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[CITE: 22USC4223]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
 
  SUBCHAPTER XIV--POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS 
                                GENERALLY
 
Sec. 4223. General duty to account for fees

    All fees, official or unofficial, received by any officer in the 
Consular Service for services rendered in connection with the duties of 
his office or as a consular officer, including fees for notarial 
services, and fees for taking depositions, executing commissions or 
letters rogatory, settling estates, receiving or paying out moneys, 
caring for or disposing of property, shall be accounted for and paid 
into the Treasury of the United States, and the sole and only 
compensation of such officers shall be by salaries fixed by law. And 
vice-consuls, in addition to such compensation as they may be entitled 
to receive as consuls or clerks, may receive such portion of the 
salaries of the consul-general or consuls for whom they act as shall be 
provided by regulation.

(Apr. 5, 1906, ch. 1366, Sec. 8, 34 Stat. 101; Feb. 5, 1915, ch. 23, 
Secs. 3, 6, 38 Stat. 805, 806; May 24, 1924, ch. 182, Sec. 11, 43 Stat. 
142; Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, title XI, Sec. 1131(26), 60 Stat. 1037.)

                          Codification

    Compensation provisions pertaining to the positions of vice-consuls-
general, deputy consuls-general, and deputy consuls were omitted from 
this section on the authority of act Feb. 5, 1915.
    Section was not enacted as a part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 
which comprises this chapter.
    Section was formerly classified to section 99 of this title.


                               Amendments

    1946--Act Aug. 13, 1946, struck out ``but this shall not apply to 
consular agents, who shall be paid one-half of the fees received in 
their offices, up to a maximum sum of one thousand dollars in any one 
year, the other half being accounted for and paid into the Treasury of 
the United States.''


                    Effective Date of 1946 Amendment

    Amendment by act Aug. 13, 1946, effective three months after Aug. 
13, 1946.


                                 Repeals

    Act Aug. 13, 1946, ch. 957, title XI, Sec. 1131(26), 60 Stat. 1037, 
cited as a credit to this section, was repealed by Pub. L. 96-465, title 
II, Sec. 2205(1), Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2159.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4224 of this title.
