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Public Law 75–387
Making an appropriation to defray expenses incident to the dedication of chapels and other World War memorials erected in Europe, and for other purposes.
Approved June 28, 1937
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
Making an appropriation to defray expenses incident to the dedication of chapels and other World War memorials erected in Europe, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That for the purpose of providing for the dedication of the chapels and other World War memorials erected in Europe under the authority of the Act of March 4, 1923 (42 Stat. 1509), there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $175,000, to remain available until June 30, 1938, and to be available for expenditure by the American Battle Monuments Commission for such objects and in such manner as the Commission may deem necessary and proper to accomplish the purposes hereof without regard to the provisions of other laws or regulations relating to the expenditure of public funds except that this exemption shall not be construed as waiving the requirement for the submission of accounts and vouchers to the General Accounting Office for audit. The Commission may utilize the services, materials, supplies, equipment, and other facilities of any other agency of the Government when, in the discretion of such other agency, it is convenient and practicable to furnish the same, the cost thereof to be paid from this appropriation, except that when, in the discretion of the furnishing agency, the public interest will be subserved thereby such services, materials, supplies, equipment, and other facilities may be furnished free of charge to the Commission. The Commission may, within such limits and under such terms and conditions as it may prescribe, delegate to its chairman, secretary, or other designated representatives such of its authority as it may deem necessary and proper in carrying out the
Official delegation.
purposes hereof. The official delegation designated by the Commission to attend such dedication shall include three Members of the United States Senate, to be appointed by the Vice President or the President pro tempore of the Senate, and three Members of the House of Representatives to be appointed by the Speaker.
Sec. 2.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed, upon the request of the Secretary of Commerce, to transfer, during the fiscal year 1937, from the appropriation “Salaries and general expenses for the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, fiscal year 1937”, to the appropriation “Departmental salaries, Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation, fiscal year 1937”, not to exceed $8,000.
Sec. 3.
There is hereby transferred from the appropriation “Fees of jurors and witnesses, United States courts, 1937” to the appropriation “Pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, 1937”, the amount of $40,000.
Sec. 4.
The appropriation in the Legislative Branch Appropriation
Committee to Audit and Control Contingent Expenses of the Senate.
Salary of assistant clerk.
Ante, p. 170.
Act, 1938 (Public Act Numbered 94, Seventy-fifth Congress), for an assistant clerk at $2,800 for the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, is hereby amended to make the salary of such assistant clerk read “$2,880”.
Sec. 5.
The Comptroller General of the United States is authorized
Stinson Aircraft Corporation.
Payment to.
and directed to approve payment for nine airplanes obtained from the Stinson Aircraft Corporation, Wayne, Michigan, under contract Cc–2510, dated October 1, 1936, out of an allotment of $83,000 made by the President of the United States on March 23, 1937, for this purpose from the Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act of 1935.
Approved, June 28, 1937.