22 U.S.C. § 266: International commission of…

Summary

Up to $3,000 a year may be taken from the U.S. Treasury to support the permanent international commission of the congresses of navigation and to pay the real expenses of U.S. national delegates who attend its meetings. Each year the Secretary of the Army can request up to $3,000 from the Secretary of the Treasury and must spend it under rules he sets. U.S. national delegates do not get a salary. They will be paid back for their actual travel and attendance costs from this money.

Title 22, §266

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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.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Act

June 26, 1934, ch. 756, § 2(a), 48 Stat. 1225, which was classified to section 725a of former Title 31, Money and Finance, provided for the repeal, effective

July 1, 1935, of the permanent appropriations under the appropriations titles listed in section 2(b) of such Act, and further provided that such portions of any Acts as made permanent appropriations to be expended under such accounts were 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 were provided by the laws providing such permanent appropriations. The text of section 2(b)(12) of such Act provides as follows: “Permanent International Commission of Congresses of Navigation (fiscal year) (8–887).” See 1934 Amendment note below.

Amendments

1934—Act June 26, 1934, substituted “The sum of $3,000 a year is authorized to be appropriated” for “The sum of $3,000 a year is hereby appropriated”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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.

Effective Date

of 1934 AmendmentAct

June 26, 1934, ch. 756, § 2(a), 48 Stat. 1225, provided that the permanent appropriations under the appropriations titles listed in section 2(b) of such Act were repealed, effective

July 1, 1935.

§266 International Commission of Congresses of Navigation; Authorization of Appropriation for Expenses