Pension; rate of arrears of.

- rules to be adopted by Commission

er.

Provided, The rate of pension for the intervening time for which arrears of pension are hereby granted shall be the same per month for which the pension was originally granted.

SEC. 2. That the Commissioner of Pensions is hereby authorized and directed to adopt such rules and regulations for the payment of the arrears of pensions hereby granted as will be necessary to cause to be paid to such pensioners, or, if the pensioners shall have died, to the person or persons entitled to the same, all such arrears of pension as the pensioner may be, or would have been, entitled to under this act. SEC. 3. That section forty-seven hundred and seventeen of the Revised

Requirement that claims shall Statutes of the United States, which provides that not be prosecuted after five years from date of filing, except, &c., repealed.

"No claim for pension not prosecuted to a successful issue within five years from the date of filing the same shall be admitted without record evidence from the War or Navy Department of the injury or the disease which resulted in the disability or death of the person on whose account the claim is made: Provided, That in any case in which the limitation prescribed by this section bars the further prosecution of the claim, the 1879, ch. 187, § 2. claimant may present, through the Pension Office, to the Adjutant-General of the Army or the Surgeon-General of the Navy, evidence that the disease or injury which resulted in the disability or death of the person on whose account the claim is made originated in the service and in the line of duty;

R. S., § 4717.

And if such evidence is deemed satisfactory by the officer to whom it may be submitted, he shall cause a record of the fact so proved to be made, and a copy of the same to be transmitted to the Commissioner of Pensions, and the bar to the prosecution of the claim shall thereby be removed",

be, and the same is hereby, repealed.

Agents, &c., not SEC. 4. No claim agent or other person shall be entitled to receive to receive pay for any compensation for services in making application for arrears of penmaking application for arrears of sion.

pension. R. S., §§ 4768, 4769, 4785, 5485. 1878, June 20, ch. 367.

Repeal.

SEC. 5. That all acts or parts of acts so far as they may conflict with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. [January 25, 1879.]

CHAPTER 24.

AN ACT TO FACILITATE THE REFUNDING THE NATIONAL DEBT.

Jan. 25, 1879. 20 Stat. L., 265.

In refunding national debt, 4 per cent. bonds may

interest on exchange; how allowed.

cent. bonds may

be exchanged for 5-20 bonds, and for other bonds,
and refunding laws to apply to all 5 per cent.

bonds.

In refunding na- Be it enacted, &c., That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby autional debt 4 per thorized in the process of refunding the national debt under existing be exchanged for laws to exchange directly at par the bonds of the United States bearing 5-20 bonds and for interest at four per centum per annum authorized by law for the bonds other bonds, and of the United States commonly known as five-twenties outstanding and refunding laws to apply to all 5 per uncalled, and, whenever all such five twenty bonds shall have been redeemed, the provisions of this section and all existing provisions of law 1870, ch. 256 (16 authorizing the refunding of the national debt shall apply to any bonds Stat. L., 272). of the United States bearing interest at five per centum per annum or a higher rate, which may be redeemable.

cent. bonds.

1875, March 3, ch. 130, § 11.

interest on exchanges; how allowed.

In any exchange made under the provisions of this section interest may be allowed, on the bonds redeemed, for a period of three months. [January 25, 1879.]

CHAPTER 26.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE PAYMENT OF INVALID AND OTHER PEN-
SIONS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHT-
EEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY.

Be it enacted, &c.

*

Fees of examining surgeons of pensioners.

(1) Provided, That a fee of one dollar, and no more, shall be paid to the examining-surgeon for each examination of a pensioner, as provided by law, except when the examination is made by a board of surgeons, which case the fees now allowed by law shall be paid.

[January 27, 1879.]

in

NOTE. (1) This provision is repeated in the act of January 12, 1880, ch. 4, making like appropriations (21 Stat. L., 60).

CHAPTER 27.

AN ACT TO AMEND AN ACT ENTITLED "AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR SUN-
DRY CIVIL EXPENSES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINE, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES", APPROVED JUNE TWENTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-

EIGHT.

Restrictions as to binding not to apply to library of Surgeon-General's Office.

Jan. 27, 1879. 20 Stat. L., 267.

Be it enacted, &c., That the act entitled "An act making appropria- Restrictions as tions for sundry civil expenses of the government for the fiscal year apply to library of to binding not to ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and for other Surgeon-General's purposes", approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy- office. eight, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding to the clause of R. S., §§ 3785, said act relating to the binding of books for the departments of the gov ernment, after the words "Congressional Library", the following words; "nor to the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office". [January 27, 1879.]

3790.

1878, June 20, ch. 359, § 1, par. 1.

CHAPTER 28.

AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CONSULAR AND DIPLOMATIC SERVICE OF
THE GOVERNMENT FOR THE YEAR ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, EIGHTEEN HUN-
DRED AND EIGHTY, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Fees for shipping and discharging seamen at cer-
tain foreign ports to be paid into Treasury.
President to revise tariff of consular fees.
Salaries of interpreters in China, Japan, and Siam.
- of consular officers who are not citizens.

of marshals in Japan, China, Siam, and Turkey.
Consuls to make quarterly statement of exports
and imports, with market price of articles, &c.
Commercial agents to transmit information as to
wages.

Salaries of Spanish Claims Commission.

Salaries here provided for to be in full after July
1, 1879, and repeal of laws in conflict therewith.

Jan. 27, 1879.

20 Stat. L., 267.

Salaries. R. S., § 16751682.

Be it enacted, &c., That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, 275. namely:(1)

NOTE.-(1) This act makes appropriations for one year only, but the last clause of the act as here printed provides that the salaries herein provided for shall be in full after July 1, 1879, and repeals all laws in conflict therewith. It seems to supersede also the salaries fixed by the act of 1874, June 11, ch. 275; by the act of 1875, March 3, ch. 153, and by the act of 1878, June 4, ch. 155.

1874, June 11, ch.

1875, March 3, ch. 153.

155.

1878, June 4, ch.

Salaries of en

For salaries of envoys extraordinary and ministers plenipotentiary to voys extraor- Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia, at seventeen thousand five dinary. 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 thousand 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. For ministers resident at Belgium, Netherlands, Argentine Republic, Sweden 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.

For salaries of charges d'affaires to Portugal, Denmark, Paraguay and Uruguay, and Switzerland, at five thousand dollars each, twenty thousand dollars.

For salaries of the secretaries to the legations at London, Paris, Berlin, 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, Italy, Mexico, Brazil, and Spain, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, nine thousand dollars.

For salaries of the second secretaries to the legations at Great Britain, France, and Germany, at two thousand dollars each, six thousand dollars.

For salary of a clerk to the legation at Spain, one thousand two hundred 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 hun dred dollars.

- of consuls-general.

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.

NOTE.-See note at bottom of page 397.

Salaries of con

commercial agents,

For the consul at Liverpool, six thousand dollars. For salaries of consuls, vice-consuls, commercial agents, and thirteen suls, vice-consuls, consular clerks, three hundred and four thousand six hundred dollars, and consular namely:

clerks.

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; Chin-Kiang;

Ningpo.

PERU.-Callao.

CLASS III.-At $3,000 per annum.

GREAT BRITAIN.-Manchester; Glasgow; Bradford; Demerara.
FRENCH DOMINIONS.-Havre.

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; Belfast.
FRENCH DOMINIONS.-Marseilles; Bordeaux; Lyons.

SPANISH DOMINIONS.-Cienfuegos; Santiago de Cuba.

BELGIUM.-Antwerp; Brussels.

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.

RUSSIA.-Odessa.

GERMANY.-Sonneberg; Nuremberg; Barmen; Cologne; Chemnitz;

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

FRENCH DOMINIONS-Nice; Martinique.

SPANISH DOMINIONS.-Cadiz; Malaga; Barcelona.
NOTE.-See note at bottom of page 397.

Class one.

Class two.

Class three.

Class four.

Class five.

Class six.

Salaries of

Class seven.

- of commercial agents.

PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS.-Fayal (Azores); Funchal.
BELGIUM.-Verviers and Liege.

GERMANY.-Munich; Stuttgart; Mannheim.

DOMINIONS OF THE NETHERLANDS.-Amsterdam.
DANISH DOMINIONS.-Copenhagen.

SWITZERLAND.—Geneva.

ITALY.-Genoa; Naples; Leghorn; Florence; Palermo; Messina.
TURKISH DOMINIONS.-Jerusalem.

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 Haytian.

UNITED STATES OF COLOMBIA.-Sabanilla.

ECUADOR. Guayaquil.

NETHERLANDS.-Batavia.

BRAZIL.-Para; Rio Grande del Sul.

HONDURAS.-Ruatan and Truxillo (to reside at Utila).
MEXICO. Guaymas.

MUSCAT.-Zanibar.

PORTUGUESE DOMINIONS.-Santiago (Cape Verde Islands).
SOCIETY ISLANDS.-Tahiti.

CHILI.-Talcahuano.

FRIENDLY AND NAVIGATOR'S ISLANDS.-Apia.

COMMERCIAL AGENCIES.

SCHEDULE C. ·

SCHEDULE B.

- of clerks to consulates.

R. S., § 1704. 1878, June 4, ch. 155.

78.

1881, Feb., ch.

amount ex

Saint Paul de Loando; Lauthala.

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, Hong-Kong, Ottawa, Belfast, Birmingham, Bradford, Chemnitz, Sheffield, Sonneberg, Dresden, Havre, Marseilles, Rio de Janeiro, Nuremberg, Leith, Sirgapore, 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 expended in one year ceed the amount herein appropriated.

not to exceed

$42,600.

Fees for shipping For expenses of shipping and discharging seamen at Liverpool, Lonand discharging don, Cardiff, Belfast, and Hamburg, to be allotted as may seem proper seamen at certain to the Secretary of State, six thousand dollars:

foreign ports to be

paid into Treasury. Provided, That the fees collected at these ports for shipping and dis1878, June 4, ch. charging seamen shall be paid into the Treasury as required by law.