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 SIXTY—FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 208. ~ 1916. 259 engaged in work under the convention, including clerical expenses that may be incurred in carrying out the convention during the fscal year en `ng June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. WATERWAYS TREATY, UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN! INTERNA- TroNAL JOINT COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN. For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners and w%%'{,“m€’,,°,‘S‘§,‘,‘l,§,_”' salaries of clerks and other employees appointed by the commissioners V¤i· 36. P- 24*8- on the part of the United States, with tlge approval solely of the Secretary of State, including rental of offices at %V8.Sl1lI1gl»OD, District of Columbia, expense of printing, and necessary traveling expenses, and for one—half of all reasonable and necess joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred uiiidrer the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada, and for other purposes, signed January eleventh nineteen hrmdred and nine, $69,000, together with the rme nded balance of the a prodpriation $,,’f_‘§,_"“l°}‘,§°g; made for this objtegt for the fisdge year nineteen hundred an ffteen, P¤•¢»r·- gnsaid amounts to disbmsed under the direction of the Secretary of State: Provided, That no part of this appropriation shall be ex- suwsmhme vnu Hended for subsistence of the commission or secretary, except $8 per ‘,,,":_°“" "°"‘ w“'“"" ay each, when absent from Washington on official business. hmmm, ,,,,,,_,,_ or payment of services rendered and expenses incurred under the _ direction of the Secretary of State in the examination and preparation of cases involving the obstruction, diversion, and use of boundary waters and all other questions or matters of difference covered by the treaty of January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, between the United States and Great Britain, and in appearing before and representing the interests of the United States involved in all matters or investrgations before the International Joint Commission created by said treaty, $6,000. mm] Pm Ammon Frrrn N·rnRNA·r1oNAL CONFERENCE or AMERICAN SVI`ATESZ` The commas. appropriation of $75,000 "To meet the actual and necessary ex- ,,,*‘°“"*"‘,}{"’“"°" ‘°‘ Ecnses of the delegates of the United States to the Fifth International Pegg ¤8·{>6&%- onference of American States to be held at the city of Santiago ’p` Chile, beginnir:-g in September, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and of their cleric assistants, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of State/’ made in the Act making aiplpropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the sc year ending June thn·tieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and extended and made available for the fiscal year endin% June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, by the Diplomatic an Consular Act aipsroved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, is hereby exten e and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. PAYMENT TO THE Govnnmmrvr or- PANAMA: To enable the Secre- Lghghwwmeu tary of State to a to the Government of Panama the fifth annual payment due on February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article fourteen of the treaty of November eight- V¤*·*¤»P·2z*8- eenth, nineteen hundred and three, $250,000. INTERNATIONAL GEODETIC ASSOCIATION FOR THE MEASUREMENT ow. OF THE EARTH: To enable the Government of the United States Quou to pay, through the American Embassy at Berlin, rts quota as an adhering member of the International Geodetrc Association for the Measmement of the Earth, $1,500: Prmndegl, hmvever, That the sums ’u',°'{'°,,;,,,,,,,,, d expended by the United States for the maintenance of the Interns- zxgqkutm °¤· tional Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California,  for the continuance of the international latitude work there until the Intema-