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CONTINGENT EXPENSES, FOREIGN MISSIONS.

Contingent expenses, foreign missions.⁠To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, postage, telegrams, furniture, messenger service, clerk hire, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, and porters, including compensation of interpreter, guards, and Arabic clerk at the consulate at Tangiers, Dispatch agents.and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, and San Francisco, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of Printing. embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for Loss by exchange.loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

STEAM LAUNCH FOR LEGATION AT CONSTANTINOPLE.

Steam launch, Turkey.⁠Hiring of steam launch for use of the legation at Constantinople, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

RENT FOR BUILDINGS FOR LEGATION AT PEKING.

Rent.
China.⁠Rent of buildings for legation and other purposes at Peking or such other (place in China as shall be designated three thousand six hundred dollars.

GROUND RENT FOR LEGATION AT TOKYO, JAPAN.

Japan.⁠Annual ground rent of the legation at Tokyo, Japan, for the year ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and six, two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

ANNUAL EXPENSES OF CAPE SPARTEL LIGHT, COAST OF MOROCCO.

Cape Spartel light.⁠Annual proportion of the expenses of Cape Spartel and Tangiers Light on the coast of Morocco, including loss by exchange, three hundred and twenty-five dollars.

BRINGING HOME CRIMINALS.

Bringing home criminals.⁠Actual expenses incurred in bringing home from foreign countries persons charged with crime, seven thousand dollars.

RESCUING SHIPWRECKED AMERICAN SEAMEN.

Life-saving testimonials.⁠Expenses which may be incurred in the acknowledgment of the services of masters and crews of foreign vessels in rescuing American seamen or citizens from shipwreck, four thousand five hundred dollars.

EXPENSES UNDER THE NEUTRALITY ACT.

Expenses, neutrality act.⁠To meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be expended under the direction of the President, R.S., sec. 291, p.49.pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, eight thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

EMERGENCIES ARISING IN THE DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR SERVICE.

Unforeseen emergencies.⁠To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, R.S., sec. 291, p.49.to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised