Volume 49 · 1897
Public Law 74–741
To provide for interest payments on American Embassy drafts.
Approved June 24, 1936
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for interest payments on American Embassy drafts.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of American in Congress assembled,
That the sum of $44,403.15 is hereby authorized to be appropriated for payment to the individuals and corporations, or their attorneys in fact in the United States, listed in the report of December 10, 1931, of the Secretary of State to the President, as set forth in Senate Document Numbered 18, Seventy-second Congress, first session, the amounts specified therein, representing interest at 4% per centum on certain drafts drawn on the Secretary of State by the American Embassies in Russia and Turkey and transfers which the Embassy in Turkey undertook to make by cable communications to the Secretary of State during the period from 1915 to 1920, payment of which was deferred, and amounting to a total sum of $44,403.15: Provided, That no payment
Provisos.
Approval by Secretary of State.
hereunder shall be made by the Secretary of the Treasury, except at the direction of the Secretary of State: Provided further, That full authority is hereby vested in the Secretary of State to
Further authority of Secretary.
determine, in his discretion, whether payment in whole or in part should be made, withheld, or deferred.
Approved, June 24, 1936.