AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE

Genoa, Italy, February 17, 1928.

Ezra Pound, Esquire,
Via Marsala 12, int. 5,
Rapallo, Italy.

Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of December 30th addressed to the Honorable the Chief Justice of the United States in which you requested information regarding certain features of the passport laws and regulations. Your letter was referred to the Department of State for attention, and this office has been instructed to convey to you information concerning some of the points you have raised.

The Department has encountered some difficulty in deciding as to the particular laws and regulations of which you complain. There is no law under which an American citizen is required to bear a passport in order to depart from or enter the United States. The necessity for American citizens to obtain passports is caused by the laws and regulations of the foreign countries which require American citizens entering their

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their territories to bear valid passports. Passports issued by the Department and its foreign service officers abroad are issued under the provisions of Section one of the Act of Congress of July 3, 1926. Prior to that date passports issued by the Department and its officers abroad were issued under authority of Section 4075 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended by the Act of Congress of June 14, 1902.

As it is possible that your complaint may be due to the fee which is charged for the issue of a passport, your attention may be called to the fact that Section one of the Act of Congress, approved June 4, 1920, provides that "from and after the first day of July, 1920, there shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States quarterly a fee of $1 for executing each application for a passport and $9 for each passport issued to a citizen or person owing allegiance to or entitled to the protection of the United States." Obviously, until this section of law is changed by an act of Congress, the fees prescribed thereunder must be charged in connection with an application for the issue of an American passport.

With

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With respect to the fees charged by foreign governments for visaing American passports, you are advised that under the provisions of the Act of Congress of February 25, 1925, the President was authorized to reduce or to abolish the fee of $9 which was required by Section two of the Act of June 4, 1920, to be collected for the visa of a passport of any class of aliens desiring to visit the United States who are not "immigrants" as defined by Section 3 of the Immigration Act of 1924, and who are citizens or subjects of countries which grant similar privileges to citizens of the United States of a similar class visiting such countries. Pursuant to the authority thus conferred upon the President, negotiations for the purpose of obtaining the reciprocal waiver of non-immigrant visa fees were immediately undertaken by the Department. As a result of these negotiations definite agreements have been concluded whereunder the following countries will visa American passports without fee:

Albania

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Albania

Costa Rica

Denmark

Estonia

Finland

Germany

Guatemala

Iceland

Japan

Mexico

Persia

Salvador

Sweden

The following countries have agreed to waive both visas and fees for American citizens:

Honduras

Liberia

Liechtenstein

Nicaragua

Siam

Panama

Switzerland

Belgium

The following countries have agreed to a reduction of the visa fees:

Austria ($2, with transit visas at 25 cents)

Bulgaria ($2)

Spain ($1.50)

Yugoslavia ($2, with transit visas at $1 valid both ways and 30 cents valid one way)

Chile ($4).

In conclusion I am to assure you that neither the Department nor its foreign service officers has any desire to restrict your travel from place to place; that if you have heretofore been inconvenienced in travelling it has not been due to any law or regulation of the Government of the United States; and that the Department has taken and is taking such steps as it may, consistent with the law, to simplify and make less burdensome the passport requirements of foreign governments so far as they concern American citizens.

I may

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I may add that if you have any reason to com-
plain of the treatment accorded you by any member
of my staff I hope that you will be so good as to
give me the details at the earliest possible moment,
for you may be assured that I shall not fail to give
such a complaint instant and sympathetic attention.

Very respectfully yours,

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AMERICAN CONSULAR SERVICE

Genoa, Italy, April 13, 1929.

Ezra Pound, Esquire,

Via Marsala 12, Int. 5,

Rapallo, Italy.

Sir:

With reference to your letter of February 28, 1929, to the President of the United States, in regard to the citizenship of married women, the Department of State has requested this office to advise you that this is a matter of law and not of State Department regulations. If you will call here at your convenience this office will be glad to show you the laws in question and to give any explanations you may desire to have on the subject.

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Summary of Act of July 3, 1930

Provision is made in Section 2 of the Act of July
3, 1930 for the naturalization of women who have lost
their United States citizenship by reason of their
marriage to aliens, as follows:

A woman who has lost her United States citizenship
by reason of her marriage to an alien eligible to citi-
zenship or by reason of the loss of United States citi-
zenship by her husband may, if eligible to citizenship
and if she has not acquired any other nationality by
affirmative act, be naturalized upon full and complete
compliance with all requirements of the naturalization
laws, with the following exceptions:

(1) No declaration of intention and no certificate of arrival shall be required, and no period of residence within the United States or within the county where the petition is filed shall be required;

(2) The petition need not set forth that it is the intention of the petitioner to reside permanently within the United States;

(3) The petition may be filed in any court having
naturalization jurisdiction, regardless of the
residence of the petitioner;

(4) If there is attached to the petition, at the
time of filing, a certificate from a naturaliza-
tion examiner, stating that the petitioner has
appeared before him for examination, the petition
may be heard at any time after filing.

After such naturalization the presumption of ex-
patriation shall no longer arise against an American

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woman who is married to an alien and who resides abroad.

A woman who has lost her citizenship may apply at the nearest American Consulate for a visa to enable her to return to the United States as a *temporary visitor* in order to file her petition for naturalization.

If she should desire to return to the United States for so protracted a period that she could not be regarded as a temporary visitor she may return as a non-quota immigrant, provided she is otherwise admissible under the immigration laws.

The presumption of expatriation shall no longer arise against an American woman who marries an alien and resides abroad.

The Act of July 3, 1930 has no reference to the case of a woman who has the status of a naturalized citizen, or to that of an alien woman married to an American citizen.

## Principali norme riguardanti l'entrata e l'uscita delle valute nel e dal regno

I viaggiatori che varcano le frontiere italiane sono tenuti a dichiarare alle Autorità di confine tutti i valori di cui sono, in posse.

Al fine di evitare eventuali infrazioni — per le quali le norme vigenti stabiliscono severe sanzioni — i viaggiatori debbano tener presente quanto segue:

### ENTRATA

I viaggiatori che dall'Estero si recano in Italia, nei Possedimenti e nelle Coloni, possono portare: monete metalliche italiane per un importo non superiore a lire 300, nonché, il detto limite dovranno essere depositate alla Dogana, che rilascerà apposita ricevuta.

Le somme accedenti il detto limite dovranno essere depositate alla Dogana, che rilascerà apposita ricevuta.

b) Titoli turistici di qualsiasi specie.

c) Valuta estera e titoli statiari in divisa estera in qualsiasi misura.

Le valuta estera che si importa nel Regno dovrà essere annotata sul presente modulo che si leggerà pol. a legittimare la risportazione dell'eventuale risduro di detta valuta, e dovrà, in ogni caso essere restituito alla Dogana, all'atto del ritorno all'Estero, del viaggiatore.

### USCITA

a) Ai viaggiatori in uscita dal Regno è consentito di esportare biglietti italiani di State e di banca di Stato e di banca per un importo non superiore a lire 300, nonché monete metalliche italiane per un importo non superiore a lire 50 (complessive lire 350).

b) Ai viaggiatori entrati nel Regno forniti di liri turistici è consentito di esportare unicamente monete metalliche italiane per un importo non superiore a lire 50.

c) L'eventuale accedenza in Lire verrà trattenuta dalla Dogana, e sarà senz'altro restituita all'interesse, all'Estero, nel controvalore, in divisa, al cambio turistico e secondo le norme vigenti per i 1 rimborsi di Lire turistiche non utilizzate.

d) L'importante accedenti il detto limite dovranno essere depositate alla Dogana che rilascerà apposita ricevuta.

e) E' libera la risportazione dei titoli turistici di qualsiasi specie non interamente utilizzati nel Regno.

f) La valuta estera in uscita non potrà superare quella precedentemente introdotta dai viaggiatori nel Regno ed indicare sul presente modulo.

g) La valuta estera dovrà essere glistificata da apposito modulo rilasciato dalla Banche.

### Restituzione delle somme

(di cui al comma a) (Entrata) e al comma a) (Uscita)

Le somme in Lire trattenute in entrata o in uscita e regularmente dichiarate, potranno, nel caso di qualsiasi Dogana di frontiera — rispettivamente — all'atto del loro ritorno all'Estero o del ritorno reghistoso nel Regno.

Le somme in Lire come sopra trattenute ai viaggiatori in uscita potranno altresì essere rilevate dalla Banca d'Italia, al Ministero della Finanza (Direzione Centrale delle Dogane e Imposti Indiretti) e corredata della relativa ricevuta di deposito quieta.

Decora il sottetto termine di mesi di valuta estera, le somme trattenute saranno accreditate in conti indirattamente all'Istituto Nazionale per i Cambi con l'Estero (Ufficio Esame delle richieste) Roma via dell'Umita, 43.

## Dispositions principales, concernant l'importation et l'exportation des devises, en Italie

Au moment même où ils franchissent la frontière pour entrer en Italie, les voyateurs sont tenus de déclarer aux Autorités de frontière toutes les valeurs dont ils sont porteurs.

Afin d'éviter de contravenir aux dispositions en vigueur et d'encourir de ce fait de sévères sanctions, les voyageurs doivent s'en tenir scrupuleusement à ce qui suit:

### A L'VOYEUR:

Les voyageurs, entrant en Italie ou dans ses Colonies et Possessions, peuvent porter avec eux et sur eux des devises étrangères.

a) En Billets italiens de l'Etat et de Banque une somme dont le montant ne dépassé pas 300 lires, ainsi que des monnaies métalliques italiennes dont le montant ne dépassé pas 50 lires.

b) Le montant en valuta esteriano exécuté doivent être déposées dans les Bureaux de la Douane qui en délivrera unrekurable.

c) Des valeurs touristiques, de toutes espèces, que soit le montant en devises étrangères et des titres de crédit établis en devises étrangères, et cela quel que soit le montant en valuta esteriana.

Le montant en valeurs étrangères qui est importé en le Royaume, doit être mentionné sur le présent formulaire afin de pouvoir légitimer, au moment de la sortie du Royaume, l'exportation de

leur restant éventuel. Ce formulaire devra être restitué à la Douane par le voyageur au moment de sa sortie du Royaume.

### A LA SORTIE:

a) Tout voyageur sortant du Royaume peut librement exportier, en Billets italiens de l'Etat et de Banque, une somme dont le montant ne dépassé pas 300 lires, ainsi que des monnaies métalliques italiennes, dont le montant ne dépassé pas 50 lires. Soit en total 350 lires.

b) Les sommes en exécuté doivent être déposées dans les Bureaux de la Douane qui en délivrera unrekurable.

c) Les voyageurs qui sont entrés en Italie, en étant porteurs de les voyageurs touristiques, ne sont autorisés à exporter que des monnaies métalliques italiennes pour un montant qui ne dépassé pas 50 lires.

d) L'éventuel exécuté en lires italiennes sera retenu par la Douane et sera, sans autre formalité aucune, restitué à l'intéressé, à l'étranger, en devises étrangères, au change touristique et selon les dispositions en vigueur pour les remboursements de lires touristiques non utilisées.

Avant de sortir de l'Italia, les touristes pourront déposer le montant en lires touristiques non utilisé, et provenant de valeurs touristiques dans une banque autorisée par la Banque d'Italia, auquel il est d'obtenir le transfert à l'étranger de la contrevaleur en dévances, selon les dispositions susdites.

c) L'exportation de valeurs touristiques, de toutes espèces, qui n'ont pas été entièrement utilisées dans le Royaume, n'est soumise à aucune restriction ni formalité. L'eventuel exécuté en lires italiennes sera restitué par le voyageur à son entier dans le Royaume, ne peut dépasser celui qui a été présenté précédemment par le voyageur à son entier dans le Royaume et dont mention régulière a été faite sur le présent formulaire.

d) Les monnoyes en devises étrangères présentés à la sortie du Royaume ne peut dépasser tout ce qui est établi précédemment par le voyageur à son entier dans le Royaume, aurait échangé, en tout ce qui est établi précédemment par le voyageur à son entier contre d'autres valeurs, les opérations s'y référant doivent résulter des annotations faites par les Banques sur le présent formulaire.

a) Toute autre exportation de valeurs étrangères devra être justifiée par l'exhibition d'un formulaire spécial, délivré par les Banques.

### Restituzione des devises

Dont à l'alinéa a) (entrée) et à l'alinéa b) (sortie)

Les sommes en lires qui ont été restunas en Douane, tant à l'entrée qu'à la sortie, après déclaration régulière faite par l'intéressé, pourront, dans le délai de trois mois, être restituites au voyageur, sur présentation du relatif récépissé de daxing Italy, par l'importe quelle Douane de frontière, soit à sa sortie du Royaume, soit à son retour dans le Royaume, selon le cas.

Les sommes en lires qui ont été restunas dans le Royaume peuvent être déposées à la sortie du Royaume, soit à la sortie du Royaume, soit à son retour dans le Royaume, selon le cas.

Lorsque le délai de trois mois est écoulé, les sommes restunas seront portées au crédit des devises dans un compte spécial ne portant pas intérêt. Pour obtenir une facture de ces sommes, l'intéressé devra s'adresser directement à l'Institut National des Changes avec l'Etranger à cet effet par l'Etude de l'Institut National des Changes.

## Principal rules for the importation and exportation of currency in and out of Italy

All travellers crossing the Italian borders are bound to declare to the Customs Authorities all currency in their possession.

In order to avoid infringements of any kind, for which there are severe penalties, travellers are requested to bear in mind the following:

### ON ENTERING ITALY

Travellers entering Italy, Italian Possessions and Colonies, are allowed to carry with them: a) Italian State Notes and Bank notes for an amount not exceeding 300 lire and Italian coins for an amount not exceeding 50 lire (that is, a total amount of 350 lire).

b) All foreign currency notes and Bank notes exceeding 50 lire (that is, a total amount of 350 lire).

c) All sums exceeding the above amount are to be placed in the hands of the Customs Authorities who will deliver a receipt for same.

b) Tourist bonds of any kind.

c) Tourist bonds of any kind, up to any amount. Travellers are requested to specify, on the present form, all foreign currency imported into the Kingdom of Italy, for an amount not exceeding 300 lire and Italian coins for an amount not exceeding 50 lire (that is, a total amount of 350 lire).

### ON LEAVING ITALY

a) All travellers leaving the Kingdom of Italy are allowed to export Italian State notes and Bank notes for an amount not exceeding 300 lire and Italian coins for an amount not exceeding 50 lire (that is, a total amount of 350 lire).

b) All sums exceeding the above amount must be placed in the hands of the Customs Authorities who will deliver a receipt for same.

c) All travellers leaving the Kingdom of Italy supplied with Tourist lire, are permitted to export only Italian coins for an amount not exceeding 50 lire.

d) All sums exceeding the said amount will be taken over by the Customs Authorities who will pay the traveller, when abroad, an equivalent amount in foreign currency at the tourist rate.

Before leaving Italy, travellers may deposit at a bank authorized by the Bank of Italy the amounts in lire not utilized, so as to obtain the transfer abroad of the equivalent sum in foreign currency, according to the above-mentioned regulations.

c) Tourist bonds, of any kind, not fully spent in the Kingdom of Italy, can be freely re-exported. The foreign currency exported must not exceed in value the amount previously brought by the traveller into the Kingdom and specified on the present form.

If the traveller has exchanged in Italy, wholly or in part, the foreign currency which he brought in with other currency, such a transaction must appear by a special statement made by the Bank on the present form.

e) Any other exportation of foreign currency must be warranted by a special form delivered to the Banks.

## Refund of sums

(mentioned in paragraph a) (On entering Italy) and paragraph a) (On leaving Italy)

All sums in lire deposited with the Customs Authorities and duly declared, will be refunded to travellers within three months (on production of the corresponding deposit ticket) by any frontier Customs Office when travellers leave Italy or when they come back into the Kingdom.

All sums in lire, withdrawn from travellers leaving Italy, may be refunded also to persons residing in the Kingdom and entrusted by the owners with the task of cashing same. The request, together with the receipt of deposit, duly stamped, must be addressed to the Ministero delle Finanze - Direzione Generale delle Dogane e Imposte Indirette.

At the end of the above-mentioned term of three months, all sums kept in custody will be credited to the name of the depositor, without however any interest being due for same.

All requests for the refund of said sums are to be addressed by the persons concerned directly to the: Istituto Nazionale per i Cambi con l'Estero - Ufficio Esame delle Richieste - Roma, Via dell'Umità, 43.

# Die wichtigsten Bestimmungen über Valutaeinfuhr nach und Valutaausfuhr aus dem Königreich Italien

Reisende, welche die italienische Grenze überschreiten, sind verpflichtet den Grenzbehörden sämtliche Geldbeträge, die sie mit sich führen, zu melden.

Zur Vermeidung eventueller Verstöße - welche nach den geltenden Bestimmungen mit schweren Strafen belegt werden - müssen sich die Reisenden das Folgende merken:

## EINREISE:

Reisende, die sich vom Auslande nach Italien, dessen Besitzungen und Kolonien begeben, dürfen mit sich führen:

a) Italienische Staats- und Banknoten im Betrag von höchstens 300 Lire, sowie italienisches Hartgeld im Betrag von höchstens 50 Lire (zusammen: 350 Lire).

Ueberschliessende Beträge sind bei der Zollbehörde zu hinterlegen, welche eine besondere Quittung hierüber ausstellt

b) Reisewertpapiere jeglicher Art.

c) Ausländische Valuta und auf Auslandsvaluta lautente Wertpapiere ohne jede Einschränkung.

Nach Italien eingeführte Auslandsvaluta muss in das vorliegende Formular eingetragen werden, wodurch die Wiederausfuhr der nicht verwendeten Beträge gerechtfertigt wird. Bei der Ausreise des Reisenden nach dem Ausland ist das Formular auf jeden Fall der Zollbehörde zurückzugeben.

## AUSREISE:

a) Aus dem Königreich Italien ausreisende Reisende dürfen italienische Staats- und Banknoten im Betrag von höchstens 300 Lire und italienisches Hartgeld im Betrag von höchstens 50 Lire ausführen (zusammen: 350 Lire).

Ueberschliessende Beträge sind bei der Zollbehörde zu hinterlegen, welche eine besondere Quittung hierüber ausstellt.

b) Reisende, welche im Besitz von Reiselire das Gebiet des Königreichs Italien betreten haben, dürfen nur italienisches Hartgeld im Betrag von höchstens 50 Lire ins Ausland mitnehmen,

Eventuell überschliessende Lirebeträge werden von der Zollbehörde zurückgehalten und werden ihrem Eigentümer ohne Weiteres im Ausland in Auslandsvaluta umgewechselt zum Kurs der Reiselire und nach den Bestimmungen surückerstattet, die für die Vergütung von nicht verwendeten Reiselirebeträgen gelten. Vor Ihrer Abreise aus Italien können die Reisenden bei einer von den Banca d'Italia zum Wechselgeschäft berechtigten Bank den aus Reisewertpapiern herrührenden und nicht verwendeten Betrag in Reiselire hinterlegen, damit sie die Ueberweisung ins Ausland des Gegenwerts in Auslandsvaluta nach den obenerwähnten Bestimmungen erwirken können.

c) Die Wiederausfuhr von Reisewertpapiern jeder Art, die auf dem Gebiet des Königreichs Italien nicht völlig aufgebraucht worden sind, ist frei.

d) Der Betrag von Auslandsvaluta bei der Ausreise darf den vom Reisenden bei der Einreise mitgeführten Betrag, der auf vorliegendem Formular vermerkt worden ist, nicht übersteigen.

Hat der Reisende die eingeführte Auslandsvaluta auf dem Gebiet des Königreichs Italien ganz oder teilweise gegen eine andere Valuta umgewechselt, dann ist dies durch das Bankinstitut, welches gewechselt hat, auf dem vorliegenden Formular besonders zu beglaubigen.

e) Jede sonstige Ausfuhr von Auslandsvaluta muss durch ein besonderes, von den Banken geliefertes Formular gerechtfertigt werden.

## Rückerstattung von Geldbeträgen

(Vgl. Buchstaben a) Einreise und a) Ausreise)

Bei der Ein- oder Ausreise vorschriftsmäßig angemeldete und bei der Zollbehörde hinterlegte Lirebeträge können gegen Vorlegung der entsprechenden Quittung dem Reisenden innerhalb dreier Monate von jeder Zollbehörde des italienischen Königreichs, im Augenblick wo der Reisende entweder nach dem Ausland aus oder nach Italien zurückreist, zurückerstattet werden.

Lirebeträge, welche der Reisende bei der Ausreise hinterlegt hatte, können auf Grund eines direkt an das italienische Finanzministerium (Direzione Generale delle Dogane e Imposte Indirette) unter Beifügung der entsprechenden Quittung zu richtenden Gesuchs auch an dritte Personen, die auf dem Gebiet des Königreichs Italien wohnhaft sind und die der betr. Reisende zur Empfangnahme bevollmächtigt, ausgezahlt werden.

Ist der oben erwähnte Termin von drei Monaten abgelaufen, dann werden die hinterlegten Beträge dem Hinterlegenden auf zinsloses Konto gutgeschrieben. Um die Auszahlung solcher gutgeschriebenen Beträge muss der Berechtigte das Istituto Nazionale per i Cambi con l'Estero direkt ersuchen (Ufficio Esame delle Richieste - Roma, Via dell'Umità, 43).

CAPRICOTTI - ROMA

THE FOREIGN SERVICE
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AMERICAN CONSULATE GENERAL
Genoa, Italy

March 24, 1959

Mr. E. Pound,
Albergo Grande Italia e Lido,
Rapallo.

Dear Mr. Pound:

Your letter of March 16, 1959, has been received at this office.

It is deemed advisable for all American citizens who intend to stay in a foreign country for any considerable length of time to register at the nearest American Consulate.

If you plan to stay in Rapallo for several months you may wish to execute an application for registration. If so, you may visit this Consulate General at your convenience. Office hours are from 8:15 am to 12:15 pm and from 2 to 6 pm - Monday through Friday.

Sincerely yours,