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SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SEss. II. Ch. 223. 1920. 749 posr ALLowANcEs T0 coNsULAn AND DIPLOMATIC orrrcnns. p,,,,,,u,,w,,,,.,,,,_ To enable the President, in his discretion and in accordance with §¤¤<=i¤lr¤r¤vi¤i¤¤es!¤r such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by X°,§_” °° mm """‘ wa of additional compensation to consular an diglomatic officers and, consular assistants and officers of the United tates Court for China in order to adjust their ofhcial income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $600,000. ALLOWANCE Fon CLERK HIRE AT UNITED STATES CONSULATES. Allowance for clerk hire at consulates; to be expended under the cane awmnm. direction of the Secretary of State, $1,200,000. Clerks, whenever hereafter appointed, shall, so far as practicable, be appointed under civil·service rules and regulations. sALArm·:s AND EXPENSES OF rN’rEn1>nE·rEEs AND GUARDS TO c0N~ SULATES. Interpreters and guards to be employed at consulates to be ex- I”*°'¥"'°§,§" §'}d pended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $10:i,700. gums M0 um S EXPENSES or rnrsoxs Fon AMERICAN CONVICTS. Expenses of maintaining at Shanghai, under charge of the United °°“S“"“ "“’°"s· States marshal for China, an institution for incarcerating American Sh gm, convicts and insane in China, $2,000; for salary of deputy marshal, °“ " $1,200; assistant deputy marshal, $800; in all, $4,000; Pay·i.rég\for the keeping, feeding, and transportation of prisoners in K"°°’”g V"‘““°”· · China, osen, Siam, an Turkey and of those declared insane by the United States Court for China, $9,000; _ Rent of prison for American convicts in Smyrna, Turkey, and for k§f""• °°°" “‘ T"` waces of keepers of the same, $1,000; lient of prison for American convicts in Constantinople, Turkey, and for wages of keepers of the same, $1,000; Total, $15,000. RELIEF AND PROTECTION or AMERICAN SEAMEN. Relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, mlggyy 0* A¤€**°¤¤ and in the Panama Canal Zone, and slnpwrecked American seamen ` in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine slands, $100,000. ronnrox HOSPITAL AT CAPE TOWN. Annual contribution toward the support of the Somerset Hos- C}‘,Qg¥,§g},'_ *‘°“*"°°’· pital (a foreign hospital), at Cape Town, $50, to be paid by the Secretary of State upon the assurance that suffering seamen and citrzens of the United States will be admitted to the privileges of said hospital. coN·rrNGEN·r EXPENSES, UNITED STATES OONSULATES. Expenses of providing allsuch stationery, blanks, record and other c°‘f,'g',§§§§f"°‘*’°“$°$· books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as mag be necessary). repairs to consular buildings owned by the United tates, postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, statistrm,