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[CITE: 22USC4196]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
 
  SUBCHAPTER XIV--POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS 
                                GENERALLY
 
Sec. 4196. Notification of death of decedent; transmission of 
        inventory of effects
        
    For the information of the representative of the deceased, the 
consular officer, or, if no consular officer is present, a diplomatic 
officer, in the settlement of his estate shall immediately notify his 
death in one of the gazettes published in the consular district, and 
also to the Secretary of State, that the same may be notified in the 
State to which the deceased belonged; and he shall, as soon as may be, 
transmit to the Secretary of State an inventory of the effects of the 
deceased taken as before directed.

(R.S. Sec. 1710; July 12, 1940, ch. 618, 54 Stat. 760.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1710 derived from act Apr. 14, 1792, ch. 24, Sec. 2, 1 
Stat. 255.
    Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
which comprises this chapter.
    Section was formerly classified to section 1176 of this title, and 
prior thereto to section 76 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1940--Act July 12, 1940, substituted ``the consular officer, or, if 
no consular officer is present, a diplomatic officer,'' for ``the consul 
or vice-consul,''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4191 of this title.
