484

ADJUSTMENT OF CLAIMS UNDER THE

EXPENSES OF COMMISSION.

Salary of Commissioners $3,000, or £620 per annum,
each, for sixteen months, from Setpember 15, 1853, to
January 15, 1855, during the actual time of session
Clerk s Salary

Messenger's Salary, &c. .

Rent of Office from September 29, 1853, to March 25, 1855, at £90 per annum

Housekeeper's Account during the above time

Stationers' and Copyists' bills

Printing and Binding of the Commissioners' Judgments

and Binding also of Report for the two Governments Messrs. Quilter and Ball's Bill, as Accountants Clerk hire of Umpire

Coals and Wood

Incidental Postage, &c.

57 15 0

4 11 0 11.10 0

18 0 0

£2,588 166

The Commissioners leave it to the two Governments to determine the time when the salaries of the Commissioners should commence and terminate, and what travelling expenses, if any, should be allowed to the appointed place of meeting, and return from the same, and the compensation to be allowed to the Umpire.

Such further amounts as may be allowed on these accounts are to be added to the expensees here above written, and are to be defrayed by a rateable deduction from the total amount awarded by the Commission, in accordance with the 6th Article of the Convention, provided that, if the said expenses exceed the rate of five per cent on the same, the deficiency is to be defrayed in moieties by the Governments.

By the Convention it was left to the respective Governments to appear in behalf of the clainants by counsel

or agents, or not, at their option, and no compensation was established for such agents.

The Commissioners therefore leave the amount due to the Agents to be determined by their respective Govern

ments.

EDMUND HORNBY,

British Commissioner.

N. G. UPHAM,

United States' Commissioner.

I HEREBY certify that I have duly examined, with the view of authenticating the same, the foregoing Records of the Commission, with the Transcript thereof, for the Government of The United States, and have found the same to be correct in every particular.

And I further certify, that the signatures therein are the genuine signatures of the Commissioners and Umpire.

Dated the 20th day of January, in the year of our Lord

1855.

N. L. UPHAM,

Secretary of Commission of Claims.