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PUBLIC LAW 853-JULY 31, 1956
"Ninth. The Department of Labor. "Tenth. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare." (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) of this section shall not be construed to make applicable to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare any provision of law inconsistent with Reorganization Plan No. 1 of 1953 or Public Law 13, 83d Congress, or to f « % laarfs supersede or limit any function or authority of the Department of note. Health, Education, and Welfare, or any officer thereof, under any law in effect prior to the enactment of this Act, or prevent or limit the expenditure of funds for any such function or authority. SEC. 2. (a) There shall be in the Department of Health, Education, General Counsol. and Welfare, a General Counsel who snail be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter provided by law for assistant secretaries of executive departments. The General Counsel shall be the chief legal officer of the Department and shall perform such functions as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare may prescribe. (b) The General Counsel shall act as Secretary during the absence or disability, or in the event of a vacancy in the office, of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and of the Under Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare. Approved July 31, 1956, 5:00 p.m.
Public Law 853
CHAPTER 803 AN ACT
Making appropriations for Mutual Security for the fistal year ending June 30, 1957, and for other purposes.
July 31, 1956 [H. R. 12130]
Be it eimcted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the « », United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Appro^r*ationX;tI sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- '^^* wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, namely: MUTUAL SECURITY For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the provisions of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, as follows: Military assistance: For assistance authorized by section 103(a) (3), including not to exceed $23,000,000 for administrative expenses to carry out the purposes of title I, chapter 1, and section 124, $2,017,500,000 of which $67,500,000 shall be available for infrastructure as authorized by section 104(a); and in addition not to exceed $195,500,000 of unobligated and unreserved funds heretofore appropriated under authority of section 103(a), section 104 and section 124 of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, are continued available until June 30, 1957, for the purposes of sections 103(a)(3) and 104: Provided, That none of the funds made available for military assistance under this Act shall be used to furnish military equipment to Yugoslavia except for maintenance of equipment heretofore furnished or to provide spare parts for replacement purposes; Defense support: For assistance authorized by section 131(c), for Europe (excluding Greece and Turkey), $68,700,000: Provided, That at least $50,000,000 on a grant basis shall be available for Spain, exclusive of inter-regional expenses: Provided further, That not less than $18,500,000 of the amount available for Spain shall be used for agricultural commodities; for the Near East (including Greece and Turkey) and Africa, $167,500,000; for Asia, $873,500,000; and for
Ante, p. 555. 69 Stat. 284. 22 USC 1834.
22 USC 1814.
R«atriction.
Ante, p. 556.
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