Volume 52
Public Law 75–255
To authorize and request the President of the United States to invite the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics to hold its Seventh General Assembly in the United States during the calendar year 1939, and to invite foreign governments to participate in that general assembly; and to authorize an appropriation to assist in meeting the expenses necessary for participation by the United States in the meeting.
Approved May 20, 1938
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize and request the President of the United States to invite the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics to hold its Seventh General Assembly in the United States during the calendar year 1939, and to invite foreign governments to participate in that general assembly; and to authorize an appropriation to assist in meeting the expenses necessary for participation by the United States in the meeting.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President be, and
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics.
Invitation to hold Seventh General Assembly in United States; participation by foreign governments.
is hereby, authorized and requested to invite the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics to hold its Seventh General Assembly in the United States during the calendar year 1939, and to invite foreign governments to participate in that general assembly.
Sec. 2.
That the sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be
Appropriation authorized.
necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the expenses of organizing and holding the Seventh General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; communication services; stenographic and other services by contract if deemed necessary without
Contracts without advertising.
R. S. § 3709.
regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5); travel expenses; local transportation; hire of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; entertainment; official cards;
Printing and binding.
purchase of newspapers and periodicals; necessary books and documents; stationery; membership badges; and such other expenses as may be actually and necessarily incurred by the Government of the United States by reason of observance of appropriate courtesies in connection therewith, 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 have been made for any of the purposes herein specified.
Approved, May 20, 1938.