within the ancient territory of Spanish America, whatever alterations may take place in their constitutions, names, or boundaries, so as to include the present States of Uraguay and Paraguay, which were formerly parts of the ancient vice-royalty of Buenos Ayres, those of New Granada, Venezuela, and Equador, in the Republic of Colombia, and any other States which may in future be dismembered from those now existing. ART. II. It being agreed by the tenth article of the aforesaid treaty, that the citizens of the United States of America, personally or by their agents, shall have the right of being present at the decisions and sentences of the tribunals, in all cases which may concern them, and at the examination of witnesses and declarations that may be taken in their trials and as the strict enforcement of this article may be in opposition to the established forms of the present due administration of justice, it is mutually understood, that the Republic of Chile is only bound by the aforesaid stipulation to maintain the most perfect equality in this respect between the American and Chilean citizens, the former to enjoy all the rights and benefits of the present or future provisions which the laws grant to the latter in their judicial tribunals, but no special favors or privi-{ leges. ART. III. It being agreed by the twenty-ninth article of the aforesaid treaty that, deserters from the public and private vessels of either party are to be restored thereto by the respective consuls-and whereas, it is declared by the article one hundred and thirty-two, of the present constitution of Chile that, "there are no slaves in Chile ;" and, that "slaves touching the territory of the Republic are free"-it is likewise mutually understood, that the aforesaid stipulation shall not comprehend slaves serving under any denomination, on board the public or private ships of the United States of America. ART. IV. It is further agreed, that the ratifications of the aforesaid treaty of peace, amity, commerce, and navigation, and of the present additional and explanatory convention, shall be exchanged in the City of Washington within the term of eight months, to be counted from the date of the present convention. This additional and explanatory convention, upon its being duly ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by the President of the Republic of Chile, with the consent and approbation of the Congress of the same, and the respective ratifications mutually exchanged, shall be added to, and make a part of, the treaty of peace, amity, commerce, and navigation, between the United States of America and the Republic of Chile, signed on the said 16th day of May, 1832, having the same force and effect as if it had been inserted word for word in the aforesaid treaty, In faith whereof, we, the undersigned plenipotentiaries of the United States of America and the Republic of Chile, have signed by virtue of our powers, the aforesaid additional and explanatory convention, and have caused to be affixed our hands and seals, respectively. Done in the City of Santiago this 1st day of September, 1833;-and in the 58th year of Independence of the United States of America, and the 24th of the Republic of Chile. CONVENTION WITH SPAIN. Convention for the settlement of Claims, between the Government of the United States of America and Her Majesty the Queen Regent, in the name and behalf of Her Catholic Majesty Donna Ysabel the Second, concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries, at Madrid, on the seventeenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four; and the respective ratifications of the same were exchanged at Madrid, on the fourteenth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, by Cornelius P. Van Ness, on the part of the United States, and His Excellency Don Francisco Martinez de la Rosa, on the part of Her Catholic Majesty. The Government of the United States of America, and her Majesty the Queen Regent, Governess of Spain during the minority of her august daughter, Her Catholic Majesty Donna Ysabel II, from a desire of adjusting by a definitive arrangement the claims preferred by each party against the other, and thus removing all grounds of disagreement, as also of strengthening the ties of friendship and good understanding which happily subsist between the two nations, have appointed for this purpose, as their respective plenipotentiaries, namely: the President of the United States, Cornelius P. Van Ness, a citizen of the said States, and their Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary near Her Catholic Majesty Donna Ysabel II; and Her Majesty the Queen Regent, in the name and behalf of Her Catholic Majesty Donua Ysabel II, his Excellency Don Jose de Herdia, Knight Grand Cross of the Royal American Order of Ysabel the Catholic, one of Her Majesty's Supreme Council of Finance, ex-Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary, and President of the Royal Junta of Appeals of Credits against France; who, after having exchanged their respective full powers, have agreed upon the following articles: ARTICLE I. Her Majesty the Queen Regent and Governess, in the name and in behalf of her Catholic Majesty Donna Ysabel II, engages to pay to the United States, as the balance on account of the claims aforesaid, the sum of twelve millions of rials vellon, in one or several inscriptions, as preferred by the Government of the United States, of perpetual rents, on the great book of the consolidated debt of Spain, bearing an interest of five per cent. per annum. Said inscription or inscriptions shall be issued in conformity with the model or form annexed to this Convention, and shall be delivered in Madrid to such person or persons as may be authorized by the Government of the United States to receive them, within four months after the exchange of the ratifications. And said inscriptions, or the proceeds thereof, shall be distributed by the Government of the United States among the claimants entitled thereto, in such manner as it may deem just and equitable. ART II. The interest of the aforesaid inscription or inscriptions shall be paid in Paris every six months, and the first half yearly payment is to be made six months after the exchange of the ratifications of this Convention. ART. III. The high contracting parties, in virtue of the stipulation contained in article first, reciprocally renounce, release, and cancel all claims which either may have upon the other, of whatever class, denomination, or origin they may be; from the twenty-second of February, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, until the time of signing this Convention. ART. IV. On the request of the Minister Plenipotentiary of Her Catholic Majesty at Washington, the Government of the United States will deliver to him, in six months after the exchange of the ratifications of this Convention, a note or list of the claims of American citizens against the Government of Spain, specifying their amounts respectively, and three years afterwards, or sooner if possible, authentic copies of all the documents upon which they may have been founded. ART. V. This Convention shall be ratified, and the ratifications shall be exchanged, in Madrid, in six months from this time, or sooner if possible. In witness whereof, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed these articles, and affixed there to their seals. Done in triplicate at Madrid, this seventeenth day of February, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. No. C. P. VAN NESS, [L. S.] The following is a translation of the form, or model, of the inscription : Cupon of dollars of rent payable in Paris of on the 183 Cupon No. 1. of Perpetual rent of Spain. at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, inscribed in the great book of the consolidated debt. This Inscription is issued in pursuance of a convention concluded at Madrid on the day 183 between H. C. M. the Queen of Spain, and the U. S. of America, for the payment of the claims of the citizens of said States. The Secretary of State and of the Department of Finance. The Director of the Royal Caisse d'Amortisation. In witness whereof we the undersigned Plenipotentiaries of Her Catholic Majesty the Queen of Spain, and of the United States of America, have signed this model and have affixed thereunto our seals. Done at Madrid this day of JOSE DE HEREDIA, [Seal.] TREASURY DEPARTMENT. LEVI WOODBURY, of New Hampshire, Secretary, $6.000 per annum. The office of Secretary of the Treasury was created by act of 2d September, 1789. He superintends all the fiscal concerns of the Government, and upon his own responsibility, recommends to Congress measures for improving the condition of the revenue. He hold his office at the will of the President; is. by usage, a member of the cabinet; and, exofficio, one of the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund. By an act of Congress, of the 15th May, 1820, the Treasury Department has been invested with extraordinary powers for the recovery of public moneys not accounted for, or withheld by officers receiving them, prior to such moneys being paid into the Treasury. Warrants of distress, in the nature of executions upon judgments, are authorized upon certificates of balances from the First Comptroller, against principals and sureties in default; and the judges of the United States are, by the same law, clothed with extensive chancery jurisdiction, with a view of ameliorating any undue severity to individuals, which may possibly occur under the warrants in question. By the act of 29th May, 1832, the office of Solicitor of the Treasury was created A portion of the duties of this office had been previously, under the act of 15th May, 1820, performed by the Fifth Auditor, as agent of the Treasury. All accounts of the Government are finally settled at the Treasury Department; for which purpose it is divided into the office of the Secretary (who superintends the whole, but who is not, therefore, absolute, with respect to the power of adjusting claims or paying money,) into two Comptrollers, five Auditors, a Register, a Treasurer, and a Solicitor. The Auditors of the public accounts are empowered to administer oaths or affirmations to witnesses in any case in which they may deem it necessary for the due examination of the accounts with which they are charged. CLERKS IN THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT." MCCLINTOCK YOUNG, chief clerk, superintends the business of the office generally; receives the directions of the Secretary on matters to be acted upon; refers to the officers of the Department all matters requiring their examination ; distributes the business of the clerks, and submits to the Secretary the business prepared by them; directs remittances to foreign bankers, audits and directs the payment of the accounts for the contingencies of the Secretary's office and the S. E. executive buildings; Passists in preparing reports to be made to Congress by the Secretory reports weekly to the Secretary the state of the business of the office; transmits to the collectors passports and sea letters; examines all warrants before they are signed by the Secretary, and receives directions from him where they are to be paid; prepares instructions to the Treasurer, for transfers of money from one bank to another; and attends to miscellaneous business referred to him by the Secretary....... $2000 00 James L. Anthony, prepares the warrants for payment into the Treasury; issues and registers the warrants for payments, under the appropriations for civil, diplomatic, and miscellaneous expenditures; and keeps accounts of all such appropri $1600 00 ations; and also keeps an account of the bonds taken and liquidated at each custoin house...... Samuel M. McKean, attends to the business with banks; to remission of fines. penalties, and forfeitures; to applications for release from imprisonment to matters relating to internal improvement, and to the Mint establishment: and to such subjects as are submitted by the Solicitor of the Treasury and District Attorneys, not immediately connected with the branches of business assigned to others, and all clains under like circumstances; and acts as translator of foreign lanThomas Dungan, issues and registers the warrants for payments under the appropriations for the naval service; keeps the appropriation accounts of the navy; prepares the warrants for the transfer of stocks from one loan office to that of another; and keeps an account of the accruing duties....... ................................... 1400 00 Francis A. Dickins, 1st, examines and registers claims under the act of 15th of May, 1828, "for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the revolution ;" prepares and registers certificates for those allowed and warrants for their payment, and generally attends to all correspondence or other business connected with those claims; 2d, examines and registers claims under the act of the 5th July, 1832, "for liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia," and attends to all correspondence and other business connected with those claims; and 3d, issues and registers warrants for the payment of duties refunded under the act of 2d March, 1833.... ........... ..................................... 1400 00 John McGinnis, jun., attends to the correspondence connected with the General and other Land Offices, and to all business arising under the laws relating to the public lands; to all business connected with the building, repair, and supply of the revenue cutters, and their employment; to the examination of charges and complaints for official misconduct against registers, and receivers of public money, and the officers of the revenue cutters, and to the correspondence appertaining thereto. He also attends to the business arising under the acts for the relief of sick and disabled seamen employed in the merchant service, and the building and repair of public hospitals, designed for their benefit................ Gilbert Rodman, examines questions arising under the revenue laws, and attends to the correspondence appertaining to such questions; keeps an account of moneys received and expended by collectors of the customs; has charge of applications for the appointment, of subordinate officers of the customs; and for the employment of revenue boats; examines appeals from appraisements under the eighteenth section of the act of March 1, 1823, and applications to complete drawback entries under the act of March 3, 1815. He attends, also, to the payment of fishing bounties, and to all charges and complaints against officers of the customs, and to the cor 1400 00 |