Volume 52 · 442
Public Law 75–275
To provide additional funds for buildings for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States.
Approved May 25, 1938
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide additional funds for buildings for the use of the diplomatic and consular establishments of the United States.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That for the purpose
Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926.
Additional funds authorized for purposes of.
of further carrying into effect the provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926, as amended, there is authorized to be appropriated, in addition to the amount authorized by such Act, an amount not to exceed $5,000,000, of which not more than $1,000,000 shall be appropriated for any one year. Sums appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be available for the purposes and be subject to the
Proviso.
Use of articles of American manufacture.
conditions and limitations of such Act, as amended: Provided, That in the expenditure of appropriations for the construction of diplomatic and consular establishments, the Secretary of State shall, unless in his discretion the interests of the Government will not permit, purchase or contract for only articles of manufacture of the United States, notwithstanding that such articles, when delivered abroad, may cost more if such excess of cost be not unreasonable.
Approved, May 25, 1938.