TWENTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 19£>. 1832.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shallbe, and they are hereby, authorized to make all needful rules and regu-lations, not contravening the laws of the land, the provisions of this act,or the provisions of the said convention, for carrying their said commis-sion into full and complete effect.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the board so constitutedshall meet on the first Monday of August next at the city of Washing-ton ; and, within two years from the time of its meeting, shall ter-minate its duties. And the Secretary of State is required forthwith,after the passing of this act, to give notice of the said meeting; to bepublished in two newspapers in Washington, and in such other papers ashe may think proper.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all records, documents, orother papers, which now are in, or hereafter, during the continuance ofthis commission, may come into the possession of the Department ofState , in relation to such claims, shall be delivered to the commissionaforesaid.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensation of the re-spective officers, for whose appointment provision is made by this act,shall not exceed the following sums, namely: to each of the said com-missioners, at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum ; to thesecretary of the board at the rate of two thousand dollars per annum;and to the clerk, at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum. Andthe President of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorizedto make such provision for the contingent expenses of the said commis-sion, as shall appear, to him reasonable and proper; and the said salariesand expenses shall be paid out of any money in the treasury not other-wise appropriated.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shallreport to the Secretary of State a list of the several awards made bythem ; a certified copy whereof shall be by him transmitted to the Sec-retary of the Treasury, who shall thereupon distribute, in rateable pro-portions, among the persons in whose favour the awards shall have beenmade, such moneys as may have been received into the Treasury in virtueof this act, according to the proportions which their respective awardsshall bear to the whole amount then received, first deducting such sumsof money as may be due the United States from said persons in whosefavour said awards shall be made; and shall also cause certificates to beissued by the Secretary of the Treasury, in such form as he may prescribe,showing the proportion to which each may be entitled of the amountthat may thereafter be received; and, on the presentation of the saidcertificates at the treasury, as the net proceeds of the general instalments,payable by the French government, shall have been received, such pro-portions thereof shall be paid to the legal holders of the said certifi-cates.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of theSecretary of the Treasury to cause the several instalments, with theinterest thereon, payable to the United States in virtue of the said con-vention, to be received from the French government, and transferred tothe United States , in such manner as he may deem best, and the netproceeds thereof to be paid into the treasury; and, on the payment of theproceeds of each of the said instalments, there shall be set apart, of themoney in the treasury, such further sum as would have been receivedfrom the net proceeds of such instalment, if the reservation stipulated bythe fourth article of said convention had not been deducted; and themoneys which may be thus set apart, together with those which may bereceived into the treasury under this act, shall be, and the same arehereby, appropriated, to satisfy the awards herein provided for.

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That all communications to or from

Rules and re-gulations.

Time of meet-ing and termina-tion of duties.

Notice of meet-ing.

Records, &c.to be deliveredto commission.

Pay of com-missioners, sec-retary, andclerk.

Contingent ex-penses of com-mission.

List of awardsto be reportedto Secretary ofState, and certi-fied copy to Sec-retary of Trea-sury, who shalldistribute, &c.

Certificates tobe issued.

Instalments tobe transferredto UnitedStates,and net pro-ceeds paid intothe treasury.

Sum to be setapart, &c.

Appropriation.

Communica-tions free.