(1) Bureau of Appointments.
(2) Diplomatic Bureau.
(3) Consular Bureau.
(4) Bureau of Indexes and Archives.
(5) Bureau of Accounts.
(6) Bureau of Rolls and Library, which, besides other duties, has charge of the publication of the laws, treaties, proclamations, and executive orders.
(7) Bureau of Foreign Commerce (before July 1, 1897, called Bureau of Statistics).
(b) The Constitution provides that, "In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers, and consuls," the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction.[242]
(c) A diplomatic agent cannot, without consent of Congress, "accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince, or foreign state."[243] This provision does not, however, prevent the rendering of a friendly service to a foreign power, and it may be proper for him, having first obtained permission from the Department of State, to accede to the request to discharge temporarily the duties of a diplomatic agent of any other state.[244]
(d) In case of revolution a diplomatic agent may extend protection to the subjects of other friendly powers left for the time without a representative.[245] In neither this nor in the preceding case does the United States become responsible for the acts of its diplomatic representative in so far as he is acting as agent of the other state or states.