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FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 853. 1901. 1179 conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen V°1·25·P·"5°· hundred and eighty-eight, mcludin all classes of soldiers adm1ssible to the National Home for Disablef Volunteer Soldiers, nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That one- half of any sum or sums Promo, retained by State homes on account of pensions received from inmates Ded°°"°””‘ shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for. BACK PAY AND EoUNTY: For payment of amounts for arrears of pay b Arrem of my and of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their °umy' widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, V¤1- 14, p- 322. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in rebel States, and to soldiers on furlough, and to enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to members of the M§§§§;§ I’},§,*§,*}r‘;,S““ Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry, their heirs, or the duly authorized ' attorney of either, the pay and allowances of such officers and soldiers in accordance with the findings and report made by·the referee appointed under the provisions of the Act approved February twenty-seventh, ¥§;,$,§’,;,,89‘§·<, ,,,,_ eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An Act for the relief of *h°*i=€d- the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry," that may be certiied to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year gin;-zteen hundred and two, three hundred and twenty—£ve thousand 0 ars. A · For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account Sp‘?,f§`§§‘,*$v‘,§£P“Y· °“"· of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and that are char eable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, two hundred thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. D€p“"“‘°“*°fS“‘“°· INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE or AMERICAN STATES: Thea propria- I“”°m*’·*i°¤¤l 90**- tion of twenty-five thousand dollars made in the Sundriy cidil appro- giizicielsiie of Amemm priation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, or actual and Ame, p. 637. necessary expenses of delegates to the proposed International Conference of American States, and for necessary clerical assistance, is hereby made available for and during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. _ UNITED STATES AND CHILEAN CLAIMS CoMMIsSIoN: To carry into C,f{{‘g,f$,dC§,‘g“,j,‘;SC§,’,}§ effect the convention between the United States and Chile of May twenty- miision. _ _ fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to revive the convention ppr°pmm°uf°r' for the settlement of certain claims of the citizens of either country against the other, signed at Santiago on the seventh day of August, eighteen hundred an ninety-two, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the President, in such manner as he shall deem reasonable and roper, for the compensation of the commissioner, the secretary, andp the agent on the part of the United States, for the employment of special counsel as assistant to the agent of the United States, and for the contingent expenses of the commission, including the moiety of the compensation of the third commissioner and the taking of testimony on behalf of the United States: _ Pro/vided, That the compensation of the commissioner on the part of §,f{’,f§§f,,’§·O, comm,} the United States shall be five thousand dollars; that of the secretary sioner. ewon the part of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars; that of the agent of the United States, four thousand dollars, and that _ ·0f the special counsel, three thousand dollars, and that the ratable O,,R,§§Q·,‘}§’S §§?“°“°“ deduction on the amount of the sums awarded by the commissioners, ` not exceeding the rate of five per centum on the sums so awarded, _ which, in accordance with the provisions of the tenth article of the V°]‘2"p‘°65‘ revived convention of August seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-