( No. II. ) STATEMENT, exhibiting the amount paid to each Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary and Chargé d'Afaires, from the United States to the respective Foreign Courts, for outfit, return, salary and contingent expenses, commencing on the NAMES. OUTFIT. RETURN SALARIES. CONTIN- TOTAL 9,000 00 2,250 00 21,279 45 66 5,472 12 29,001 57 2,965 67 66 TO GREAT BRITAIN. from 1st Jan. 1801 to 18th May, 1803 18th April, 1803 to 15th Nov. 1807 William Pinkney 23d April, 1806 to 7th May, 1811 John Q. Adams, 28th Feb. 1815 to 10th June, 1817 Richard Rush, 6th Aug. 1817 to 31st Dec. 1821 Albert Gallatin, 11th Aug. “ to 29th Oct. 1819 26th Oct. 1811 to 27th July, 1812 TO FRANCE. from 2311 Sept. 1801 to 241h Nov. 1824 12th Jan. 1:01 to 17th April, 1803 John Armstrong, 7th June 1804 to 12th Oct. 1810 Joel Barlow, 1st April, 1811 to 26th Dec. 1812 William H. Crawford, 9th April, 1813 to 28th April, 1815 Albert Gallatin, 1st March, 1816 to 31st Dec. 1820 J. Russell, Chargé d'Affaires 10th Aug. 1810 to 25th Oct. 1911 Henry Jackson, ditto, 27th April, 1815 to 17th July, 1916 TO THE NETHERLANDS. from 1st Jan. 1801 to 12th Sept. 1801 1st April, 1915 to 5th May, 1818 10th Nov. 1818 to 31st Dec. 1819 TO GHENT. from 29th April, 1813 to 27th Feb. 1815 21st April, 1813 10 220 July, 1815 Henry Clay, 17th Jan. 1814 to 22d July, 1815 James A. Bayard, 19th April, 1813 to 18th June, 1815 J. Russell, Chargé d'Affaires, Levett Harris, ditto, 9,000 00 28,549 31 2,367 13 2,310 10 546 66 573 20 66 42,109 41 66 3,144 00 192 40 185 80 4,461 40 2,408 88 TO RUSSIA. from 1st Oct. 1808 to 10th May, 1809 5th Aug. 1809 to 27th Feb. 1815 9,000 00 William Pinkney 7th March, 1816 to 16th Feb, 1818 9,000 00 George W. Campbell, 13th April, 1818 10 8th July, 1820 9,000 00 Henry Middleton, 6th April, 1820 to 30th Sept. 1821 9,000 00 TO PRUSSIA. from 1st Jan. 1801 to 26th April, 1801 TO SWEDEN. from 25th Jan. 1814 to 1st Oct. 1816 9,000 00 15th July, 1817 to 31st Dec. 1818 TO SPAIN. from 1st Jan. to 9th Dec, 1801 9,00000 8th Oct. 1804 to 17th July, 1805 10th May, 1805 to 1st Oct. 1807 9,000 00 9,000 00 18th Feb. 1819 to 31st Dec. 1821 9,000 00 TO PORTUGAL. froin 1st Jan. to 9th Sept. 1801 9,000 00 9,000 00 ToTAL, $265,500 001 • Oficial documents. 2,250 00 2,250 00 8,432 88 38,071 23 66 2,250 00 11,571 51 21,517 80 8,364 12 2,250 00 11,714 83 773 81 6,213 69 194 05 150 59 8,657 74 119,905 72 22,656 09 1,995 23 10,995 23 59,625 00 | 853,456 28 | 141,296 55 | 1,319,877 83 ( No. III. ) PRIVILEGES OF FOREIGN MINISTERS. Extract from the act of April 30, 1790. Sec. 25. Be it enacted, That if any writ or process shall, at any time hereafter, be sued forth or prosecuted by any person or persons, in any of the courts of the United States, or in any of the courts of a particular state, or by any judge or justice therein, respectively, whereby the person of any ambassador or other public minister of any foreign prince or state, authorized and received as such by the President of the United States, or any domestic or domestic servant of any such ambassador or other public minister, may be arrested or imprisoned, or his or their goods or chattels be distrained, seized, or attached, such writ or process shall be deemed and adjudged to be utterly pull and void, to all intents, construction and purposes, whatsoever. Sec. 26. And be it enacted, That in case any person or persons shall sue forth or prosecute any such writ or process, such person or persons, and all attorneys or solicitors prosecuting or soliciting in such case, and all officers executing any such writ or process, being thereof convicted, shall be deemed violators of the laws of nations and disturbers of the public repose, and imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined at the discretion of the court: Provided nevertheless, That no citizen or inhabitant of the United States, who shall have contracted debts prior to his entering into the service of any ambassador or other public minister, which debts shall be still due or unpaid, shall have, take, or receive, any benefit of this act; nor shall any person be proceeded against by virtue of this act, for having arrested or sued any other domestic servant of any ambassador or other public minister, unless the name of such servant be first registered in the office of the Secretary of State, and by such secretary transmitted to the Marshal of the district in which Congress shall reside, who shall, upon receipt thereof, affix the same in some public place in his office, whereto all persons may resort and take copies without fee or reward. Sec. 27. And be it enucted, That if any person shall violate any safe conduct or passport duly obtained, and issued under the authority of the United States, or shall assault, strike, wound, imprison, or in any other manner infract the law of nations, by offering violence to the person of an ambassador or other public minister, such person so offending, on conviction, shall be imprisoned not exceeding three years, and fined at the discretion of the court. [Approved, April 30, 1790.] An act fixing the compensation of public Ministers, and of Consuls residing on the coast of Barbary, and for other purposes. Sec. 1. Be it enacted, fc. That the President of the United States shall not allow to any minister plenipotentiary a greater sum than at the rate of nine thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor to any chargé des affaires, a greater sum than at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor to the secretary of any legation or embassy to any foreign country, or secretary of any minister plenipotentiary, a greater sum than at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor to any consul who shall be appointed to reside at Algiers, a greater sum than at the rate of four thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor to any other consul who shall be appointed to reside at any other of the states on the coast of Barbary, a greater sum than at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, as a compensation for all his personal services and expenses; nor shall there be appointed more than one consul for any one of the said states : Provided, It shall be lawful for the President of the United States to allow to a minister plenipotentiary, or chargé des affaires, on going from the United States to any foreign country, an outfit, which shall in no case exceed one year's full salary of such minister or chargé des affaires; but no consul shall be allowed an outtit in any case whatever, any usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That to entitle any chargé des affaires, or secretary of any legation or embassy to any foreign country, or secretary of any minister plenipotentiary, to the compensation hereinbefore provided, they shall, respectively, be appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the senate; but in the recess of the senate, the President is hereby authorized to make such appointments, which shall be submitted to the senate at the next session thereafter, for their advice and consent; and no compensation shall be allowed to any chargé des affaires, or any of the secretaries hereinbefore described, who shall not be appointed as aforesaid : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize any appointment of a secretary to any chargé des affaires, or to any consul residing on the Barbary coast, or to sanction any claim against the United States for expense incident to the same, any usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That where any sum or sums of money shall be drawn from the treasury, under any law making appropriation for the contingent expenses or intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, the President shall be, and he hereby is, authorized to cause the same to be duly settled, annually, with the accounting officers of the treasury, in the manner following, that is to say: By causing the same to be accounted for, especially, in all instances wherein the expenditure thereof may, in his judgment, be made public, and by making a certificate of the amount of such expenditures as he may think it advisable not to specify; and such certificate shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the sum or sums therein expressed to have been expended. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for the consuls of the United States, residing on the Barbary coasts, or either of them, to expend, or to disburse, or pay, or cause to be paid, for any purpose, or on any pretence whatever, not authorized by law, to any one of the Barbary powers, or to the officers or subjects thereof, a greater sum than three thousand dollars in any one year, with intent to charge the United States with the same, without first obtaining a special approbation, in writing, from the President of the United States, for that purpose. And every such consul who shall, after notice of this act, expend or disburse, or pay, or cause to be paid, for any purpose, or on any pretence whatever, not authorized by law, to any one of the Barbary powers, or to the officers or subjects thereof, a greater sum than three thousand dollars in any one year, or shall be aiding or assisting therein, without first obtaining the approbation of the President as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay to the treasury of the United States |
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