Volume 67 · 4
Public Law 83–2
To amend Public Law 73, Eighty-first Congress, first session (63 Stat. 111), to provide for an Under Secretary of State for Administration.
Approved February 7, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend Public Law 73, Eighty-first Congress, first session (63 Stat. 111), to provide for an Under Secretary of State for Administration.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 1 of the Act of May 26, 1949 (63 Stat. Ill; 5 U. S. C. 151a), is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
“Until December 31, 1954, unless the office shall be abolished sooner
Under Secretary of State for Administration.
by the President, there, shall be in the Department of State an Under Secretary of State for Administration who shall he appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall take precedence in the Department of State next after the Secretary and the Under Secretary. The Under Secretary of State for Administration shall receive compensation at the rate of $17,560 per annum, and shall perform such duties and exercise such administrative powers as the Secretary of State may prescribe,”
Approved February 7, 1953.