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 1320 74TH C ONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 405 . MAY 15, 1936 . reporting and other services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U . S . C ., title 41, sec. 5) ; rent ; traveling expenses (and by indirect routes and by Vehicles. airplane if specifically authorized by the Secretary of State) maintenance, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying v e hi c le s ; equipmen t, purchase of ne cessary books, do cuments, news- papers, periodicals, and maps ; stationery ; official cards ; entertain- Printing and binding. ment ; printing and binding ; and such other expenses as may be a utho rize d by the Secr etar y of Stat e, i nclud ing the reim burse ment of other appropriations from which payments may have been made fo r any of the purp oses herein s ec ified, to be expe nded under the direction of the Secretary of State, $75,000, to be immediately available. GENERAL AND SPECIAL CL AIMS CONVENTIONS, UNI TED STATES AND MEXICO Mexican general and For the expenses of settlement and adjustment of claims of the special claims conven- tions. citizens of eac h country agains t the other under a convention con - Vol, 43, pp. 1722, eluded September 8, 1923, as extended, and of citizens of the United Vol. 48, p. 1844. States against Mexico under a convention concluded September 10, 1923, as extended, and the protocol and convention signed April 24, 1934, between the United States a nd Mexico, including the expenses which, under the ter ms of the abov e ag ree ment s, are Prep arat ion o f cl aims chargeable in p art to the Unite d States, the exp enses of an agenc y and defenses. of the United States to perform all necessary services in connec- tion with the preparation of American claims and the defense of the United States in cases presented by Mexico, and of a general claims commissioner to act as a joint appraiser in appraising the claims, and for the expense s of the joint co mmittee in determ ining the proper classification of claims which have heretofore been filed as both general and special claims, as provided by the agreements Salaries, etc. of April 24, 1934, including salaries of an agent and necessary counsel and other assistants and employees and rent in the District Printing and binding. of Columbia and elsewhere, law books and books of reference, print- ing and binding, contingent expenses, contract stenographic report- u: s:' see. p370 3709, p . 733. ing services ? without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U . S . C ., title 41, sec . 5), the employment of special counsel, trans- lators, and other technical experts, by contract, without regard to the provisions of any statute relative to employment, traveling expenses, the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein speci- fied, and such other expenses in the United States and elsewhere as Provisos. the Pre sident may deem proper, $124,270 : P r o vi d e d, That the salary a . eSmmissioners' sal- of the Amer ican com miss ioner s of gen eral and spec ial claim s sh all Deductions. not exceed $10,000 per annum each : Provided further, Th at fro m any sums received from the Mexican Government in settlement of a general claim of an American citizen against it, there shall be deducted and deposited in the Treasury of the United States as mis- ce llan eous rece ipts, 5 per c entu m th ereof in reim burs ement of the Government of the United States of expenses incurred by it in respect of such claim. Special Mexican Claims Commission. SP ECI AL ME XI CAN CLAIMS CO MMI SS ION Special Mexican Cla ims Comm iss ion : For the purpose of carry- ing into effect the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act to estab- lish a commissi on for the settle ment of the speci al claims compre- hended within the terms of the convention between the United States of America and the United Mexican States concluded Ap ril 24,
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