Title 22, Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-102
§4193 Protests
Title 22 › CHAPTER 52 — FOREIGN SERVICE › SUBCHAPTER XIV — POWERS, DUTIES AND LIABILITIES OF CONSULAR OFFICERS GENERALLY › § 4193
Summary
Consuls and vice consuls may accept formal statements in their ports from U.S. ship officers, crew, passengers, or merchants, and from foreigners about a U.S. citizen’s personal interest.
Full Legal Text
Title 22, §4193
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Consuls and vice consuls shall have the right, in the ports or places to which they are severally appointed, of receiving the protests or declarations which captains, masters, crews, passengers, or merchants, who are citizens of the United States, may respectively choose to make there; and also such as any foreigner may choose to make before them relative to the personal interest of any citizen of the United States.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
Codification R.S. § 1707 derived from act Apr. 14, 1792, ch. 24, § 2, 1 Stat. 255. Section was not enacted as part of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 which comprises this chapter. Section was formerly classified to section 1173 of this title, and prior thereto to section 73 of this title.
Amendments
1948—Act June 25, 1948, repealed second sentence relating to authenticated copies of consular acts received as evidence.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
of 1948 AmendmentAct June 25, 1948, ch. 646, § 38, 62 Stat. 992, provided that the amendment made by that act is effective Sept. 1, 1948.
Reference
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Citation
22 U.S.C. § 4193
Title 22, Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102