Bristol; New Castle; Aukland; Gibraltar; Malta; Cape Town; Saint Helena; Goderich, (Canada West;) Kingston, (Canada;) Prescott; Port Sarnia; Windsor, (Canada West;) Quebec; Saint John's, (Canada East;) Pictou; Charlottetown, (Prince Edward Island;) Winnipeg; Barbadoes; Bermuda; Port Stanley; Mahe, (Seychelles ;) Fort Erie; Clifton.

Genoa; Leghorn; Florence; Palermo; Messina; Naples.

Agent and consulgeneral at Cairo. Consuls-general.

Consul at Liverpool.

Clerks at consu

lates.

San Juan del Norte.

For the agent and consul-general at Cairo, four thousand dollars. For the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio Janeiro, each six thousand dollars per annum, twenty-four thousand dollars. For the consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, each five thousand dollars per annum, ten thousand dollars.

For the consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars per annum.

For the consuls-general at Kanagawa, Montreal, and Berlin, each four thousand dollars per annum, twelve thousand dollars.

For the consuls-general at Vienna, Frankfort, Rome, and Constantinople, each three thousand dollars per annum, twelve thousand dol

lars.

For the consuls-general at Saint Petersburg and Mexico, each two thousand dollars per annum, four thousand dollars.

For the consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars per anuum.

For allowance for clerks at consulates as follows:

To the consul-general at Havana and the consul at Liverpool, each a 1874, c. 275, s. 2; sum not exceeding the rate of three thousand dollars for any one year; ante, p. 70. and to the consuls-general at London, Paris, and Shanghai, each a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand dollars for any one year; to the consuls-general at Berlin, Vienna, Frankfort, and Montreal, and to the consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Leipsic, Lyons, Manchester, Beirut, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheffield, Sonneberg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Fayal, Nuremberg, Leith, Naples, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Tunstall, each a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for any one year, fifty-one thousand dollars.

For interpreters to the consulates at Shanghai, Tien-Tsin, Fowchow, and Kanagawa, at two thousand dollars each, eight thousand dollars. For interpreters to the consulates at Hankow, Amoy, Canton, and Hong-Kong, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand dollars.

For interpreters to twelve other consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars.

For marshals for the consular courts in Japan and China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand seven hundred dollars. For payment of consular officers not citizens of the United States, ten thousand dollars.

Marshals of con

sular courts.

Consular officers not citizens.

1874, c. 275, s. 6; ante, p. 70.

For interpreters, guards, and other expenses at the consulates at Con- Interpreters, &c., stantinople, Smyrna, Candia, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Beirut, in the in Turkey. Turkish Dominions, three thousand dollars.

Contingencies of

For loss by exchange on consular service, forty-eight thousand dollars. Loss by exFor contingent expenses of United States consulates, such as station- change: ery, book cases, arms of the United States, seals, presses, and flags, consulates. rent, freight, postage, and other necessary miscellaneous matters, including loss by exchange, one hundred and thirty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

U. S. and Span

U. S. and Mexi

For salaries and expenses of the United States and Spanish Claims Commission, namely: For commissioner, five thousand dollars; for ish claims commiscounsel, five thousand dollars; for secretary, nine hundred and twelve sion. dollars and fifty cents; for messenger, three hundred dollars; and for rent, fuel, and gas, three thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty cents; making, in all, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars. For salaries and expenses of United States and Mexican Claims Commission: For commissioner, four thousand five hundred dollars; for can claims commisagent, four thousand dollars; for secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; for umpire, three thousand dollars; legal assistant to agent, three thousand dollars; two translators, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one messenger, six hundred dollars; one assistant messenger, three hundred dollars; and for contingent expenses, five thousand dollars; making, in all, the sum of twenty-eight thousand and seven hundred dollars.

sion.

For rent of prisons for American convicts in Siam and Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, including loss by exchange, four thou- in Siam and Tursand dollars.

For rent of prison for American convicts 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.

For bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crimes, and expenses incidental thereto, including loss by exchange, five thousand dollars..

Rent of prisons

key.

China.

Expenses.

Japan.

Expenses.

Bringing home persons charged

with crime.

Relief of American seamen.

For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, one hundred thousand dollars. For expenses of acknowledging the services of masters and crews of Rescue from shipforeign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, five thou

sand dollars.

wreck.

Neutrality act.

R. S., Title lxvii,

To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality-act, to be expended under the direction of the President, pursuant to the third section of the act of Congress of May first, eighteen p. 1029. hundred and ten, entitled "An act fixing the compensation of ministers and consuls residing on the coast of Barbary, and for other purposes," twenty thousand dollars.

For annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel light, on the coast of Morocco, two hundred and eighty-five dollars.

R. S., 291, p. 48.

Cape Spartel light.

Widows and heirs of deceased diplo

For allowance to widows or heirs of deceased diplomatic and consular officers for the time that would be necessarily occupied in making the transit from the post of duty of the deceased to his residence in the officers. United States, five thousand dollars.

matic and consular

Rent of court

For rent of court-house and jail, with grounds appurtenant, in Yeddo, house, jail, &c., in or such other place as the United States minister in Japan may desig nate, five thousand dollars.

Yeddo.

Feb. 18, 1875.

street-railroad by

p. 98, 109.

Route.

Approved, February 18, 1875.

CHAP. 82.-An act giving the approval and sanction of Congress to the route and termini of the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad, and to regulate its construction and operation.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Approval of con- States of America in Congress assembled, That the approval and sanction struction, &c., of of Congress is hereby given to the construction, operation, and mainteAnacostia and Po- nance of a street-railroad by the Anacostia and Potomac River Railroad tomac River Rail- Company, of Washington City, District of Columbia, a company incorroad Company. porated under the act of Congress of May fifth, eighteen hundred and 1870, c. 80, v. 16 seventy, which incorporation is hereby confirmed and validated, along, upon, and over the following route, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, namely: Commencing for the eastern terminus of said road, at or near the northern end of the navy-yard bridge, in the said city, on Eleventh street east; thence upon and along said Eleventh street east to M street south; thence upon and along said M street south to Third street east; thence upon and along said Third street east to N street south; thence upon and along said N street south to Water street; thence upon and along said Water street to Twelfth street west; thence upon and along said Twelfth street west to Ohio avenue; thence upon and along said Ohio avenue to Fourteenth street west; thence along and upon said Fourteenth street west to the western terminus of said road at the intersection of Pennsylvania avenue and said Fourteenth street west; and also on M street south from Third street east to Water street, and on Eleventh street west from Water street to the intersection of Twelfth and B streets southwest; conforming to the grades of said streets and avenues as the same now are, or may hereafter be, established by law: Single track Provided, That said company shall construct at least a single-track road within sixteen over said route, and open the same to travel within sixteen months after the approval of this act: And provided further, That whenever the foreOne track for co- going route shall coincide with the route of any other duly-incorporated inciding com- railroad company, or connect portions of such route, but one set of tracks shall be used, and each company using the tracks shall contribute equitably to the expense of laying and maintaining them; the amount to be contributed to be ascertained, when the companies disagree, by the supreme court of the District of Columbia, upon application of any company interested, and on notice to and hearing of the parties interested. SEC. 2. That in the manner of laying its tracks, and paving the same, this company shall be under the control of the executive authority of the District of Columbia; and it shall pave its tracks, and the spaces between them, and for the space of two feet beyond the outer line thereof, and keep the same in good order, without expense to the United States or the District of Columbia; and that said pavement shall be as prescribed by the said executive authority of the District of Columbia; and the rate of fare charged and received by said company shall not exceed five cents a passenger for any distance between the termini of said road.

months.

panies.

Laying of track and paving.

Rate of fare.

Use of navy-yard bridge.

SEC. 3. That whenever the present navy-yard bridge shall be replaced by a structure suitable for the passage of a street-railroad, the company shall have the right to cross over the same to Uniontown, under such restrictions and regulations as Congress may provide; and Uniontown shall then become the eastern terminus of the road; and from UnionExtension of road town the company may extend their road by the Good Hope road to the east of Union- District line; and for riding over this extension of the road the company may charge an additional fare not exceeding five cents.

town.

Right to alter or SEC. 4. That Congress may, at any time, alter, amend, or repeal this amend act. act.

Approved, February 18, 1875.