Chapter 656.
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CHAP. 656.— Joint Resolution Establishing a commission for the participation of the United States in the observance of the three hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, authorizing an appropriation to be utilized in connection with such observance, and for other purposes. June 27, 1930.[[H. J. Res. 306](/us/bill/71/hjres/306).][[Pub. Res., No. 101](/us/bill/71/pubres/101).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there isUnited States Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission.Composition of. hereby established a commission to be known as the United States Massachusetts Bay Colony Tercentenary Commission (hereinafter referred to as the commission) and to be composed of fifteen commissioners, as follows:
Five persons to be appointed by the President of the United States, five Senators by the President of the Senate, and five Members of the House of Representatives by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The commissionNo compensation.Chairman to be elected. shall serve without compensation and shall select a chairman from among their number. Sec. 2. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out ofSum authorized. any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of*Post*, p. 1023. $10,000, to be expended by the commission for actual and necessary traveling expenses and subsistence, while discharging its official duties outside the District of Columbia.
Approved, June 27, 1930.