act. And no barrel or half-barrel of flour, not examined and branded by. Penalty for sellthe inspector as aforesaid, shall be sold within the District, under pen- ing in violation of alty of one dollar for each and every barrel or half-barrel, to be paid by the person or persons so offending. [June 4, 1878.] CHAPTER 155. AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CONSULAR AND DIPLOMATIC SERVICE OF Salaries estab Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thir- lished. tieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, out of any money in the R. S., § 1675Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely: (1) 1686, 1690. 275. For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to of ministers Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five plenipotentiary. hundred dollars each, seventy thousand dollars. For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Spain, Austria, Italy, Brazil, Mexico, Japan, and China, at twelve thou. sand dollars each, eighty four thousand dollars. For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to Chili and Peru, at ten thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars. ident. For ministers resident at Belgium, Netherlands, Argentine Republic, of ministers resSweden and Norway, Turkey, Venezuela, Hawaiian Islands, and the United States of Colombia, at seven thousand five hundred dollars each, sixty thousand dollars. For minister resident and consul-general at Bolivia, five thousand dollars. For minister resident accredited to Guatemala, Costa Rica, Honduras, Salvador, and Nicaragua, to reside at the place that the President may select in either of the States named, ten thousand dollars. For minister resident and consul-general to Hayti, seven thousand five hundred dollars. For minister resident and consul-general to Liberia, four thousand dollars. That hereafter chargés d'affaires ad interim shall receive no additional pay beyond that which the law provides for the regular offices which they hold in their respective legations. Chargés d'affaires ad iuterim to have no additional рау. R. S., §§ 1684, 1686. Salaries of For salary of chargés d'affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Paraguay and Uruguay and Switzerland, at five thousand dollars each, twenty thou- chargés d'affaires. sand dollars. NOTE.(1) This act makes appropriations for one year only, but the last clause here printed makes the salaries therein provided for in full after July 1, 1878, and repeals all laws in conflict therewith. Most of the act is superseded by the act of 1879, June 27, ch. 28, which, after making appropriations for one year, adds a continuing clause in the same language as that of this act. Salaries of secre For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, Bertaries of legation. lin, and Saint Petersburg, at two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars each, ten thousand five hundred dollars. For salary of the secretary of legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at Austria, Brazil, Italy, Mexico, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars. For the salary of the secretary to the legation (when acting also as interpreter) at China, five thousand dollars. For the salary of the interpreter to the legation in Turkey, three thousand dollars. For the interpreter to the legation at Japan, two thousand five hundred dollars. SCHEDULE B. For the agent and consul-general at Cairo, four thousand dollars. For the consuls-general at London, Paris, Havana, and Rio de Janeiro, each six thousand dollars, twenty-four thousand dollars. For the consuls-general at Calcutta and Shanghai, each five thousand dollars, ten thousand dollars. For the consul-general at Melbourne, four thousand five hundred dollars. For the consuls-general at Kanagawa and Montreal, each four thou sand dollars, eight thousand dollars. For the consul-general at Berlin, four thousand dollars. For the consuls-general at Vienna, Frankfort, Rome, and Constantinople, each three thousand dollars, twelve thousand dollars. For the consuls-general at Saint Petersburg and Mexico, each two thousand dollars, four thousand dollars. For the consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars. For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen consular clerks, three hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars, namely: CLASS I.-At $4,000. per annum. GREAT BRITAIN.-Hong-Kong. HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.-Honolulu. CLASS II.-At $3,500. per annum. CHINA.-Foochow; Hankow; Canton; Amoy; Tien-Tsin; Chiu-Kiang; CLASS III.-At $3,000 per annum. GREAT BRITAIN.-Manchester; Glasgow; Bradford; Demerara. SPANISH DOMINIONS.-Matanzas. MEXICO.-Vera Cruz. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.-Panama; Colon (Aspinwall). ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.-Buenos Ayres. BARBARY STATES -Tripoli; Tunis; Tangier. JAPAN.-Nagasaki; Osaka and Hiogo. SIAM.-Bangkok. CHILI. Valparaiso. CLASS IV.-At $2,500 per annum. GREAT BRITAIN -Singapore; Tunstall; Birmingham; Sheffield; Bel fast. FRENCH DOMINIONS.-Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons. DANISH DOMINIONS.-Saint Thomas. GERMANY.-Hamburg; Bremen; Dresden. CLASS V.-At $2,000 per annum. GREAT BRITAIN.-Cork; Dublin; Leeds; Dundee; Leith; Toronto; Hamilton; Halifax; Saint John's (New Brunswick); Kingston (Jamaica); Coaticook; Nassau (New Providence); Cardiff; Port Louis (Mauritius). SPANISH DOMINIONS.-San Juan (Porto Rico). PORTUGAL.-Lisbon. DOMINION OF THE NETHERLANDS.-Rotterdam. GERMANY.-Sonneberg; Nuremberg; Barmen; Cologne; Chemnitz; Leipsic. AUSTRIA HUNGARY.-Trieste; Prague. SWITZERLAND.-Basle; Zurich. BRAZIL.-Pernambuco. MADAGASCAR.—Tamatave. TURKISH DOMINIONS.-Beirut; Smyrna. CLASS VI.-At $1,500 per annum. GREAT BRITAIN.-Bristol; New Castle; Auckland; Gibraltar; Cape SPANISH DOMINIONS.-Cadíz; Malaga; Barcelona. GERMANY.-Munich; Stuttgart; Mannheim. DOMINIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS.-Amsterdam. DANISH DOMINIONS.-Copenhagen. SWITZERLAND.-Geneva. ITALY.-Genoa; Naples; Leghorn; Florence; Palermo; Messina. MEXICO.-Tampico. VENEZUELA.-Laguayra. BRAZIL.-Bahia. SAN DOMINGO.-San Domingo. SCHEDULE C. CLASS VII.-At $1,000 per annum. GREAT BRITAIN.-Ceylon; Gaspe Basin; Southampton; Windsor (Nova Scotia). GERMANY.-Stettin. FRENCH DOMINIONS.-Nantes. ITALY.-Venice. HAYTI.-Cape Haytien. UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.—Sabanilla. ECUADOR. Guayaquil. NETHERLANDS.-Batavia. BRAZIL.-Para; Rio Grande del Sul. HONDURAS.-Ruatan and Truxillo. MEXICO.-Guaymas. MUSCAT.-Zanzibar. PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS.-Santiago (Cape Verde Islands). Class five. Class six. Class seven. Total amount expended in one year not to exceed $42,600. Fees for ship ing seamen at cer San Juan del Norte. For allowance for clerks at consulates, forty-two thousand six hundred dollars, as follows: For the consul-general at Havana and the consul at Liverpool, each a sum not exceeding the rate of three thousand dollars for any one year; 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, Singapore, Stuttgart, Mannheim, and Tunstall, each a sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for any one year: Provided, That the total sum expended in any one year shall not exceed the amount herein appropriated. For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, Lonping and discharg- don, Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburgh, to be allotted as may seem proper tain ports to be to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars: Provided, That the fees paid into Treasury. collected at these ports for shipping and discharging seamen shall be paid into the Treasury as required by law. Salaries of inter For salaries of the interpreters to the following consulates: at Shangpreters in Japan, hai, two thousand dollars, and at Tien-Tsin, Foochow, and Kanagawa, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, six thousand five hundred dollars. China, and Siam. For salaries of the interpreters to the consulates at Hankow, Amoy, Canton, and Hong-Kong, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each, three thousand dollars. For salaries of the interpreters to twelve other consulates in China, Japan, and Siam, at five hundred dollars each, six thousand dollars. - of marshals in For salaries of the marshals for the consular courts in Japan and Japan, China, China, Siam, and Turkey, including loss by exchange, seven thousand Siam, and Turkey. dollars. consular officers to ury. Prices current to Every consular officer shall furnish to the Secretary of the Treasury, be furnished by or to such officers of the customs as he may direct, as often as may be Secretary of Treas- required, the prices current of all articles of merchandise usually exported to the United States from the port or place in which he is stationed; and authority is hereby vested in the Secretary of the Treasury 1879, Jan'y 27, to require a compliance with this provision; but this provision shall not have the effect to impair the provisions of section seventeen hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes. R. S., § 1712. ch. 28. Salaries of Span mission. For salaries and expenses of the United States and Spanish Claims ish Claims Com- Commission, namely: For commissioner, three thousand dollars; for counsel, three thousand dollars; for secretary, nine hundred dollars; for messenger, three hundred dollars; for contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars; making in all the sum of seven thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars. 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. [June 7, 1878.] * CHAPTER 156. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE FREE ENTRY OF ARTICLES IMPORTED FOR EXHIBITION June 6, 1878. 20 Stat. L., 99. Works of art, exhibition or for Be it enacted, &c., That all works of art, collections in illustration of the progress of the arts, science or manufactures, photographs, works &c., for permanent in terra-cotta, Parian, pottery or porcelain and artistic copies of antiques public monuments in metal or other material hereafter imported in good faith for perma- by societies admitnent exhibition at a fixed place by any society or institution established ted free of duty. for the encouragement of the arts or science, and not intended for sale, R. S., § 2512. 16 Opin. Att'ynor for any other purpose than is hereinbefore expressed, and all such Gen., 486. articles, imported as aforesaid, now in bond, and all like articles imported in good faith by any society or association for the purpose of erecting public monument and not for sale shall be admitted free of duty under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe: Provided, That the parties importing articles as aforesaid shall be required to give bonds, with sufficient sureties, under such rules and reg--bond in such ulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, for the pay- case required. ment of lawful duties which may accrue should any of the articles aforesaid be sold, transferred, or used contrary to the provisions and intent of this act. [June 6, 1878.] Bankrupt law repealed. R. S., §§ 49725132. 1874, June 22, ch. Be it enacted, &c., That the bankrupt law approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, title sixty-one, Revised Statutes, and an act entitled (1) "An act to amend and supplement an act entitled An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States, approved March second, eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and 390. for other purposes, approved June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and seventy-four", and all acts in amendment or supplementary thereto or in explanation thereof, be, and the same are hereby, repealed: Provided, however, That such repeal shall in no manner invalidate or Pending cases affect any case in bankruptcy instituted and pending in any court prior not affected. to the day when this act shall take effect; but as to all such pending cases and all future proceedings therein, and in respect of all pains, penalties, and forfeitures which shall have been incurred under any of said acts prior to the day when this act takes effect, or which may be thereafter incurred, under any of those provisions of any of said acts which, for the purposes named in this act, are kept in force, and all penal actions and criminal proceedings for a violation of any of said NOTE. (1) The act of 1867, ch. 176 (14 Stat. L., 517), and supplementary acts here referred to, are incorporated into the Revised Statutes in the sections noted in the margin. |