Volume 71 · 7
Public Law 85–8
To provide for the reappointment of Doctor Arthur H. Compton as Citizen Regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
Approved March 14, 1957
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To provide for the reappointment of Doctor Arthur H. Compton as Citizen Regent of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the vacancy in the Boat’d of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress, which will occur by the expiration of the term of Doctor Arthur H. Compton, of St. Louis, Missouri, on September 20, 1956, be filled by the reappointment of the present incumbent for the statutory term of six years.
Approved March 14, 1957.