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Volume 68

Public Law 83–339

To amend the act entitled “An Act to authorize a permanent annual appropriation for the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory,” approved May 7, 1928, as amended.

Approved April 19, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend the act entitled “An Act to authorize a permanent annual appropriation for the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory,” approved May 7, 1928, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Act entitled “An Act to authorize a permanent annual appropriation for the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory”, approved May 7, 1928, as amended, is hereby amended by striking out clauses (2) and (3) of section 1 of said Act and inserting in lieu thereof the

45 Stat. 491.

22 USC 278.

following: “and (2) that the said Gorgas Memorial Institute be, and it is hereby, authorized within its discretion, henceforth to accept from any of the Latin American Governments, or from any other sources, any funds which may be offered or given for the use of the Gorgas Memorial Institute for the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and for carrying on the work of said Laboratory wherever deemed by the said Institute to be necessary or desirable.”

Approved April 19, 1954.

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