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[71 Stat. 6]
PUBLIC LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1957
[71 Stat. 6]

PUBLIC LAW 85-8-MA.R. U, 1957

68 Stat. 832. 22 USC 1751 note.

22 USC

1815.

1921,

70 Stat. 733.

Restriction. Report to e o n g r e s s i o n a l Committees.

U. N. Emergency Force.

Report to gress.

Con-

Expiration.

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STAT.

joint resolution not to exceed $200,000,000 from any appropriation now available for carrying out the provisions of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, m accord with the provisions of such Act: Provided, That, whenever the President determines it to be important to the security of the United States, such use may be under the authority of section 401(a) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended (except that the provisions of section 105(a) thereof shall not be waived), and without regard to the provisions of section 105 of the Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 1957: Provided further, That obligations incurred in carrying out the purposes of the first sentence of section 2 of this joint resolution shall be paid only out of appropriations for military assistance, and obligations incurred in carrying out the purposes of the first section of this joint resolution shall be paid only out of appropriations other than those for military assistance. This authorization is in addition to other existing authorizations with respect to the use of such appropriations. None of the additional authorization contained in this section shall be used until fifteen days after the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the (Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives and, when military assistance is involved, the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives have been furnished a report showing the object of the proposed use, the country for the benefit of which such use is intended, and the particular appropriation or appropriations for carrying out the provisions of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, from which the funds are proposed to be derived: Provided, That funds available under this section during the balance of fiscal year 1957 shall, in the case of any such report submitted during the last fifteen days of the fiscal year, remain available for use under this section for the purposes stated in such report for a period of twenty days following the date of submission of such report. Nothing contained in this joint resolution shall be construed as itself authorizing the appropriation of additional funds for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the first section or of the first sentence of section 2 of this joint resolution. SEC. 4. The President should continue to furnish facilities and military assistance, within the provisions of applicable law and established policies, to the United Nations Emergency Force in the Middle East, with a view to maintaining the truce in that region. SEC. 5. The President shall within the months of January and July of each year report to the Congress his action hereunder. SEC. 6. This joint resolution shall expire when the President shall determine that the peace and security of the nations in the general area of the Middle East are reasonably assured by international conditions created by action of the United Nations or otherwise except that it may be terminated earlier by a concurrent resolution of the two Houses of Congress. Approved March 9, 1957. Public Law 85-8

March 14, 1957 [H. J. R e s. 2 3 ]

JOINT RESOLUTION To provide for the reappointment of Doctor A r t h u r H. Gonipton a s Citizen Regent of the IJoard of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution.

Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United I ^t?tutro""'^* " /States of America in Congress assembled, That the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, of the class other