Nature of service NOTARIAL AND OTHER SERVICES-Continued 39. For taking depositions, executing commissions or letters rogatory, where the record of testimony including caption and certificate, does not exceed 500 words.. For each additional 100 words or fraction thereof.. The foregoing fee shall cover the administration of the oath and all services of the consul as commissioner, but shall not include services of clerk, stenographer, or typewriter, which shall be additional at the rate prescribed herein for copying. 40. Copies (carbon copies to be charged for at the same rate as originals): For the first 100 words or fraction..... For every additional 100 words or less.... 41. For certifying to the correctness of a copy of, or extract from, any document, official or private. Each copy certified is to be considered an original, and a fee charged for the certification. 42 Additional fee for all services contemplated by fees numbered 31, 32, 33, 38, 39, when rendered elsewhere than at the consular office at the request of the interested parties, for each hour or fraction thereoi........ In connection with any service rendered outside of the consular office at the request of private individuals, the exact amount of the expenses actually and necessarily incurred by the person rendering the service shall be collected from the persons for whom the service is performed in addition to the fee or fees prescribed therefor, but no amount in excess of the fee or fees prescribed and such actual and necessary expenses shall be charged or accepted. 1.00 49. Noting and certifying to protest of a bill of ex- 50. Affidavit of temporary stay of owner of sealskin 51. Any and all services performed for American citi- 2.00 No fee No fee Services performed under the foregoing tariff shall be rendered free of charge when performed: (a) in connection with the settlement of the estate of any employee of the United States dying abroad while on official duty; (b) for the use of any person in the collection of claims from the United States or from any State for compensation, pensions, back pay, bounty, bonus, property loss in the service of the United States; (c) for obtaining the return of property held by the Alien Property Custodian; for (d) the official use of the United States Veterans' Bureau. Consular officers must require all fees to be paid in advance and before the stamps are canceled, except in case of attendance out of office or of commissions, when the amount can not be determined until the service is performed. Advance deposits to cover fees in such latter cases may be accepted, but in no other cases XIV. DISPOSITION OF FEES AND COMPENSATION OF CONSULAR AGENTS AND VICE CONSULS The act for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States, approved April 5, 1906, provides: SEC. 8. That all fees, official or unofficial, received by any officer in the consular service for services rendered in connection with the duties of his office or as a consular officer, including fees for notarial services, and fees for taking depositions, executing commissions or letters rogatory, settling estates, receiving or paying out moneys, caring for or disposing of property, shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States, and the sole and only compensation of such officers shall be by salaries fixed by law; but this shall not apply to consular agents, who shall be paid by one-half of the fees received in their offices, up to a maximum sum of one thousand dollars in any one year, the other half being accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States. The act for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States, approved May 24, 1924, amends the act of April 5, 1906, as follows: SEC. 11. That the provisions of sections 8 and 10 of the act of April. 5, 1906, relative to official fees and the method of accounting therefor shall include both branches of the Foreign Service. The act for the reorganization and improvement of the Foreign Service of the United States approved May 24, 1924, amends section 1685 of the Revised Statutes as amended by the act entitled "An act for the improvement of the Foreign Service, approved February 5, 1915," to read as follows: SEC. 1685. That for such time as any Foreign Service officer shall be lawfully authorized to act as chargé d'affaires ad interim or to assume charge of a consulate general or consulate during the absence of the principal officer at the post to which he shall have been assigned, he shall, if his salary is less than one-half that of such principal officer, receive in addition to his salary as Foreign Service officer compensation equal to the difference between such salary and one-half of the salary provided by law for the ambassador, minister, or principal consular officer as the case may be. 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 [Arranged chronologically according to the date of entry into service] 1 Diplomatic agents indicated by an asterisk. The title of Third Assistant Secretary of State was changed to Assistant Secretary of State on July 1, 1924. Nov. 12, 1926 July 1,1924 July 16, 1906 June 7, 1907 June 2, 1909 Aug. 4, 1909 Consul general... Alexander R. Magruder.. Md.... Counselor of legation.. Stockholm.... Appointed also to act as diplomatic agent pursuant to Sec. 17 of an act of Congress approved May 24, 1924. Receives compensation as a Foreign Service officer. 1 Appointed also to act as minister resident pursuant to Sec. 17 of an act of Congress approved May 24, 1924. pensation as a Foreign Service officer. Munich. July 27, 1927 July 1, 1924 Aug. 19, 1911 Winnipeg. Apr. 15, 1925 July 1, 1924 Oct. 25, 1902 Liverpool.. Sept. 20, 1927 July 1, 1924 Mar. 7, 1910 Department. Mar. 23, 1928 July 1, 1924 Mar. 18, 1891 |