Regulations Prescribed for the Use of the Consular Service of the United States

t. Louis, Jefferson City, and Kansas City; in Nebraska, at Lincoln nd Omaha; in Nevada, at Carson City; in New Hampshire, at Portsnouth and Concord; in New Jersey, at Trenton; in New York, at Canandaigua, Albany, Syracuse, Utica, New York, and Brooklyn; in North Carolina, at Raleigh, Greensboro, Statesville, Asheville, and Charlotte; in Ohio, at Cleveland, Toledo, Cincinnati, and Columbus; in Oregon, at Portland; in Pennsylvania, at Philadelphia, Erie, Pittsburg, Williamsport, and Scranton; in Rhode Island, at Newport and Providence; in South Carolina, at Charleston and Columbia; in Tennessee, at Knoxville, Chattanooga, Nashville, Jackson, and Memphis; in Texas, at Graham, Dallas, Waco, Galveston, Tyler, Jefferson, Austin, San Antonio, Brownsville, and El Paso; in Vermont, at Burlington, Windsor, and Rutland; in Virginia, at Richmond, Alexandria, Norfolk, Lynchburg, Abingdon, Harrisonburg, and Danville; in West Virginia, circuit court at Parkersburg, district court at Wheeling, Clarksburg, and Charleston; in Wisconsin, at Milwaukee, Oshkosh, Madison, Eau Claire, and La Crosse.

In some of the States district courts are held at other points in addition to those above specified.

The clerks of the courts of the United States are authorized to take depositions, and may be designated as commissioners for that purpose in letters rogatory, which, when returned, are to be used in the courts of foreign countries.

The letters rogatory may be addressed to the judge of either the circuit court of the United States for the State of -, or the district court of the United States for the district of (naming the State), praying the judge of that court to name and appoint the commissioner; or such letters may be addressed to the commissioner directly.

The letter or package should in all cases be directed to the clerk of the district or circuit court to which the letters rogatory are addressed. The clerk's office is at the place where the court holds its sessions.

I am, your obedient servant,

T. F. BAYARD.

SECTIONS OF THE REVISED STATUTES RELATING TO LETTERS ROGATORY.

1737. SEC. 4071. The testimony of any witness residing within the United States, to be used in any suit for the recovery of money or property depending in any court in any foreign country with which the

United States are at peace, and in which the government of such foreign country shall be a party or shall have an interest, may be obtained, to be used in such suit. If a commission or letters rogatory to take such testimony, together with specific written interrogatories, accompanying the same, and addressed to such witness, shall have been issued from the court in which such suit is pending, on producing the same before the district judge of any district where the witness resides or shall be found. and on due proof being made to such judge that the testimony of any witness is material to the party desiring the same, such judge shall issue a summons to such witness requiring him to appear before the officer or commissioner named in such commission or letters rogatory, to testify in such suit. And no witness shall be compelled to appear or to testify under this section except for the purpose of answering such interrogatories so issued and accompanying such commission or letters: Provided, That when counsel for all the parties attend the examination, they may consent that questions in addition to those accompanying the commission or letters rogatory may be put to the witness, unless the commission or letters rogatory exclude such additional interrogatories. The summons shall specify the time and place at which the witness is required to attend, which place shall be within one hundred miles of the place where the witness resides or shall be served with such summons. 1738. SEC. 4072. No witness shall be required, on such examination or any other under letters rogatory, to make any disclosure or discovery which shall tend to criminate him either under the laws of the State or Territory within which such examination is had, or any other, or any foreign state.

1739. SEC. 4073. If any person shall refuse or neglect to appear at the time and place mentioned in the summons issued, in accordance with section forty hundred and seventy-one, or if upon his appearance he shall refuse to testify, he shall be liable to the same penalties as would be incurred for a like offense on the trial of a suit in the district court of the United States.

1740. SEC. 4074. Every witness who shall so appear and testify shall be allowed, and shall receive from the party at whose instance he shall have been summoned, the same fees and mileage as are allowed to witnesses in suits depending in the district courts of the United States.

1741. SEC. 875. When any commission or letter rogatory, issued to take the testimony of any witness in a foreign country, in any suit in which the United States are parties or have an interest, is executed by the court or the commissioner to whom it is directed, it shall be returned

7 such court or commissioner to the minister or consul of the United cates nearest the place where it is executed. On receiving the same, e said minister or consul shall indorse thereon a certificate, stating hen and where the same was received, and that the said deposition is the same condition as when he received it; and he shall thereupon ansmit the said letter or commission, so executed and certified, by Lail, to the clerk of the court from which the same issued, in the maner in which his official dispatches are transmitted to the Government. nd the testimony of witnesses so taken and returned shall be read as vidence on the trial of the suit in which it was taken, without objection s to the method of returning the same. [When letters rogatory are ddressed from any court of a foreign country to any circuit court of he United States, a commissioner of such circuit court designated by aid court to make the examination of the witnesses mentioned in said etters, shall have power to compel the witnesses to appear and depose n the same manner as witnesses may be compelled to appear and testify n courts.]

LIST OF REGISTERS OR BOOKS OF RECORD OF PURE-BRED ANIMALS ENTITLED, UNDER PARAGRAPH 378 Of the tarifF ACT OF AUGUST 28, 1894, TO ADMISSION INTO THE UNITED STATES FREE OF DUTY.

1742. American books.
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