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 878 FIFTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I1. Ch. 800. 1901. receive, examine, and adjudicate all claims of citizens of the United States against Spain, which the United States agreed to adjudicate and settle by the seventh article of the treaty conclu ed between the United States and Sipain on the tenth day- of December, anno Domini eighteen hundred an ninety-eight. It shall adjudicate said claims accordin to the merits of the several- cases, the principles of equity, and oi nassaui. international law. One of said persons shall be designated by the terms of his appointment to be the pzsesident of said commission. vmncies. The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall- Hll by appointment all vacancies which may occur in said commission. · Oath- Sec. 2. That each of the members of said commission, the Assistant Attorney-General, the assistant attorneys, and the clerk provided for by this Act shall be citizens of the United States, and shall take the céath of office prescribed by law to be taken by oiicers of the United tates.. ¢ S¤¤¤i¤¤¤ Spc. 3. That the said commission shall, within thirty daiys after the ‘ • appointment of the members thereof, meet, and it shal thereafter Room. ho d its sessions, in the city of WV·ashington. The Department of Justice shall provide said commission Wlth all necessary and suitable rooms and offices for holding its sessions and transaetintg its business. raymsnmrmmes, All the e nses including salaries and compensation 'o said commis- °t°‘ sion and glnits officers and employees, shall be paid by the Department of Justice, upon vouchers certified by the pres1dent of the commission or by order of the other members of the commission in case of his Ar>1>r¤vr¤=¤¤¤- absence or inability to act; and the sum of fifty thousand dollars annuallg, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated an made immediately available fo1‘ the Department of ..ust1ce as a special fund for the payment of said expenses. ' Rules- Sec. 4. That the commission is empowered to make all necessaxg or convenient and proper rules and regulations of practice and proce ure for the transaction of its business. Employees. Sec. 5. That the commission is empowered to appoint a clerk, and may also arépoint one messeng;-nr and one or more stenographers, typewriters, an inteiipreters as the business of the commission may recummissioners to quire; and may a so appoint one or more commissioners,iwhose duty rr °°"°im°°y' it shall be to take test1mony in such cases as may be brought before said commission. Such commissioners to take testimony shall`Ebe*Citizens of the United States, and they shall receive for their services such fees as may be fixed by said commission, not exceeding the fees allowed by law for the taking of testimony to be used in the courts of the United States, including the sum of three dollars per day which the courts of the United States are now authorized by section twenty- Vol.29,p.184. one of the Act of _May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety- ‘ six, to allow to commissioners. B¤¤¤<>f¢l¢¤k- The clerk of said commission shall before assuming the duties of his office, execute a bond to the United States, with sufficient suret or sureties, in such amount and conditioned as the Attorney-General shall prescribe, for the faithful performance of his duties as such clerk. _cm1¤emesexemp- The appointments authorized by this section shall be made without °‘°“· reference to the rules and regulations of the civil service,. Aaamonai Assist- Sec. 6. That the President shall appoint, by and with the advice §§§A§?{,P,§{,`f;°§,%l and consent of the Senate, one additional Assistant Attorney-General new ¤¤¤1¢>¤¤¢d· of the United States, who shall hold his office during the existence of said commission, and the Attorney-General of the United States is empowered to employ such assistant attorneys as the business of —¤¤¤¤¤~ the commission- may require. It shall be the duty of said Assistant Attorney-General and assistant attorneys to appear as attorneys and counsel for the United States, under the direction of the Attorney- General, and defend the United States in allproceedings to adjudicate claims which may be had before said commission. .