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FEDER AL REGISTER, Thursday , September 8, 1938
charged by diplomatic and consular offi cers and all persons connected with em bassies, legations, or consulates for offi cial services. All charges for such serv ices must be in strict accordance with this tariff, and be collected in the coin of the United States or at its representa tive value in exchange. 22 U. S. C.
128. For each and every fee where the representative value in exchange is collected instead of the coin of the United States, there shall be collected a sufficient amount of foreign currency to enable the officer to purchase as of the date of collection a sight draft in the amount of the fee as prescribed by this tariff payable at par to the Treasurer of the United States. No fee or compensa tion will be collected for any service not covered by this tariff.
b No fees prescribed in this tariff shall be charged or collected by officers for official services to American vessels or seamen. 22 U. S. C. 89. Un documented vessels owned by American citizens and vessels documented under the laws of the Philippine Islands are not exempt from the payment of the fees prescribed herein. Consular agents will make the fees prescribed in this tariff for services to vessels and seamen a basis of collection from the Treasury for those services.
c All fees must be paid in advance and before the fee stamps are canceled, except in case of attendance out of office or of commissions where the amount cannot be determined until the service is performed. In the latter cases the amount of the fees shall be carefully estimated, and in these cases only, the estimated cost of the service shall be deposited with the officer before the serv ice is performed, subject to refundment of any balance remaining.
d A copy of this tariff shall be posted in a conspicuous place in diplo matic and consular offices. 22 U. S. C.

101.

Tariff of United States Foreign Service Fees Item No.

N ature of service
Fee
MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES

1

2
3

4

Certification of invoice in such number of copies as will meet the requirements of the regulations and instructions and provide the shipper with one copy in addition to original for his own use, including any additional declaration or certificate not otherwise provided for which is required by law or regu lations for use in connection with the entry of the wares or the forwarding of the same in bond see itemano. 37___
Invoice of returned American goods___
Certificates and declarations as above described, when issued for a shipment not covered by a consular invoice, in cluding declaration of foreign shipper of articles exported for exhibition and returned Form 204 and immigrants oath regarding teams and vehicles, and in connection with quarantine regula tions, but excluding certificate for food and drug products or insecticides Forms 197 and 217-
Certificate to extra copies of invoices, each___________________ ___ _____

$2.50
1.00

1.00

1.00

Item No.

N ature of service
Fee
Item No.

Nature of service
14

Bill of health, in duplicate or in tripli cate, if necessary. . . ______________
Foreign government-owned or char tered vessels engaged exclusively in official duties are exempt from payment of fees for bills of health.
Discontinued.
For receiving and delivering ships regis ter and papers, $1 for each 100 tons or fraction thereof, registered measure ment net, of the vessel for which the service is performed, if under 1,000 tons;
but for American vessels r u n n in g regu larly by weekly or monthly trips, or otherwise, to or between foreign ports, this tonnage fee will not be charged for more than four trips in a year; and ton nage fees shall not be exacted for any vessel touching at or near ports in Canada on her regular voyage from one port to another within the United States, unless some official service re quired by law shall be performed.
And for every additional 100 tons net or fraction thereof______ _____________
Shipping or discharging seamen, includ ing the certificates thereof attached to crew list and shipping articles and given to seam en __________ _____
Authentication of copies of protests or other necessary documents for vessels or seamen not otherwise provided for..
Preparation and acknowledgment for vessels or seamen of any oath or decla ration for which a form is given in the Foreign Service Regulations, or a simi lar necessary service not otherwise pro vided for. See fee no. 9 for visa of alien crew lists___________ _____________
Preparation and execution for vessels or seamen of any certificate for which a form is given in the Foreign Service Regulations, or similar necessary serv ice not otherwise provided for_______
Orders or letters for vessels or seamen for which forms are given in the Foreign Service Regulations, or other sim ila r necessary service not otherwise pro vided for_____ _________ _____ ____
Recording, when necessary, for vessels or seamen any document covered by the provisions of the Foreign Service Regulations, for every 100 words or fraction thereof______ ________ _____
Noting marine protest_______________
Extending marine p ro te st _______
If it exceeds 200 words, for every addi tional 100 words_________________
Protest of master against charterers or freighters______ ______________
Clearance when issued by the consul, as at free ports___ __________________
Attending an appraisement of vessels goods or effects, for each days attend ance. _____________________ :___
Attending sale of vessels goods, for each days attendance during which the sale continues_____________ _______
Attendance at a shipwreck, or for the purpose of assisting a ship in distress, or of saving wrecked goods or prop erty, over and above traveling ex penses, whenever the consuls inter position is required by the parties interested, for each day____________

5

Certificate of disinfection in such num ber of copies as will meet the require ments of the regulations and instruc tions and provide the shipper with one copy for his own use_______________
6 Discontinued.
7 Discontinued.
8 Executing application for passport no exceptions_______-_______________
Examination of passport application executed before a foreign official_____
Examination of passport application accompanied by a certificate signed by the applicant and two witnesses_____
Issue of passport____________________
Exceptions Officers or employees of the United States traveling on of ficial business, or members of their immediate families_____
Seamen____________________
c Widows, children, parents, brothers, and sisters of Ameri can soldiers, sailors, or marines buried abroad, whose journey is for the purpose of visiting graves of such soldiers, sailors, or marines________ :________
Amendment or verification of an Ameri can passport_____________________
Renewal of an American passport_____
Exceptions Same as respects issue of passports if bearer of passport has status held by him at time of issue of passport.
The taking of an application for, and issuance of, a travel certificate for use in China____ . _______ -__________
Execution of application for registration.
Issue of certificate of identity and regis tration------------- ---------------------- .
Execution of affidavit in regard to Ameri can birth in connection with applica tion for registration or for passport___
For a certified copy of executed form for repatriation of native-born American women under act of June 26,1936____
9 Visa services for aliens:
Immigration visa:
Furnishing and verifying application for immigration visa___________
Issue of immigration vfcfa_________
Passport visa the term passport visa refers to the visa of a pass port or other travel document in cluding a Chinese certificate:
Preparation of application for pass port visa and administering oath, except where the fee has been re ciprocally reduced or abolished under the authority of the act of February 25, 1925 43 Stat. 976___
Granting of passport visa, except where the fee has been reciprocally reduced or abolished under the au thority of the act of February 25, 1925 43 Stat. 976
N ote.Under the provisions of section 2 of the act of June 4,1920
41 Stat. 750-751, no fee for the application or for the visa of the passport shall be collected from any officer of any foreign govern ment, or members of his imme diate family, its armed forces, or of any State, district, or municipality thereof.
Transit certificate:
Preparation of application and administering of oath_________
Granting of transit certificate____
Visa of alien crew list__________
Supplement visa of alien crew list_
10 Visaing affidavit of identity__________
11 Marriage certificate, in duplicate, form No. 8 7
12 For taking into possession the personal estate of any citizen who shall lie within the lim its of a consulate, inventorying, selling, and finally settling and pre paring or transmitting, according to law, the balance due thereon, $2 for each $100 of market value or fraction thereof, except that no fee shall be charged on securities not negotiable by the consular officer, and evidences of debt not due and payable in the country where the decedent died. 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.
13 For each certificate of protection, semsar, or certificate of employment issued at Tangier________ ___________ _____

2187
Fee
SERVICES TO VESSELS AND SEAMEN

$2.50
1.00

15
16

1.00
1.00

9.00

No fee No fee
17
No fee No fee 5.00

18
19
20

1.00

No fee 1.00

21

No fee 1.00

22

1.00
9.00

23

24
25

1.00

26
27
28

9.00

29
30

No fee No fee 2.00

No fee 9.00
1.00

2.00

$5.00

.50

2.00
2.00

2.00

2.00

2.00

.50

2.00

3.00
.50
2.00

2.00
5.00
5.00

5.00

NOTARIAL AND OTHER SERVICES

31

Administering an oath and certificate thereof____________________
Exceptions No fee is chargeable for recording the intention to become a resident and remain a citizen of the United States, or for administering the oath of allegiance to a child bora abroad of American parents as provided for in section 6 of the act of March 2,1907.
No fee is chargeable for administer ing the oath of allegiance under the act of May 9, 1918, amending the act of June 29,1906, to a person who lost his citizenship as an inci dent to entering military service of a country then at war with a country with which the United States was at war on M ay 9,1918.
No fee is chargeable for administer ing the oath of allegiance under the act of June 25,1936, to a nativeborn American woman who lost her citizenship by marriage to an
2.00