1822 - Edocs

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three commissioners shall be appointed, conformably to
the stipulations of the eleventh article of the said treaty;
and the President of the United States is hereby authorized
to take any measures which he may deem expedient,
for organizing the said board of commisioners; and, for
this purpose, may appoint a secretary, well versed in the
French and Spanish languages, and a clerk; which appointments,
if made during the recess of the Senate, shall,
at the next meeting of that body, be subject to nomination
for their advice and consent.
\ Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensation
of the respective officers, for whose appointment provision
is made by this act, shall not exceed the following
sums.
The commissioner to be appointed conformably to the
fourth article, at the rate, by the year, of three thousand
dollars.
To the surveyor, two thousand dollars.
To each of the three Commissioners to be appointed
conformably to the eleventh article of the treaty, three
thousand dollars.
TO Hie 3feTrr*j»ffirv of Tftg^oard, two thousand dollars.
To one Clerk, one tKousand nve'Tnindred cToitars^
5?c"~1?~jrhcT TTe it further enacted, That, for carrying
this act into execution, the sum of one hundred thousand
dollars be, and hereby is appropriated, to be taken from
any moneys in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
JOHN W. TAYLOR,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN GAILLARD,
President of the Senate, pro tempore.
Approved, JAMES MONROE.
Washington, March 3, 1821.
PROCESS VERBAL.
The undersigned. Major General Andrew Jackson, of
the State of Tennessee, Commissioner of the United
States, in pursuance of the full powers received by him
from James Monroe, President of the United States of America,
of the date of the 10th of March, 1821, and of the
forty-fifth of the Independence of the United States of
America, attested by John Quincy Adams, Secretary of
State ; and Don Jose Callava, Commandant of the Province
of West Florida, and Commissioner for the delivery,
in the name of His Catholic Majesty, of the country,
territory and dependencies of West Florida, to the Commissioner
of the United States, in conformity with the
powers, commission and special mandate received by
him from the Captain General of the Island of Cuba, of
the date of the fifth of May, 1821, imparting to him there-