[Revised to take effect November 1, 1906, as amended by act of Congress approved June 4, 1920, and the Executive orders of June 28, 1926, March 17, 1927, and August 8, 1927] Tariff of fees prescribed by order of the President to be charged by consular officers of the United States. All consular charges must be in strict accordance with this tariff and be collected in gold or its equivalent. No fee or compensation will be collected for any service not covered by this tariff. The fees in this tariff are not prescribed for American vessels and seamen, because they are exempted by law from the payment of consular fees. Consular agents will make the fees in this tariff a basis of collection from the Treasury for services to such vessels. Foreign-built vessels, unregistered, owned by American citizens, and vessels documented under the laws of the Philippine Islands are not exempt from the payment of the fees prescribed herein. Nature of service Fee Nature of service Fee MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES 1. Certification of invoice in such number of copies 2. Invoice of returned American goods... 2.50 (d) Any alien soldier who was a resident of the United States, and who having served in the military or naval forces of any country cobelligerent with the United States or in the Czechoslovak, Polish, or other independent forces attached to the armed forces of the United States or its cobelligerent nations, who is entitled to reentry into the United States under public resolution of October 19, 1918 (See Circular No. 650 of Jan. 17, 1919).................... Certifying to a copy of visa declarations or application previously taken...... No fee (a) Officers or employees of United States (b) Seamen 1.00 Nature of service MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES-Continued thereof to be charged on the part so delivered over as is not in money, and $2 for each $100 of value or fraction thereof on the gross amount of the residue. If among the effects of the deceased are found certificates of foreign stock, loans, or other property, $1 for each $100 of value or fraction thereof on the amount thereof. No charge will be made for placing the official seal upon the personal property or effects of such deceased citizen, or for breaking or removing the seals. 29. Attending sale of vessel's goods, for each day's attendance during which the sale continues.... 30. Attendance at a shipwreck, or for the purpose of assisting a ship in distress, or of saving wrecked goods or property, over and above traveling expenses, whenever the consul's interposition is required by the parties interested, for each day 5.00 5.00 15. Discontinued. 13. For each certificate of protection, semsar, or certificate of employment issued at Tangier....... SERVICES TO VESSELS AND SEAMEN 16. For receiving and delivering ship's register and papers, including consular certificates, as prescribed in Forms Nos. 13 and 14, $1 for each 100 tons or fraction thereof, registered measurement (net), of the vessel for which the service is performed, if under 1,000 tons; but for American vessels running regularly by weekly or monthly trips, or otherwise, to or between foreign ports, this tonnage fee will not be charged for more than four trips in a year; and tonnage fees shall not be exacted for any vessel touching at or near ports in Canada on her regular voyage from one port to another within the United States, unless some official service required by law shall be performed. 17. And for every additional 100 tons net or fraction thereof....... 18 Shipping or discharging seamen, including the certificates thereof attached to crew list and shipping articles and given to seamen..... 19. Authentication of copies of protests or other necessary documents for vessels or seamen not otherwise provided for........................... 20.† Preparation and acknowledgment for vessels or seamen of any oath or declaration for which a form is given in the Consular Regulations, or a similar necessary service not otherwise provided for 21 Preparation and execution for vessels or seamen of any certificate for which a form is given in the Consular Regulations, or similar necessary service not otherwise provided for......................... 22. Orders or letters for vessels or seamen for which forms are given in the Consular Regulations, or other similar necessary service not otherwise provided for.... 23. Recording, when necessary, for vessels or seamen any document covered by the provisions of the Consular Regulations, for every 100 words or fraction thereof. .50 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 NOTARIAL AND OTHER SERVICES 31. Administering an oath and certificate thereof tt. 32. Administering oath and preparing passport application tt......... 33. Acknowledgment of a deed or power of attorney, or similar service, including one or more signatures, with certificate thereof, for each copy... 34. 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............. 35. Acknowledgments connected with the transfer of United States bonds.... 36. Administering oaths or taking acknowledgments of officials or employees of the United States Government, or of any corporation in which the United States or its representatives shall own the entire outstanding capital stock, in connection with their official business accounts........ 37. For rendering notarial services to officials of foreign Governments who render gratuitously reciprocal courtesies to American diplomatic and consular officers, or for certification of invoices of shipments of official supplies and equipment from foreign Governments to their diplomatic and consular officers and of shipments of personal effects to such officers in the United States when such foreign Government renders gratuitously reciprocal services to the United States Government... 38. Certifying to official character of a foreign notary or other official.......... 50 Footnotes at end of table 2.00 1.00 2.00 No fee No fee No fee No fee 2.00 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..... 41. Discontinued.... 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 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 Services performed under items 12, 31, 33, 38, 39, 40, 42, and 43 of the foregoing tariff shall be rendered free of charge when performed in connection with the settlement of the estate of any employee of the United States dying abroad while on official duty, and services performed under items 31, 33, 38, 39, 40, 42, and 43 shall be rendered free of charge when performed 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, or for obtaining the return of property held by the Alien Property Custodian. † Covers service of visa of alien crew list for foreign ship. it Executing an affidavit in regard to American birth in connection with application for passport or for registration, no fees. 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, 1927 |