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REGULATIONS

FOR THE

CONSULAR SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES.

ARTICLE I.

Classes of Consular Officers.

1.. The Consular Service of the United States consists of Agents and Consuls General, Consuls General, Vice-Consuls General, Deputy Consuls General, Consuls, Vice-Consuls, Deputy Consuls, Consular Agents, Commercial Agents, Vice-Commercial Agents, Consular Clerks, and Office Clerks. The latter class is authorized by law only in unsalaried Consulates, and will not be recognized by the Department of State unless special permission is obtained.

AGENT AND CONSUL GENERAL.

2..The only officer of this grade is the Agent and Consul General at Alexandria. He enjoys a quasi-diplomatic position, so far as the Porte may consent thereto.

CONSULS GENERAL.

3..Consulates General are established by law at Alexandria, Beirût, Calcutta, Constantinople, Florence, Frankfort-on-the-Main, Havana, London, Montreal, Paris, Shanghai, and Tampico.

4..In Great Britain and Ireland, France, Italy, China, Egypt, and Cuba all the Consuls will transmit their correspondence to the Department through the Consulates General. The Consuls General at London, Paris, Florence, Shanghai, Alexandria, and Havana are respectively charged with the supervision of these subordinate Consulates. They will see that the provisions of statute law and of these general instructions are complied with in the several Consulates under their charge. The Consuls General at London and Paris will once in each year visit each Consulate in their respective

Classes of Consular Officers.

jurisdictions, charging their actual traveling expenses in their ac

counts.

5..In Cuba the correspondence with the Spanish officials is to be conducted through the medium of the Consulate General at Havana.

6..In the Dominion of Canada the Consul General at Montreal exercises a supervision over the Consulates, but the consular correspondence is to be addressed by the Consuls by mail to the Depart

ment.

7..In Liberia and Hayti the Consuls General are accredited as full diplomatic representatives.

8..All Consuls General are further charged with the ordinary duties of a Consul within the prescribed limits of their respective districts, and no one is allowed, while he holds office, to be interested in, or to transact, any business as a merchant, factor, or broker, or any other trader, or as a clerk or other agent for any such person, to, from, or within the port, place, or limits of his Consulate General, directly or indirectly, either in his own name or through the agency of any other person.

CONSULS.

9..Consuls are of two classes: 1st. Those who are not allowed to engage in business, and whose salaries exceed $1,000 per annum; 2d. Those who are allowed to engage in business. The former class is known as those embraced in Schedule B. The occupations in which they may not engage are the same with those forbidden to Consuls General. The latter class of Consuls is again subdivided into1st. Those who are salaried, (known as Consuls in Schedule C,) and, 2d. Those who are compensated from the fees which they take.

VICE-CONSULS.

10..Vice-Consuls are defined by the statute to be "Consular Officers who shall be substituted temporarily to fill the place of Consuls when they shall be temporarily absent or relieved from duty." It follows that when the Consul is present at his post the ViceConsul has no functions or powers. [The same remarks apply, mutatis mutandis, to Vice-consuls General and Vice-commercial Agents.]

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