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Art. VII.

Art. VIII.

Compensation,

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quire it, and will then give the officers in command in full the reasons for the request, and leave with them the responsibility of action.

ARTICLE VIII.

Compensation of Consular Officers.

57.. For the purpose of compensation, the statutes distinguish between Consular Officers whose salaries are determined by law (and who are named in two schedules, viz, Schedule B, of Consular Officers who may not engage in business, and whose salaries exceed $1,000 per annum, and Schedule C, of Consular Officers who may engage in business) and Consular Officers who receive their compensation from the fees they collect. In Appendix No. V will be found a complete list of the Consulates, classified according to law.

58..Salaried officers, citizens of the United States, are entitled, on reaching their posts, to compensation from the time when they enter upon their duties, (or when they are ready to enter in case of delay in the exequatur or in the permission to act,) and for such time as they shall be actually and necessarily occupied in receiving instructions (not to exceed thirty days) and in making the transit between their places of residence and their posts of duty at the commencement of their official duty; and also at the close, unless they die, or are recalled or resign for malfeasance. When any Consular Officer of the United States dies in a foreign Allowance to country in the discharge of his duty, his widow, or heirs, as the case may be, will be entitled to receive an allowance equal to the transit allowance for return. [For the provisions respecting absences from the Consular post see paragraph 370.]

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59.. Under the authority conferred upon the Secretary of State by law, the following are established, and determined, and made public, as the maximum amount of time actually necessary to make the transit between each consular post in the several countries as follows, and the city of Washington, and vice versa, viz: Argentine Republic, thirty-five days. Austro-Hungary, thirty days.

Belgium, twenty days.

Bolivia, fifty days.

Brazil, forty days.

Barbary States, thirty days.

Chile, forty days.

China: (except Peking and Tien Tsin,) fifty days.

Peking and Tien Tsin, sixty days.

United States of Colombia:

Bogota, twenty-four days.

Aspinwall, Panama, and Sabanilla, sixteen days.

Costa Rica, twenty-five days.

Denmark, (excepting Saint Thomas and Santa Cruz,) twenty-five days.

Santa Cruz, eleven days. Saint Thomas, ten days. Ecuador, thirty-five days. Egypt, thirty days.

France, twenty days.

French possessions, viz:
Algiers, thirty days.
Gaboon, thirty-five days.
Martinique, fifteen days.

Fiji Islands, forty-five days.

Friendly and Navigators' Islands, seventy days.

Germany, twenty-five days.

Great Britain, twenty days.

British possessions, viz:
Barbadoes, eighteen days.
Belize, twenty-five days.
Bermuda, ten days.

Guiana, thirty days.

Kingston, Jamaica, eleven days.

Nassau, six days.

Turk's Islands, fifteen days.

Gibraltar, twenty-five days.

Malta, twenty-eight days.
Australia, fifty days.

Cape Town, fifty days.

Falkland Islands, seventy days.

Mauritius, fifty days.

New Zealand, fifty days.

Great Britain-Continued.

British possessions, viz:

Seychelles, fifty days.

Saint Helena, forty days.

Calcutta, fifty days.
Ceylon, fifty days.

Singapore, fifty days.

Canada, (excepting Winnipeg, Victoria, Gaspé
Basin, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince
Edward Island,) three days.

Victoria, fifteen days.

Winnipeg, eight days.

Gaspé Basin, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and

Prince Edward Island, six days.

Greece, twenty-five days.

Guatemala, thirty days.

Hawaiian Islands, thirty days.

Hayti, ten days.

Honduras, thirty days.

Italy, twenty-five days.
Japan, forty days.

Liberia, forty days.

Madagascar, fifty days.

Mexico:

City of Mexico, eighteen days.

Acapulco, eighteen days.

Guaymas, eighteen days.

Matamoras, fifteen days.

Tampico, fifteen days.

Vera Cruz, fifteen days.

Muscat, fifty days.

Netherlands, twenty days.

Batavia, Java, fifty days. Nicaragua, twenty-five days. Peru, thirty-five days.

Portugal, twenty-four days.

Fayal, twenty-eight days.

Funchal, twenty-eight days.

Santiago, Cape Verd Islands, thirty-five days.
Saint Paul de Loando, thirty-five days.

Russia:

St. Petersburg, twenty-eight days.

Odessa, thirty days.

Amoor River, ninety days.

San Salvador, thirty days.

San Domingo, ten days.

Siam, fifty-five days.

Society Islands, fifty days.

Spain, (including Port Mahon,) twenty-five days.

Spanish possessions, viz:

Havana, seven days.

Santiago de Cuba, eleven days.

Porto Rico, eleven days.

Trinidad de Cuba, eleven days.

Matanzas, eight days.

Manila, fifty days.

Sweden and Norway, twenty-six days.

Switzerland, twenty-two days.

Turkey, thirty days.

Uruguay, fifty days.

Venezuela, twenty days.

ance between

and Washington.

And the allowance for time actually and necessarily Additional allowoccupied by each Consular Officer who may be entitled place of residence to such allowance, shall in no case exceed that for the time thus established and determined with the addition of the time usually occupied by the shortest and most direct mode of conveyance from Washington to the place of residence in the United States of such Officer.

60..Consuls in Schedule B are also entitled, on the presentation of proper vouchers, to be allowed the sums actually paid by them for the rent of an office, solely devoted to the business of the Consulate, to an amount not to exceed twenty per cent. on the salary named in the act of Congress.

Rent.

61.. All consuls are entitled to retain, as compensa- Agencies. tion for their supervision and responsibility, from the fees which they may receive from the Consular Agencies within their jurisdiction, a sum not to exceed $1,000 in the aggregate.

62.. Their respectve Deputies and Clerk are entitled Consular Agents.

Art. VIII.

Fees over $3,000

When acting diplomatically.

Of Vice-Consuls

Feed Consils

to no compensation from the Government; but their services must be paid for by their superior. Each Consular Agent may retain from the fees collected by him such portion as shall be determined by the President, not to exceed $1,000, and an amount sufficient to pay for stationery and postage on official letters; the balance must be accounted for by him. Consular Clerks and Office Clerks are to be compensated as shown in paragraphs 15 and 16 ante.

63..Consuls whose annual salaries, under laws existing prior to March 30, 1868, do not exceed $1,500, and at whose Consulates, without the agencies, fees are collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States to the amount of $3,000, shall be compensated at $2,000 per annum.

64.. For such time as a Consular Officer may, under instructions, perform diplomatic functions in the absence of the regular Diplomatic Officer in the country to which he is appointed, he is entitled, in addition to his compensation as such Consular Officer, to receive compensation for his diplomatic services at the rate allowed by law for a Secretary of Legation in such country.

65..A Vice-Consul acting in the absence of a Consul on leave of absence not exceeding sixty days, and during the term of his chief will, if there be no agreement to the contrary reported to the Department, be entitled to one-half the salary, the other half belonging to the Consul. If the absence be extended beyond sixty days, and the necessary time of transit both ways between the residence and the post of the Consul, the Vice-Consul will be entitled to the whole salary for the time beyond the sixty days and time of transit; and the Consul shall make no agreement with the Vice-Consul to the contrary.

66..Consuls not mentioned in Schedules B and C are compensated from the fees collected by them respectively, from which they may retain a sum not exceeding $2,500 in any one year as an equivalent for a salary. They may also retain the sums actually paid

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