The daily union., 1846-08-25
PERUVIAN INDEMNITY.
ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE,
Washington, August Ia. 1916.

ATTORNEY GENERAL 8 OFFICE,
Washington, August IA, l546
TNHE Attorney General of the United States
l. having been authorized and empowered by aEl
act of Congress, approved the 9Th August instant
to adudicate the claims arising under the convention
concluded between the United States and the repub
lie of Peru, at Lima, the l7th March, lS4l hereby
GIVES NOTICE of his appointment to perform the du
ties conhded to him by the said act and requires the
claimants to present their claims and the evidence
sustaining them, with all despatch that he may pro.
ceed to execute the law.
The claims provided for by the convention aeI
described in the first article follows: "The Peru
Wan government, IN order to make full satisfaction
for various claims Of citizens of the United States,
on account OF seizures, captures, detenons seques
tratlons and conhscaton of their vessels or for the
damage and destruction of them of their cargoes
other property at sea, and in the ports and terrific
rles of Peru, by order of said government of Peru
or under It's authority, has stipulated to pay to The
United States the sum of three hundred thousand
dollars, which shall be distributed among the claim.
ants, IN the manner and according to the rules that
shall be prescribed by the government of the United
States" And by the fifth article it is stipulated
There shall not be demanded of the government OF
Peru any other payment or indemnifcation, on &c,
count of any claim of the citizens of the United
States that was presented to it by Samuel Laned,
esq, when charge d'affares of the United States,
near Peru. But the claims subsequent to those pre-
shall be examined and actedupon hereafter
And in pursuance Of the authority and power
given to the Attorney General to make all need'u
rules and regulations for carrying the said conven
ton and act into effect, it is hereby
ordered, That all persons having claims under the
said convention do file memorial addressed TO The
Attorney General, setting forth minute ely and parc
ulariy the various facts and circumstances whence
the right to prefer such claim is derived the claim
ant, to be verified by his affidavit. The claimants
snail also, at the same time, file the evidence sus-
tanning their claims; and, if any of the evidence be
IN Spanish, translation thereof shall also be filed
And IN order that the claimants may he informed
OF what IL considered essential to be set tOrth
averred, and established before their claims can be
received and acted upon, IL s further
Ordered, lst. That each claimant shall declare IN
his memorial for and in behalf Of whom the cain IS
preferred, and whether the amount thereof and Of
any part thereof, if allowed, does now and at the
time when the said claim arose. did belong solely
ana absolutely to the claimant, or to any other per-
son, and, If to any other, to what person. And IN
cases OF claims preferred for the benefit of any other
than the claimant, the memorial to be filed shaI
further set forth and show when and by what means
and for what consideration such other has become
said claim.
ID That the memorial shall also set forth and
declare whether the claimant, as we'll as any other
person Tor whose benefit the claim is preferred,
now, and at the time when the said claim arose
was, citizen the United States, where he is now
and at the time the said claim arose was domlcia'
ted, and if any, what change of domic has since
taken place.
Sd. That the memorial shall also set forth wheth'
er the claimant, or any other person who may have
been atany time entitled to the amount claimed, Of
any part thereof, hath ever received any, andh
any what sum Of money, or other equivalent In
demn'hcauon, by way of insurance or otherwise'
for loss or injury sustained satisfaction for which
therein asked; and ifany such payment or indemRt
hcation has been made, to set forth when and from
whom the same was received.
4th. That the cases will be taken up for decision
IN the order in which they may be filed and dockseds
JOHN Y. MASON, Attorney General
Attest JOHN T. REID, Clerk.
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