APPRAISER AT NEW YORK-Continued. Telegraphic address is: "Merchandise, Newyork." When consul desires to stop an invoice, or to have same carefully considered, pending a written report he should telegraph, giving-simply invoice number, class of goods, and signature. Circular, December 21, 1898. ARMY AND NAVY, regulations governing entrance into. Circular, June 15, 1898. ARREST OF AMERICAN CITIZENS. Consuls in Mexico, Central America, and South America are directed to actively exert themselves to demand justice. Circular, August 25, 1898. AUTOMOBILES. See under Invoices. B. BAGGAGE. See under Effects, Personal. BASE BULLION. See under Invoices. NEW YORK. Samples intended for, should be clearly addressed to: Board of General Appraisers." Samples for "Appraiser of Merchandise" should be so addressed. Circular, October 8, 1902. BONDS OF CONSULAR AGENTS. See under Accounts. BONDS OF CONSULAR OFFICERS. Sureties must be permanent residents of United States. Circular, July 16, 1900. BOND, WITH SECURITY, required before consular officer can act as administrator, guardian, or in any other offices of trust. See under Estates. BONE DUST. See under Quarantine. BULBS. See under Invoices. BULLION. See under Invoices. C. CAMEL'S HAIR. See under Invoices. CANADA. Affidavit of owner of sealskin garment. Fee No. 31 of Tariff of Fees amended by Executive order of December 21, 1906, by addition of the following words: "No fee for the affidavit of temporary stay of owner of sealskin garment entering the United States from Canada." Circular, December 22, 1906. Form of affidavit of owner of sealskin garments Form No. 214) prescribed. Consular officers should make requisition on this Department for such quantities as they need. Affidavits should be numbered in Notarial series and entered in Record of Notarial Fees. Affidavit should either be made in duplicate or full entry be made in Record. Circular, April 27, 1908. CANADA AND NEWFOUNDLAND. If archives or other Government property of any closed consular offices are stored at consulate, fact should be reported, together with inventory thereof and statement of condition. Circular, January 23, 1908. See also under Immigration, Invoices, Quarantine, and CANAL ZONE. See under Invoices and Panama. Permit required. Consuls should not allow the shipment of cattle for entry into the United States unless they are accompanied by a permit issued by the Agricultural Department. Circular, June 14, 1901. See also under Invoices and Quarantine. CATTLE HIDES. See under Quarantine. CERTIFICATES FOR ANIMALS IMPORTED FOR BREEDING PURPOSES. No certificate of pedigree or affidavit or other document relative to such animals is required to be issued by consul other than consular invoice; and when such animals are valued at less than $100, no consular document required. Circular, October 2, 1906. CERTIFICATES RELATING TO SHIPMENTS. See under Fees and Invoices. CERTIFICATES, TRAVEL. Official service. Giv ing such certificates is a strictly official service and no fee shall be charged. Circular, July 21, 1899. CERTIFICATES OF REGISTRATION OF AMERICAN CITIZENS. See under Registration of American Citizens. CHARGES AGAINST DIPLOMATIC OR CONSULAR OFFICERS. To be made only through Department of State. Circular, April 26, 1902. CHILDREN BORN ABROAD. See under Registration of Children Born Abroad. CHINA. Consuls in China to correspond directly with Department of State, and not through consulates-general. Copies of all commercial reports to be sent to minister at Peking. Circular, December 10, 1904. Consuls in China to keep minister at Peking fully informed of conditions existing in their districts, commercial, industrial, and political. Also to report to legation promptly and fully all occurrences of interest or importance, advising minister of state of public opin-· ion, official and unofficial, native and foreign. Such constant cooperation is very important for protecting and safeguarding American interests in China. Circu lar, March 23, 1905. Marriages. Marriages in China of Chinese persons of American birth with Chinese women of the prostitute class for the purpose of gaining their admission into the United States to pursue the same nefarious business not to be countenanced. Consuls must refrain from permitting the use of their offices for the performance of marriage ceremonies unless satisfied that the ceremony is bona fide and not used as a cloak or means to avoid the exclusion of such women from the United States. There is no law of the United States which requires its diplomatic or consular officers to permit the use of legations or consulates for the performance of marriage ceremonies. The only statute in any manner bearing upon the subject is section 4082, Revised Statutes, which see. Circular, June 16, 1905. See also under Passports. CHINESE (section 6) CERTIFICATES. Certificate provided for in the act of July 5, 1884, shall be visaed by diplomatic representative of United States in the foreign country from which such certificate issues, or by the consular representative of the United States at the port or place from which the person named in the certificate is about to depart. Circular, March 16, 1898. Chinese subjects of the exempt classes coming into the United States from China will be required to produce certificates from the Government of China, and those coming from other foreign countries in which they are residents must produce, under the treaty of 1894, certificates from the governments of those countries. structed to discontinue practice of visaing certificates issued to Chinese by consuls of China. Circular, October 5, 1898. Convention of December 8, 1894, between United In States and China expired by limitation December 8, 1904. Section 6 of act of July 5, 1884, is now in force for regulating admission into United States of Chinese of exempt class. This section requires every Chinese person of the exempt class (officials, merchants, teachers, students, and travelers), before coming to the United States, to obtain the permission of, and be identified as so entitled by, the Chinese Government or other foreign government of which at the time such Chinese person is a subject. The only officials in China now authorized to issue these certificates are superintendents of customs (taotai). Chinese person who is a subject by birth or naturalization of a country other than China must obtain his certificate from that government to which he owes his allegiance. Circular, April 15, 1905. These certificates must be visaed by an American diplomatic or consular officer. Before visaing any such certificate, the American diplomatic or consular officer must strictly comply with the requirements of that portion of section 6 of the act of July 5, 1884, which provides as follows: "and such diplomatic representative or consular representative whose indorsement is so required is CHINESE (section 6) CERTIFICATES-Continued. Convention of December 8, 1894-Continued. hereby empowered, and it shall be his duty, before indorsing such certificate as aforesaid, to examine the truth of the statements set forth in said certificate, and if he shall find upon examination that said or any of the statements therein contained are untrue, it shall be his duty to refuse to indorse the same." Heretofore some Chinese officials have recklessly issued thousands of certificates for persons not entitled to receive them, and some American consular officers have improperly attached their visas to such fraudulent certificates. Hereafter this duty must never be performed in a perfunctory manner. American diplomatic and consular officers must clearly understand that this is one of their most important official functions. Unless fully satisfied that the person for whom the certificate was issued was really entitled to receive it, they must withhold their visa, as they will be held to rigid accountability. If there is reason to believe that the certificate has been issued or is held improperly, the matter must be thoroughly investigated. Circular, June 26, 1905. Form of Chinese certificate and visa. In compliance with the provisions of section 6 of an act |