Volume 46
Public Law 71–142
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1927.
Approved April 12, 1930
Statutory text
An Act
To amend an Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce, a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved March 3, 1927.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 3 of
Foreign Commerce Service.
Vol. 44, p. 1395, amended.
the Act approved March 3, 1927, entitled “An Act to establish in the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce a Foreign Commerce Service of the United States, and for other purposes,” is hereby amended by adding thereto the following paragraph:
“(f) The Secretary of Commerce may, under such rules and
Living quarters, etc., to officers stationed abroad.
Post, p. 193.
regulations as he may prescribe, furnish the officers in the Foreign Commerce Service of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce stationed in a foreign country, without cost to them and within the limits of any appropriation made for this purpose, allowances for living quarters, heat, and light, notwithstanding the provisions
Restriction waived.
R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314.
U. S. C., p. 32.
Provisos.
Citizenship required.
of section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (United States Code, title 5, section 70): Provided, That the provisions of this paragraph shall apply only to those officers who are citizens of the United States: Provided further, That the provisions of this paragraph
Not applicable in rent-free buildings.
shall not apply to those officers who are living rent free in Government-owned buildings.”