Volume 68 · 754
Public Law 83–607
To establish the rate of compensation for the position of the General Counsel of the Department of Commerce.
Approved August 20, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To establish the rate of compensation for the position of the General Counsel of the Department of Commerce.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That that portion of the Act of March 18, 1904, relating to the Office of the General Counsel of the Department of Commerce (33 Stat. 85, 135), as amended and supplemented by the Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 736), by Public
Law 584, Eighty-second Congress (66 Stat. 758), and by section 7 of Executive Order 6166 of June 10, 1933, be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
“There shall be in the Department of Commerce a General Counsel, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall have basic compensation at the rate per annum provided for Assistant Secretaries.”
Approved August 20, 1954.