Item No. $2.00 36 2,00 Nature of service 35 NOTARIAL AND OTHER SERVICES-Contd. Acknowledgments and authentications con- Administering oaths or taking acknowledg- 38 Certifying to official character of a foreign Authentications under authority of the United States Quarantine Regulations, in the form prescribed by the Department of State, certifying to official character of officials signing foreign deratization certificates and deratization exemption certificates.... For taking depositions, executing commissions or letters rogatory, where the record of testimony including caption and certificate does not exceed 500 words..... .50 37 39 Fee No fee No fee No fee $2.00 No fee No fee is chargeable for administering the oath of allegiance under the act of June 25, 1936, to a native-born American woman who lost her citizenship by marriage to an alien and whose marriage is terminated. Discontinued. Acknowledgment of a deed or power of attorney, or similar service, including one or more signatures, with certificate thereof, for each copy.. Administering any and all oaths required to be made by pensioners and their witnesses in the execution of their pension vouchers, or by persons presenting claims for pensions or increase of pensions, or claims for insurance or insurance allowances, or allotments, or certifying to the competency of a local official before whom said papers were executed, or for other services in relation thereto................... 42 43 44 45 46 47 Each copy certified is to be considered an original, and a fee charged for the certification. Additional fee for all services contemplated by fees numbered 31, 33, 38, 39, 40, and 41 when rendered elsewhere than at the consular office at the request of the interested parties, for each hour or fraction thereof.... 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. Recording unofficial documents in consulate upon request: For the first 100 words or fraction..... For every additional 100 words or less..... Any and all services indicated in the tariff of fees and performed upon written orders of the Department of State for the official use of the Government of the United States.... Any and all services in connection with the execution of tax returns, federal, state, territorial, municipal and insular. License for the practice of pharmacy and the sale of poisons in the consular districts of the United States in China....---For certifying to the correctness of copies of certificates of American origin, manufacture, or inspection, where such services are performed upon written orders of the $1.00 .50 No fee No fee 2.00 Secretary of State for the purpose of advancing the export trade of the United States..... 48 Presenting a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument for acceptance, payment, or protest, for each hour or fraction thereof outside of the consular office...... 49 Noting and certifying to protest of a bill of exchange or other negotiable instrument and giving notice thereof to drawer and indorsers when requested to do so...... 50 Administering oaths or taking acknowledgments, or authenticating the signatures of foreign officials, in connection with kinsmen's petitions for wages and effects of deceased seamen of the American merchant marine...... 51 Any and all services performed for American citizens while outside the United States in preparation of ballots to be used in any primary, general, or other public elections in the United States, its territories, or possessions, whether federal, state, territorial, county, town, or municipal.... 52 Translating or interpreting, for every 100 words of translation or traction thereof, or for interpreter per hour or fraction thereof.. The foregoing fee shall be collected only when it is necessary that a member of a consular staff be detailed as translator or interpreter in the execution of a commission to take testimony. Exception This item is not applicable to criminal cases under the act of June 20, 1936, Public No. 734, 74th Congress. (Sec. 489 S.) No fee $1.00 2.00 No fee No fee 1.00 8. 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 (34 Stat. 101), 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 of February 23, 1931 (46 Stat. 1209), amends the act of April 5, 1906, as follows: SEC. 18. 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 apply to diplomatic officers below the grade of minister and to consular officers. Section 25 of the act of February 23, 1931, provides as follows: SEC. 25. That for such times 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 Years ended JUNE 30, 1936, AND JUNE 30, 1937 PRINCIPAL OFFICERS OF THE DEPARTMENT, CHIEFS OF MISSION, AND DIPLOMATIC AGENTS PREVIOUSLY IN THE RANKS OF THE FOREIGN SERVICE Armour, Norman. Blake, Maxwell. Dawson, William. Dearing, Fred Morris.. Frazer, Robert. Gibson, Hugh S... Philip, Hoffman.. Phillips, William.. Schoenfeld, H. F. Gordon, George A.... Harrison, Leland.. Sterling, Frederick A.. Tex.... Riga and Tal- Aug. 9, 1937 Mar. 8, 1911 Weddell, Alexander W. Welles, Sumner... Wilson, Hugh R. Wright, J. Butler. The title of Third Assistant Secretary of State was changed to Assistant Secretary of State on July 1, 1924. 'Diplomatic agent. Appointed Minister to Uruguay Mar. 9, 1934, but did not take the oath of office. Appointed Minister to Bulgaria July 17, 1928, and Minister to Costa Rica Dec. 16, 1929, but in neither case took the oath of office. |