be enjoined on or intrusted to him by the President, relative to correspondence, commissions, or instructions with or to public ministers or consuls from the United States; or to negotiations with public ministers from foreign States or princes; or to memorials or other applications from foreign public ministers or other foreigners; or to such other matters respecting foreign affairs as the President shall assign to the department; also that he shall conduct the business of the department in such manner as the Presi dent shall direct. (R. S., § 202.)

57. He has by law the custody and charge of the seal of the United States, as well as of the seal of the Department of State, and of the books, records, papers, and property appertaining to that department; and is required to affix the seal of the United States to civil commissions for officers of the United States appointed by the President. (R. S., §§ 203, 1794.)

58. He is to receive any bill, order, resolution, or vote of Congress which may become a law, and, as soon as conveniently may be, cause the same to be published in at least three public newspapers printed within the United States, and a printed copy of such law to be delivered to each Senator and Representative of the United States, and two printed copies duly authenticated to be sent to the Executive authority of each State; and he is required to carefully preserve the originals. (R. S., § 204; act Dec. 28, 1874, Stats. 18, p. 294.)

59. He is charged with the duty of causing the preparation for printing, publishing, and distribution of the Revised Statutes of the United States in a prescribed form, embracing head notes of the several titles and chapters, marginal notes referring to the statutes from which each section is compiled, references to decisions of courts, &c. He is charged also with the preparation, publication, and distri

bution of the laws passed at each session of Congress, and with the making of arrangements with booksellers for the sale to the public of the Revised Statutes at the Government price; and with the allowance to such booksellers such part of ten per cent. above the actual cost as he may deem just and reasonable. (Stats. 18, pp. 113, 329.)

60. When any amendment proposed to the Constitution of the United States has been adopted in accordance with the provisions of that instrument, and official notice has been received, he is required forthwith to cause the amendment to be published, with his certificate specifying the States by which the same has been adopted, and declaring that the same has become valid as a part of the Constitution of the United States. (R. S., § 205.)

61. He is required to lay before Congress within ten days after each regular session a statement containing an abstract of all returns made to him pursuant to law by the collectors of the different ports, of the seamen registered by them, together with an account of Such impressments and detentions as shall appear by the protests of the masters to have taken place. (R. S., § 207.)

62. He is required to lay before Congress annually1st. A statement, in a compendious form, of all such changes and modifications in the commercial systems of * other nations, whether by treaties, duties on imports and exports, or other regulations, as shall have been communicated to his department, including all commercial information contained in the official publications of other governments which he shall deem of sufficient import

ance.

2d. A synopsis of so much of the information which may have been communicated to him by diplomatic and consular officers during the preceding year as he may deem valuable for public information, specifying the names of any

consuls or commercial agents who may have been remiss in transmitting commercial information.

3d. A full list of all consular officers.

4th. A report of any rates or tariffs of fees to be received by diplomatic or consular officers which may have been prescribed by the President during the year preceding.

5th. A statement of such fees as may have been collected, accounted for, and reported by the various diplomatic and ⚫ consular officers during the preceding year.

6th. A statement of the lists of passengers arriving in the United States from foreign places, returned to him quarter-yearly by the collectors of customs.

7th. A statement of the names of any consular officers not citizens of the United States to whom salaries have been paid during the year preceding, exhibiting the cir cumstances under which they were appointed. (R. S., § 208.)

63. He must include in his annual statement of expenditures from the contingent fund of his department all contingent expenses of foreign intercourse and of all the missions abroad, except such expenditures as are settled upon the certificate of the President. (R. S., § 209.)

64. He is required to furnish to the Congressional Printer a correct copy of every act and joint resolution as soon as possible after it has become a law; also of every treaty between the United States and any foreign government, as soon as possible after it has been duly ratified and proclaimed by the President; and also of every postal con vention made between the Postmaster-General, by and with the advice of the President, on the part of the United States, and foreign countries, as soon as possible after copies of such conventions have been transmitted to him by the Postmaster-General. (R. S., §§ 210, 3803.)

65. He is required to publish official notifications from

time to time of such commercial information communi. cated to him by diplomatic and consular officers as he may deem important to the public interests, in such newspapers, not to exceed three in number, as he may select. (R. S., § 211.)

He may designate a newspaper in the District of Columbia in which all Executive proclamations and all treaties required by law to be published shall be published. (Act. July 31, 1876, Stats. 19, p. 105.)

66. He is empowered to grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be issued and verified in foreign countries by such diplomatic or consular officers of the United States, and under such rules, as the President shall prescribe. (R. S., §§ 212, 4075.)

67. The official bonds of every consul-general, consul, vice-consul, and commercial agent, executed in such form and on such conditions as the law prescribes, are subject to his approval. (R. S., § 1697; act June 11, 1874, Stats. 18, p. 67.)

68. He may empower the consuls of the United States to pay the foreign postage on such letters destined for the United States as may be detained at foreign ports for nonpayment of postage. (R. S., § 4014.)

69. The Secretary of State, through the minister resident at Japan, is authorized to rent, furnish, and keep suitable buildings, with grounds appurtenant, in Jeddo, or such other place as he may designate, for a court-house and jail, at an annual cost not exceeding five thousand dollars; provided that the period for which the building shall be rented shall be for two years, with renewals for two years, as he may determine. (R. S., § 4124.)

70. He is also authorized to rent, furnish, and keep suitable buildings, with grounds appurtenant, at Pekin, for the use of the legation at China, at an annual cost not exceed.

ing five thousand dollars, such lease to be for two or more years, renewable as he shall determine. (Act March 3, 1875, Stats. 18, p. 377.)

71. Certain judicial functions imposed upon the ministers of the United States in certain uncivilized countries, such as China, Japan, Siam, Egypt, Madagascar, Turkey, Persia, Tripoli, Tunis, Morocco, and Muscat, devolve, when there is no such minister, upon the Secretary of State. (R. S., § 4128.)

72. Upon a requisition of the proper authority of any foreign government for the extradition of a person charged with crime provided for by any treaty or convention with such government, and on the submission to him of the certificate of the United States judge before whom an examination has been had that he deems the evidence sufficient to sustain the charge, together with a copy of the evidence, the Secretary of State is required to issue a warrant for the commitment to the proper jail of the person so charged. And it is lawful for the Secretary, under his hand and seal of office, to order the person so committed to be delivered to the proper authority, in the name and on behalf of such foreign government, pursuant to the treaty therewith. (R. S., §§ 5270, 5272.)

73. The Secretary of State is authorized to allow and pay to the secretary of legation, the assistant secretary of legation, and messenger at Paris, from the moneys collected at the legation for the transmission of consular invoices, an amount not to exceed in the aggregate six hundred dollars in any one year, to be divided and distributed according to his discretion; provided that the surplus receipts are sufficient for that purpose. (Act June 11, 1874, Stats. 18, p. 67.)

74. It is made his duty to establish and maintain the maximum amount of time actually necessary to make the