missioner to any foreign country, Chargé d'Affaires, Secretary of Legation, Assistant Secretary of Legation, Interpreter to any Legation in any foreign country, Consul-General, Consul, Cominercial Agent, Consular Pupils, or Consular 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 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 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 Secretary 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.

AN ACT supplementary to the acts in relation to immigration, approved March 3, 1875. 1403.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in determining whether the immigration of any subject of China, Japan, or any Oriental country, to the United States, is free and voluntary, as provided by section two thousand one hundred and sixty-two of the Revised Code, Title "Immigration," it shall be the duty of the Consul-General or Consul of the United States residing at the port from which it is proposed to convey such subjects, in any vessels enrolled or licensed in the United States, or any port within the same, before delivering to the masters of any such vessels the permit or certificate provided for in such section, to ascertain whether such immigrant has entered into a contract or agreement for a term of service within the United States for lewd and immoral purposes; and if there be such contract or agreement, the said Consul-General or Consul shall not deliver the required permit or certificate.

1404..SEC. 2. That if any citizen of the United States, or other person amenable to the laws of the United States, shall take, or cause to be taken or transported, to or from the United States any subject of China, Japan, or any Oriental country, without their free and voluntary consent, for the purpose of holding them to a term of service, such citizen or other person shall be liable to be indicted therefor, and on conviction of such offense shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars and be imprisoned not exceeding one year; and all contracts and agreements for a term of service of such persons in the United States, whether made in advance or in pursuance of such illegal importation, and whether such importation shall have been in American or other vessels are hereby

declared void.

1405..SEC. 3. That the importation into the United States of women for the purposes of prostitution is hereby forbidden; and all contracts and agreements in relation thereto, made in advance or in pursuance of such illegal importation and purposes, are hereby declared void; and

whoever shall knowingly and willfully import, or cause any importation of, women into the United States for the purposes of prostitution, or shall knowingly or willfully hold, or attempt to hold, any woman to such purposes, in pursuance of such illegal importation and contract or agreement, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, and pay a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars.

1406..SEC. 4. That if any person shall knowingly and willfully contract, or attempt to contract, in advance or in pursuance of such illegal importation, to supply to another the labor of any cooly or other person brought into the United States in violation of section two thousand one hundred and fifty-eight of the Revised Statutes, or of any other section of the laws prohibiting the cooly trade or of this act, such person shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and, upon conviction thereof, in any United States court, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars and imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year.

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1407.SEC. 5. That it shall be unlawful for aliens of the following classes to immigrate into the United States, namely, persons who are undergoing a sentence for conviction in their own country of felonious crimes other than political or growing out of or the result of such political offenses, or whose sentence has been remitted on condition of their emigration, and women imported for the purposes of prostitution." Every vessel arriving in the United States may be inspected under the direction of the collector of the port at which it arrives, if he shall have reason to believe that any such obnoxious persons are on board; and the officer making such inspection shall certify the result thereof to the master or other person in charge of such vessel, designating in such certificate the person or persons, if any there be, ascertained by him to be of either of the classes whose importation is hereby forbidden. When such inspection is required by the collector as aforesaid, it shall be unlawful, without his permission, for any alien to leave any such vessel arriving in the United States from a foreign country until the inspection shall have been had and the result certified as herein provided; and at no time thereafter shall any alien certified to by the inspecting officer as being of either of the classes whose immigration is forbidden by this section, be allowed to land in the United States, except in obedience to a judicial process issued pursuant to law. If any person shall feel aggrieved by the certificate of such inspecting officer stating him or her to be within either of the classes whose immigration is forbidden by this section, and shall apply for release or other remedy to any proper court or judge, then it shall be the duty of the collector at said port of entry to detain said vessel until a hearing and determination of the matter are had, to the end that if the said inspector shall be found to be in accordance with this section and sustained, the obnoxious person or persons shall be returned on board of said vessel, and shall not thereafter be permitted to land, unless the master, owner, or consignee of the vessel shall give bond and security, to be approved by the court or judge hearing the cause, in the sum of five hundred dollars for each such person permitted to land, conditioned for the returu of such person, within six months from the date thereof, to the country whence his or her emigration shall have taken place, or unless the vessel bringing such obnoxious person or persons shall be forfeited, in which

event the proceeds of such forfeiture shall be paid over to the collector of the port of arrival, and applied by him, as far as necessary, to the return of such person or persons to his or her own country within the said period of six months. And for all violations of this act, the vessel, by the acts, omissions, or connivance of the owners, master, or other custodian, or the consignees of which the same are committed, shall be liable to forfeiture, and may be proceeded against as in cases of frauds against the revenue laws, for which forfeiture is prescribed by existing law.

AN ACT to abolish the Consulate at Amoor River and establish a Consulate at Vladivostock, Russia, and for other purposes, approved March 3, 1875.

1408.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Amoor River, in Russia, be discontinued as a Consulate of class five, in schedule B, as the same was amended by chapter two hundred and seventy-five of the laws of the first session of the Forty-third Congress; and that Vladivostock be a Consulate of class five, in schedule B, and that the Consul at Vladivostock and the Consuls at Fayal and Auckland be, and they severally hereby are, exempted from the prohibition to engage in business and trade embraced in sections one thousand six hundred and ninety-nine and one thousand and seven hundred of the Revised Statutes of the United States.

AN ACT to amend the Revised Statutes touching Vice-Consuls-General, approved February 1, 1876.

1409.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-o -one hundred and thirty of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is, amended by inserting, after the words "Consul-General," the words "ViceConsul-General," so that the section shall read as follows, namely:

SEC. 4130. The word "Minister," when used in this Title, shall be understood to mean the person invested with, and exercising, the principal Diplomatic functions. The word "Consul" shall be understood to mean any person invested by the United States with, and exercising, the functions of Consul-General, Vice-Consul-General, Consul, or Vice-Consul.

AN ACT to change the name of the "Consulate at Omoa and Truxillo," approved February 11, 1878.

1410.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the name of the "Consulate at Omoa and Truxillo" be, and the same is hereby, changed to the "Consulate Ruatan and Truxillo."

AN ACT making appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other purposes, approved June 4, 1878.

1411.. And the salaries provided in this act for the officers within named respectively shall be in full for the annual salaries thereof from and after the first day of July, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; and all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

AN ACT to amend section forty-one hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, in relation to the judicial powers and functions of Consuls, approved June 14, 1878.

1412.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-one hundred and twenty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States be, and the same is hereby, amended so that it shall hereafter read as follows:

SEC. 4127. The provisions of this Title, so far as the same are in conformity with the stipulations in the existing treaties between the United States and Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, Muscat, and the Samoan or Navigator Islands, respectively, shall extend to those countries, and shall be executed in conformity with the provisions of the treaties and of the provisions of this Title by the Consuls appointed by the United States to reside therein, who are hereby ex-officio invested with the powers herein delegated to the Ministers and Consuls of the United States appointed to reside in the countries named in section four thousand and eighty-three, so far as the same can be exercised under the provisions of treaties between the United States and the several countries mentioned in this section, and in accordance with the usages of the countries in their intercourse with the Franks or other foreign Christian nations. And whenever the United States shall negotiate a treaty with any foreign government, in which the American Consul-General or Consul shall be clothed with judicial authority, and securing the right of trial to American citizens residing therein before such Consul-General or Consul, and containing provisions similar to or like those contained in the treaties with the governments named in this act, then said Title, so far as the same may be applicable, shall have full force in reference to said treaty, and shall extend to the country of the government negotiating the same.

AN ACT making appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic service of the Gov ernment for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, and for other purposes, approved January 27, 1879.

1413..For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, London, Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburg, to be allotted as may seem proper to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars: Provided, That the fees collected at these ports for shipping and discharging seamen shall be paid into the Treasury as required by law.

AN ACT to amend the laws relating to internal revenue, approved March 3, 1879.

1414..SEC. 20. That under such regulations and requirements as to stamps, bonds, and other security as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, any manufacturer of perfumery, medicines, or preparations for export, manufacturing the same in a duly constituted manufacturing warehouse, shall be authorized to withdraw, in original packages from any distillery warehouse, so much alcohol as he may require for the said purpose, without the payment of the internal revenue tax thereon.

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AN ACT making appropriations for the Consular and Diplomatic service of the Government for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-one, and for other purposes, approved May 14, 1880.

1415.. For a Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General at Bucharest, four thousand dollars.

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For allowance for clerks at consulates, fifty-six thousand six hundred dollars, as follows:

For the Consul at Liverpool, a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars for any one year; and for the ConsulsGeneral at London, Paris, Havana, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro, each a sum not exceeding the rate of two thousand dollars for any one year; for the Consuls-General at Berlin, Frankfort, Vienna, and Kanagawa, and for the Consuls at Hamburg, Bremen, Manchester, Lyons, HongKong, Havre, and Chemnitz, each a sum not exceeding the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars for any one year; for the Consul-General at Montreal, and the Consuls at Bradford and Birmingham, each a sum not exceeding the rate of one thousand two hundred dollars for any one year; for the Consuls-General at Calcutta and Melbourn, and for the Consuls at Leipsic, Sheffield; Sonneberg, Dresden, Marseilles, Nuremberg, Tunstall, Antwerp, Bordeaux, Colon (Aspinwall), Glasgow, and Singapore, each a sum not exceeding the rate of one thousand dollars for any one year; for the Consuls at Belfast, Barmen, Leith, Dundee, and Matamoras, each a sum not exceeding the rate of eight hundred dollars for any one year; for the Consul-General at Mexico, and for the Consuls at Beirut, Naples, Stuttgart, Florence, Mannheim, Prague, Zurich, Panama, and Demerara, each a sum not exceeding the rate of six hundred dollars for any one year: Provided, That the total sum expended in any one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated.

AN ACT to amend sections thirty-three hundred and eighty-five and thirty-three hundred and fifty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, approved June 9, 1880.

1416.. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section thirty-three