Vice-President..Department of State. VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. JOHN C. CALHOUN, of South-Carolina, $5,000 per annum. he Vice-President is, ex-officio, President of the Senate; and as President of the Senate, in virtue of an act of the 8th of May, 1792, one of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund., His salary, of 5,000 dollars per annum, is fixed by the act of 18th of February, 1793. The Vice-President is not a mem. ber of the Cabinet. The ordinary duties of this officer is, to preside in the Senate of the United States. When he does not officiate in that station, his place is supplied by a President of the Senate pro tempore, who is chosen from the body of Senators by ballot, and receives additional compensation for his services. The Vice-President is elected in the same manner, at the same time, for the same term, and by the same Electors as the President. But if no person has a majority of the whole number of Electors, then from the two highest numbers in the list the Senate chooses the Vice-President: a quorum for this purpose consists of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole is necessary to a choice. No person, constitutionally ineligible to the office of President, is eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE. [The Department of State was created by the act of 15th September, 1789. Previously to that period, by act of 27th July, 1789, it was denominated the Department of Foreign Affairs. The Secretary is, ex-officio, a Commissioner of the Sinking Fund, and, by usage, a member of the Cabinet. He conducts the negotiation of all treaties between the United States and foreign powers; and corresponds officially with the public Ministers of the United States at Foreign Courts, and with the Ministers of Foreign Powers resident in the United States. He performs, also, the main duties of what, in other Governments, is called the Home Department. He has the charge of the Seal of the United States, but cannot affix it to any Commission until signed by the President, nor to any other instrument or act without the special authority of the President. He is, by law, entrusted with the publication and distribution of all the Acts and Resolutions of Congress; aud Department of State. all Treaties with Foreign Nations and Indian Tribes. He preserves, also, the originals of all Laws and Treaties, and of the public correspondence growing out of the intercourse between the United States and Foreign Nations and is required to procure and preserve copies of the statutes of the several States. He grauts passports to American citizens visiting foreign countries. He preserves the evidence of CopyRights, and has the control of the office which issues Patents for useful Inventions. He holds his office at the will of the Public Ministers. PUBLIC MINISTERS OF THE UNITED STATES. [The pay of Ministers Plenipotentiary is 9,000 dollars per annum salary, besides 9,000 dollars for an outfit. Secretaries of Legation receive 2,000 dollars, and Chargé des Affaires, 4,500 dollars per annum. To the United Kingdom of Where employed. Where born. Compensation, &c. D. C. Secretary of Legation,......do............................... N. York,.. 2000 00 ister Plenipotentiary,... St. Petersburg,.. S. Car.... 9000 00 Charles Pinkney, Secreta Public Ministers. To the Kingdom of Sweden. John James Appleton, D. C. Chargé d'Affaires, ...... Stockholm,...... Mass.... .4500 00 To the Government of Chile. Heman Allen, Ministeri Mexico,......... S. Car.... 9000 00 ....do......... Maryland, 2000 00 Bogota,. S. Car....4500 00 Rio de Janeiro, 4500 00 Guatemala, ....N. Car.... 4500 00 Buenos Ayres,.. Florida,... 4500 00 Plenipotentiary,.......... ....... St.Jago de Chile, Vermont,.. 9000 00 Samuel Lained, Secretary of Legation,.. To the Republic of Peru. James Cooley, Chargé R. Island,. 2000 00 Conn...... 4500 00 Henry Wheaton, Chargé d'Affaires, Copenhagen,....! 4500 00 Denmark. Consuls of U. S. to the Powers of Barbary..Consuls & C. Agents. CONSULS OF THE U. STATES TO THE POWERS OF BARBARY, [Consuls to Barbary are more of Diplomatic than Commercial Agents; not only as it regards their vocation, but also as it respects their compensation. They receive regular annual salaries; and their pay does not, in the least, depend on fees of any kind. At Algiers.-William Shaler, Connecticut, Con. Gen. At Tunis.-Samuel D. Heap, Penn. Consul, Tunis, $4000 00 2000 00 2000 00 2000 00 CONSULS AND COMMERCIAL AGENTS OF THE UNITED STATES. [Consuls of the United States, generally so called, are, in effect, Agents for Commerce and Seamen; which latter denomination, for particular reasons, is given to some of this class of Public Officers. They receive no yearly salaries, (except at Paris and London, where they have an annual salary of $2,000 ;) an:: their compensation is derived from the fees which are allowed by law. The amount of these fees depends, of course, upon the state of foreign trade, which is perpetually fluctuating. Consuls of the United States, for commercial purposes, are regularly admitted and recognised, as to their official functions, in the ports of Christian Europe; but in the colonies of the European nations, agents for commerce and seamen mostly exercise the duties of their stations under courtesy, without any formal recognition; and, in some instances, from the jealousy of colonial policy, they have not been permitted to exercise them at all. In their public capacity, Consuls and Agents for Commerce and Seamen, are principally occupied in verifying, in different forms, the legality of the trade of the United States with foreign nations, and in relieving and sending home American Seamen, who, by accident or misfortune, are left destitute within the jurisdiction of their several consulates and agencies.] Compen In the United Kingdom of Where employed. Where born. sation, Great Britain and Ire land, and its Dependen cies. Thomas Aspinwall, Agent for Claims and for Sea &c. D. C. men, and Consul,................ London,... ........Mass... |