The regulations established in this Executive order shall be effective and binding not only as Consular Regulations, but they shall be equally effective and binding for the following purposes:
Herbert Hoover
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Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1929, to March 4, 1933. A member of the Republican Party, Hoover was born in Iowa but later moved to California. Before his presidency, he served as the Secretary of Commerce from 1921 to 1928, where he focused on promoting economic growth and efficiency. Hoover was also known for his humanitarian efforts during World War I, leading relief efforts in Europe and earning a reputation as a skilled administrator.
All official acts of Foreign Service officers while serving under diplomatic or consular commissions in the Foreign Service shall be performed under their respective commissions as secretaries or as consular officers.
The Secretary of State is also authorized to grant to any officer or employee of the Foreign Service on account of personal illness or on account of exposure to a contagious disease which would render presence at a post of duty hazardous…
All Executive orders and other regulations, or parts thereof, inconsistent with the provisions of this order, are hereby revoked.
It is hereby ordered that Executive order of February 1, 1906, reserving certain lands on Yes Lake in the Cleveland Peninsula in southeastern Alaska as a site for a salmon hatchery be, and the same is hereby, revoked as to the tract of…
Consular officers must report promptly to the department every change in the clerical personnel of their offices.
The stations listed herein may use other frequencies for the purpose of selecting a frequency more suitable for a particular service prior to requesting authority to change the frequency, provided a notice is first submitted to the…
All absences of consular officers and employees from their posts, whether by leave or otherwise, must be reported to the Secretary of State and will be regarded as part of the leave of absence authorized by law, during which such officers…
No department shall erect a new station in the proximity of an existing government station, unless the same is incapable of rendering to such department the service that it requires, which shall be determined only after careful…
I have ordered a minute investigation of the circumstances of this profoundly regrettable incident.





