Register of the Department of State

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918

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Page 158 - No officer or employee of the Government shall, directly or indirectly, instruct or be concerned in any manner in the instruction of any person or classes of persons, with a view to their special preparation for the examinations of the United States Civil Service Commission or of the boards of examiners for the diplomatic and consular services.
Page 157 - The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge, and ability for the branch of service into which he seeks to enter; and for this purpose he may employ suitable persons to conduct such inquiries, and may prescribe their duties, and establish regulations for the conduct of persons who...
Page 165 - ... at least one modern language other than English; the natural, industrial and commercial resources and the commerce of the United States, especially with reference to the possibilities of increasing and extending the trade of the United States with foreign countries; political economy; elements of international, commercial and maritime law.
Page 164 - Whereas, The Congress, by Section 1753 of the Revised Statutes of the United States has provided as follows: "The President is authorized to prescribe such regulations for the admission of persons into the civil service of the United States as may best promote the efficiency thereof, and ascertain the fitness of each candidate in respect to age, health, character, knowledge...
Page 153 - Diplomatic agents shall take precedence in their respective classes according to the date of the official notification of their arrival.
Page 165 - No one shall be examined who is under twenty-one or over fifty years of age, or who is not a citizen of the United States, or who is not of good character and habits and physically and mentally qualified for the proper performance of consular work, or who has not been specially designated by the President for appointment to the consular service subject to examination.
Page 158 - Examination papers shall be rated on a scale of 100, and no person with a general rating of less than 80 shall be certified as eligible.
Page 42 - Attendance at a shipwreck, or for the purpose of assisting a ship In distress, or of saving wrecked goods or property, over and above traveling expenses, whenever the consul's interposition Is required by the parties interested, for each day Notarial and other services. 31. Administering an oath and certificate thereof* 32.
Page 164 - And, whereas, the Congress has classified and graded the consuls-general and consuls of the United States by the act entitled "An act to provide for the reorganization of the consular service of the United States...
Page 42 - Administering any and all oaths required to be made by pensioners and their witnesses in the execution of their pension vouchers, or by persons presenting...

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