Excerpt from Speech of Honorable J. W. Patterson, of New Hampshire, on a Change in the Consular System Establishing Consular Pupils: Delivered in the House of Representatives, First Session, Thirty-Eighth Congress, Wednesday, May 11, 1864Our consular system is embodied in the act of 1856, in which the scattered legislation upon the subject was gathered up, revised, supplemented, and framed into a single statute.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.