The President's News Conference
06/20/1929
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Provided further, That the charge for the issue of an original passport shall be $9.
The Secretary of State may grant and issue passports, and cause passports to be granted, issued, and verified in foreign...
This order shall be effective from July 1, 1932.
No such suggestion has ever been made by any American official.