Chapter CXXXVI. *to provide for the Appointment of a Commission to complete the Boundary Line between the Territory of the United States and the Possessions of Great Britain, not completed under the Act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to carry into Effect the first Article of the Treaty of fifte
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CHAP. CXXXVI.— An Act *to provide for the Appointment of a Commission to complete the Boundary Line between the Territory of the United States and the Possessions of Great Britain, not completed under the Act of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six, to carry into Effect the first Article of the Treaty of fifteenth June, eighteen hundred and forty-six*. Feb. 14, 1873.1866, ch. 87.Vol. xi. p. 42. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Commission to complete the boundary line between the United States and the possessions of Great Britain.
That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint the Secretary of State, or either of the assistant secretaries, or the United States minister at London, or in his discretion by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint a commissioner to act jointly with such officer or commissioner as may be named by her Britannic Majesty, for the purpose of completing the determination of so much of the boundary line between the territory of the United States and the possessions of Great Britain as was left uncompleted by the commissioners appointed under the act of Congress of August eleventh, eighteen hundred and fifty-six,Vol. ix. p. 869. to carry into effect the first article of the treaty of the fifteenth of June, eighteen hundred and forty-six, between the United States and Great Britain.
Sec. 2. That the sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof asAppropriation may be required, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry into effect the provisions of this act. Approved, February 14, 1873.