States, unless some official services required by law shall be performed by the consular officer. This statute, however, is held not to relieve the master of a registered vessel engaged in commerce between the United States and Canada from the provision of law which requires the deposit of the vessel's papers with the consular officer. -21 Op. Att. Gen., 190. (Paragraph 175.) 526. No fees for executing pension papers.-Consular officers are not permitted to make a charge for administering oaths required to be made by pensioners and their witnesses in executing their vouchers for their pensions.-25 Stat. L., 782. (Paragraph 455.) 527. Fees to be paid in gold or its equivalent.-All consular fees when collectible under the provisions of this article are to be collected in gold coin of the United States or its representative value in exchange. They are to be collected at the time when the service is performed, and consular officers are not authorized to give credit for their payment.-R. S., sec. 1746. 528. Currency tables.-Tables showing the value of foreign coin as expressed in the money of account of the United States are prepared quarterly by the Director of the Mint and proclaimed by the Secretary of the Treasury.-Tariff act of 1894, see. 25. Tables for reducing gold coin of the United States to English and French currency and other currency tables will be found in Forms Nos. 149, 161, and 162. (Paragraph 585.) 529. Receipts. Receipts must be given when demanded for all fees which a consular officer is entitled to collect, whether official or unofficial, expressing the service for which they are received. 530. Sworn reports of fees received.-Every consular officer, in rendering his account of fees received, shall furnish a full transcript of the register which he is required to keep, and make oath that to the best of his knowledge the same is true and contains a full and accurate statement of all fees received 17824 C R-14 by him or for his use for his official services as such consular officer during the period for which it purports to be rendered. Such oath may be taken before any person having authority to administer oaths at the port or place where the consular officer is located. These accounts are rendered quarterly to the Auditor for the State and other Departments on the prescribed forms. (Paragraphs 567-570.) 531. Numbering fees.-The following rules must be observed in numbering official fees: The fees for the certification of all triplicate invoices, which include invoices of regular importations, of animals for breeding purposes; of returned American goods in original packages; of returned boxes, bags, barrels, kegs, carboys, and shooks of American manufacture; of personal or household effects, or teams of animals owned and used by emigrants, and of works of art, must, in the consul's returns, be included under one separate consecutive series of numbers and corresponding numbers placed upon the invoices or certificates. The fees for landing certificates must bear a separate and distinct series of numbers, and corresponding numbers must be written or stamped plainly at the left-hand upper corner on the face of the certificates and marked "consular number.” All other fees collected must be numbered consecutively under one series. Each series of numbers for fees should begin anew with No. 1 at the commencement of each calendar year. All the fees should be entered at length on the fee book furnished by the Department of State, so as to complete the returns in accordance with Forms Nos. 101 and 102, and reported in three groups, as follows: 1. Fees received for certification of invoices and other documentation of merchandise and personal effects for shipment to the United States. 2. Fees for landing certificates. 3. All other official fees. Each fee in groups 1 and 2 should bear the same number as the certificate for which it was received. The groups should be arranged in the order given, and each fee should be so placed in its group as to present in each group a consecutive series of numbers, beginning with each calendar year. In the column headed "Place of destination of invoices" (Forms Nos. 101 and 102) should be reported the place to which the triplicate copy of the invoice is sent. Consular officers having supervision of consular agents should see that the agents understand and make their returns of official fees in accordance with the directions of this paragraph. 532. Returns of fees.-The returns of fees must be made, in the manner hereafter indicated, without fail, at the close of each quarter. (Paragraph 568.) If no fees are received in any quarter, that fact should be reported on the prescribed form under oath. The statute declares a consular officer guilty of embezzlement and disqualifies him from holding any office of trust or profit under the United States who willfully neglects to render true and just quarterly accounts and returns of the business of his office, and of moneys received by him for the use of the United States, or to pay over any balance of such moneys due to the United States at the expiration of any quarter before the expiration of the next succeeding quarter.-R. S., sec. 1734. (Paragraph 569.) 533. Tariff of official fees.-The following is the revised tariff of official fees prescribed by order of the President under the authority conferred upon him by section 1745 of the Revised Statutes, to be charged by consular officers for official services, in addition to those specifically provided by law. All consular charges for official services must be in strict accordance with this tariff, and be collected in gold or its equivalent: I. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 1. Acknowledgments connected with the transfer of United States stock (Paragraph 447) 2. Certificates to place of birth of emigrants, and only when desired by them.. 3. Sealing cars coming from Canada. For each manifest with the consul's certificate, including sealing of each car, vessel, bale, barrel, box, or package... 4. Certificate to emigrant's declaration covering animals, vehicles, and goods-Form No. 128 5. For issuing a passport-Form No. 9 No fee. $0.25 .25 .50 6. For visaing a passport-Form No. 10.. 1.00 7. For administering oath and preparing application for a passport.... 1.00 1.00 8. For marriage certificate-Form No. 87. 9. Landing certificate, including oaths of master and mate, and the complete execution of the certificate, except by consular officers of the United States at posts on the Rio Grande, Mexico, where shall be charged for all debenture certificates as above $2.50 when the declared value is $2,500 or less, and $5 when the declared value is over $2,500Form No. 151 10. To certificate to invoice, including declaration in triplicate or quadruplicate (Form No. 140), covering either direct importations or transit shipments, including any extra or additional certificates not otherwise provided for which are required by law or regulations for use in connection with the entry of the wares or the forwarding of the same in bond..... 1.00 2.50 2.5 11. Such extra certificates when no invoice is certified, each... 1.0 1.0 2.3 14. Copies. For the first hundred words, 50 cents, and for every additional hundred words or less, 25 cents. When par ties have a right to call for copies, consular officers must 15. For taking into possession the personal estate of any citizen who shall die within the limits of a consulate, inventorying, selling, and finally settling and preparing or transmitting, according to law, the balance due thereon, 5 per cent on the gross amount of such estate. If part of such estate shall be delivered over before final settlement, 24 per cent to be charged on the part so delivered over as is not in money, and 5 per cent on the gross amount of the residue. If among the effects of the deceased are found certificates of foreign stocks, loans, or other property, 24 per cent on the amount thereof. No charge will be made for placing the official seal upon the personal property or effects of such deceased citizen, or for breaking or removing the seals.-Art. XXIII.. Special fees in Morocc». (Executive order December 5, 1895.) 16. For each certificate of protection... 17. For each semsar certificate. 18. For each certificate of employment.. II. SERVICES TO SEAMEN AND VESSELS. 19. For issuing, preparing, and executing certificate upon complaint of crew of bad quality or insufficient quantity of provisions or water (Form No. 27); affidavit or certificate of attending physician (Form No. 26); receipt for effects of deceased seamen-Form No. 85... $2.00 1.00 .50 No fee. 20. Certificate to a seaman of his discharge-Form No. 18.. No fee. No fee. 22. Declaration. When seamen were picked up at sea-Form No. 24... No fee. 23. Consul's order to send seamen to hospital-Form No. 22. 26. Certificate to the examination required by section 2162 of the No fee. No fee. .25 |