"Saint Johns, Newfoundland. "Trieste, Austria. "Trinidad, West Indies. "Vancouver, British Columbia. "Weimar, Germany. "Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. "Zanzibar, Zanzibar. "Fort Erie, Canada. "Funchal, Madeira. "Gaspé Basin, Canada. "Gibraltar, Spain. "Goderich, Ontario. "Gothenberg, Sweden. "Grenoble, France. "Guadeloupe, West Indies. "Guelph, Canada. "Harput, Turkey. "Kingston, Ontario. "La Rochelle, France. "Limoges, France. "Malaga, Spain. "Martinique, West Indies. "Matamoras, Mexico. "Messina, Italy. "Nantes, France. "Niagara Falls, Ontario. "Nice, France. "Nogales, Mexico. "Orillia, Ontario. "Patras, Greece. "Port Limon, Costa Rica. "Progreso, Mexico. "Puerto Cabello, Venezuela. "Puerto Cortez, Honduras. "Saint Christopher, West Indies. "Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec. "Saint Johns, Quebec. "Saint Michaels, Azores. "Saint Pierre, Saint Pierre Island. "Saint Stephen, New Brunswick. "Saltillo, Mexico. "Sierra Leone, Africa. "Sivas, Turkey. "Stanbridge, Canada. "Stettin, Germany. "Stratford, Canada. "Tamsui, Formosa. "Teneriffe, Spain. "Valencia, Spain. "Total, salaries of consuls, four hundred and seventy-four thousand five hundred dollars." Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 813–817. Sec. 1694. Consul at Trinidad de Cuba. Appropriations for the diplomatic and consular service in the Republic of Cuba, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1903, made by Act May 16, 1902, c. 792, 32 Stat. 199, included, "for salaries of consul-general and consuls: Consul-general at Habana, five thousand dollars; consul at Cienfuegos, three thousand dollars; consul at Santiago de Cuba, three thousand dollars." Appropriations for the same officers, of the same amounts, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, are made by Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 813-817. Sec. 1697. [As amended 1898.] Bonds of consular officers to be furnished and deposited with Secretary of the Treasury; [suits on bonds.] Consular officers are forbidden to accept appointments from foreign states as administrator, guardian, etc., without giving bond, by Act June 30, 1902, c. 1331, set forth below. Sec. 1704. Appointment of consular clerks. The usual appropriations for salaries of consular clerks, 13 in all, at the rates fixed by Act June 11, 1874, c. 275, § 5, Comp. St. 1901, p. 1178, are contained in the diplomatic and consular appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act March 22, 1902, c. 272, 32 Stat. 85, and Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 817. Appropriations are also made by those acts for allowances for clerk hire at specified consulates, with a further provision as follows: "Allowance for clerks at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State at consulates not herein provided for in respect to clerk hire, no greater portion of this sum than five hundred dollars to be allowed to any one consulate in any one fiscal year, forty thousand dollars: Provided, That the total sum expended in one year shall not exceed the amount appropriated." Act March 22, 1902, c. 272, 32 Stat. 86. Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 818. The use, in the portion of the act quoted, of the words, "in any one fiscal year," and "in one year," gives an appearance of permanency to those provisions, but their operation appears to be limited to the amount actually appropriated by each act. Sec. 1709. Estates of decedents. Consular officers are forbidden to accept an appointment from any foreign state as administrator, guardian, etc., without executing a bond, with security; and accepting any such appointment without giving bond, or failing to account, etc., for any money, property, etc., is made punishable, by Act June 30, 1902, c. 1331, set forth below. ACT JUNE 30, 1902, c. 1331. An Act to Prevent any Consular Officer of the United States from Accepting any Appointment from any Foreign State as Administrator, Guardian, or to any Other Office of Trust, without First Executing a Bond, with Security, to be Approved by the Secretary of State. (32 Stat. 546.) Bonds of consular officers accepting appointments from foreign states as administrators, guardians, etc. Be it enacted, &c., That no consular officer of the United States shall accept an appointment from any foreign state as administrator, guardian, or to any other office of trust for the settlement or conservation of estates of deceased persons or of their heirs or of persons under legal disabilities, without executing a bond, with security, to be approved by the Secretary of State, and in a penal sum to be fixed by him and in such form as he may prescribe, conditioned for the true and faithful performance of all his duties according to law and for the true and faithful accounting for, delivering, and paying over to the persons thereto entitled of all moneys, goods, effects, and other property which shall come to his hands or to the hands of any other person to his use as such administrator, guardian, or in other fiduciary capacity. Said bond shall be deposited with the Secretary of the Treasury. In case of a breach of any such bond, any person injured by the failure of such officer faithfully to discharge the duties of his said trust according to law, may institute, in his own name and for his sole use, a suit upon said bond and thereupon recover such damages as shall be legally assessed, with costs of suit, for which execution may issue in due form; but if such party fails to recover in the suit, judgment shall be rendered and execution may issue against him for costs in favor of the defendant; and the United States shall in no case be liable for the same. The said bond shall remain, after any judgment rendered thereon, as a security for the benefit of any person injured by a breach of the condition of the same until the whole penalty has been recovered. Act June 30, 1902, c. 1331, § 1, 32 Stat. 546. General provisions relating to bonds of consular officers are contained in Rev. St. §§ 1697, 1698, Comp. St. 1901, pp. 1174-1176. Acceptance of appointment without giving bond, or failure to account, etc., punishable as embezzlement. Sec. 2. That every consular officer who accepts any appointment to any office of trust mentioned in the preceding section without first having complied with the provisions thereof by due execution of a bond as therein required, or who shall willfully fail or neglect to account for, pay over, and deliver any money, property, or effects so received to any person lawfully entitled thereto, after having been requested by the latter, his representative or agent so to do, shall bę deemed guilty of embezzlement and shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years and by a fine of not more than five thousand dollars. Act June 30, 1902, c. 1331, § 2, 32 Stat. 547. Previous provisions making punishable embezzlement by consular officers are contained in Rev. St. § 1734, Comp. St. 1901, p. 1188. Sec. 1712. [As amended 1888.] Commercial [and agricultural] reports. Further provisions for obtaining information and statistics for the Department of Commerce and Labor are contained in the act establishing that department. Section 5 of that act requires all consular officers of the United States, including consuls-general, consuls, and commercial agents, to gather and compile information and statistics in respect to the subjects, jurisdiction and control of which is vested in the Department of Commerce and Labor, and to send, under direction of the Secretary of State, as often as required by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, reports of the information and statistics thus gathered and compiled. Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, § 5, ante, under Title XII A, "The Department of Commerce and Labor." And section 11 of that act provides for the designation by the Secretary of State of a person to formulate, under his direction, for the instruction of consular officers, the requests of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and to prepare from the dispatches of consular officers, for transmission to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, such information as pertains to the work of the Department of Commerce and Labor. Act Feb. 14, 1903, c. 552, § 11, ante, under Title V, "The Department of State." Sec. 1734. [As amended 1898.] Embezzlement. Further provisions, declaring guilty of embezzlement and making punishable every consular officer who accepts any appointment from a foreign state as administrator, guardian, etc., without giving bond, or who fails to account for, etc., any money, property, etc., received in such capacity, are contained in Act June 30, 1902, c. 1331, set forth above. CHAPTER THREE. Provisions Common to Diplomatic and Consular Officers. Sec. 1740. Term during which salary is payable. The usual appropriation for payment of salaries under the provisions of this section is made by the diplomatic and consular appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act March 22, 1902, c. 272, 32 Stat. 76, and Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 808. Sec. 1744. ACT MARCH 2, 1901, c. 802. Payment of salaries of consular officers not citizens. The provision of this act set forth in Comp. St. 1901, p. 1194, is repeated in the same language in the diplomatic and consular appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act March 22, 1902, c. 272, 32 Stat. 86, and Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 818. Sec. 1749. Allowance to widow of consular officer deceased in a foreign country. Appropriations for payments, under the provisions of this section, to widows or heirs at law of diplomatic or consular officers dying in foreign countries, are made by the diplomatic and consular appropriation acts for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1903, and June 30, 1904, Act March 22, 1902, c. 272, 32 Stat. 79, and Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 811. Appropriations are also made by those acts for “defraying the expenses of transporting the remains of diplomatic and consular officers of the United States, including consular clerks, who have died or may die abroad or in transit, while in the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home." Act March 22, 1902, c. 272, 32 Stat. 79. Act Feb. 9, 1903, c. 530, 32 Stat. 811. |