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 TREATY WITH GREAT BRITAIN. FEB. 8, 1853. 991 The salary of the clerk shall not exceed the sum of fifteen hundred S¤~l¤Y>’ of <=l¢fkdollars, or three hundred and ten pounds sterling, a year. The whole expenses of the commission, including contingent expenses, Expenses of shall be defrayed by a ratable deduction on the amount of the sums lm °°m‘“‘“*°“· awarded by the commission ; provided always that such deduction shall not exceed the rate of five per cent. on the sums so awarded. The deficiency, if any, shall be defrayed in moieties by the two governments. Arvricra VII. The present Convention shall be ratified by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof} and by her Britannic Majesty ; and the ratifications shall be ex— changed at London as soon as may be within twelve months from the date hereofZ In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed the same, and have affixed thereto the seals of their arms. Done at London, the eighth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three. J. R. INGERSOLL. [L. S.] J. RUSSELL [L. s.] And whereas the said Convention has been duly ratified on both parts, and the respective ratiiications of the same were exchanged at London on the twenty-sixth ultimo, by J 0 snrn R. Inonns 01.1., Esq., Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at the"Court of St. James, and the Earl of Clarendon, Her Britannic Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, on the part of their respective Governments: Now, therefore, be it known, that I, FRANKLIN PIERCE, President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the City of Washington, this twentieth day of Au- [L. S.] gust, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-three, and of the Independence of the United States, the seventy-eighth. FRANKLIN PIERCE. BY zum PRESIDENT: W. L. MARCY, Secretary of State.