Chapter 20. making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen,” be, and the same is hereby, approved and confirmed; such delegates shall be known as the United States Section of the International High Commission and shall cooper
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CHAP. 20.— AN ACT To provide for the maintenance of the United States Section of the International High Commission. February 7, 1916.[[H. R. 8235](/us/bill/64/hr/8235).][[Public, No. 15](/us/pl/64/15).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the appointment of the International High Commission. Appointment of United States Section, approved.nine delegates by the Secretary of the Treasury to represent the United States in the proceedings of the International High Commission to be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, during the year nineteen hundred and sixteen, in accordance with the action of the First Pan American Financial Conference held in Washington during the year Vol. 38, p. 1126.nineteen hundred and fifteen, pursuant to the provisions of an Act of Congress, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen,” be, and the same is hereby, approved and confirmed; such delegates shall be known as the United States Section of the International High Commission and shall cooperate with the other sections of the commission in taking action upon the recommendations of the First Pan American Financial Conference; and the President is authorized to fill any vacancies that may occur in the Appropriation for expenses.United States Section of said International Commission.
For the purpose of meeting such actual and necessary expenses on the part of the United States Section of the Commission as may arise from its work and investigations, or as may be incidental to its attendance at the meeting of the said International High Commission, the sum of $40,000 is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be immediately available, and to remain available until expended.
Approved, February 7, 1916.