REGULATIONS

FOR

CONSULAR OFFICERS

AS PRESCRIBED BY

THE PRESIDENT.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

PAGE.

General remarks on the nature and duties of the consular office.....

11

Duties of a consular officer after receiving notice of his appointment........ 37

CHAPTER X.

Formalities to be observed by a Consul General or Consul after arrival

at his post.....

CHAPTER XI.

Instructions respecting the correspondence of a consular officer with the

Department of State

40

44

The reciprocal duties of consular officers and masters of American vessels. 104

CHAPTER XIX.

Duties of consular officers in relation to seamen of the United States...... 121

CHAPTER XX.

Duties of consular officers in relation to wrecks

CHAPTER XXI.

Duties of consular officers in relation to the estates of intestates..

CHAPTER XXII.

136

140

Duties of consular officers in respect to citizens of the United States...... 152

CHAPTER XXIII.

Attendance of consular officers as witnesses in court...

CHAPTER XXIV.

158

Duties of consular officers in respect to the passenger act...................................... 160

CHAPTER XXV.

Duties of Consuls General and Consuls in relation to the granting of passports and certificates...

PAGE.

164

CHAPTER XXVI.

Official intercourse of United States consular officers with officers of the

Judicial authority of the Commissioner or Minister, and of Consuls of the
United States in China and Turkey......

CHAPTER XXXI.

Duties of United States consular officers touching the solemnization of the rite of marriage................

CHAPTER XXXII.

Instructions to consular officers in the British Provinces....

CHAPTER XXXIII.

Duties of consular officers in respect to American owners of foreign-built

vessels

CHAPTER XXXIV.

Commercial regulations.....

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