Montezuma's Dinner; A Review of Native Races of the Pacific States Book

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1876 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Art. III. -- The Consular System Of The United States. For more than sixty years after the organization of the government of the United States, the consular system received very little attention from Congress. Acts were early passed defining the duties of consuls and granting them the necessary powers for the transaction of their business. The appointment of consuls was left to the discretion of the President, unguided and unhampered by legislation, under the general power conferred by the Constitution on him " by and with the advice and consent of the Senate " to " appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls." The only consuls for the payment of salaries to whom provision was made by law during the first thirty or forty years of the Republic, were those in the Barbary States, on the north coast of Africa, and this provision was made for reasons connected with our political relations with those piratical powers. Such other consuls as the President saw fit, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to appoint, to reside at whatever place in the world was expressed in the commission, received no salaries, and were paid, if paid at all, for their own services, by commissions or fees, although some small allowances from the treasury were made for expenses. Long after the establishment of salaries for consuls in the Barbary States, provision was made by law for the payment of a moderate salary to the consul at London, and this officer was for a long series of years the only salaried consul of the United States resident in any wholly civilized country. Under this system, it is impossible to den...Read More