charge' des affaires

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charge' des affaires - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  CHARGE' DES AFFAIRES or CHARGE' D'AFFAIRES, international law. These 
  phrases, the first of which is used in the acts of congress, are synonymous. 
       2. The officer who bear; this title is a diplomatic representative or 
  minister of an inferior grade, to whose care are confided the affairs of his 
  nation. He has not the title of minister, and is generally introduced and 
  admitted through a verbal presentation of the minister, at his departure, or 
  through letters of credence addressed to the minister of state of the court 
  to which they are sent. He has the essential rights of a minister. Mart. Law 
  of Nat. 206; 1 Kent, Com. 39, n.; 4 Dall. 321. 
       3. The president is authorized to allow to any, charge des affaires a 
  sum not greater than at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per 
  annum, as a compensation for his personal services and expenses. Act of May 
  1, 1810, 2 Story's Laws U. S. 1171.