United States Statutes at Large/Volume 4/22nd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 161

United States Statutes at Large, Volume 4
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Public Acts of the Twenty-Second Congress, First Session, Chapter 161
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July 3, 1832.

Chap. CLXI.An Act to provide for carrying into effect the treaty of limits between the United States of America and the United Mexican States.

Commissioner, surveyor, and clerk to be appointed.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the commissioner and surveyor to be appointed on the part of the United States, according to the third article of the treaty of limits between the United States of America and the United Mexican States, of January twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight, and April fifth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, be severally appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the consent of the Senate; together with a clerk to the said commissioner to be appointed in the same manner; and that for the purpose of carrying into effect the second and third articles of the treaty aforesaid, there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the following sums:

Salaries.For the salary of the commissioner two thousand five hundred dollars. For the salary of the surveyor, two thousand dollars.

Proviso.For the salary of the clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars: Provided, That the salary of the said officers shall not commence until they shall be ordered into service.

Contingencies.For other expenses of the survey of boundary required by the said treaty, including the purchase of instruments, wages to persons employed, and other contingencies, ten thousand dollars.

Approved, July 3, 1832.