The Help
- All the commissioners mentioned in the previous articles can hire as many staff as they want to do the dirty work for them. It would have been impossible to survey all those islands and lands with just two people.
- The commissioners and their hires have to send reports on their work to their governments—somebody had to keep track of the receipts.
- After ratification of the treaty, the two countries will agree on how much to pay the commissioners. They will split excess costs.
- If a commissioner dies in the middle of his project, a replacement is appointed the same way as the original.
- If the Island Commissioners decide that a particular island has to switch sides—for example, from the U.S. to Britain—the land grants on the island are still valid. This means that the island's property will remain divided up and organized in the same way as before.