Persons retired from the Department under the provisions of the act of

IX. Organization of the Department...

20

21

21

21

22

X. Foreign Service of the United States-

Albania, 41; Argentina, 41; Austria, 41; Belgium, 42; Bolivia, 42; Brazil, 42;

Bulgaria, 43; Canada, 43; Chile, 45; China, 45; Colombia, 46; Costa Rica,

47; Cuba, 47; Czechoslovakia, 48; Danzig, Free City of, 48; Denmark, 48;

Dominican Republic, 48; Ecuador, 48; Egypt, 49; El Salvador, 49; Estonia,

49; Ethiopia (Abyssinia), 49; Finland, 49; France and Possessions, 50;

Germany, 51; Great Britain and Northern Ireland, British Dominions

beyond the Seas, India, 52; Greece, 56; Guatemala, 56; Haiti, 56; Honduras,

56; Hungary, 57; Iraq (Mesopotamia), 57; Irish Free State, 57; Italy, 57;

Japanese Empire, 58; Latvia, 59; Liberia, 59; Lithuania, 59; Luxemburg,

60; Mexico, 60; Monaco, 61; Morocco, 61; Netherlands and Possessions,

62; Nicaragua, 62; Norway, 62; Palestine, 63; Panamá, 63; Paraguay, 63;

Persia, 63; Perú, 63; Poland, 64; Portugal and Possessions, 64; Rumania,

64; San Marino, 65; Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, Kingdom of the, 65; Siam,

65; Spain, 65; Sweden, 66; Switzerland, 66; Syria, 67; Turkey, 67; Uruguay,

67; Venezuela, 67.

Foreign Service officers detailed as inspectors... -

Foreign Service officers assigned temporarily to the Department.

XI. Consular districts.---.

XII. Supervisory consular offices and the limits of their jurisdiction...

XIII. Tariff of United States consular fees

XIV. Disposition of fees and compensation of consular agents and vice consuls___

Fees collected at consular agencies for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928---

XV. Officers of the Department, chiefs of mission, and diplomatic agents promoted

from the ranks of the Foreign Service...

XVI. Classification of Foreign Service officers___

XVII. Foreign Service officers retired from active service under the provisions of the

acts of May 24, 1924, and July 3, 1926 -.

XVIII. Biography: Persons serving under appointment of the Department of State,

at home or abroad, and Diplomatic and Foreign Service officers who retired

from the service during the year 1928

XIX. Obituary: Diplomatic and Foreign Service officers who died during the year 1928_

XX. Biographical reference: List of Diplomatic, Consular, and Foreign Service offi-

cers who have died in or retired from the service since January 1, 1906, show-

ing date of the Register in which their biography last appeared_.

XXI. List of principal diplomatic agents of the United States, March 4, 1789-

January 1, 1929__

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41

68

69

70

79

80

83

83

84

85

100

101

232

234

241

XXII. Regulations concerning precedence of diplomatic agents..

XXIII. Organization of the Foreign Service..........

258

259

XXIV. Board of Examiners for the Foreign Service....

278

XXV. Dispatch agents---

278

XXVI. International Commissions, Committees, Institutes, Tribunals, etc.-

International Prison Commission____

International Fisheries Commission, United States and Canada___

General Claims Commission, United States and Mexico.......

280

280

XXVI. International Commissions, Committees, Institutes, Tribunals, etc.-Contd.

Special Claims Commission, United States and Mexico....

International Water Commission, United States and Mexico....

Tripartite Claims Commission, United States, Austria, and Hungary-

International Peace Commissions.

Pan American Union----.

Pan American Railway Committee___

Pan American Committee of the United States..

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281

281

281

281

286

286

286

List of Permanent International Bureaus, Unions, etc., of which the United

States is a member but to which member governments do not appoint

official representatives...----

289

XXVII. United States Delegations to International Conferences, Congresses, etc., held

during the year 1928.

290

Sixth International Conference of American States

290

Preparatory Commission for the Disarmament Conference__

291

International Conference for the Revision of the Convention of Berlin of

Second Conference for the Abolition of Import and Export Prohibitions and

Restrictions_.

Sixth International Congress for Art Education, Drawing and Art Applied to

Industry..

294

First Pan-Pacific Women's Conference..

294

Nineteenth International Congress against Alcoholism

294

Special Commission for the Preparation of a Draft Convention on the Manu-

facture of Arms and Ammunition and Implements of War__

294

Seventeenth International Congress of Orientalists...

295

International Country Life Commission.---

295

Fifth International Medical Congress of Industrial Accidents and Occupational

Diseases...

International Conference for the Protection of the Rights of Authors..

Ninth General Assembly of the International Institute of Agriculture.........

297

297

The General Meeting of Governmental Experts on Double Taxation and Tax

Evasion....

297

Thirteenth International Red Cross Conference..

297

XXVII. United States Delegations to International Conferences, Congresses, etc., held

during the year 1928-Continued.

Diplomatic Conference on International Exhibitions...

International Conference on Economic Statistics___

International Conference of American States on Conciliation and Arbitration.

International Civil Aeronautics Conference____

International Congress of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene..

XXVIII. Foreign embassies and legations in the United States....

XXIX. Foreign consular officers in the United States..

Index of persons-

Index of places--

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REGISTER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE

I. SECRETARIES OF STATE (1789-1928)

President

Secretary of State

George Washington.. Thomas Jefferson, of Virginia___

Entered upon duties Mar. 22, 1790. Retired Dec. 31,
1793.

Edmund Randolph, of Virginia...

Entered upon duties Jan. 2, 1794. Retired Aug. 19, 1795.

John Marshall, of Virginia (Chief Justice of the United
States).

Ad interim Feb. 4, 1801, to Mar. 4, 1801.

Thomas Jefferson.... Levi Lincoln, of Massachusetts (Attorney General)

Ad interim Mar. 4, 1801, to May 1, 1801.

James Madison, of Virginia...

Mar. 5, 1801