The Consular Service Of The United States Its History And Activities PDF Download

Excerpt from The Consular Service of the United States: Its History and Activities Up to the middle of the last century the chief functions of consular services in Christian nations were the protection of citizens living or traveling abroad, and the superintendence of the maritime interests Of the home countries. Within the last fifty years a development has taken place which has completely altered the comparative importance Of the duties to be per formed. Commercial nations have more and more encouraged their trade interests to look to the consuls for active aid in protecting and extending foreign commerce. The Office of the consul has consequently assumed more of a public character than it formerly possessed, the national interests have come to occupy a larger share of official attention, and, with the devel opment of greater public security, the protection of fellow countrymen has become a less frequent, if not a less important duty. The object of the present monograph is to sketch the history of the consular service of the United States and to point out especially the development Of its relations to trade. It also aims to indicate the service actually rendered at the present time, the limits Of the aid which consuls can lend to commerce, and the defects in our present consular organization. A study of the systems in use in the chief European commercial nations is also included to show what has been accomplished there in making the consuls a commercial body and the means adopted for that purpose. 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.