UNITED STATES

CONSUL'S MANUAL:

A

Practical Guide for Consular Officers,

AND ALSO FOR

MERCHANTS, SHIPOWNERS, AND MASTERS OF AMERICAN VESSELS

IN ALL THEIR CONSULAR TRANSACTIONS.

SECOND EDITION.

WASHINGTON:

HUDSON TAYLOR,

334 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

THE first edition of the Consular Manual being exhausted, and the demand for the work still continued, the publisher has taken the opportunity, in presenting to the public a new edition, to introduce several important statutes, having relation to the duties of consuls, recently enacted by Congress, and to make such corrections in the text as were thereby rendered necessary or have been suggested by experience.

DECEMBER, 1862.

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