Chapter III. making Appropriations for Expenses incurred under Articles twelve to seventeen, inclusive, of the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, May eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-one
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CHAP. III.— An Act making Appropriations for Expenses incurred under Articles twelve to seventeen, inclusive, of the Treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington, May eight, eighteen hundred and seventy-one.Dec. 21, 1871. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* ThatAppropriation for British Claims Commission; the sum of sixty-two thousand two hundred and twenty-live dollars is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to enable the President to fulfil the stipulations of the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth,*Post,* pp. 867–869. sixteenth, and seventeenth articles of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, signed ou the eighth day of May, eighteen hundred and seventy-one, in relation to the United States and British claims commission.
Sec. 2. Thathow to be expended. the sum hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, with the approval of the President, Approved, December 21, 1871.