65. Warrants of survey on vessels, hatches, cargoes, pro visions and stores, or either.................... 66. Reports of survey on vessels, hatches, cargoes, pro visions and stores, or either.... 67. Estimate of repairs of vessel.... 68. Consular certificate to advertisement for funds on bottomry.......... 69. To advertisement of sale of vessel, cargo, provisions and stores, or either....... 70. Inventories of vessels, cargo, provisions and stores, or either....... 71. Letters of master notifying consul of sale of vessel, cargo, provisions and stores, or either......... 72. Of master notifying auctioneer of sale of vessel, cargo, provisions and stores, or either................... 73. Accounts of sale of vessel, cargo, provisions and stores, or either............. 74. For filing any other document prepared in or out of the consulate........ RECORDING DOCUMENTS. 75. Calls of survey on vessel, hatches, cargo, provisions. and stores, or either; warrants and reports of ditto, ditto; estimates of repairs; certificates of consuls to advertisements for funds on bottomry, and of sale of vessel; inventories of vessel, cargo, provisions and stores; letter of master to consul notifying sale of vessel, cargo, provisions and stores, or either; letter of master to auctioneer, and account of sales of vessel, cargo, provisions and stores, or either, for every one hundred words........ (As the original documents are required to be filed in the consulate, it will not be necessary to record them. Should it ever become necessary, however, to deliver up the originals, they must be recorded before. delivery, the party receiving the same paying the record fee as above mentioned.) 76. Order and consular certificate to pay seamen's wages or voyages, at home.......... .25 77. Certificate given to master at his own request, when required....... .25 78. Appointment of new shipmaster....... 79. Application of a citizen of the United States for a sea letter........ 80. Sea letter, for every one hundred words........ 81. Bill of sale, when required, for every one hundred words 82. Consul's letter to captain of port, or authorities, in cases of sinking vessels.......... 83. Consul's certificates to shipmasters for taking home 84. Protests of shipmasters and others, other than marine $0.25 .25 .20 .20 .25 no fee. .20 .20 86. Powers of attorney, when required, for every one hundred words...... .20 87. Any other document or instrument of writing not herein named or enumerated prepared in or out of the consulate, and required to be recorded, for every one hundred words........ ESTATES OF DECEASED AMERICAN CITIZENS. 88. 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, five per cent. on the gross amount of such estate. If part of such estate shall be delivered over before final settlement, two and one-half per cent. to be charged on the part so delivered over as is not in money, and five 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, two and one-half 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, when required by the person or persons referred to in section twenty-nine of the act of August eighteen, eighteen hundred and fifty-six. .20 MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 89. For consul's seal and signature to clearance from cus tom-house authorities..... 90. For administering oaths, not hereinbefore provided for, each...... 91. For consul's attendance at a shipwreck, or for the purpose of assisting a ship in distress, or of saving wrecked goods or property, over and above travelling expenses, a per diem of four dollars, whenever the consul's interposition is required by the parties interested...... 92. For attending an appraisement, where the goods or effects are under one thousand dollars in value..... 93. For attending valuation of goods of one thousand dollars and upwards in value, for every day's attendance during which the valuation continues..... $0.50 .25 4.00 3.00 5.00 94. For attending sale of goods, if the purchase money be under one thousand dollars.... ... 3.00 95. For attending sale of goods, if the purchase money 96. For attending sale of vessel, when required.. 5.00 2.00 1.00 5.00 AN ACT to reduce Consular fees for Vessels running to or between Foreign Ports. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That American vessels running regularly by weekly or monthly trips, or otherwise, to or between foreign ports, shall not be required to pay fees to consuls for more than four trips in a year, anything in the law or regulations respecting consular fees to the contrary notwithstanding. APPROVED August 5, 1861. Fees for unofficial services, perquisites of the Consular Officers. 703. As the unofficial acts of a consular officer may be performed by a notary public, and as the compensation charged therefor is regarded as a perquisite of his office, the rate of such compensation may be determined either by agreement or the custom of the place, subject, however, to future instructions. Consular offi cers authorized to receive protests, etc. CHAPTER XXXVII. ACTS OF CONGRESS, AND EXTRACTS THEREFROM, RELA- 704. FOR convenience of reference by United States consular officers, the more important laws, or extracts therefrom, relating to the duties of United States consuls, here follow : Extracts from "AN ACT concerning consuls and vice consuls." SEC. 2. Be it enacted, etc., That they [consular officers of the United States] shall have right, in the ports or places to which they are or may be severally appointed, of receiving the protests or declarations which such captains, masters, crews, passengers, and merchants, as are citizens of the United States, may respectively choose to make there; and also such as any foreigner may choose to make before them, relative to the personal interest of any citizens of the Certificates to United States; and the copies of the said acts, duly be received in authenticated by the said consuls or vice consuls, under the seal of their consulates, respectively, shall receive faith in law equally as their originals would Charge of per- in all courts in the United States. It shall be their sonal estates. duty, where the laws of the country permit, to take possession of the personal estate left by any citizen of courts of law. 1 Statutes at Large, vol. i. p. 255. The first section of this act was repealed by the act approved July 7, 1798. |