CHAPTER VIII. CONSULAR CLERKS. 66. Whenever at any consulate or commercial Americanclerks to be employed agency of the United States it becomes necessary in preference to to employ consular clerks, consular officers will, aliens. where it is practicable, receive into their service those individuals only who owe allegiance to this government. 67. Inconveniences may result from this instruction where the English language is not that of the country in which the consulate is situated; but if consular officers are not acquainted with such language at the time of receiving their appointments, it is expected that they will soon acquire a sufficient knowledge of it for the management of their official business. 68. There are many American citizens, at home and abroad, who are anxious to acquire a knowledge of the languages of Europe-a knowledge which would be valuable to the government and to the people of the United States; and it is recommended to United States consular officers to procure such as assistants. Should circumstances prevent a strict compliance with this instruction, the fact will be reported to this Department and the reasons thereof explained. subordinate mitted annual partment. Names of all 69. At the close of every year, every consular consular offi- officer will transmit to this Department, according cers to be trans to the form (No. 1) hereto annexed, a list of all ly to the De- persons who may be acting within his consular district and under his jurisdiction, either as deputy or vice consuls, consular agents, clerks, or in any other similar capacity, stating in such returns the name of the individuals, their place of birth, the country to which they owe allegiance, their rank, date of nomination, and the date of the approval thereof by this Department. CHAPTER IX. THE DUTIES OF A CONSULAR OFFICER AFTER RECEIVING NOTICE thereof. to be officers, 70. As soon as a consul general, consul, or com- Bonds given by conmercial agent is officially notified of his appoint- sular ment, he shall, without unnecessary delay, before he and conditions receives his commission or enters upon the duties of his office, enter into a bond to the United States, with such sureties (who shall be permanent residents of the United States) as shall be approved by the Secretary of State, in a penal sum of not less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, and in such form as the President shall prescribe, (see Form No. 2), 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 consul general, consul, or commercial agent, 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 as such consul general, consul, or commercial agent; and in the cases of consuls general, consuls, and commercial agents embraced in schedule B of the act of August 18, 1856, such bond shall contain, by way of further condition, the stipulation required by the 5th section of the said act, which is, that they shall not, while holding their offices, be interested in or transact any business as Mode of proceeding if the consular officer United States. merchants, factors, brokers, or other traders to, from, or within the ports, places, or limits of their consulate or commercial agencies, directly or indirectly, either in their own name or in the name or through the agency of any other persons.1 In all cases a certificate of the competency of the sureties must be annexed to the bond by the United States attorney for the district in which the sureties reside, before it is transmitted to the Secretary of State, to be approved and deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury. 71. If the consular officer be not in the United States at the time of his appointment, as soon as he is not in the is apprised of the same he shall sign, seal, and transmit to the United States, by the most expeditious conveyance, a bond like the one described in the last section, to be signed and sealed by two sureties, who shall be permanent residents of the United States, and whose competency must be certified as above mentioned, and the instrument then sent to the Secretary of State for his approval; after which it will be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury. Commission & 72. When the bond of the consular officer is apconsular officer, proved, his commission will immediately be sent to and how and the United States legation, if there be one in the passport of a when trans mitted. country to which his consular district belongs; otherwise to the consul himself. His consular passport will then be forwarded to him, the receipt of which he will immediately acknowledge, and at the same time inform the Department of the place of his birth and the State of which he was a citizen at the time of his appointment. 1 Session Statutes, act of Aug. 18, 1856, section 13. 73. If he be a naturalized citizen, he will transmit, Proof of citizenship required. with his bond, an attested copy of his certificate of naturalization. and place of de 74. After receiving his passport, he will, with all Notice of time convenient despatch, depart for his post; giving parture to be notice to the Department of the time and place given. of his departure, and of the vessel in which he embarks. |