Chapter XC. providing the means of future intercourse between the United States, and the Government of China. March 3, 1843. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sum of $10,000 placed at the disposal of the President for est

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Chap. XC.— An Act *providing the means of future intercourse between the United States, and the Government of China.* March 3, 1843. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the sum of $10,000 placed at the disposal of the President for establishing commercial relations with China. To be accounted for, how. Act of July 1, 1790, ch. 22. Salary of the agent.forty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated and placed at the disposal of the President of the United States, to enable him to establish the future commercial relations between the United States and the Chinese empire on terms of national equal reciprocity; the said sum to be accounted for by the President, in the manner pre scribed by the act of first of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, entitled “An act providing the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations:” *Provided,* That the annual compensation to any one person employed under this act shall not exceed the sum of nine thousand dollars exclusive of outfit: *And provided further,* How to be appointed.That no agent shall be sent by virtue of this act unless he shall have been appointed by and with the advice and consent of the Senate.

Approved, March 3, 1843.