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FORTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 237, 238. 1870. 221 masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American citizens from shipwreck, five thousand dollars. For payment of the sixth annual instalment of the proportion contrib- Scheldt dues. uted by the United States toward the capitalization of the Scheldt dues, V°r xm P· 6*** ilfty-five thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars; and for such further sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, as may be necessary to carry out the stipulations of the treaty between the United States and Belgium. For defraying the expenses of defending claims under the convention Claims under with Mexico of July four, eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, to be ex- ‘1Q""f’“°i°““`m‘ pended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty thousand \?3°;}_p_ 6·;9_ dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the President is auth0rized,on Accounts of the recommendation of the Secretary of the Treasury, to cause examine- °°"*“]"?` ‘i‘)m9‘“`“ tions to be made into the accounts of the consular oihccrs of the United zgggtglfxg QE- States, and into all matters connected with the business of their said ¤ml¤¤d· offices, and to that end he may appoint such agent or agents as may be necessary for that purpose; and any agent, when so appointed, shall, for Agents to exthe purpose of making said examinations, have authority to administer *““l“° md thm oaths and take testimony, and shall have access to all the books and Www'; papers of all consular officers. And any agent appointed in this behalf shall be paid {br his services e just and reasonable compensation, in addition to his actual necessary expenses, the same to be paid out of the sum appropriated for consular salaries ; but no greater sum than ten thousand their compendollars shall be expended as compensation of such agent or agents in any $“*’°”· one year. And the President shall communicate to Congress, at the com- Names of mencement of every December session, the names of the agents so ap- 2§f;‘r$;1§$g§:gdb° pointed, and the amount paid to each, together with the reports of such to gong,-GSS_ agents; and that any agent or agents appointed under this section shall Salary of receive an annual salary of five thousand dollars, in addition to the ex- ¤Z°¤*¤· penses heretofore allowed, the same to be paid out of the sum appr0— priated for consular salaries. Aprnoven, July 11, 1870. CHAP. CCXXXVIII. —An Act making Appropriations/br the Payment of invalid and July 11, 1870. other Pensions q/"Z/ee United States j7Jr the Year ending . une thirty, mghteen hundred and """";`; seventy-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and Pansiens apthe same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not P’°P"““°”· otherwise appropriated, for the payment of pensions for the year ending the tbirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and seventy-one. · For army invalid pensions, as provided by acts of April twenty-four, _Army invalid eighteen hundred and sixteen, May thirteen, eighteen hundred and forty· P°;*;;<g?$éh· 68- six, July fourteen, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, June sxx, eighteen ]§467ch_16_ hundred and sixty-six, and July twenty-seven; eighteen hundred and ;ggg, ;<gg. sixty-eight, nine million eight hundred and thirty-seven thousand five 1868; ch; 264: hundred dollars. . For revolutionary pensions, and pensions of widows, children, and p€};;{"(;1‘§;':;;?’· mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters of soldiers, as provided hy acts und egcpcnses of of March eighteen, eighteen hundred andeighteen, May hfteen, eighteen agxggfséh 1B` hundred and twenty-eight, June seven, eighteen hundred and thxrty-two, uy2B, 0h_ 5B_ July four, eighteen hundred and- thirty-snx, July seven, eighteen hundred and thirty-eight, March third, exghteen hundred and forty-three, Febru- 1g3i6h_189- ary twenty, eighteen hundred end forty-seven, February twyo, July twen- azz_ ty-one, and July twenty-nine, eighteen‘ hundred and ferry-eight, February 1848: Ch.- 8,. three, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, June thm? eyghtgen léundrled tan lofélgmh 41 fifty-eight, July fourteen and seventeen, elghteen un re an slx y w 0, 1858;:11; 85;