82 Allocation of posi- tions. 42 Stat. 1492,1496. 5U.S.C. 673. Limitation on num- ber so designated. Revocation. Legal effect. Revocation not ret- roactive. Scope of provisions. Appropriation au- thorized. April 5, 1940 [S. J. Res. 226] [Pub. Res., No. 59] Smithsonian Insti- tution. Vannevar Bush, ap- pointment to Board of Regents. April 6, 1940 [H. R. 86411 [Public, No. 447] First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1940. PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 75-77 -APR. 4, 5, 6, 1940 assign appropriate titles to such officers or employees. The position held by any officer or employee while he is designated under this section, and vested with a regulatory function or part thereof dele- gated under this section, shall be allocated to a grade, not lower than grade 7, in the professional and scientific service provided for by the Classification Act of 1923, as amended, or to a grade, not lower than grade 14, in the clerical, administrative, and fiscal service pro- vided for by such Act, as amended. There shall not be in the De- partment at any one time more than two officers or employees desig- nated under this section and vested with a regulatory function or part thereof delegated under this section. The Secretary may at any time revoke the whole or any part of a delegation or designation made by him under this section. SEc. 3 . Whenever a delegation is made under section 2, all provi- sions of law shall be construed as if the regulatory function or the part thereof delegated had (to the extent of the delegation) been vested by law in the individual to whom the delegation is made, instead of in the Secretary of Agriculture. A revocation of delega- tion shall not be retroactive, and each regulatory function or part thereof performed (within the scope of the delegation) by such indi- vidual prior to the revocation shall be considered as having been performed by the Secretary. SEa. 4. The provisions of section 2 shall not be deemed to pro- hibit the delegation, under authority of any other provision of law, of the whole or any part of any regulatory function or other function to any officer or employee of the Department of Agriculture. SEC. 5 . There is hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. Approved, April 4, 1940. [CHAPTER 761 JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for the filling of a vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution of the class other than Members of Congress. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of Anerica in Congress assembled, That the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other than Members of Congress, caused by the resignation of John C. Merriam, be filled by the appointment of Vannevar Bush, a resident of the city of Washington, for the statutory term of six years. Approved, April 5, 1940. [CHAPTER 77] AN ACT Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1940, to provide supplemental appropriations for such fiscal year, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the follow- ing sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in certain appropria- tions for the fiscal year ending June 30,1940, to provide supplemental appropriations for such fiscal year, and for other purposes, namely: [54 STAT.
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