§ 266. — International commission of congresses of navigation; authorization of appropriation for expenses.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC266]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
Sec. 266. International commission of congresses of navigation;
authorization of appropriation for expenses
The sum of $3,000 a year is authorized to be appropriated, out of
any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the support
and maintenance of the permanent international commission of the
congresses of navigation and for the payment of the actual expenses of
the properly accredited national delegates of the United States to the
meetings of the congresses and of the commission; and the Secretary of
the Army is authorized to draw his warrant each year upon the Secretary
of the Treasury for such sum, not to exceed $3,000, as may in his
opinion be proper to apply to the purposes above mentioned, and the said
sum shall be disbursed under such regulations as may be prescribed by
the Secretary of the Army.
The national delegates aforesaid from the United States shall serve
without compensation, but shall be reimbursed for their actual expenses
incurred while traveling to and from the meetings, and while in
attendance thereon, from the funds appropriated in this section and
authorized to be expended.
(June 28, 1902, ch. 1306, 32 Stat. 485; June 26, 1934, ch. 756, Sec. 2,
48 Stat. 1225; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, Sec. 205(a), 61 Stat.
501.)
Change of Name
Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of
Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of
act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of
act July 26, 1947, was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch.
1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act Aug. 10, 1956, enacted ``Title 10,
Armed Forces'' which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of
the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.
Appropriations
Section 2 of act June 26, 1934, ch. 756, 48 Stat. 1225, which was
classified to section 725a of former Title 31, Money and Finance,
repealed the permanent appropriation under the title ``Permanent
International Commission of Congress of Navigation (fiscal year) (8-
887)'' effective July 1, 1935, and provided that such portions of any
Acts as make permanent appropriations to be expended under such account
are amended so as to authorize, in lieu thereof, annual appropriations
from the general fund of the Treasury in identical terms and in such
amounts as now provided by the laws providing such permanent
appropriations.
