Executive Order 106½

It is hereby prescribed that consular agents, as compensation for their services to American vessels and seamen, and for other official acts, shall receive one-half the official fees collected for such services provided such compensation shall not exceed in any fiscal year the sum of one thousand dollars, and all such fees in excess of such compensation shall be remitted to the consul in whose district the agency is located. No other arrangement with consular agents will be allowed.

Remittances from agents to consuls covering these fees are to be made quarterly, and consuls will be required to send agents’ receipts for their share with their accounts. This order is to take effect on and after July 1, 1898, and applies to all fees included in the Tariff of Official Fees. Fees for notarial and unofficial services may be all retained by the consular agent collecting them.

William McKinley.