Barbary Powers. Consulates in For expenses of intercourse with the Barbary Powers, three thousand dollars. For expenses of the consulates in the Turkish dominions, namely, inthe Turkish do- terpreters, guards, and other expenses of the consulates at Constantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Alexandria, and Beirut, two thousand five hundred dollars. minions. American sea men. Cemetery at For the relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, two hundred thousand dollars. For the contribution of the United States to the completion of a new Constantinople. cemetery at Constantinople, to receive the remains of American citizens transferred from an old burial-place, and also as a place for future interments, eighteen hundred dollars. Rewards to masters, &c., for rescuing, &c. Blank books, stationery, &c. Office-rent of certain consuls general, &c. Salaries of con For expenses which may be incurred in acknowledging the services of the masters and crews 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 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, sixty thousand dollars. For office- rent for those consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents who are not allowed to trade, including loss by exchange thereon, fifty thousand dollars. For salaries of consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and thir suls-general and teen consular clerks, namely: — consuls. Consulatesgeneral. Consulates. I. CONSULATES-GENERAL. SCHEDULE B. Alexandria, Calcutta, Constantinople, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, Montreal, Shanghai; and the consul-general at Alexandria shall have the name and title of agent and consul-general. III. CONSULATES. SCHEDULE B. Acapulco, Aix-la-Chapelle, Algiers, Amoy, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Aspinwall, Aux Cayes, Bahia, Barcelona, Bankok, Basle, Belfast, Beirut, Bergen, Burmuda, [Bermuda,] Bilbao, Buenos Ayres, Bordeaux, Bremen, Bristol, Brindisi, Boulogne, Cadiz, Callao, Candia, Canton, Cardiff, Chin-Kiang, Clifton, Coaticook, Cork, Curaçoa, Demarara, Dundee, Elsinore, Erie, Foo-Choo, Funchal, Galatz, Gaspé Basin, Geneva, Genoa, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Goderich, Gottenburg, Guaymas, Halifax, Hamburg, Havre, Honolulu, Hong-Kong, Jerusalem, Kanagawa, Kingston, Kingston in Canada, La Rochelle, Laguayra, Lahaina, La Paz, La Union, Leeds, Leghorn, Leipsic, Lisbon, Liverpool, London, Lyons, Macao, Malaga, Malta, Manchester, Manzanillo, Maracaibo, Matanzas, Marseilles, Mauritius, Melbourne, Messina, Moscow, Munich, Nagasaki, Nantes, Naples, Nassau, W. I., Newcastle, Nice, Odessa, Oporto, Palermo, Panama, Paramaribo, Paris, Pernambuco, Pictou, Ponce, Port Mahon, Prescott, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Revel, Rio de Janeiro, Rotterdam, San Juan del Sur, San Juan, (Porto Rico,) Santander, Santiago de Cuba, Santos, Port Sarnia, Scio, Singapore, Smyrna, Southampton, Stockholm, St. John, N. F., St. John, N. B., St. Lambert and Longuieul, St. Petersburg, St. Pierre, (Martinique,) St. Thomas, Stuttgardt, Swatow, St. Helena, Tabasco, Tampico, Tangier, Tehauntepec, [Tehuantepec,] Toronto, Trieste, Trinidad de Cuba, Trinidad, Tripoli, Tunis, Turk's Island, Valparaiso, Valencia, Venice, Vera Cruz, Vienna, Windsor, Zurich. IV. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE B. Amoor River, Antigua, Balize, (Honduras,) Gaboon, Madagascar, San Commercial agencies. Juan del Norte, St. Domingo, St. Marc. V. CONSULATES. SCHEDULE C. Barbadoes, Batavia, Bay of Islands, Cape Haytien, Cape Town, Car- Consulates. thagena, Ceylon, Cobija, Cyprus, Faulkland Islands, Fayal, Guayaquil, Lanthala, Maranham, Matamoras, Mexico, Montevideo, Omoa, Payta, Para, Paso del Norte, Rio Grande, Sabanilla, St. Catherine, Santa Cruz, W. I., Santiago, (Cape Verde,) Spezzia, Stettin, Tahiti, Talcahuano, Tumbez, Zanzibar. VI. COMMERCIAL AGENCIES. SCHEDULE C. Apia, St. Paul de Loando, including loss by exchange thereon, four hundred and seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars. And the salaries of the consuls at Brindisi, Gibraltar, St. Helena, Boulogne, Zurich, Clifton, Coaticook, Erie, Goderich, Kingston in Canada, Port Sarnia, Prescott, St. Lambert and Longuieul, Toronto and Windsor, shall be fifteen hundred dollars each; and the salaries of the consuls at Ceylon and Piraeus shall be one thousand dollars each; and the salary of the consul at Chin-Kiang shall be three thousand dollars; and the salary of the consul at Bankok shall be two thousand dollars; and the salary of the commercial agent at Madagascar shall be two thousand dollars; and the salary of the consul at Nassau shall be four thousand dollars, to commence after the close of the present fiscal year, and to continue during the present rebellion; and the salary of the consul at Lyons shall be two thousand dollars, to commence after the close of the present fiscal year; and the salary of the consul at Manchester shall be three thousand dollars, to commence after the close of the present fiscal year. 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, China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange thereon, nine thousand 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 commissioners and consuls-general to Hayti and Liberia, éleven 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, seventeen thousand dollars. 1862, ch. 140. President may Age and pay. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President be, and is Vol. xii., p. 531. hereby, authorized, whenever he shall think the public good will be pro- appoint consular moted thereby, to appoint consular clerks, not exceeding thirteen in num- clerks. ber at any one time, who shall be citizens of the United States, and over eighteen years of age at the time of their appointment, and shall be entitled to compensation for their services respectively at a rate not exceeding one thousand dollars per annum, to be determined by the President; and to assign such clerks, from time to time, to such consulates and with such duties as he shall direct; and before the appointment of any such Duties. Consular clerks. clerk shall be made, it shall be satisfactorily shown to the Secretary of Examination. State, after due examination and report by an examining board, that the applicant is qualified and fit for the duties to which he shall be assigned; and such report shall be laid before the President. And no clerk so appointed shall be removed from office except for cause stated moved except for in writing, which shall be submitted to congress at the session first following such removal. Not to be re cause. Repeal of § 3 of act of 1859, ch. 75. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the third section of an act entitled "An act making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic Vol. xi. p. 404. expenses of the government for the year ending the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and sixty," approved March third, eighteen hundred Fees of consul- and fifty-nine, is hereby repealed. And the fee for certifying invoices to general for Brit- be charged by the consul-general for the British North American Provish N. A. provinces, and his subordinate consular officers and agents, for goods not ordinates, for cer- exceeding one hundred dollars in value, shall be one dollar, and the same tifying invoices, fee shall be charged for certifying the growth or production of goods Certificate of made duty free by the reciprocity treaty: Provided, however, That no growth not re- such certificate of growth or production shall be required for goods not exceeding in value the sum of two hundred dollars. inces, and &c. quired in certain cases. Office of com mercial agent at Hakodadi may be changed to that of consul. 1856, ch. 127. Vol. xi. p. 52. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the office of commercial agent at Hakodadi, Japan, may, at the discretion of the Secretary of State, be changed to that of consul, to be classed with consuls other than those named in schedule B and C in the act approved August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. June 20, 1864. CHAP. CXXXVII. - An Act granting Lands to the State of Michigan for the Construc tion of certain Wagon-Roads for Military and Postal Purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby is, granted to the State of Michigan, for the construction of a wagon-road for military and postal purposes, from Saginaw City, in said state, by the shortest and most feasible route to the Straits of Mackinaw, every alternate or odd section of public land not mineral, for three miles in width on each side of said road to the extent of three sections to the mile. Also for a road from Grand Rapids, in said state, through Newaygo, Traverse City, and Little Traverse, to the Straits of Mackinaw, every alternate or odd section of public land, not mineral, for three sections in width on each side of said road to the extent of three sections to the mile. And it is hereby provided that in case it shall appear that the United States shall have (when the lines or routes of said roads are definitely established) sold or reserved any sections or parts of sections, granted as aforesaid, or that the rights of preemption or homestead have attached to the same, so as to leave a deficiency in the amount to be selected within the limits designated, then it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to select such lands from the odd sections, or parts of sections, nearest to the three-mile limits aforesaid, such quantity as shall be necessary to make up the deficiency thus created: Provided, further, That the lands hereby granted shall be exclusively reserved, held, and applied in the construction of said roads, and shall be appropriated and disposed of only as the work progresses, in quantities and under such regulations and restrictions as the state shall provide; and in no event shall they be appropriated or disposed of for any other purpose whatsoever. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That any and all lands heretofore reserved to the United States by any act of congress, or in any other manner by competent authority, for any public work, or for any other purpose whatsoever, be, and the same are hereby, reserved to the United States from the operation of this act, except so far as it may be necessary constructed. to locate the routes of said roads through such reserved lands; in which case the rights of way shall be, and are hereby, granted, subject to the Rights of way approval of the President of the United States. granted. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That said roads shall be located, Wagon-roads, surveyed, and constructed, under the direction of such agents or commis- how located and sioners as the governor may appoint, and shall be chopped out a uniform width of at least six rods. The road-bed proper to be not less than thirty-two feet wide, and constructed with ample ditches on both sides, so as to afford sufficient drains, with good and substantial bridges and proper culverts and sluices where necessary. All stumps and roots to be thoroughly grubbed out between the ditches the entire length of said road, the central portion of which to be sufficiently raised to afford a dry road-bed by means of drainage from the centre to the side ditches; the hills to be levelled and valleys raised so as to make as easy a grade as practicable. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That when the governor of the State of Michigan shall furnish the Secretary of the Interior with maps and charts showing the definite location of the line of each of said roads, it shall be his duty to have the land granted to each of said roads with- Land granted, held from market, and reserved exclusively for the purposes aforesaid. when to be withheld from market. And when the said governor shall certify to the Secretary of the Interior that any ten consecutive miles of either of said roads have been completed under the provisions of this act, and in accordance with the third section thereof, stating definitely where said completed section of road commences and where it terminates, it shall be the duty of the said secretary to cause patents to issue to said state for three sections of land. for each mile of road thus completed, as aforesaid, and so on until the whole of said roads is completed: Provided, That no patents shall be given for any of the aforesaid lands before the completion of ten consecutive miles of road, or for any road, or for any part of any road, made before the passage of this act, or for any greater quantity than thirty sections for each ten miles completed according to the provisions of this act. Nothing in this proviso, however, shall be construed so as to prevent the application of so much of the said three sections per mile as may be necessary to finish any part of said roads partly made before the passage of this act. Patents for granted lands, when to issue. Proviso. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That this grant is made upon the Express conditions of grant. express conditions that the roads shall be and remain public highways, Roads to be free from all toll and other charges; and that if any portion of said roads public highways, shall remain uncompleted for a period of more than five years from the and be completed approval of this act by the President, the lands granted for such portion in five years. shall revert to the United States. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. CHAP. CXXXVIII. —An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the June 20, 1864. 1864, ch. 101. Ante, p. 95. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act entitled An act to Amendment of provide for the payment of the claims of Peruvian citizens, under the the payment of act providing for convention between the United States and, Peru of the twelfth of Jan- claims of Peruviuary, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, approved June first, eighteen an citizens. hundred and sixty-four, be amended as follows: after the word January strike out the word last, and insert in lieu thereof the words eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and said law be, and is hereby, further amended so as to authorize the Secretary of State to pay to each of the persons mentioned in said act the interest that may be found due in accordance with the terms of the settlement of said claims, and the sum necessary Appropriation. for such payment is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. June 20, 1864. CHAP. CXXXIX. - An Act requiring Proof of Payment of Duties on foreign Salt before Payment of the Allowances provided for by the Acts of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the allowance of bounty to certain vessels employed in the bank and other cod fisheries, as provided for in the act of July twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and thirteen, entitled "An act laying a duty on imported salt, granting a bounty on pickled fish exported, and allowances to certain vessels employed in the fisheries," and the act of March third, eighteen hundred and nineteen, amendatory thereof, shall not hereafter be paid to any such vessel until satisfactory proof shall have been furnished to the collector of customs charged with the payment of such bounty, that the import duty imposed by law on foreign salt imported into the United States has been duly paid on all foreign salt used in curing the fish on which the claim to the allowance of bounty is based. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. CHAP. CXL. An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to sell the Marine Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to sell the marine hospital and grounds at Chicago, Illinois, the sale to be made at public auction to the highest and best bidder therefor, in ready money, after giving notice thereof six weeks in succession in two daily papers printed in the city of Chicago. And upon sale being made, as aforesaid, the said Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and empowered to make, execute, and deliver to the purchaser thereof a good and sufficient deed for the premises, conveying all the right, title, and interest of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That out of the proceeds of the said sale the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed to purchase a new and more eligible site for a marine hospital in or near Chicago, and erect a new hospital thereon, which site and building shall in no event cost more than the amount received from the sale of the hospital and grounds which are hereby authorized to be sold; and it is hereby provided that the possession of the said hospital and grounds shall be retained by the United States until the new hospital to be built under the provisions of this act shall be fully completed and ready for use. APPROVED, June 20, 1864. CHAP. CXLI. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide a temporary Government for the Territory of Idaho," approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the governor of the Territory of Idaho be, and he is hereby, authorized to reapportion said territory for the election of members of the council and house of representatives of the legislative assembly: Provided, That said apportionment shall be based on an enumeration of the inhabitants and qualified voters |