62. Of master notifying auctioneer of sale of ves sel, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either. $0 25 63. Accounts of sale of vessel, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either 64. Calls of survey on vessel, hatches, cargoes, provisions, and stores, or either..... 65. Warrants of survey on vessels, hatches, cargoes, provisions, and stores, or either.... 66. Reports of survey on vessels, hatches, cargoes, provisions, and stores, or either.... 67. For filing any other document prepared in or out of the Consulate.. Consuls' orders and letters. 25 25 Art. XXII. Consul's order and letters. 71. To authorities or captain of the port, in cases of sinking vessels 2.00 72. Requesting the arrest of seamen. 2.00 73. For any other letter or order of like charac 50 78. And if it exceed two hundred words, for every additional one hundred words..... 79. For issuing warrant of survey on vessels, hatches, cargo, provisions, and stores, or either ...... 80. Notifying surveyors of their appointment, also notifying agents of insurance compa- 2.00 1 00 Art. XXII. Preparing docu ments. Recording docu ments. Preparing documents. 81. For preparing agreement of master to give 82. For preparing any other official document 83. If exceeding one hundred words, for every Recording documents. 84. Appointment of new master.... 85. Average bonds, when required, for every one 86. Bill of sale, when required, for every one 87. Certificate given to master at his own request, 88. Consul's letter to captain of port, or author- 50 89. Order and Consul's certificate to pay sea- 50 50 91. Protests of masters and others, other than 92. Sea-letter, for every one hundred words.... go, provisions, and stores, or either, for ican seamen.... Receiving and delivering ship's papers. 95. For receiving and delivering ship's register and papers, including consular certificates as prescribed in Forms Nos. 13 and 14, one cent on every ton, registered measurement of the vessel for which the service is performed, if under one thousand tons; but American vessels running regularly by weekly or monthly trips, or otherwise, to or between foreign ports shall not be required to pay fees for more than four trips in a year; and tonnagefees shall not be exacted from any vessel of the United States touching at or near ports in Canada, on her regular voyage from one port to another within the United States, unless some official service required by law shall be performed..... 96. And for every additional ton over one thousand, one-half of one cent.... Shipping or discharging seamen. 97. For every seaman who may be discharged or shipped, including the certificates therefor attached to crew-list and shipping-articles, to be paid by the master of the vessel... Art. XXII. Miscellaneous services. Sealing cars. Copies. 100. For attending valuation of goods, for every 5.00 101. For attending sale of goods, for every day's 5.00 102. For attending sale of vessel, when re- 5.00 103. For attendance at a shipwreck, or for the 5.00 104. For Consul's seal and signature to clearance 2.00 2.00 Sealing cars coming from Canada. 106. For each manifest with the Consul's certi- Copies.* 107. For the first hundred words, fifty cents, or less, fifteen cents. 25 *When parties have a right to call for copies, Consular Officers must make them at this rate. This does not, however, include the authentication, if that is required. The fee for the "copies" is not an official fee to be accounted for. The fee for authentica ARTICLE XXII. Consular Accounts and Returns. Art. XXIII. counts. 334..Consular Officers are required to keep the fol- Titles of aclowing accounts, some of which are called "accounts," and some of which are styled "returns" in the statute, viz: 1. Rent and miscellaneous account; 2. Disbursements for relief of seamen; 3. Return of extra wages; 4. Record of Treasury fees; 5. Salary account and account-current, or a general quarterly account. 335..In case a special account for any other purpose Special accounts. is opened by order of any Department, (as, for instance, for the arrest or extradition of a criminal,) that account will be kept separate, and a separate return thereof made. terly. 336..All accounts, except the final account and the To be made quar accounts for salary while waiting instructions and while going to the post, must be rendered at the close of the calendar quarter, viz: On the 31st March, 30th June, 30th September, and 31st December. If not rendered on the day, the Department must be advised of the reason of the delay, and the accounts must be forwarded by the earliest possible post. 337..Each account must be inclosed in a separate Separate disdispatch, relating exclusively to the accounts which it incloses. It must also be in duplicate, with duplicate copies of the accompanying vouchers, in order that one copy may be retained in the Department of State. patch. VOUCHERS. 338.. Unless otherwise specially instructed, (as in the case of "postage,") a proper and satisfactory voucher must be furnished for every disbursement. Vouchers. 339.. These vouchers should be in the English lan- To be m English. guage, or if not, should be accompanied by a transla tion; should be full, showing exactly what the disburse ment was for; should be numbered, and should be referred to in the account by number. |