Public Law 74–337

That section 11 of the Act entitled “An Act for the grading and classification of clerks in the Foreign Service of the United States of America and providing compensation therefor”, approved February 23, 1931, be, and it is hereby, amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 11.

That all appointments and promotions of Foreign Service officers shall be made by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and such officers may be commissioned as

Provisos.

Appointments, etc., during Senate recess.

Pay provisions.

diplomatic or consular officers or both: Provided, That Foreign Service officers now or hereafter appointed or promoted during a recess of the Senate shall be paid the compensation of the position to which appointed or promoted from the date of such appointment or promotion until the end of the next session of the Senate if they have not theretofore been confirmed by the Senate, or until their rejection by the Senate before the end of its next session: Provided further,

Reinstatement in former position; when.

That if the Senate should reject or fail to confirm the promotion of a Foreign Service officer during the session following the date of such promotion, the Foreign Service officer shall automatically

Effective date.

be reinstated in the position from which he was promoted, such reinstatement to be effective, in the event of rejection of the nomination, from the date of rejection; and in the event of failure of the Senate to act on the nomination during the session following a promotion, from the termination of that session: And provided further,

Official acts under respective commissions.

That all official acts of such officers while serving under diplomatic or consular commissions in the Foreign Service shall lie performed under their respective commissions as secretaries or as consular officers.”

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