Volume 53
Public Law 76–237
To provide that the United States extend to foreign governments invitations to participate in the Seventh International Congress for the Rheumatic Diseases to be held in the United States during the calendar year 1940, and to authorize an appropriation to assist in meeting the expenses of the session.
Approved June 21, 1939
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To provide that the United States extend to foreign governments invitations to participate in the Seventh International Congress for the Rheumatic Diseases to be held in the United States during the calendar year 1940, and to authorize an appropriation to assist in meeting the expenses of the session.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the President is
Seventh International Congress for the Rheumatic Diseases.
President requested to invite participation by foreign governments.
hereby authorized and requested to invite foreign governments to participate in the Seventh International Congress for the Rheumatic Diseases to be held in New York, New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Boston, Massachusetts, probably from May 26 to June 1, inclusive, 1940, under the auspices of the Ligue Internationale contre le Rhumatisme (the International League Against Rheumatism).
Sec. 2.
The sum of $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the expenses of organizing, holding, and publishing the proceedings of the Seventh International Congress for the Rheumatic Diseases, including expenditures for 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 regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S. C., title 41, sec. 5);
Appropriation authorized. Personal services.
5 U. S. C. §§ 661–674; Supp. IV, §§ 673, 673c.
R. S. § 3709.
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, purchase of newspapers and periodicals, necessary books and documents, stationery, membership badges, such 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.
Approved, June 21, 1939.