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 62 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 714, 715-JUNE 29, 1948 $5 per day and be reimbursed under Government travel regulations for actual expenses of travel while performing duties as a member of either Board. (b) Advisers called for consultation by either Board in connection with the business of the Board shall be compensated in the same man- ner as members of the Boards in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section. SEC. 7. That part of the Act of August 29, 1916, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other pur- poses", which relates to the Board of Visitors to the United States Naval Academy (39 Stat. 608) and reads as follows: "From and after the passage of this Act there shall be appointed every year, in the following manner, a Board of Visitors, to visit the academy, the date of the annual visit of the board aforesaid to be fixed by the Secretary of the Navy: Seven persons shall be appointed by the President and four Senators and five Members of the House of Representatives shall be designated as visitors by the Vice President or President pro tem- pore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively, in the month of January of each year. The chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the Senate and chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs of the House of Representatives shall be ex officio members of said board. "Each member of said board shall receive while engaged upon duties as a member of the board not to exceed $5 a day and actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail routes", is hereby repealed. SEC. 8 . (a) So much of the provision of the Act of August 9, 1912, entitled "An Act making appropriations for the support of the Mili- tary Academy for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes", which provides as follows: "Provided, That the Act approved May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, be amended and reenacted so as to read as follows: That hereafter the Board of Visitors to the Military Acad- emy shall consist of five members of the Committee on Military Affairs of the Senate and seven members of the Committee on Military Affairs of the House of Representatives, to be appointed by the respective chairmen thereof; the members so appointed shall visit the Military Academy annually at such time as the chairman of said committees shall appoint, and the members from each of said committees may visit said academy together or separately as the said committees may elect during the session of Congress; and the superintendent of the academy and the members of the Board of Visitors shall be notified of such date by the chairmen of the said committees. The expenses of the members of the board shall be their actual expenses while engaged upon their duties as members of said board not to exceed five d(ollars per day and their actual expenses of travel by the shortest mail routes" is hereby repealed. (b) The Act of May 17, 1928, entitled "An Act to provide for the membership of the Board of Visitors to the United States Military Academy, and for other purposes" (45 Stat. 597), is hereby repealed. Approved June 29, 1948. [CHAPTER 715] AN ACT Relating to the arming of American vessels. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That during time of war or national emergency the President is authorized, through such 1095 Compensation of advisers. Repeals. 34 U.S.C. §1081. 37 Stat. 257. 10 U. . C. i 1061, 1053. 35 Stat. 436 . 10U.S. C.if 1052, 104 uane 2, 1948 [. 1107] [Publc Law 8171 Armtin of Ameria VMal1.

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