Public Law 83–699

That the President of the United States is authorized, by proclamation or in such other manner as he may deem proper, to invite the States of the Union and foreign countries to participate in the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition, to be held at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 13 to September 25, 1954, inclusive, for the purpose of exhibiting instruments and devices for measurement, inspection, testing, and automatic control (including analytical instruments, astronomical instruments, aviation instruments, automatic control valves, cameras, drafting instruments, electrical and electronic components, electrical and electronic measuring instruments, electronic computers, geophysical instruments, machine-shop gages and inspection devices, measuring pumps, meteorological instruments, scales and balances, servomechanisms, surveying instruments, watches, timers and time pieces, and other precision devices and machinery for precision working), and for the purpose of bringing together buyers and sellers for the promotion of foreign and domestic trade and commerce in such products.