# United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/3rd Session/Chapter 89

Chap. LXXXIX.—An Act to provide for carrying into effect the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded at Washington on the ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Commissioner to be appointed to run and mark the boundary line―his salary. That the commissioner to be appointed on the part of the Untied States for the purpose of running, tracing, and marking certain parts of the boundary line between the United States and the British possessions in North America, according to the sixth article of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concluded on the ninth of August, one thousand eight hundred and forty-two, shall be allowed and paid a salary at the rate of three thousand dollars per annum;Commissioner allowed a clerk. Proviso. and the said commissioner may employ a clerk, who shall be allowed and paid a salary at the rate of one thousand five hundred dollars per annum: Provided, That the salaries of said officers shall not commence until they shall have been severally ordered into service.
Officers of the topographical engineers may be employed to assist the commissioner.Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to cause any one or more of the officers of the corps of topographical engineers, as the public service may require, to be employed to aid and assist the said commissioner in running, tracing, and marking the said line.
Appropriation for expenses of the commission.Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the payment of the said salaries, and for other expenses of said commission, including the purchase or repair of instruments, wages to persons employed, and other contingencies, there be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.
Appropriation for Maine and Massachusetts.Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three hundred thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be paid in equal moieties to the States of Maine and Massachusetts, in conformity with the provision of the fifth article of the said treaty.
Accounts of Maine and Massachusetts for certain expenses to be audited and paid. Appropriation therefor.Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the proper officers of the treasury to audit and pay the accounts of the States of Maine and Massachusetts for all claims for expenses incurred by them in protecting the heretofore disputed territory on the northeastern frontier of the United States, and making a survey thereof, as provided by the fifth article of said treaty; and the sum of, not exceeding ten thousand seven hundred and ninety-two dollars and ninety-five cents for Massachusetts, and two hundred and six thousand nine hundred and thirty-four dollars and seventy-nine cents for Maine, is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, in satisfaction of the said accounts.
Naval appropriations to be applied to the execution of the provisions of the 8th article.Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the President of the United States, in execution of the provisions of the eighth article of said treaty, to apply so much of the naval appropriations as may be necessary therefor, to the preparation, equipment, and maintenance of the naval force therein stipulated to be employed on the coast of Africa by the United States.
Approved, March 3, 1843.