Chapter CLXII. *to carry into Effect a Treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson’s Bay and Puget’s Sound Agricultural Companies.* June 27, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congres
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Chap. CLXII.— An Act *to carry into Effect a Treaty between the United States and her Britannic Majesty for the final Settlement of the Claims of the Hudson’s Bay and Puget’s Sound Agricultural Companies.* June 27, 1864. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shallCommissioner to investigate claims of Hudson’s Bay, &c., Company, appoint a commissioner, whose duty it shall be, conjointly with the commissioner appointed by her Britannic Majesty’s government, to investigate, adjust, and determine the claims of the Hudson’s Bay Company and of the Puget’s Sound Agricultural Company against the government of the*Post*, p. 651.
United States, pursuant to the terms of a treaty signed at Washington on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and sixty-three; and the commissioner shall be authorized to appoint a clerk, with a compensation at theClerk. rate of eight dollars a day. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted*, That the compensation of thePay of commissioner and umpire. commissioner shall be five thousand dollars in full for his services and personal expenses. And the sums necessary to pay the compensation aforesaid, the share of contingent expenses of the commission on the partContingent expenses. of the United States, and of the compensation of the umpire, chosen under the convention, are hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted*, That the commissioner on theRules, &c., for doing the business of the commission. part of the United States, in conjunction with the commissioner on the part of Great Britain, is hereby authorized to make all needful rules and regulations for conducting the business of the commission; such rules and regulations not contravening the Constitution of the United States, the provisions of this act, or the stipulations of the treaty. Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted*, That the Secretary of State isSecretary of State to transmit papers. hereby authorized and required to transmit to the said commission such papers or records relating to the business of the commission as he may deem proper, or as may be called for by the commissioner; and at the close of the commission, and of the duties of the umpire, all the records, documents, and all other papers which may have been presented on behalf of the United States, shall be returned to the Department of State.
Approved, June 27, 1864.