Turn: xvm.—DIPLOMATI() AN D CON SULAR OFFICEB.S.·—Ch. 2. 307 Sec. 1719. No consular officer, nor any person under any consular _N<> profit from officer shall make any charge or receive, directly or indirectly, any com- d‘"h“'€°d M pensation, by way o commission or otherwise, for receiving or disburs- UB]' __? mg the wages or extra wages to which any seaman or mariner is entitled 18 Aug., 1856, c. who is discharged in any foreign country, or for any money advanced 127·*‘·2°·"·u·P·5°- to any such seaman or mariner who seeks relief from any consulate or commercial agency; nor shall any consular officer, or any person under any consular officer, be interested, directly or indirectly, in any roiit derived from clothing, boarding, or otherwise supplying or sendinghome any such seaman or mariner. Such prohibition as to rofit, however, shall not be construed to relieve or prevent any such ogicer who is the owner of or otherwise interested in any vessel of the United States, from transporting in such vessel any such seaman or mariner, or from receiving or being interested in such reasonable allowance as may be made for such transportation by law. [se. gg um, 4577, 4u1s, uso, asn. use.] S1-:0. 1720. American vessels running regularly by weekly or monthly Restriction on trips, or otherwise, to or between foreign pO1'lSS, shall not be required to pay fees to consuls for more than four trips in a year. 495;*;*5- »p1g%» °· Sec. 1721. The fee for certifying invoices to be charged by the consul- Fees in British general for the British North American Provinces, and his subordinate N°"th A'“°'i‘~‘¤· consular omcers and a ents, for goods not exceeding one hundred dollars 20,]'u11g, 1864, c_ in value, shall be one dollar. 136-¤·3.v-13.p.140. Sec. 1722. No consul, vice-consul, or consular agent in the Dominion of Tonnage-fees in Canada, shall be allowed tonnage fees for any services, actual or construct- (f““d“· ive, rendered any vessel owned and registered in the United States that 3 Mar., 1869, c. may touch at a Canadian port; and in the collection of official fees they 125- 8- 3- V- I5- p- shall receive foreign moneys at the rate given in the Treasury schedule S21' of the value of foreign coins. Sec. 1723. Whenever any consular officer collects, or knowingly allows _ Exacting excessto be collected for any service, any other or greater fees than are allowed “’° fmby law for suchservice, he shall, besides his liability to refund the same, 18 Aug,, 1856, c_ be liable to pay to the person by whom or in whosebehalf the same are 127,¤-17,v.11.p·58. paid, treble the amount of the unlawful charge so collected, as a penalty, to be recovered with costs, in any proper form of action, bv such person for his own use. And in any such case the Sccretar y of the Treasury may retain out of the compensation of such officer, the amount of such overcharge, and of such penalty, and charge the same to such officer in account, and may thereupon refund such unlawful charge, and pay such nalty to the person entitled to the same if he shall think proper so to dd Sec. 172-1. Every consul·general, consul, or commercial agent, men- Penaltyforomistioned in Schedules B and C, or vice-consul, or vice-commercial agent, ap- <>0U¤°t @$5- pointed to perform the duty of any such officer mentioned in Schedules B 18 Aug., 1856, c. and C, who omits to collect any fees which he is entitled to charge for any l27.¤-18,v.U,p.58- oflicial service, shall be liable to the United States therefor, as if he had collected the same; unless, upon good cause shown therefor, the Secretarv of the Treasury shall think proper to remit the same. Sec. 1725. All such consuls-general, consuls, commercial agents, and Returns of {ecs. consular agents, as are allowed for their compensation the whole or any part of the fees which they may collect, and all such vice-consuls and vice- 1g·,·,s_1g_,}f11,p_§8; commercial agents appointed to perform the duties of such consuls-general, consuls, and commercial a ents as are allowed for their compensation the whole or an rt of such fgees, shall make returns in such manner as the Secreta ozétaate shall prescribe, of all such fees as they or any person in theirrbehalf so collect. Sec. 1726. Every consular officer shall give receipts forall fees collected Receiptsforfees. for his oihcial services, expressing the particular services for which the same were c0ll00¢G0d· [see ni:.] 127,s.17,vi11,p.B8. Sec. 1727. Every consular officer shall number all receipts iven by Registering N. him for fees received for official services, in the order of their dates, be- eeipts for ieee. ginning with number one at the commencement of the period of his serv- ice, an on the first day of January in every year thereafter. He shall ]21,g,]8,v,1l,p,58. also register in a.book to be kept by him for that purpose all fees so
