Chapter CI. to carry into Effect the Convention between the United States and the Republic of Peru, signed at Lima on the twelfth of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the Settlement of Claims
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Chap. CI.— An Act to carry into Effect the Convention between the United States and the Republic of Peru, signed at Lima on the twelfth of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, for the Settlement of Claims.March 3, 1863. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatThe President to appoint two commissioners under the convention with Peru. the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint two commissioners, whose duty it. shall be, conjointly with the commissioners appointed by the Government of Peru, to investigate, adjust, and determine the amount of the claims of citizens of the United States against the Government of Peru, and of citizens of Peru against the Government of the United States, pursuant to the terms of a convention signed at Lima, on the twelfth of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-three.
Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* ThatSolicitor or agent. the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a solicitor or agent, learned in the Spanish language and law, on the part of the United States, whose duty it shall be to prosecute, before the joint commission in the city of Lima, the claims of citizens of the United States embraced in the stipulations of said convention. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* ThatSecretary. the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint a secretary to the said commissioners on behalf of the United States, versed in the English and Spanish languages.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* ThatPay of commissioners, the compensation of the respective officers for whose appointment provision is made in this act shall be as follows: To the commissioners, in full for their services, four thousand five hundred dollars each; to the solicitor or agent, four thousandsolicitor, five hundred dollars, in full for his services. And the said commissioners and agent shall also be allowed, in commutation of travelling and all other personal expenses, ten dollars a day, for the time actually and necessarily occupied in going from the places of their residence to Lima and returning home, under the provisions of the convention.
To the secretary of thesecretary. commissioners on the part of the United States, there shall be paid two thousand dollars in full for his services, and the same amount in commutation of all travelling and other personal expenses, as is provided in the case of the commissioners and solicitor. And the sums necessary to payAppropriation. the foregoing salaries and expenses, as well as the share of the contingent expenses of the commission on the part of the United States, and of the compensation of the umpire chosen under the convention, arc hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* ThatRules and regulations for conducting the business of the said commission. the said commissioners on the part of the United States, in conjunction with the commissioners on the part of Peru, shall be, and they are hereby, authorized to make all needful rules and regulations for conducting the business of the said commission; such rules and regulations not contravening the Constitution of the United States, the provisions of this act, or the stipulations of the said convention.
Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of State is796THIRTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 102, 103. 1863. herebyPapers and records to be transmitted to the commission.Records and documents to be returned. authorized and required to transmit to the said commissioners such papers or records relating to the said-commission as he may deem proper, or as may be called for by the said commissioners, and at the dose of the commission, and of the duties of the umpire, all the records, documents, and all other papers which have been presented on behalf of the claimants, citizens of the United States, shall be returned to the Department of State, or be deposited in the Legation of the United States at Lima, as the President may direct.
Approved, March 3, 1863.