Chapter 7. To authorize the President of the United States to arrange and participate in an international conference to consider questions relating to international communication
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CHAP. 7.— An Act To authorize the President of the United States to arrange and participate in an international conference to consider questions relating to international communication. December 17, 1919. [[H. R. 9822](/us/bill/66/hr/9822).] [[Public, No. 100](/us/pl/66/100).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the President of theInternational Communication Conference.President authorized to arrange for, etc.
United States be, and he is hereby, requested and authorized in the name of the Government of the United States to call, in his discretion, an international conference to assemble in Washington, and to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, representatives to participate therein, to consider all international aspects of communication by telegraph, telephone, cable, wireless telephone, and wireless telegraphy, and to make recommendations with a view to providing the entire world with adequate facilities for international communication on a fair and equitable basis.
Sec. 2. That the sum of $75,000, or so much thereof as may beAppropriation for expenses. necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the same to be disbursed under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of State for expenses 368incidental to the conference, including personal services in the District of Columbia notwithstanding the provisions of any other *Proviso*.Restriction.Act: *Provided*, That no part of said sum shall be used in entertainment or for the purchase of medals and badges.
Approved, December 17, 1919.