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A79212 1 (1901-11-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadacs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DRAPING BUILDINGS. DRAPING BUILDINGS USED FOR PUBLIC PUR- POSES IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES. The provision in the act of March 3, 1893, that no building owned or used for public purposes by the Government shall be araped in mourning, applies to buildings occupied for diplomatic or consular purposes in foreign countries. (Comptroller Tracewell to the Secretary of State, November 18, 1901.) I have received your letter of the 14th instant, as follows: Referring to section 3 of the act approved March 3, 1893,. entitled an act making appropriations for the legislative, ex- ecutive, etc., for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1894, said section reading as follows: 'That hereafter no building owned or used for public purposes by the Government of the United States shall be draped in mourning, and no part of the public fund shall be used for such purposes.' (27 Stat., 715.) In view of this section of the act named above, I have to request a decision by your office as to whether the provision of the same applies to the diplomatic and consular service of the United States. Upon the occasion of the death of the late President the Department instructed the diplomatic and consular officers abroad to display the usual symbols of mourning for a period of sixty days. In complying with this instruction, expenses for draping the embassies, legations, and consulates in mourn- ing have been incurred by the diplomatic and consular officers, and the cost of the same entered in their regular accounts for contingent expenses. In this connection I desire your opin- ion as to whether such expenses can be allowed out of the appropriations for the contingent expenses of the diplomatic and consular service. The Department is of the opinion that the act in question applies solely to the public buildings in the United States, and was never intended to apply to any building abroad. It is customary in foreign countries, on the occasion of the death of the head of a nation, for the diplomatic and consular officers of all nations not only to place the flag at half-mast, but to drape their offices in mourning for a short period, out of respect to the memory of the deceased, and charges for material for such purposes have heretofore been allowed in the accounts of our diplomatic and consular officers until recently. I refer to the account of the late consul at Castel- lamare di Stabia, Mr. Joseph H. Hayden, in which he charged 317

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