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PUBLIC LAW 8 3 4 - J U L Y 30, 1956

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Whereas the cost of holding an assembly in the United States would exceed the amount provided in the budget of the World Health Organization for holding an assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, the headquarters of the Organization: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate aTid House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is authorized to He^th*^8««nWy! be appropriated to the Department of State, out of any money in the i9S8. Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $400,000 for the Appropriation, purpose of defraying the expenses incident to organizing and holding the Eleventh World Health Assembly in the United States. Funds appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be available for advance contribution to the World Health Organization for additional costs incurred by the Organization in holding the Eleventh World Health Assembly outside the Organization's headquarters at Geneva, Switzerland; and shall be available for expenses incurred by the Department of State, on behalf of the United States as host government, including personal services without regard to civil-service and classification laws; employment of aliens; travel expenses without regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and to the rates of per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence expenses under the Travel Ejjpense Act of 1949; rent of quarters by contract or other- 5 ulcfVasnote. wise; and hire of passenger motor vehicles. Approved July 30, 1966.

Public Law 833

CHAPTER 777

JOINT RESOLUTION Authorizing an appropriation for expenses of the Pan American games to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1959.

j„,y 30, i^g [s. J. Res. 186]_

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby author- gam^,"^!™!// * * " ^ ized to be appropriated out of moneys in the Treasury not otherwise Appropriation, appropriated the sum of $5,000,000 for III P a n American Games (1959). The said appropriation shall be available for the purpose of promoting and insuring the success of the P a n American games to be held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1959 and shall be expended in the discretion of the organization sponsoring said games, subject to such audit as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. Approved July 30, 1956.

Public Law 834

CHAPTER 778

^^ ACT To grant leaves of absence to homestead entrymen and to permit suspeusioa of cultivation and improvement operations on homestead and desert land entries, and for other purposes.

jujy 30, 1956 [s. 3458]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any person ^^me«t««dento^ Lea who holds a homestead entry on public lands which was allowed and sence.v e of absubsisting on March 1, 1956, or which, based on an application on file on March 1, 1956, was allowed and subsisting on the date of approval of this Act, is hereby granted leave of absence from the lands until March 1, 1959, and any person who holds a homestead or desert land entry which was allowed and subsisting on March 1, 1956, or which, based on an application on file on March 1, 1956, was allowed and

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