APPENDIX No. II.

EXTRACTS FROM THE STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES RELATIVE TO THE CONSULAR SERVICE.

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EXTRACTS FROM THE REVISED STATUTES AND OTHER ACTS OF CONGRESS RELATING TO THE CONSULAR SERVICE.

TITLE I.

(Sec. 1-13.)

GENERAL PROVISIONS.

778. In determining the meaning of the revised statutes, or of any act or resolution of Congress passed subsequent to February twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to several persons or things; words importing the plural number may include the singular; words importing the masculine gender may be applied to females; the words "insane person" and "lunatic" shall include every idiot, non compos, lunatic, and insane person; the word "person" may extend and be applied to partnerships and corporations, and the reference to any officer shall include any person authorized by law to perform the duties of such office, unless the context shows that such words were intended to be used in a more limited sense; and a requirement of an "oath" shall be deemed complied with by making affirmation in judicial form.

779. SEC. 3. The word vessel" includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water.

780. SEC. 6. In all cases where a seal is necessary by law to any commission, process, or other instrument provided for by the laws of Congress, it shall be lawful to affix the proper seal by making an impression therewith directly on the paper to which such seal is necessary; which shall be as valid as if made on wax or other adhesive substance.

781. SEC. 896. Copies of all official documents and papers in the office of any consul, vice-consul, or commercial agent of the United States, and of all official entries in the books or records of any such office, certified under the hand and seal of such officer, shall be admitted in evidence in the courts of the United States. [See § 1707.]

782. SEC. 1226. All officers who have served during the rebellion as volunteers in the Army of the United States, and have been honorably mustered out of the volunteer service, shall be entitled to bear the official title, and, upon occasions of ceremony, to wear the uniform of the highest grade they have held, by brevet or other commissions, in the volunteer service. The highest volunteer rank which has been held by officers of the Regular Army shall be entered, with their names respectively, upon the Army Register. But these privileges shall not entitle any officer to command, pay, or emoluments.

DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR OFFICERS.

783. SEC. 1674. The official designations employed throughout this Title shall be deemed to have the following meanings, respectively: First. " Consul-general," "consul," and "commercial agent." shall be deemed to denote full, principal, and permanent consular officers, as distinguished from subordinates and substitutes.