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PUBLIC LAW 692-JULY 11, 1956

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United States Merchant Marine Academy consisting of not more than seven persons of distinction in education and other fields relating to the purposes of the academy, who shall serve without pay. Members of the advisory board shall be appointed for terms of not to exceed three years and may be reappointed. The Secretary of Commerce shall, in June of each year, appoint one of the members to serve as chairman. The members so appointed shall visit the academy at least once during the academic year on the call of the chairman and may convene once each year in Washington, at the call of the Maritime Administrator, for the purpose of examining the course of instruction and the management of the academy and advising the Maritime Administrator, with a copy of such advice to the superintendent, relative thereto. The expenses of the board while engaged in these duties, including the expense of travel, shall be defrayed under Government travel regulations from any appropriation for the authorized work of the Maritime Administration." Approved July 11, 1956.

Public Law 692

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CHAPTER 565

AN ACT To transfer certain responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior to the Public Housing Commissioner and the Secretary of Agriculture, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authority, functions, obligations, and documents relating to Puerto Rican hurricane relief loans to individual coffee planters, coconut planters, fruitgrowers, or other agriculturists (45 Stat. 1067, and 45 Stat. 1627, as modified by 49 Stat. 926 and 49 Stat. 928), heretofore transferred to the Division of Territories and Island Possessions, Department of the Interior, pursuant to the public resolution of June 3, 1935 (49 Stat. 320), and to the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1262), are hereby transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture. The authority of the Secretary of Agriculture described in the Act of December 20, 1944, and in section 41(g) of the Bankhead-Jones F a r m Tenant Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. sec. 1015 (g)), is hereby extended, as additional authority, to apply to the obligations and documents transferred by this section. SEC. 2. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to sell to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico the obligations and documents transferred to him by section 1 hereof, for such consideration as may be consistent with the purposes of the resolution of Congress creating the Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Commission. SEC. 3. There are hereby transferred to the Public Housing Commissioner all right, title, and interest, including contractual rights and reversionary interests, held by the Federal Government in and with respect to the apartment development in San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as the Falansterio Apartments, heretofore administered by the Secretary of the Interior. All of the powers, duties, and responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior under the private sales contract executed on July 1, 1948, by the United States, represented by the Assistant Administrator of the Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, and the Cooperative Association of the Falansterio, and transferred to the Secretary of the Interior pursuant to Reorganization Plan Numbered 3 of 1950 (64 Stat. 1262), are hereby transferred to the Public Housing Commissioner. If, under the terms of the private sales contract or

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