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Public Law 54–376
To provide for the representation of the United States by commissioners at any international monetary conference hereafter to be called, and to enable the President to otherwise promote an international agreement.
Approved March 3, 1897
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the representation of the United States by commissioners at any international monetary conference hereafter to be called, and to enable the President to otherwise promote an international agreement.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That whenever after March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, the President of the United States shall determine that the. United States should be represented at any international conference called by the United States or any other country with a view to securing by international agreement a fixity of relative value between gold and silver as money by means of a common ratio between these metals, with free mintage at such ratio, he is hereby authorized to appoint five or more commissioners to such international
Compensation, etc.
conference; and for compensation of said commissioners, and for all reasonable expenses connected therewith, to be approved by the Secretary of State, including the proportion to be paid by the United States
Appropriation.
of the joint expenses of any such conference, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2.
Call for conference.
That the President of the United States is hereby authorized, in the name of the Government of the United States, to call, in his discretion, such international conference, to assemble at such point as mayFIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Chs. 376–378. 1897. be agreed upon. And be is further authorized, if in ins judgment the
Special commissioner for diplomatic negotiations.
purpose specified in the first section hereof can thus be better attained, to appoint one or more special commissioners or envoys to such of the nations of Europe as he may designate to seek by diplomatic negotiations an international agreement for the purpose specified in the first section hereof. And in case of such appointment, so much of the appropriation herein made as shall be necessary shall be available for the proper expenses and compensation of such commissioners or envoys.
Sec. 3.
That so much of an Act approved March second, eighteen
Repeal of former provision for international conference.
Vol. 28, p. 962.
hundred and ninety-five, entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes,” as provided for the appointment of delegates to an international conference and makes an appropriation for their compensation and expenses, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, .