Volume 29 · 115
Public Law 54–161
To provide for the fulfillment of the stipulations of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed at Washington on the eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Approved May 7, 1896
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the fulfillment of the stipulations of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed at Washington on the eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the sum of seventy-five
Fur-seal fisheries.
Appropriation for commission to assess damages.
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, with the approval of the President of the United States, in fulfilling the stipulations of the treaty between the United States and Great
Post, p. 844.
Britain signed at Washington on the eighth day of February, eighteen hundred and ninety-six. And the commission constituted by said treaty, when sitting at San Francisco, shall have power to compel the attendance and testimony of witnesses by application to the circuit court of the United States for the ninth circuit, which said court is empowered and directed to make all orders and issue all processes necessary and appropriate to that end.
Approved, May 7, 1896.