Volume 70
Public Law 84–890
To authorize the vessel operations revolving fund of the Department of Commerce to be used for expenses in connection with the chartering of merchant ships under jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce.
Approved August 1, 1956
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the vessel operations revolving fund of the Department of Commerce to be used for expenses in connection with the chartering of merchant ships under jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the vessel operations
Vessel operations revolving fund.
revolving fund created by the Third Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1951, approved June 2, 1951 (Public Law 45, Eighty-second Congress; 65 Stat. 52, at 59),shall, beginning July 1, 1956, be available for expenses incurred in connection with the activation, repair, and deactivation of merchant ships chartered under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce. There shall be credited to such fund all receipts on account of operations after July 1, 1956, under charters of Government-owned ships under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Commerce.
Approved August 1, 1956.