Increasing Efficiency Of Foreign Service Of United States And Providing For Reorganization Of Department Of State And Consular And Diplomatic Service

Author : United States Congress
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780656457274
Total Pages : 114 pages
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Download or read book Foreign Service of the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Fourth Sessi written by United States Congress and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Foreign Service of the United States: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Fourth Session, on H. R. 12543; December 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 19, 1922 Sec. 3. That the official designation Foreign Service officer, as employed throughout this act. Shall be deemed to denote permanent officers in the Foreign Service below the grade of minister who are subject to promotion on merit and who may be assigned to duty in either the diplomatic or the consular branch of the Foreign Service at the discretion of the President. Sec. 4. That Foreign Service officers may be appointed as secretaries in the Diplomatic Service or as consular officers or both: Provided, That all such appointments shall be made and confirmed as heretofore: And provided fur ther, That all official acts of such officers while on duty in either the diplomatic or the consular branch of the Foreign Service shall be performed under their respective commissions as secretaries or as consular officers. Sec. 5. That hereafter appointments to the position of foreign service officer shall be made after examination or by transfer from the Department of State. Under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe: Provided, That no candidate shall be eligible for examination for foreign service officer who is not an American citizen and who has not been designated by the President. Sec. 6. That before the date on which this act goes into effect the Secretary of State shall recommend to the President the names of those secretaries in the diplomatic service, consuls general, consuls, and vice consuls who for reasons of demonstrated efficiency are entitled to be recommissioned as foreign service officers of the respective classes specified in this act, and the names of those officers who, through failure to demonstrate or maintain the requisite degree of efficiency, should be recommissioned to classes lower than those specified or otherwise treated as exceptions within the discretion of the President. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.