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Download or read book Public Record of Perry Belmont, Vol. 3 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Public Record of Perry Belmont, Vol. 3: A Member of the House of Representatives in the 47th, 48th, 49th, 50th Congress; Embracing the Record of the 49th Congress, From January, 1886, to March, 1887 The purpose of the proposed enactment is in accord with that portion of the President's message relating to reforms in the consular service, which, by resolution of the House, was referred to the committee. The evil sought to be remedied is discussed by the Hon. Daniel Manning, Secretary of the Treasury, in his report for the fiscal year last ended, pages 9 to 15, and is set forth more in detail in the Appendix to said report, pages 352 to 359. Briefly summarized, the object of the bill is to prevent the exaction hereafter of any fee in excess of the fee of $2.50, prescribed by section 2851 of the Revised Statutes, for verifying an invoice of merchandise to be imported into the United States, and to substitute a declaration for an oath in countries where consular officers of the United States are not permitted by the laws of such countries to administer oaths therein. Its operation will be chiefly confined to the ports of Great Britain; its purpose is to relieve American importers from extra-official charges now levied upon them for jurats taken before British officials, under American law, amounting, at the lowest computation, to nearly $100,000 a year. The fee of $2.50, prescribed by section 2851, Revised Statutes, is required by law to be covered into the Treasury of the United States, and forms a large item in the receipts from our consular service. No revenue is derived by the United States from the extra-official fees now sought to be abolished. On pages ix and x of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury for the last fiscal year is a brief history of the legislation of Congress with respect to the verification of invoices by consular officers. In Ex. Doc. No. 122, Forty-seventh Congress, first session, pages 4 to 10, the statutory provisions and the consular instructions issued in relation thereto are set forth more at length. 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.