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SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SEss. III . Cia . 280 . 1931 . Clerk hire at consu- lates. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, UNITED STATES CONSULATES consulates . expenses, For expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, repairs, including minor alterations, supervision, preservation, and maintenance of Govern- ment-owned consular properties in foreign countries, and properties acquired under the Act approved May 7, 1926, as amended (U . S . C ., Supp . III, title 22, sees . 291, 296), and including also custodial serv- ic e, water, materials, supplies, tool s, seeds, plants, shrubs, and simi - lar objects, postage, furniture, household furniture and furnishings, except as provided by the Act of May 7, 1926, as amended, for Government-owned or rented buildings when in the judgment of the Secretary of State it would be in the public interest to do so, not to exceed $25,000, typewriters and exchange of same, sta- tistics, newspapers (foreign and domestic), freight, telegrams, ad vertising, ice and drinking wa ter for office purposes, hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and purchase, maintenance, operation, and hire of other pas- s enge r-car rying veh icles , uni form s, me sseng er s ervic e, tr avel ing expenses of Consular and Foreign Service officers, including attend- ance at trade and other conferences or congresses under orders of the Secretary of State as authorized by section 14 of the Act approved May 24, 1924 (U. S. C., title 22, sec. 16 ; U. S. C., Supp. III, title 22, sec . 16) ; com pensation .of interpreters, kavasses, guards, d rago mans, tran slat ors, Chine se w riter s, an d su pervi sors of c on- struction, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business and payment in advance of telephone, and other similar services under this appro- pri ation ar e hereby authoriz ed, $905 ,931 . Gov ernmen t owne d consular properti es abroad . Vol.44 .p . 403
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45, pp . 67, 971. U.S. C., Supp.IV, p.309. Furniture, etc . Excep tions . Attendance at trade conferences, etc . Vol . 43, p. 143. U. S. C., P . Supp. IV, p. 307. Ante, p. 1209. Loss b y exchange . Advance payments . 643 ; Relief, etc ., of Ameri- can seamen . Ante, p .261. Foreign Service offi- cers . Salaries . Vol . 43, p. 140. U.S. C., p. 642. Ante, p.1207. Ins tru cti on and tra n- sit pay . R .S .,see. 1740,p .309 . U.S. C., p. 650. ALLOWANCE FOR CLERK HIRE AT UNITED STATES CON SUL ATE S For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including salary during transit to and from homes in the United States upon beginning and after termination of services, $ 2,234,088 . RELIEF AND PRO TECTIO N OF A MERICA N SEA MEN For relief, protection, and burial of American seamen in foreign countries, in the Panama Canal Zone, and in the Philippine Islands, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Haw aiian Is lands, in Porto R ico, and in the Virgin Is lands, $ 50,000 . SA LARI ES OF FO REIG N SE RVIC E OF FICE RS For salaries of Foreign Service officers as provided in the Act entitled "An Act for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States, and for other purposes," approved May 24, 1924 (U . S . C., title 22, sec . 3), $3,373,500 . SALARIES, DIPLOMATIC, CONSULAR, AND FOREIGN SERVICE OFFICERS WHTTF RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS AND IN TRANSIT To pay the salaries of ambassador s, ministers, consuls, vice consuls , and other o fficers o f the Un ited Sta tes for the perio d actual ly and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions and in making transits to and from their posts, and while awaiting recognition and authority to act in pursuance with the provisions of section 1740 of the Revised Statutes (U . S . C ., title 22, sec . 121), $23,000 .
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