Volume 68 · 1051
Public Law 83–759
To amend section 413 (b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946.
Approved August 31, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend section 413 (b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946.
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 413 (b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
“(b) A person appointed as a Foreign Service officer of classes 1 through 5, inclusive, shall receive salary at the minimum rate provided for the class to which he has been appointed, except that until March 31, 1955, not more than five hundred persons may be appointed from the classified civil service or the Foreign Service reserve or Foreign Service staff at other than the minimum rate.”
Approved August 31, 1954.