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S1xTY-F1RST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ons. 199-201. 1910. 347 Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital. Fo11ErGN HOSPITALS AT PANAMA. . Annual contributions toward the support of the foreign hospitals at P•·¤¤¤¤=· Panama, five hundred dollars,_to be paid by the Secretaryl of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citizens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospitals. SEAMEN,S INSTITUTE AT KOBE. Contribution toward the support of the Seamen’s Institute at Kobe, K§§§{"°“`“ I"“°“‘"e‘ to be paid bg the Secretary o State upon the assurance that relief will be aifor ed by the said institute to indigent American seamen, twenty-five dollars. coNT1NGENT EXPENSES, UNITED STATES coNsULATEs. Expenses of providing all such stationery blanks, record and other ,,§;§,,‘§_°,L'}¤*§§f,§{,,‘?" books, seals, presses, ags, signs, rent (allowance for rent not to exceed in any case thirty percentum of the ofIicer’s sala.ry), postage, furniture, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertismg, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous exlpenses as the President may think necessary for the several consu ates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. PURCHASE or LAND, OONSULAB PREMISES AT Amor. For purchase of small lot of land conf ous to the consular ’“'“f{· _ premises at Amoy, two hundred and fifteen ddgiirs. In nwmmm Approved, May 6, 1910. CHAP. 200.--An Act To authorize commissions to issue in the cases of officers of M? fb,§l°· the army retired with increased rank. . C, 1 0. . Be it enacted by t/ae Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That officers of the army on gofggmious to 0m_ the retired list whose rank has been, or shall hereafter be, advanced cpm advanced on re by operation of or in accordance with law shall be entitled to and shall “‘,?;f’,,{‘f,'j1,,, receive commissions in accordance with such advanced rank. Approved, May 6, 1910. . CHAP. 201.-An Act Authorizing a credit in certain accounts of the Treasurer of mg ‘3§5.,91°· the name sam. ___;.;_.. [mane, miss.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of t/te United States of Ame1:_iea in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the §{§g,$;"§{·,cc0u¤,S Treasury and the proper accounting officers of the Treasury Depa.rt· :8;re¤s¤rer. ment be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to credit in the °’ accounts of the Treasurer 0 the United States the sum of three thousand dollars, now carried in the accounts of the office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Boston, Massachusetts, and in the general account of the Treasurer of the United States as "Unavailable fu¤ds” and representing a shortage found in June, nineteen hun·