FULTON COUNTY OHIO - CONSUL APPOINTMENT: Glasgow, Scotland - Levi W. BROWN (1889)
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Year 1889 - Probate Judge Levi W. Brown, Wauseon, Fulton Co., OH

Department of State
Washington, June 18, 1889

Levi W. Brown, Esquire
Appointed Consul of the United States Glasgow

Sir:

In transmitting the notice of your appointment to the office of Consul at
Glasgow, I have further to acquaint you that you are entitled to compensation
at the rate of your salary from the time when you shall reach your post and
enter upon your official duties to the time when you shall cease to hold such
office; and also for such time as you shall be actually and necessarily
occupied in receiving your instructions, not to exceed thirty days; and,
finally, for the time actually and necessarily occupied in making the direct
transit between the place of your residence when appointed and your post of
duty, at the commencement and termination of the period of your official
service, not exceeding twenty days.
Your compensation is fixed by law at $3,000 per annum, at which rate you will
be paid for the periods of service above mentioned.
Your compensation will begin with the date on which you subscribed the
enclosed oath of allegiance and of office.  When this act is performed you
will be entitled to compensation for a period so long as may be necessary, not
exceeding thirty days, while you are actually occupied in receiving
instructions.
At the expiration of this period you will receive your passport, and be paid
for the number of days during which you may have been occupied in receiving
instructions.
On your arrival at your post of duty, you will be authorized to draw
compensation for the period actually and necessarily occupied in making the
transit by the usual direct route, not exceeding the number of days above
mentioned.
No allowance is made for travelling expenses, nor is transportation provided
by the United States.  Office rent, at a rate not exceeding twenty percent of
the annual compensation, is allowed to Consuls and Commercial Agents whose
salaries, as fixed by law, exceed $4,000 per annum, and to no others.  If a
greater amount than twenty percent is paid for office rent, it must be paid
from your own compensation; if a less amount, no greater charge against the
United States than the sum actually paid can be allowed.
               I am Sir,
                         Your obedient servant,
                                   William F. Wharton, Assistant Secretary
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Department of State
Washington, June 25, 1889

Levi W. Brown, Esquire
Consul of the United States
Glasgow, now at Wauseon, Ohio

Sir:

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch under date of the 24th
instant.  The official bond inclosed therein has been approved and deposited
with the Secretary of Treasury.  An official passport is transmitted to you
herewith and under a separate cover of the Consular Regulations has been sent
to your address.
The receipt of these documents should be acknowledged.

                    I am sir,
                              your obedient servant,
                                        William F. Wharton, Assistant Secretary
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Department of State
Washington, July 6, 1889

Levi W. Brown, Esq.
Appointed Consul of the United States,
Glasgow, Now at Wauseon, Ohio

Sir, 

I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 1st instant and also
to inform you that you should spend two days in the Department prior to your
departure for your consulate in order to become familiar with the character of
the business at your consulate.

               I am sir,
                              Your obedient servant,
                                   William F. Wharton, Acting Secretary

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Memories abound while preserving our family roots, am fortunate to have had a
packrat for an ancestor even though there wasn't too much actually written
down!
Much love:  Maggie Brown Moerdyke



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