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FEDERAL
VOLUME 2

REGISTER
1934

NUMBER 21

A /J T E O

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W ashington Tuesday, February 2, 1937
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
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AMENDMENT OF INSTRUCTIONS TO DIPLOMATIC OFFICERS AND OF
CONSULAR REGULATIONS

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 1752 of the Revised Statutes 22 U. S. C. 132, it is ordered that the Instructions to Diplomatic Officers and the Consular Regulations be, and they are hereby, amended as follows:
Instructions to Diplomatic Officers 1. Section 4 of chapter m of the Instructions to Diplo matic Officers is amended by inserting the following para graph between the paragraph entitled Salary increases within classes and that entitled "Additional compensa tion :
"Appointment or promotion during recess of Senate.
Foreign Service officers appointed or promoted during a recess of the Senate shall be paid the compensation of the position to which appointed or promoted from the date of such appointment or promotion until the end of the next session of the Senate, if they have not there tofore been confirmed by the Senate, or until their re jection by the Senate before the end of its next session.
If the Senate should reject or fail to confirm the pro motion of a Foreign Service officer during the session following the date of such promotion, the Foreign Serv ice officer shall automatically be reinstated in the position from which he was promoted, such reinstatement to be effective, in the event of the rejection of the nomination, from the date of rejection; and in the event of failure of the Senate to act on the nomination during th session following the promotion, from the termination o f that session. 49 Stat. 436.
2. The last sentence of section 6 of chapter IV of the Instructions to Diplomatic Officers is amended to read:
He shall stand at salute, facing the ship, during the firing of the gun salute.
3. Section 1 of chapter XVH of the Instructions to Diplo matic Officersls amended to read:
XVH -1. Office supplies In general, office supplies should be obtained only from the Department, although in emergencies diplomatic offi cers are permitted to make purchases locally.
Requisitions for supplies should be made on the De partments printed form and should describe the articles called for by schedule number, as well as by name, and the quantities desired should be stated in figures, as pre scribed by the schedule, and in the order indicated therein.
The quantity of supplies on hand in the office at the time requisition is made should always be stated in the column and on the form provided for the purpose. If less than
an original package is desired the quantity should be stated in fractions thereof.
Requisitions should be carefully drawn with due regard to economy, and should cover so far asvpossible a supply for one year.
Articles not mentioned on the schedule which may be considered necessary should be added at the end of the requisition.
Consular Regulations 4. Sections 48, 49, and 50 ofth e Consular Regulations are revoked and new sections 48, 49, and 50 are prescribed as
follows:
48. Exequatur.Upon the assignment of a Foreign Service officer as a consul general, consul, or vice consul, or upon the assignment of a clerical vice consul, his as signment commission or commission to a post is forwarded to the American diplomatic representative accredited to the government within whose jurisdiction the office is situated.
At the same time the diplomatic representative is in structed to comply with the procedure which is customary in the particular country with respect to obtaining official recognition. Certain governments prefer to be merely notified of the assignment when the officer assigned is not in charge of a consular office. The officers commission, together with the exequatur, if one is issued, is forwarded to the officer at the post where he is assigned.
49. Procuring exequatur when no diplomatic representa tive.If there is no diplomatic representative of the United States stationed in the country, the commission of the consular officer may be sent in accordance with some prearranged plan to a diplomatic representative of the United States or a consular officer of the United States in another country with instructions to apply to the proper authorities for an exequatur.
50. Entry upon duties vrithout exequatur.An officer shall, when so directed by the Department of State, enter upon the discharge of his duties without an exequatur on receiving permission from the proper authorities to act in his official capacity.
5. Sections 51 to 54, inclusive, are revoked.
6. Section 56 is amended to read:
56. Notice of arrival at post.After the arrival of an officer at his post, he will inform the mission of the United States, if there is one accredited to the government of the country in which the consular office is situated. An officer within the jurisdiction of a consulate general will give similar inform ation to that office.
7. Sections 109, 110, and 111 are revoked and new sections 109 and 110 prescribed as follows:
109. Classification of visits of American naval vessels to foreign ports.The term visits of courtesy is used to designate visits of a more or less form al nature of naval vessels to ports in foreign countries in which there is an 263