United States Statutes at Large/Volume 5/27th Congress/1st Session/Chapter 14
Chap. XIV.—An Act in addition to an act entitled an act to carry into effect a Convention between the United States and the Mexican Republic.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,Sec. Treasury to issue certificates. That the Secretary of the Treasury be and he is hereby authorized upon the presentation of certified copies of such awards as have been or shall be made, in pursuance of the Convention with the Republic of Mexico, concluded at Washington, the eleventh of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-nine, in favor of citizens of the United States, to issue certificates to the persons authorized to receive the sums so awarded their legal representatives and assigns in the manner directed by the seventh section of the act of Congress entitled1840, ch. 34. “An act to carry into effect a convention between the United States and the Republic of Mexico,” such certificates to be in such form and for such portions of the sums awarded as may be convenient for the claimants and to be subject to the deductions provided for by the tenth section of said act,Proviso.
1840, ch. 34. Provided, That nothing in this act shall be construed to give any rights to the claimants that are not conferred by said convention, and the act of June twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and forty; and that the substance of this proviso be inserted in the certificates that may be issued.
Approved, September 1, 1841.