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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 334, 335-MAY 25, 1948 under the provisions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Act, as amended, shall not be subject to the restrictions or limitations of this section upon loans secured by real estate." Approved May 25, 1948. [CHAPTER 335] May 25,8 AN ACT [S. 1571] To promote the national defense by increasing the membership of the National [Public Law 549] Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the National Advisory United States of America in Congress assembled, That the eighth autt for ero- paragraph following the caption "Pay, miscellaneous" in the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 930; U. S . C ., 50v.S.C 1151. title 49, sec. 241), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS "(a) There is hereby established a National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (hereinafter referred to as the 'Committee') to be Membership. composed of not more than seventeen members appointed by the Presi- dent. Members shall serve as such without compensation, and shall include two representatives of the Department of the Air Force; two representatives of the Department of the Navy, from the office in charge of naval aeronautics; two representatives of the Civil Aero- nautics Authority; one representative of the Smithsonian Institution; one representative of the United States Weather Bureau; one repre- sentative of the National Bureau of Standards; the chairman of the Research and Development Board of the National Military Establish- ment; and not more than seven other members selected from persons acquainted with the needs of aeronautical science either civil or mili- Term of office. tary, or skilled in aeronautical engineering or its allied sciences. Unless otherwise provided by law, each member not representing a govern- ment department or agency shall be appointed for a term of five years from the date of the expiration of the term of the member whom he succeeds, except that any member appointed to fill a vacancy occur- ring prior to the expiration of a term shall be appointed for the unex- pired term of the member whom he succeeds. Dutes "(b) Under such rules and regulations as shall be formulated by the Committee, with the approval of the President, for the conduct of its work, it shall be the duty of the Committee (1) to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight with a view to their prac- tical solution, (2) to determine the problems which should be experi- mentally attacked, and to discuss their solution and their application to practical questions, and (3) to direct and conduct research and experiment in aeronautics in the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory the Ames Aeronautical Laboratory, the Flight Propulsion Research Laboratory, and in such other laboratory or laboratories as may, in whole or in part, be placed under the direction of the Committee. Report to Congress. "(C) An annual report to the Congress shall be submitted by the Committee through the President, including an itemized statement of expenditures." vcppointment to fiU SEC. 2. Each member of the National Advisory Committee for Aero- nautics not representing a government department or agency who may be appointed initially to fill any vacancy created by the increase in the membership of the Committee authorized by the amendment 266 [62 STAT.

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