Chapter LIII. *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to carry into Effect the Convention between the United Statue and the Emperor of Brazil, of the twenty-seventh Day of January, in the Year eighteen hundred and forty-nine,” approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty.*July 3, 1852. *Be it enacted by the
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Chap. LIII.— An Act *to amend an Act entitled “An Act to carry into Effect the Convention between the United Statue and the Emperor of Brazil, of the twenty-seventh Day of January, in the Year eighteen hundred and forty-nine,” approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty.*July 3, 1852. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* In carrying into effect the act of 1850, ch. 6, the Secretary of the Treasury is to be governed by act of 1849, ch. 107, § 8, respecting conflicting claims to the amount awarded.That the Secretary of the Treasury, in discharging the awards made by the commissioner under the act “to carry into effect the Convention between the United States and the Emperor of Brazil, of the twenty-seventh day of January, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine,” approved March twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and fifty, which is hereby amended, shall, in all cases to which the same shall apply, be governed by the provisions of the eighth section of the act entitled “An act to carry into effect certain stipulations of the treaty between the United States of America and the Republic of Mexico, of the second day of February, eighteen hundred and forty-eight,” approved March third, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, in the same manner and to the same extent as if said eighth section had been originally a part of said act hereby amended:
Proviso.*Provided, however,* That any party who shall desire to avail himself of the provisions of the said eighth section shall notify the Secretary of the Treasury thereof, within five days from the passage of this act, or from the date of said award of the commissioner to adjust the daims against Brazil. Approved, July 3, 1852