Volume 50 · 22
Public Law 75–18
Relating to the participation by the United States in the International Exposition of Paris, 1937.
Approved February 25, 1937
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Relating to the participation by the United States in the International Exposition of Paris, 1937.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That in addition to the authority heretofore granted by the joint resolution, approved April 10, 1936, relating to the participation by the United States in the International Exposition of Paris, 1937, the Commissioner General and the Commissioner are hereby authorized to make such expenditures as may be necessary for the purpose of purchasing, constructing, or renovating exhibits, for the proper housing of exhibits
Contracts, etc.
R. S. § 3709.
(including the decoration, operation, and maintenance of buildings by contract without regard to the provisions of section 3709, Revised Statutes, or otherwise, and the payment of any obligations heretofore or hereafter incurred in connection with the employment of architects and engineers and reimbursement of their necessary
Transportation of material, etc.
travel expenses), and for the transportation of material and exhibits from the United States to France, and from France to the United States after the close of such exposition.
Sec. 2.
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of such resolution of April 10, 1936, the Commissioner General is authorized, without regard to the civil-service laws, to appoint, and without regard
to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, to fix the reasonable compensation of, such officers and employees as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this resolution and of such resolution of
Effective date.
April 10, 1936. This section shall be effective as of April 10, 1936.
Sec. 3.
Any functions granted to the Commissioner General and the Commissioner jointly may be exercised by either of them, and any authority herein granted to the Commissioner General may be delegated to the Commissioner or to any other person that the Commissioner General may designate for the purpose.
The approval and certification of expenditures under this resolution, and the submission of accounts and vouchers, shall be made
in the manner prescribed in section 4 of such resolution of April 10, 1936, except that any functions of the Secretary of State under such section may, in his discretion, be delegated, without release of responsibility, to any person he may designate for the purpose.
Nothing in this resolution shall be construed to permit any indebtedness to be incurred in excess of the amount herein authorized to be appropriated.
Sec. 4.
There is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for carrying out the purposes of this resolution and of such resolution of April 10, 1936, the sum of $150,000, and the unexpended and unobligated balance of any sums heretofore appropriated pursuant to the authorization contained in such resolution of April 10, 1936, shall also be available for the purposes of this resolution.
Sec. 5.
The Commissioner General and the Commissioner are, with the approval of the Secretary of State, authorized to make available to any governmental agency such part of the sums heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the purposes of this resolution and such resolution of April 10, 1936, as may be effectively used by such agency to aid in carrying out such purposes.
Sec. 6.
At the close of the exposition or when the connection of the Government of the United States therewith ceases, the
Disposition of unused property, etc.
Commissioner General and the Commissioner shall return all borrowed property and exhibits to their points of origin and shall dispose of any portion of the material contributed as may be unused or any property purchased in such manner as the Secretary of State may direct in the best interests of the Government, and account therefor.
Approved, February 25, 1937.