall be one thousand dollars per Moneys in ex

annum: Provided, That all moneys received for fees at any vice-consucess of $1,000 lates or consular agencies of the United States, beyond the sum of one received by conthousand dollars in any one year, and all moneys received by any consul suls, &c. from or consul-general from consular agencies or vice-consulates in excess of &c. to be paid vice-consuls, one thousand dollars in the agregate from all such agencies or vice-con- into treasury.

Expenses of vice-consulate not to exceed

$500 a year.

sulates, shall be accounted for and paid into the treasury of the United States, and no greater sum than five hundred dollars shall be allowed for the expenses of vice-consulate or consular agency for any one year: any Provided, That hereafter the compensation of consuls whose annual salaPay of certain aries do not, under existing law, exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, and the fees collected at the consulates where they are located and paid into the treasury of the United States amount to three thousand dollars, shall be two thousand dollars per annum.

consuls.

Interpreters.

Persons charged with crime.

Marshals for consular courts.

Salaries of

For interpreters to the consulates in China, including loss by exchange thereon, five thousand eight hundred dollars.

For expenses incurred, under instructions from the Secretary of State, in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, and expenses incident thereto, ten thousand dollars.

For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan, including that at Nagasaki, and in China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, nine thousand dollars.

For the salaries of the consuls at Osaca and Yeddo, Japan, whose certain consuls salaries are hereby fixed at three thousand dollars each, six thousand

in Japan.

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dollars.

For rent of prisons for American convicts in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey, and for wages of the keepers of the same, nine thousand dollars.

For salaries of ministers resident and consuls-general to Hayti and Liberia, eleven thousand five hundred dollars.

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. For expenses under the neutrality act, twenty thousand dollars.

For the payment of the fourth 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.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any officer of the army or navy of the United States who shall, after the passage of this act, accept or hold any appointment in the diplomatic or consular service of the government, shall be considered as having resigned his said office, and the place held by him in the military or naval service shall be deemed and taken to be vacant, and shall be filled in the same manner as if the said officer had resigned the same.

SEC. 3. 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, if such absence shall exceed sixty days in any one year.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled "An act to encourage immigration," approved July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixtyfour, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

APPROVED, March 30, 1868.

March 81, 1869. CHAP. XLL- An Act to exempt certain Manufactures from internal Tax, and for other

Certain manufactures exempted from internal tax.

Purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections ninety-four and ninety-five of the act entitled “An act to provide internal revenue to sup

Repeal of 1864, ch. 173. $ 94, 95. Vol. xiii. pp. 264-272. 1865, ch. 78. Vol. xiii. pp.

Vol. xiv. pp.

port the government, to pay interest on the public debt, and for other purposes," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and all acts and parts of acts amendatory of said sections, be, and the same are hereby, repealed, except only so much of the said sections and amendments thereto as relates to the taxes imposed thereby on gas made of coal wholly or in part, or of any other material; on illuminating, lubricating, 475-478. or other mineral oils or articles the products of the distillation, redistilla- 1866, ch. 184, § 9 tion, or refining of crude petroleum, or of a single distillation of coal, 128-133. shale, peat, asphaltum, or other bituminous substances, on wines therein 1867, ch. 169,9 Vol. xiv. pp. described, and on snuff and all the other manufactures of tobacco, including cigarettes, cigars, and cheroots: Provided; That the products of petroleum and bituminous substances hereinbefore mentioned, except illuminating gas, shall, from and after the passage of this act, be taxed at one half the rates fixed by the said section ninety-four.

474, 475.
except as to
tain oils, wines,
tax on gas, cer-
snuff, tobacco,
cigars, &c.
Tax on pe-

troleum.
This act not

&c. not re

after June 1,

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to repeal or interfere with any law, regulation, or provision for the assessment or collection of any tax which, under existing to apply to taxes accruing before laws, may accrue before the first day of April, anno Domini eighteen April, 1, 1868. hundred and sixty-eight. And nothing herein contained shall be con- Tax on cerstrued as a repeal of any tax upon machinery or other articles which tain machinery, have been or may be delivered on contracts made with the United States pealed. prior to the passage of this act. See post, p. 336. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That after the first day of June Drawback not next, no drawback of internal taxes paid on manufactures shall be allowed to be allowed on the exportation of any article of domestic manufacture on which there 1868, on exporis no internal tax at the time of exportation; nor shall such drawback tation of articles be allowed in any case unless it shall be proved by sworn evidence in is no tax at time writing, to the satisfaction of the commissioner of internal revenue, that of exportation; the tax had been paid, and that such articles of manufacture were, prior nor in any to the first day of April, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, actually purchased or actually manufactured and contracted for, to be delivered for such exportation; and no claim for such drawback, or for any drawback claim for of internal tax on exportations made prior to the passage of this act, shall must be presented before Oct. 1, be paid unless presented to the commissioner of internal revenue before 1868. the first day of October, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.

on which there

case unless, &c.;

Manufactur

ticles not spe

whose annual

$5,000, to pay tax on excess. Post, p. 168. Rate of tax,

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That every person, firm, or corporation who shall manufacture by hand or machinery any goods, wares, ers, &c. of aror merchandise, (breadstuffs and unmanufactured lumber excepted,) not cifically taxed, otherwise specifically taxed as such, or who shall be engaged in the manu- except, &c. facture or preparation for sale of any articles or compounds not otherwise sales exceed specifically taxed, or shall put up for sale in packages with his own name or trade-mark thereon any articles or compound not otherwise specifically taxed, and whose annual sales exceed five thousand dollars, shall pay for every additional thousand dollars in excess of five thousand dollars, two dollars, and the amount of sales in excess of the rate of five thousand returns, &c. dollars per annum shall be returned quarter-yearly to the assistant assessor, and the tax on the excess of five thousand dollars shall be assessed by the assessor and paid quarter-yearly in the months of January, April, First assessJuly, and October of each year, as other taxes are assessed and paid. ment to be in And the first assessment herein provided for shall be made in the month July, 1868. of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, for the three months then next preceding.

frauding, or at

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That every person engaged in Penalty upon carrying on the business of a distiller who shall defraud or attempt to de- distiller for de fraud the United States of the tax on the spirits distilled by him, or any tempting to de part thereof, shall forfeit the distillery and distilling apparatus used by fraud, the United him, and all distilled spirits and all raw materials for the production of States of the tax on spirits disdistilled spirits found in the distillery and on the distillery premises, and tilled by him. shall, on conviction, be fined not less than five hundred dollars, nor more Forfeiture

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