for any one year to any one Consulate in China or Japan, respectively, not herein named, for expenses of interpretation; and that section six of the act entitled "An act to regulate the diplomatic and consular systems of the United States," approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, is hereby repealed. ex 1116..SEC. 4. That the Secretary of State shall, as soon as practicable, establish and determine the maximum amount of time actually necessary to make the transit between each Diplomatic and Consular Post and the city of Washington, and vice versa, and shall make the same public. He may also, from time to time, revise his decision in this respect; but in each case the decision is to be in like manner made public. And the allowance for time actually and necessarily occupied by each Diplomatic and Consular Officer who may be entitled to such allowance shall in no case exceed that for the time thus established and determined, with the addition of the time usually occupied by the shortest and most direct mode of conveyance from Washington to the place of residence in the United States of such officer. 1117..SEC. 5. That from and after the first day of July next, the annual salary of Consular Clerks who shall have remained continuously in service as such for the period of five years and upward shall be one thousand two hundred dollars. 1118..SEC. 6. That any Vice-Consul who may be temporarily acting as Consul during the absence of such Consul may receive compensation, notwithstanding that he is not a citizen of the United States. For loss by exchange on the above, forty-eight thousand dollars. For repaying to the Government of Brazil, money erroneously claimed by and paid to the United States, fifty-seven thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For Interpreters 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 and China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand seven hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper and of all the missions abroad, such as stationery, book-cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, rent, freight, postage, and other necessary miscellaneous matters, including loss by exchange, one hundred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. Interpreters, &c., Turkey. For Interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the Consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the Turkish dominions, three thousand dollars. For payment of Consular Officers not citizens of the Pay of Consular United States, ten thousand dollars. Officers not citi zens. Rent of prisons, &c., in Siam and Turkey. For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, including loss by exchange, four thousand dollars. For rent of prison for American convicts in China, 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. Wages of keep ers, &e. Rent of prisons in Japan. Keepers, &c. For bringing home from foreign countries persons Bringing home charged with crimes, and expenses incidental thereto, criminals. including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars. For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign contries, one hundred thousand dollars. Relief of sea mea. For expenses of acknowledging the services of mas- Acknowledgment ters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, five thousand dollars. * * * * of services. Diplomatic and For allowance to widows or heirs of deceased Diplo- Widows and matic and Consular Officers for the time that would be heirs of deceased necessarily occupied in making the transit from the Consular Officers. post of duty of the deceased to his residence in the United States, five thousand dollars. Court-house and For rent of court-house and jail, with grounds appurtenant, in Yeddo, or such other place as the United jail in Yeddo. States Minister in Japan may designate five thousand dollars. AN ACT relating to Ambassadors, Consuls and other officers, approved June 17, 1874. 1119.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no Ambassador, Envoy Extraordinary, Minister Plenipotentiary, Minister Resident, Commissioner to any foreign country, Chargé d'Affaires, Secretary of Legation, Assistant Sceretary of Legation, Interpreter to any Legation in any foreign country, Consul-General, Consul, Commercial Agent, Consular Pupils, or Consular Absences. sence. with the press, &c. Agent shall be absent from his post or the performance of his duties for a longer period than ten days at any one time, without the permission previously obtained of the Pay during ab- President. And no compensation shall be allowed for the time of any such absence in any case except in cases of sickness; nor shall any Diplomatic or Consular Officer Correspondence correspond in regard to the public affairs of any foreign government with any private person, newspaper, or other periodical, or otherwise than with the proper officers of the United States; nor, without the consent of the SecRecommenda- retary of State previously obtained, recommend any person, at home or abroad, for any employment of trust or profit under the government of the country in which he is located; nor ask or accept, for himself or any other person, any present, emolument, pecuniary favor, office, or title of any kind from any such government. tions for office, &c Amendment of Consular act. AN ACT making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the 1120..SEC. 5. That section six of the act entitled Diplomatic and 4 An act making appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and for other purposes," approved June eleventh, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, be amended by striking out the following words, viz: "Contingent expenses of foreign intercourse proper, and of all missions abroad, such as |