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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS.-CHS. 352, 353-JUNE 13, 14, 1938 [CHAPTER 352] JOINT RESOLUTION To provide that the United States extend an invitation to the governments of the American republics, members of the Pan American Union, to hold the Eighth American Scientific Congress in the United States in 1940 on the oc- casion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Pan American Union; to invite these governments to participate in the proposed Congress; and to authorize an appropriation for the expenses thereof. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and is hereby, authorized and requested to invite the governments of the American republics, members of the Pan American Union, to hold the Eighth American Scientific Congress in the United States in 1940 on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Pan American Union, and to invite these governments to participate in that Congress. SEC. 2. That the sum of $90,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the expenses of organizing and holding the Eighth American Scientific Congress, including personal services in the District of Columbia and else- where, without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; communication services; stenographic reporting, translating, and other services by contract if deemed necessary, without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes (U. S . C ., title 41, sec. 5); travel expenses; local transportation; hire of motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles; transportation of things; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; printing and binding; entertainment; official cards; purchase of newspapers, periodicals, books, and docu- ments; stationery, membership badges; and such other expenses as may be actually and necessarily incurred by the Government of the United States by reason of observance of appropriate courtesies in connection therewith, and such other expenses as may be authorized by the Secretary of State, including the reimbursement of other appropriations from which payments have been made for any of the purposes herein specified. Approved, June 13, 1938. [CHAPTER 353] AN ACT June 13, 1938 [S. J. Res. 289] [Pub. Res., No. 1091 Eighth American Scientific Congress. Invitation to hold, in United States in 1940. Invitation to par- ticipate. Appropriation au- thorized for expenses. Contract services. R.8. §3709. 41 U. S.C. 5. Reimbursement of other appropriations. June 14, I38 Authorizing the Secretary of War to convey to the town of Montgomery, West JS.l 694] Virginia, a certain tract of land. [Public, No. 595] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the Secre- tary of War is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed to the town of Montgomery, West Virginia, subject to the condition specified in section 2 of this Act, the following described tract of land situated on the left or south bank of the Kanawha River at Lock and Dam Numbered 2, town of Montgomery, Cabin Creek Dis- trict, Kanawha County, State of West Virginia, and more specifically described as follows: Beginning at a stone monument near the top of the bank of the Kanawha River, which monument is north eighty-seven degrees and thirty-two minutes east three hundred and three and eighty-six one- hundredths feet from United States Engineer Department Bench Mark Numbered 114, said bench mark being a brass pin in the coping near the northwest corner of the abutment of said Dam Numbered 2; thence south zero degrees and thirty minutes west one hundred and forty feet to a stone monument which is south sixty-seven degrees and Montgomory,W.Va. Conveyance of cer- tain tract of land to, for public purposes. Description. 675

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