Magdeburg. GERMANY-Continued. 1. Duchy of Anhalt. 2. Regierungsbezirk of Magdeburg (Province of Saxony). Mannheim. 1. Amt of Ettlingen and the Grand Duchy of Baden north of the Amt of Ettlingen. 2. Kreise of Worms, Bensheim, Heppenheim, Erbach (Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt). 3. The Bavarian Palatinate. Munich. 1. Regierungsbezirke of Schwaben and Neuburg (Bavaria). 2. Regierungsbezirk of Upper Bavaria (Bavaria). 3. Regierungsbezirk of Lower Bavaria (Bavaria). Nuremberg. 1. Regierungsbezirk of Middle Franconia (Bavaria). 2. Regierungsbezirk of Upper Palatinate (Bavaria). 3. Bezirksämter of Würzburg, Kitzingen, Ochsenfurt, and the chartered cities of Würzburg and Kitzingen (Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Bavaria). 4. Bezirksämter of Höchstadt, Forchheim, Pegnitz, Bayreuth, Wunsiedel, and the chartered cities of Forchheim and Bayreuth (Regierungsbezirk of Upper Franconia (Bavaria). Plauen. 1. Kreishauptmannschaft of Zwickau (Kingdom of Saxony). 2. Principality of Reuss, older line. 3. Landratsamtbezirk of Schleiz (Principality of Reuss, younger line). Stettin. 1. Province of Pomerania. 2. Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, excepting the Principality of Ratzeburg. 3. Regierungsbezirk of Bromberg (Province of Posen). 4. Province of West Prussia. 5. Province of East Prussia. Königsberg (Consular Agency). Province of East Prussia. Stuttgart. 1. The Kingdom of Württemberg. 2. Hohenzollern Land. Catania. ITALY. The Provinces of Messina, Catania, Syracuse, in the island of Sicily, and the Department of Calabria. Riga. Governments of Livonia, Couronia, Kovno, Vitebsk, and The Caucasus. Warsaw. Governments of Poland, Grodno, Minsk, and Volhynia. XIII.—TARIFF OF UNITED STATES CONSULAR FEES. [Revised to take effect November 1, 1906; amended by Executive order of June 7, 1909.] 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, are not exempt from the payment of the fees prescribed herein.) Nature of service. Miscellaneous services. 1. Certificate to invoice, including declaration, in 2. Invoice of returned American goods.. Fee. $2.50 I. 00 1.00 4. Certificate to extra copies of invoices, each.. 1.00 2.50 6. Landing certificate, including oaths of master and mate, and the complete execution of the certificate..... 7. Sealing cars coming from Canada or Mexico, for each manifest in quintuplicate with the consul's certificate, including sealing of each car, vessel, bale, barrel, box, or package................ .... 8. Issuing a passport-Form No. 9-or extending a passport.. L........ 9. Visaing a passport-Form No. 1o... 2.50 I. 00 1.00 I.00 I. 00 1.00 Nature of service. Miscellaneous services-Continued. value or fraction thereof on the amount there- 13. For each certificate of protection, semsar, or cer- Services to vessels and seamen. 14. Bill of health, in duplicate*. 15. Supplemental bill of health, in duplicate* 17. And for every additional 100 tons net or fraction 20. Preparation and acknowledgment for vessels or 21. Preparation and execution for vessels or seamen * Foreign war vessels are exempt from the payment of fees for bills of health. Fee. $2.00 5.00 2. 50 • 50 2.00 2.00 2.00 2.00 Notarial and other services. 31. Administering an oath and certificate thereof *. 32. Administering oath and preparing passport application...... 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 and their witnesses, or certifying to the competency of a local official before whom the same were executed.. 2.00 1.00 2.00 Nature of service. Notarial and other services-Continued. 38. Certifying to official character of a foreign notary or other official.. 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... For every additional 100 words or less. 41. Translations; for every 100 words or fraction.... 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, and a note of the amount shall be made on the margin of the fee book and fee return opposite the entry of the service and fee; but no amount in excess of the fee or fees prescribed and such actual and necessary expenses shall be charged or accepted. 43. Recording unofficial documents in consulate upon request: For the first 100 words or fraction....... For every additional 100 words or less.... 44. Any and all services indicated in the above tariff and performed upon written orders of the Department of State for the official use of the Government of the United States... Fee. $2.00 10.00 - 50 · 50 - 25 I. 00 I.00 • 50 .25 No fee. No fee. No fee. 37. For rendering notarial services to officials of foreign Governments who render gratuitously reciprocal courtesies to American diplomatic and consular officers.... No fee. * Executive order of Dec. 21, 1906, prescribes that no fee shall be charged for the affidavit of temporary stay of owner of sealskin garment entering the United States from Canada. 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 improvement of the foreign service approved February 5, 1915, amends section 1685 of the Revised Statutes to read as follows: * *" * for such time as any vice consul shall be lawfully authorized 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 appointed or assigned, he shall be entitled to receive, in addition to his regular salary or compensation as a subordinate consular officer or employee, compensation equal to the difference between such salary or compensation and fifty per centum of the salary provided by law for the principal consular officer at such post." |