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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.

§ 274. International Council of Scientific Unions and Associated Unions; authorization of annual appropriations for membership

Statutory text

There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, in paying the annual share of the United States as an adhering member of the International Council of Scientific Unions and Associated Unions, including the International Astronomical Union, International Union of Chemistry, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, International Union of Mathematics, International Scientific Radio Union, International Union of Physics, and International Geographical Union, and such other international scientific unions as the Secretary of State may designate, such sum as may be necessary for the payment of such annual share, not to exceed $100,000 in any one year.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 74–454 · 49 Stat. 540

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 274

    Aug. 7, 1935, ch. 454, 49 Stat. 540

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 7, 1935, ch. 454, 49 Stat. 540

  2. Pub. L. 85–627 · 72 Stat. 574

    Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 274

    Pub. L. 85–627 substituted “$65,000” for “$9,000”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 85–627 substituted “$65,000” for “$9,000”.

  3. Pub. L. 89–104 · 79 Stat. 427

    Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 274

    Pub. L. 89–104 substituted “$100,000” for “$65,000”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 89–104 substituted “$100,000” for “$65,000”.

0 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 3 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments1958–1965 · 2 rounds

1965

Pub. L. 89–104 substituted “$100,000” for “$65,000”.

1958

Pub. L. 85–627 substituted “$65,000” for “$9,000”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Annual Appropriations

Annual appropriations to meet the obligations of membership in various international organizations were contained in acts listed in a note set out under section 269a of this title.

Annual Appropriations Between 1948 and 1970

Act June 3, 1948, ch. 400, title I, § 101, 62 Stat. 305, and subsequent Department of State Appropriation Acts through act , Pub. L. 91–153, title I, § 101, 83 Stat. 404, failed to authorize appropriations for this section. See Annual Appropriations note set out above.

Credits

1935–1965 · 3 acts
  1. 1935Aug. 7, 1935, ch. 454, 49 Stat. 540
  2. 1958Pub. L. 85–627, , 72 Stat. 574
  3. 1965Pub. L. 89–104, , 79 Stat. 427.
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(Aug. 7, 1935, ch. 454, 49 Stat. 540; Pub. L. 85–627, , 72 Stat. 574; Pub. L. 89–104, , 79 Stat. 427.)

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