The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-24

salary, $1,000; notarial fees. 1850: South
ampton. salary $25O0O; notarial fees.
s1l27; Dublin, $1,000 salary; notarial fees.
s1s0s; Edinburgh, $500 salary; notarial
fees, SLIGO, and Glasgow, $1,000 salary; no.
tarial fees, $1166.
The above are some of the best pay
Ing places. but to show the difference
IN the notarial fees received, the salary
Of the consul general at Halifax, Nova
Scotia, is $500. while his notaria1 fees
amount to but s92. 1t will be seen. there
fore, that the matter OF notarial fees
enter very largely into the total income
of consulship, as at Singapore the sal
airy Is $1,000 and the notarial fees only
s15S These few instances serve to show
the great discrepancy existing in COM
bined fees and salaries. and they may
be taken as examples of the entire serv-
ice. This fact win make 1t clear to the
public why some consulships are so
much sought after, while for others. pay
ing salaries equal or nearly equal. there
is less scramble upon a change of adj
ministration.
Il have compiled and classified these
figures and thoce which follow from Of
fetal sources, and they are well worth
remembering and putting aside for future
reference. Thus In the entire United
States consular service there is one con-
sulship paying $500 salary, at Melbourne.
Australia; eight paying a salary of $500,
sixty-tnreo OF s3oOO forty-one of $500.
seventy-nve of $1,000, two of $1,000, seventy
six of $500, nine of 1920 and twenty-eight
of $1,000
There are a lot of good. paying con-
sular offices In China, the office at shang-
hal paying a salary of $4,000. with $500
notarial fees. There are also three $500
oonsulships, five paying $1,000 salary. and
twelve paying $1,000 Chill has orc god
office only, Valparaiso, paying $seeo, and
Argentine one, Buenos Ayres paying
$780, Brazil has one 5000 office, Rio
de Janeiro, and three paying $780, France
and dominions has ore office paving a
salary of 5000, one of S35O0, one of $500,
two of $500, five of $4,000 and thirteen
paying salaries of $500 and under Great
Britain, including her colonies, has four
paying salaries Of st0c0, one of $780, one
of $4,000, enc of $500, ten of $1,000. nine of
s250O, twenty-four of 5000, a.nd thirty
eight of $500 and under
The highest consular salary in Ger
many is paid at Berlin of $4,000, with. no.
tarial fees amounting to $1,000. Our office
at Bremen pays as much in amount,
though the salary is only $500, as the
notarial fees are worth $574O, while the
office at Hamburg, with a salary of $500
Yields total of $500 to the incumbent
There are five $4,000 offices in Germany,
eight of $500, thirteen of $1,000 and seven
of $500 and under. Mexico is a good coun-
try for the consular office-seeker, as
there are fourteen offices paying $500
end under, one of $4,000 and one at the
City of Mexico of $4,000 with 1890 notarial
fees. Italy has twelve offices paying
$1,000 and under, and one of $4,000 at Rome.
The office at Vienna pays about $500.
and there are but three offices paying
$1,000 and under in salaries in Austria
Hungary Belgium having an equal num-
Der. Japan has seven offices paying $1,000
and under, and one, Yokohama, is worth
about $4,000.
THE consul-generalship at Monrovla,
Liberia, pays $4,000; at st. Petersburg,
$1,000 Cairo. $1,000; Constantinople, $1,000;
Zanzibar, $1,000; Christiana and Stock
holm, $500 each Barcelona is the best
paying office in Spain. and 1t is worth
about $780, The office at Panama is
worth $4,000, and there are four offices
in Colombia worth $1,000 and under"