4. FOREIGN CONSULS AND VICE-CONSULS IN THE UNITED STATES.* A List of Foreign Consuls and Vice-Consuls in the United States. Those marked thus (*) are Consuls-General; thus (†) Vice-Consuls; the rest are Consuls. Argentine Republic, or Buenos Ayres. Brazil. *This list is necessarily imperfect in some degree, as no official record of the Foreign Consuls in the United States is kept at any of the public offices. Every exertion is made to render it as correct as possible. Those who notice errors in the list are respectfully requested to communicate them to the editor, for correction in the subsequent volume. Ferdin. L. Brauns, Baltimore. Netherlands. Thomas Dixon,{Mass Me, N. H., Wilhelm Vagel, †B. Homer Dixon, J. C. Zimmerman, Myer Myers, R. I., Boston. Boston. Baltimore. New Granada. *Don Domingo Acosta. Greg. Dominguez, New York. Oldenburg. E. Pavenstedt, E. C. Angelrodt, Charleston. New Orleans. New Bedford. New York. Robert B. Storer, †D. Anton. G. Vega, Boston. Antonio Michoud, New Orleans. S. Dacorsi, Act. Con., New York. +W.de F. H. Borges, R. I., Warren. Dan. J. Desmond, M. C. H. S. de la Figaniere, N.Y., Ct., +E. L. Trenholm, †Dan. J. Desmond, Philadelphia. C. A. Williamson, Me., N.H., Mass., And for all other ports in Virginia except Alexandria. Galveston. *Louis Mossi, Washington. +Nicholas Reggio, Silas G. Whitney, Boston. Boston. +Diedr. Miesegaes, New Orleans. Juan B. Purroy, †E. S. Benzon, S Me., N. H., and W. McIlehenney, Switzerland. Aaron Milhado, Louis P. De Luge, {N.Y., New York. N. England and Geo. B. Dieter, J. G. Syze, New York. Philadelphia. Baltimore. Norfolk. New Orleans. Wurtemberg. Penn., New Jersey, and Nicholas Basler, J. C. Kuhn, Louisville. Carl. Fred. Adae, Texas, Galveston. F. Honold, Cincinnati. New Orleans. VII. CONGRESS. THE Congress of the United States consists of a Senate and House of Representatives, and must assemble at least once every year, on the first Monday of December, unless it is otherwise provided by law. The Senate is composed of two members from each State; and, of course, the regular number is now 60. They are chosen by the Legislatures of the several States, for the term of six years, one third of them being elected biennially. The Vice-President of the United States is the President of the Senate, in which body he has only a casting vote, which is given in case of an equal division of the votes of the Senators. In his absence, a President pro tempore is chosen by the Senate. The House of Representatives is composed of members from the several States, elected by the people, for the term of two years. The Representatives are apportioned among the different States according to population. The 30th Congress is chosen according to the act of Congress of 1842, the ratio being "one Representative for every 70,680 persons in each State, and one additional Representative for each State having a fraction greater than one moiety of the said ratio, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution of the United States.” The law of 1842 also requires, that the Representatives of each State "shall be elected by districts composed of a contiguous territory equal in number to the number of Representatives to which said State may be entitled, no one district electing more than one Representative." The present number of Representatives is 230. Since the 4th of March, 1817, the compensation of each member of the Senate and House of Representatives has been $8 a day, during the period of his attendance in Congress, without deduction in case of sickness; and $ 8 for every twenty miles' travel, in the usual road, in going to and returning from the seat of government. The compensation of the President of the Senate pro tempore, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is $ 16 a day. THIRTIETH CONGRESS. THE SENATE. GEORGE M. DALLAS, Pennsylvania, President. [The figures denote the expiration of the terms of the Senators.] |