American manufacturers. The place soon became known as an American Information Bureau and it was daily visited by local merchants and buyers in quest of information concerning American goods. When the city desired to construct an opera house, the city architect came to the consul to consult and asked to have estimates and rough plans submitted; and in this and many other matters, the consul was enabled, through the medium of the Daily Consular and Trade Reports, to put American builders, manufacturers, etc., in the way to get foreign business. The German Government has a feature of commercial intelligence work that might be adopted with profit by our own government, viz., the distribution of confidential communications from German consular officers relative to trade opportunities, to Chambers of Com zine, Harness, Harness World, Glass and Pottery World, Implement Age, India Rubber World, International Confectioner, International Marine Engineering, International Trade Bulletin, Knit Goods Review, Louisiana Planter, McCall's Magazine, Merchant and Manufacturer, Mercantile Adjuster, Millinery Trade Review, Mining World, Modern Sanitation, Motor Boat, National Provisioner, New York Produce News, Northwestern Miller, Philippine Agricultural Review, Reporter, Scientific American, Scribner's, Sewing Machine Times, Shipping Illustrated, Shoe and Leather Reporter, Southern Carbonator and Bottler, Spectator, Success, Tea and Coffee Trade Journal, Textile Manufacturers Journal, Town Topics, Trenton Tradesman, United States Tobacco Journal, Worcester Magazine, World's Work, Yachting. New York Daily Newspapers: New York Herald, New York World, New York American. merce in Germany, by whom they are utilized for the benefit of manufacturers and exporters. Consuls can materially increase their effectiveness by co-operation with chambers of commerce and boards of trade, from which suggestions of value frequently come. Consular Fees The existing law (Act of April 5, 1906) makes the salary fixed by law the sole compensation of every consular officer except consular agents. All fees and charges at consulates are made official, including fees for notarial services, taking depositions, executing commissions or letters rogatory, settling estates, receiving or paying out moneys, caring for or disposing of property, and must be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States. But Consular Agents are paid by one-half of the fees received in their offices, up to a maximum sum of one thousand dollars a year, the other half being accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States. Tariff of Fees Sec. 1745 of the Revised Statutes of the United States authorizes the President to prescribe the rates or tariff of fees to be charged for official services in the business of the several legations and consulates; and the Act of 1906 includes fees for the consular certification of invoices with the fees for official services for which the President is authorized by section 1745 to prescribe rates or tariff. In pursuance of the foregoing authority, the President has prescribed the following tariff of American consular fees. TARIFF OF UNITED STATES CONSULAR FEES [Revised to take effect November 1, 1906.] Tariff of fees prescribed by order of the President to be charged by consular officers of the United States. All consular charges must be in strict accordance with this tariff, and be collected in gold or its equivalent. No fee or compensation will be collected for any service not covered by this tariff. (The fees in this tariff are not prescribed for American vessels and seamen, because they are exempted by law from the payment of consular fees. Consular agents will make the fees in this tariff the basis of collection from the Treasury for services to such vessels. Foreign-built vessels, unregistered, owned by American citizens, are not exempt from the payment of the fees prescribed herein.) Nature of service. Miscellaneous services. 1. Certificate to invoice, including declaration, in triplicate or quadruplicate, covering either importations or transit shipments, including any additional declaration or certificate not otherwise provided for which is required by law or regulations for use in connection with the entry of the wares or the forwarding of the same in bond 2. Invoice of returned American goods... 3. Extra certificates or declarations as above described, including immigrant's oath (Form No. 128), when issued without an invoice certificate, each 4. Certificate to extra copies of invoices, each.. Fee. $2.50 1.00 1.00 1.00 5. Certificate of disinfection, in triplicate or quadruplicate 2.50 |