§ 4206. Fees for services to American vessels or seamen prohibited

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1884

   Pub. L. 48–121 § 12 · 23 Stat. 53

   Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 4206

   (June 26, 1884, ch. 121, § 12, 23 Stat. 56.)

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   (June 26, 1884, ch. 121, § 12, 23 Stat. 56.)

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 12. That on and after July first, eighteen hundred and eighty- four, Vessels excepted. no fees named in the tariff of consular fees prescribed by order of the President shall be charged or collected by consular officers for the official services to American vessels and seamen. Consular officers shall Consular fees for services to sea men, etc., prohibited. furnish the master of every such vessel with an itemized statement of such services performed on account of said vessel, with the fee so prescribed for each service, and make a detailed report to the Secretary of the Treasury of such services and fees, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe; Services of consular officers itemized and reported to Secretary of Treasury. and the Secretary of the Treasury shall allow consular officers who arc paid in whole or in part by fees such compensation for said services as they would have received prior to the passage of this act: Provided, That such services, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Treasury have been necessarily Proviso. rendered; and a sum sufficient for the payment of such compensation, when thus adjusted by the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

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