258
PUBLIC LAW 89-82-JULY 24, 1965
[79
STAT.
TITLE III — JOINT COMMISSION ON THE C O I N A G E Membership.
Restriction.
Vacancies.
Duties.
Appropriation,
SEC. 301. The President is hereby authorized to establish a Joint Commission on the Coinage to be composed of the Secretary of the Treasury as Chairman; the Secretary of Commerce; the Director of the Bureau of the Budget; the Director of the Mint; the chairman and ranking minority member of the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, and four Members of the Senate, not members of such committee, to be appointed by the President of the Senate; the chairman and ranking mmority member of the House Banking and Currency Committee, and four Members of the House of Representatives, not members of such committee, to be appointed hj the Speaker; and eight public members to be appointed by the President, none of whom shall be associated or identified with or representative of any industry, group, business, or association directly interested as such m the composition, characteristics, or production of the coinage of the United States. SEC. 302. No public official or Member of Congress serving as a member of the Joint Commission shall continue to serve as such after he has ceased to hold the office by virtue of which he became a member of the Joint Commission. Any vacancy on the Joint Commission shall be filled by the choosing of a successor member in the same manner as his predecessor. SEC. 303. The Joint Commission shall study the progress made in the implementation of the coinage program established by this Act, and shall review from time to time such matters as the needs of the economy for coins, the standards for the coinage, technological developments in metallurgy and coin-selector devices, the availability of various metals, renewed minting of the silver dollar, the time when and circumstances under which the United States should cease to maintain the price of silver, and other considerations relevant to the maintenance of an adequate and stable coinage system. I t shall, from time to time, give its advice and recommendations with respect to these matters to the President, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Congress. SEC. 304. There are authorized to be appropriated to remain available until expended, such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this title. Approved July 23, 1965. Public Law 89-82
July 24, 1965 [H. R. 9497]
76 Stat. 621. 7 USC 1336.
<;,
AN ACT To extend the time for conducting the referendum with respect to the national marketing quota for wheat for the marketing year beginning July 1, 1966.
Be it enacted by the SeTiate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 336 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Notwithstanding any other provision hereof the referendum with respect to the national marketing quota for wheat for the marketing year beginning July 1, 1966, may be conducted not later than thirty days after adjournment sine die of the first session of the Eighty-ninth Congress. Approved July 24, 1965.
�
