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67 S T A T. ]

PUBLIC LAW U O - J U L Y 13, 1953

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(d) The Commission may appoint and fix the compensation of such employees as it deems advisable without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws and the Classification Act of 1949, as amended. (e) The Commission may procure, without regard to the civilservice laws and the classification laws, temporary and intermittent services to the same extent as is authorized for the departments by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 810), but at rates not to exceed $50 per diem for individuals. (f) Without regard to the civil-service and classification laws, the Commission may appoint and fix the compensation of a Director not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars, who shall perform such duties as the Commission shall prescribe.

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TERMINATION OF THE COMMISSION

SEC. 6. Six months after the transmittal to the Congress of the final report provided for in section 3 of this Act, the Commission shall cease to exist. Approved July 10, 1953. Public Law 110

CHAPTER 186

JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing an appropriation to defray the expenses of the annual meeting of the Interparliamentary Union for the year 1953, to be held in Washington, District of Columbia.

j ^ ^ 13^ 1^53 [H. j. Rea. 234]

Whereas the Interparliamentary Union has been invited, pursuant to S. Con. Res. 90 (Eighty-second Congress, second session), to hold ^^ ^*°*' ^^*' its annual meeting for the year 1953 in Washington, District of Columbia; and Whereas it appears that the Interparliamentary Union will accept such invitation, and it is necessary that funds be made available to defray the expenses incident to such meeting: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is authorized to tJ"unT^n*^^"be appropriated the sum of $150,000 for the purpose of defraying the ^ ^^ riation. expenses incident to the annual meeting of the Interparliamentary Union for the year 1953, to be held in Washington, District of Columbia, Funds appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be disbursed on vouchers approved by both the President and the executive secretary of the American Group of the Interparliamentary Union, and such approval shall be final and conclusive upon the accounting officers in the auditing of accounts incident to said annual meeting. SEC. 2. Bona fide members of the Interparliamentary Union and visas, members of their immediate families, may be issued without cost to them nonimmigrant visitors' visas under section 101(a) (15)(B) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and admitted into the United States notwithstanding section 212(a) (28) of the said Act for a lirecVio^im* period not exceeding thirty days to proceed as delegates to the annual meeting of the Union without being registered and fingerprinted, and shall, solely for the purpose of this Act, be accorded the status defined in paragraph (A)(i) of section 101(a) (15) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Approved July 13, 1953.