The Foreign Service Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on International Operations of the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Subcommittee on Civil Service of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 4674 .... |
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Page 147 - It is not then a contract within the meaning of the clause of the constitution which prohibits the impairing the obligation of contracts. It is rather a social relation like that of parent and child, the obligations of which arise not from the consent of concurring minds, but are the .creation of the law itself, a relation the most important, as affecting the.
Page 229 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 100 - Every such oath, affirmation, affidavit, deposition, and notarial act administered, sworn, affirmed, taken, had, or done, by or before any such officer, when certified under his hand and seal of office, shall be as valid, and of like force and effect within the United States...
Page 57 - Code, is amended by— (1) striking out the word "and" at the end of paragraph (8) ; (2) striking out the period at the end of paragraph (9) and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the word...
Page 100 - State; (h) safeguarding, within the limits imposed by the laws and regulations of the receiving State, the interests of minors and other persons lacking full capacity who are nationals of the...
Page 96 - ... a party to the issuance of a certificate of citizenship contrary to the provisions of this act, except upon a final order under the hand of a court having jurisdiction to make such order, and upon conviction thereof such clerk or other person shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than five years and by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars, in the discretion of the court.
Page 96 - State shall approve, in a penal sum not less than the annual compensation allowed to such officer, conditioned for the true and faithful accounting for, paying over, and delivering up of all fees, moneys, goods, effects, books, records, papers, and other property which shall come to his hands or to the hands of any other person to his use as such officer under any law now or hereafter enacted, and for the true and faithful performance of all other duties now or hereafter lawfully imposed upon him...
Page 95 - Marriages in presence of any consular officer of the United States in a foreign country, between persons who would b'e authorized to marry if residing in the District of Columbia...
Page 96 - ... thereto is the person he represents himself to be, that he is a credible person, and that the statements made under such oath or affirmation are true ; and he shall, thereupon, by his certificate, state that he was so satisfied...
Page 101 - (k) exercising rights of supervision and inspection provided for in the laws and regulations of the sending State in respect of vessels having the nationality of the sending State, and of aircraft registered in that State, and in respect of their crews...