Carl Russell Fish

“ It is obvious that very little indication of the actual tenure of office can be given by tables of the number of removals only; for frequent removals from a few offices make the same totals as removals distributed over the whole service at rarer intervals. These tables illustrate the fact that rotation was never complete, and that there was in the service a constant residuum of trained men. ”

“ Dabney, succeeded by his son; another son was at one time in the service. ↑ One consul, serving in 1830 but not in 1845, was again in office. ↑ In 1859 there were 49 consuls who had been appointed from the South, and 124 from the North; almost all those from the South had disappeared in 1861; all the 69 unchanged were small posts and consisted largely of whole sets of consuls not yet reached, as those of Spain, Brazil, Peru, and Argentine Republic. ↑ There are in addition seven cases in which relatives of an officer seem to have obtained positions. ”