Public Law 74–423

That there is hereby

Ninth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy, Rumania, 1937.

Sum authorized for participation expenses.

Post, p. 1634.

authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $11,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the expenses of participation by the United States in the Ninth International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy to be held in Rumania in 1937, including personal services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere without reference to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; stenographic reporting and

Contracts without advertising.

R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733.

U. S. C., p. 1803.

other services by contract if deemed necessary without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); rent; traveling expenses; purchase of necessary books, documents, newspapers, periodicals, and maps; stationery; official cards; entertainment; printing and binding, including the payment of not to exceed

Printing and binding; report of American Delegation.

$500 to the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States toward the cost of printing the report of the American Delegation to the Ninth Congress; and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other

Reimbursement of other appropriations.

appropriations from which payments may have been made for any of the purposes herein specified, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State.

Sec. 2.

That, the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to extend to the International Congress of Military Medicine and Pharmacy an invitation to hold its tenth congress in the United States in 1939, and to invite foreign governments to participate in that congress.