Chapter 363. Amending section 1 of Public Resolution Numbered 89 Seventy-first Congress, approved June 17, 1930, entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and the surrender of
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CHAP. 363.— An Act Amending section 1 of Public Resolution Numbered 89 Seventy-first Congress, approved June 17, 1930, entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and the surrender of Lord Cornwallis on October 19, 1781, and authorizing an appropria tion to be used in connection with such celebration, and for other purposes.” March 2, 1931.[[S. 6032](/us/bill/71/s/6032).][[Public, No. 769](/us/pl/71/769).] *Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission.*Ante*, pp. 333, 776, 887.
That section 1 of Public Resolution Numbered 89, Seventy-first Congress, approved June 17, 1930, entitled “Joint resolution providing for the participation of the United States in the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the siege of Yorktown, Virginia, and the surrender of Lord Cornwallis on October 19, 1781, and authorizing an appropriation to be used in connection with such celebration, and for other purposes,” be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows:
" “Section 1. Commission continued.Vol. 45, pp. 2394, 2396. That the commission heretofore created pursuant to H. Con. Res. 43, Seventieth Congress, first session, and known as the United States Yorktown Sesquicentennial Commission, be, and the same is hereby, continued by the same name and hereinafter referred to as the commission. Term of members.“The membership on the commission of Senators and Members of the House of Representatives shall continue irrespective of their Filling vacancies.terms as Members of Congress.
Any vacancies arising in the personnel of the said commission shall be filled as follows: Any vacancies occurring among Senators shall be filled by the President of the Senate, and any vacancies occurring among Members of the House of Representatives before the organization of the Seventy-second Congress shall be filled by appointment by the present Speaker of the House of Representatives.” " Approved, March 2, 1931.