respect to clerk hire, no greater portion of this sum than five hundred dollars to be allowed to any one consulate in any one fiscal year, fifty thousand dollars: Proviso.
Limit.Provided, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated.
SALARIES OF INTERPRETERS TO CONSULATES IN CHINA, KOREA, AND JAPAN.
Interpreters to consulates.Interpreters to be employed at consulates in China, Korea, and Japan, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, twenty thousand dollars.
For interpreter at Vladivostok, Siberia, eight hundred dollars.
EXPENSES OF INTERPRETERS, GUARDS, AND SO FORTH, IN TURKISH DOMINIONS, AND SO FORTH.
Interpreters, guards, etc.Interpreters and guards at the consulates in the Turkish dominions and at Zanzibar, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, ten thousand dollars.
SALARIES OF MARSHALS FOR CONSULAR COURTS.
Marshals.Marshals for the consular courts in China, Korea, and Turkey, ten thousand three hundred dollars.
EXPENSES OF PRISONS FOR AMERICAN CONVICTS.
Consular prisons.
Bangkok.Expenses of a prison and a prison keeper at the consulate-general in Bangkok, Siam, one thousand dollars.
Shanghai.Actual expense of renting a prison at Shanghai for American convicts in China, seven hundred and fifty dollars; and for the wages of a keeper of such prison, eight hundred dollars; one thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Keeping prisoners.Paying for the keeping and feeding of prisoners in China, Korea, Siam, and Turkey, nine thousand dollars: Proviso.
Maximum allowance.Provided, That no more than fifty cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding. This is not to be understood as covering cost of medical attendance and medicines when required by such prisoners: Self-supporting prisonersAnd provided further, That no allowance shall be made for the keeping and feeding of any prisoner who is able to pay or does pay the above sum of fifty cents per day; and the consular officer shall certify to the fact of inability in every case.
Rent, etc., TurkeyRent of prison for American convicts in Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, one thousand dollars.
Prison keeper, Korea.Wages of prison keeper in Korea, six hundred dollars.
Total, thirteen thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.
RELIEF AND PROTECTION OF AMERICAN SEAMEN.
Relief of American seamen.Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the
Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
FOREIGN HOSPITAL AT CAPE TOWN.
Foreign hospitals.
Cape Town.Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hospital (a foreign hospital) at Cape Town, fifty dollars, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital.
