Chapter VI. *to carry into Effect the Convention between the United States and the Emperor of Brazil, of the twenty-seventh day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.* March 29, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congres
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Chap. VI.— An Act *to carry into Effect the Convention between the United States and the Emperor of Brazil, of the twenty-seventh day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine.* March 29, 1850. *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the President Commissioner to be appointed.of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint one commissioner, whose duty it shall be to receive, examine, and decide upon all such claims as may be presented to him, and provided for by the convention between the United States and the Emperor of Brazil, concluded at Rio Janeiro, the twenty-seventh day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-nine, according to the merits of the several cases, and the principles of justice and equity, the law of nations, and the stipulations of the said convention.
And there shall also be appointed by the President, by and Clerk to be appointed.with the advice and consent of the Senate, a clerk to act under the commissioner in the performance of the duties prescribed by this act. And the commissioner and clerk shall, before entering on their offices, Oath.severally take an oath well and faithfully to perform the duties thereof. Commissioner authorized to make rules and regulations. Sec. 2. *And be it further enacted,* That the said commissioner shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to make all needful rules and regulations, not contravening the laws of the land, or the provisions of the said convention, or this act for carrying the said commission into effect.
Department of State to deliver records, &c., to the commissioner. Sec. 3. *And be it further enacted,* That all records, documents, or other papers which now are in, or hereafter, during the continuance of this commission, may come into, the possession of the Department of State, in relation to the said claims, shall be delivered to the commissioner aforesaid. Commissioner to organize the commission, execute the duties confided to him, and make publication, in Washington and other newspapers, of his appointment to examine and decide said claims.
Sec. 4. *And be it further enacted,* That the commissioner to be appointed under this act shall, forthwith after his appointment, attend at the city of Washington, and organize the commission, and proceed to execute the duties hereby confided to him, and shall give notice in one or more newspapers published in the city of Washington, and in such other newspapers published elsewhere as he may deem necessary, of his appointment to examine and decide the said claims, and requiring the claimants to produce their claims and evidence; and when the said claims are presented, he shall proceed with all convenient despatch to consider the same, and the evidence relating thereto, allowing time for the production of additional evidence as he shall consider reasonable and just; and thereafter shall decide the same, and award the ratable proportions of the several claimants in the sums of money and interest to be received under the stipulations of the convention aforesaid; and within one year from the time of the attendance of the said commissioner in the city of Washington, and organizing the commission, he shall complete and terminate the duties of the said commission.
Moneys payable from Brazilian government to be received by Secretary of the Treasury, and appropriated to pay the awards to claimants. Sec. 5. *And be it further enacted,* That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause the moneys and interest thereon, payable to the United States in pursuance of the said convention, to be duly received from the imperial government of Brazil, and transferred to the United States in such manner as he may deem most advantageous and best, and the net proceeds thereof to be deposited in the Treasury, and the same are hereby appropriated to pay the awards in favor of the claimants herein provided for.
On the termination of the commission, a list of the awards to be reported to the Secretary of State, &c. Sec. 6. *And be it further enacted,* That on the termination of the commission, the commissioner shall report to the Secretary of State a list of the awards made by him, a certified copy of which shall be transmitted by the Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall, from time to time, as they may be received, distribute in rateable proportion among the persons in whose favor the awards shall have been made, all sums of money received into the treasury of the THIRTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Sess. I. Ch. 10. 1850. 423United States, in virtue of the said convention and this act, according to the proportion which the respective awards bear to the whole amount How distributed.received, first deducting such sums of money as may be due to the United States from persons in whose favor the awards shall be made. And the said Secretary of the Treasury shall cause certificates to be Certificates to be issued.issued in such form as he shall prescribe, showing the proportion to which each claimant may be entitled of the amount to be received, and on the presentation of the said certificates at the treasury, as the net proceeds of the sums to be received under the convention and this act may be received, the proportions thereof shall be paid to the legal holders of the said certificates.
Sec. 7. *And be it further enacted,* That the compensation of the Commissioner’s salary, $3,000; clerk, $2,000.commissioner and clerk shall be as follows: To the commissioner at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum; and to the clerk at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum, to commence from the time of the attendance of the commissioner in the city of Washington, and the organizing of the commission, and to be paid out of any money President authorized to make provision for the contingent expenses of the commission.in the treasury not otherwise appropriated; and the President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to make such provision for the contingent expenses of the commission as he may deem proper.
Sec. 8. *And be it further enacted,* That so soon as the commission Records, etc., to be returned to Department of State.shall be executed and completed, the records, documents, and al! other papers relating to the claims in the possession of the commissioner or clerk, shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State. Sec. 9. *And be it further enacted,* That this act shall continue in To continue one yearforce one year, and no longer. Approved, March 29, 1850.