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[70 Stat. 780]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1956
[70 Stat. 780]

780 Per diem.

60 Stat. 808. 69 Stat. 394.

Interagency committees.

Cultural program.

PUBLIC LiAW 861-AUG. 1, 1956

U.S. Grain standards Act, amend> ment. 39 Stat. 485. Penalty for violations.

ST A T.

(e) No member of the Committee shall receive any compensation for his services as such; but each such member shall be paid actual transportation expenses and paid in lieu of subsistence the per diem rates prescribed or established pursuant to section 5 of the Administrative Expense Act of 1946, as amended (5 U.S.C. 73b-2), while away from home in attendance at meetings of the Committee or in consultation with officials of the Government in carrying out the duties of the Committee. (f) Staft' and secretarial services for the Committee shall be provided by the departmental staft* of the United States Advisory Commission* oii Educational Exchange, with the assistance of the International Educational Exchange Service. SEC. 11. The President is authorized to create such interagency committees as in his judgment may be of assistance in carrying out the purpose of this Act. Such committees shall include individuals having special knowledge and experience in the field of the cultural arts as well as individuals whose knowledge and experience in other fields will assist in carrying out the program established by this Act. The provisions of section 214 of the Act of May 3, 1945 (59 Stat. 134; 31 IT. S. C, sec. 691), shall be applicable to any interagency committee created pursuant to this section. SEC. 12. The cultural program authorized by this Act should include, to the greatest extent possible, presentations and other activities in such major art fields as: music, drama, poetry, and dance; new writing and literature; architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional planning, civic art and design, historic preservation; housing, interior design and decoration, and urban renewal and redevelopment; painting, sculpture, graphic arts, and hand arts and crafts; motion pictures and photography; and radio and television. Approved August 1, 1966.

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CHAPTER 812

AN ACT To protect the integrity of grade certificates under the United States Grain Standards Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 9 of the United States Grain Standards Act (7 U.S.C. 85) is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 9. Any person who shall knowingly violate any of the provisions of sections 4 or 7 of this Act, or any inspector licensed under this Act, or any person sampling grain for inspection under this Act, who shall knowingly inspect, grade, or sample improperly any grain which has been shipped or delivered for shipment m interstate or foreign commerce, or shall knowingly give any false or incorrect certificate of grade, or shall accept money or other consideration, directly or indirectly, for any neglect or improper performance of duty, and any person who shall improperly influence or attempt to improperly influence any such inspector or sampler in the performance of his duty, or shall knowingly or willfully cause, or attempt to cause, the issuance of a false or incorrect certificate of grade under this Act by deceptive loading, handling, or sampling of grain, or by submitting grain for inspection knowing that it has been so loaded, handled, or sampled, or by any other means, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon^ conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $1,000, or be imprisoned not more than one year, or both." Approved August 1, 1956.