Volume 60
Public Law 79–643
For the acquisition of buildings and grounds in foreign countries for the use of the Government of the United States of America.
Approved July 25, 1946
Statutory text
AN ACT
For the acquisition of buildings and grounds in foreign countries for the use of the Government of the United States of America.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United State of America in Congress assembled,
That for the purpose
Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926.
Additional appropriation authorized.
of further carrying into effect the provisions of the Foreign Service Buildings Act of May 7, 1926, as amended, (22 U. S. C. 291–297), there is authorized to be appropriated in addition to the amount
authorized by such Act, and the Act of May 25, 1928, an amount not to exceed $125,000,000, of which $110,000,000 shall be available exclusively for payments representing the value, in whole or in part, of property or credits of whatever nature acquired through lend-lease settlements, the disposal of surplus property abroad, or otherwise, and held abroad by the Government or owing the Government by any foreign government or by any person or organization residing or situated abroad, which property or credits may be used by the Department of State for sites, buildings, equipment, construction, and lease-holds; such payments to be made to the agency of the United States administering the property or credits and be treated by such agency as though made by the foreign government, person, or organization concerned. Sums appropriated pursuant to this Act shall be available for the purposes and subject to the conditions and limitations of the above Acts, except that there shall be. no limitation on the amount to be appropriated in any one year and that expenditures
Post, p. 809.
for furnishings shall not be subject to the provisions of section 3709 of the Revised Statutes.
Approved July 25, 1946.