United States Statutes at Large/Volume 10/33rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 2
1855, ch. 25.
Chap. II. — An Act to continue in force the Act entitled "An Act to ascertain and settle the Private Land Claims in the State of California," and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Act of 1851, ch. 41, continued in force for a certain purpose. That an act entitled "An act to ascertain and settle the private land claims in the State of California," passed March third, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, be, and the same is hereby, continued in force for one year from and after the third day of March, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-four, for the purpose of enabling the board of commissioners appointed under said act to determine the claims presented to said board under the act aforesaid.
Commissioners to take testimony. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said board of commissioners may appoint one or more, not exceeding three, competent persons to act as commissioners in the taking of testimony to be used before said board, who shall receive a compensation to be fixed by said board, but not to exceed ten dollars per diem.
Approved, January 18, 1854.