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PUBLIC LAW 860-AUG. 1, 1956

SEC. 7. The President is authorized to provide for all necessary expenditures involved in the selection, purchase, rental, construction, or other acquisition of exhibits and materials and equipment therefor, and the actual display thereof, including but not limited to costs of transportation, insurance, installation, safekeeping, and storage, maintenance and operation, rental of space, and dismantling. SEC. 8. Whenever the President determines it to be in furtherance of this Act, the functions authorized hereunder may be performed without regard to such provisions of law or limitations of authority regulating or relating to the making, performance, amendment, or modification of contracts, the acquisition and disposition of property, and the expenditure of Government funds, as he may specify. SEC. 9. The President shall transmit to the Congress reports covering each six months of operations under this Act. SEC. 10. (a) There is hereby created an Advisory Committee on the Arts (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Committee"), consisting of a Chairman selected by the United States Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange from among its membership and nine other members appointed by the Secretary of State. I n making such appointments the Secretary of State shall give due consideration to the recommendations for nomination submitted by leading national organizations in the major art fields. (b) The members of the Committee shall be individuals whose knowledge of or experience in, or whose profound interest in, one or more of the arts will enable them to assist the United States Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange, the President, and the Secretary of State in performing the functions described in subsection (c) of this section. (c) The Committee shall— (1) advise and assist the United States Advisory Commission on Educational Exchange in the discharge of its responsibilities in the field of international educational exchange under the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 as amended, with special reference to the role of the arts in such field; (2) advise, assist, and cooperate with such Commission in the discharge of responsibilities under the cultural presentations program authorized by and financed under this Act, insofar as such program contributes directly or indirectly to the objectives of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, as amended; (3) advise the President in the discharge of his responsibilities under the cultural exchange program authorized by and financed under this Act; (4) advise the Secretary of State concerning cultural activities whenever the Secretary considers it necessary to enable him to formulate policies for carrying out the purposes of the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948, coordinating the exercise of its functions under this paragraph with the exercise of its functions under paragraph (1) of this subsection; and (5) provide such other advice and assistance in carrying out this Act as may be necessary or appropriate. (d) The term of office of each of the members of the Committee appointed by the Secretary of State shall be two years; except that the term of office of four of the members first appointed shall be one year.

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