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 SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 52. 1918. 523 the discharge of their official duties, to their former homes in this country for interment, and for the ordinary and necessary expenses of such interment, at their post or at home, $5,000. INTERNATIONAL BUREAU or wmorrrs AND MEASURES. Contribution to the maintenance of the International Bureau of ,,yI$$€§§h?{‘§°'§‘g{;B‘§['§§,'E Weights and Measures, in conformity with the terms of the convention ufggl 20 P ,1 4 of hfay twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and seventy-Eve, the same ' ` to be paid, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to said bureau on its certificate of apportionment, $2,895. xN*rBnNA*r10NAL BUREAU Fon PUBLICATION or CUSTOMS TABIFFS. To meet the share of the United States in the annual expense for the a.i£t·°i—i$iiii°1i1°ui¤»i;u`i°` year ending March thirty—Erst, nineteen hundred and nineteen, of V°*·”·P·m& sustaining the international bureau at Brussels for the translation and publication of customs tariiis, pursuant to the convention proclaimed December seventeenth, eighteen lumdred and ninety, $1,500. INTERNATIONAL BOUNDAnY COMMISSION, UNITED STATES AND mexico. To enable the commission to continue its work under the treaties of ¤y °££Z eighteen hundred and e' hty-four, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, °“§‘,·°,_ ,,4 p_ mu, WL and nineteen hundred a1i% five, between the United States and Mexico, gg;. Mia Vol. 54, p. $37,500. ` BoUNDAnY LINE, ALAsxA AND CANADA, AND THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA. To enable the Secretary of State to mark the boundary and make a¤?i°ii§iii.`ri¥’ ‘u°°k° the surveys incidental thereto between the Territory of Alaska and V°l· “2·P·“"”· the Dominion of Canada, in conformity with the award of the Alaskan Boundary Tribunal and existing treaties, including employment at the seat of government of such surveyors, computers, draftsmen, and Bmmm Umm clerks as are necessary; and for the more effective demarcation and stares we ciieaa. mapping, pursuant to the treatg of April eleventh, nineteen hundred v°"°5**"°°°°‘ an eight, between the United tates and Great Britain, of the land and water boundary line between the United States and the Dominion ‘ of Canada, as established under existing treaties to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, including the salaries of the commissioner and the necessa? engineers, smveyors, draftsmen, computers, and clerks in the fie] an at the seat,of government, rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing and necessary trave ing, for payment for timber necessarily cut in eterrninmgotge boundary line not to exceed $500, and commutation to mem of the Held force while on iield dutiy or actual expenses not exceeding $3.50 per day_ each, to be expende in accordance with regulations rom time to time prescribed by the Secretary of State, $60,000, to ether with the unexpended balances of previous F , appropriations for these objects: Provided, That hereafter advances Aavmaéswmmmsa 0 money nmder the a ropriation "Boundary line, Alaska and “i°“°’· Canada, and the Unitedpgtates and Canada," ma be made to the commissioner on the part of the United States and, by his authority to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulatnons and_m such sum as the Secretary of State may direct, and accountsarising under advances shall be rendered through and by the commissioner on the part of the United States to the Treas1u·y Department as imder advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties: _ ab Pwvjtded, 'ljhat when the commissioner is absent from Washington on ofhcral business he shall be allowed actual and necessary expenses of subsistence, not in excess of $8 per day. l