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SUBCHAPTER V—GORGAS MEMORIAL

LABORATORY

§ 278. Gorgas Memorial Laboratory; location; acceptance of funds from Latin American countries or other sources

There is hereby authorized to be permanently

appropriated for each year, out of any money in

the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the

sum of not to exceed $2,000,000 to be paid to the

Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Incorporated (hereinafter referred to as the Gorgas Memorial Institute), for

the maintenance and operation by its, of a laboratory to be known as the Gorgas Memorial

Laboratory, upon condition (1) that the necessary building or quarters for said laboratory

shall be constructed within the five years next

ensuing after this subchapter shall become a

law, either upon the site offered by the Republic

of Panama therefor, at, or adjacent to, the city

of Panama, or upon a site in the Canal Zone to

be provided by the United States; and (2) that

the said Gorgas Memorial Institute be, and it is,

authorized within its discretion, henceforth to

accept from any of the Latin American Governments, or from any other sources, any funds

which may be offered or given for the use of the

Gorgas Memorial Institute for the maintenance

and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and for carrying on the work of said Laboratory wherever deemed by the said Institute

to be necessary or desirable.

(May 7, 1928, ch. 505, §1, 45 Stat. 491; July 1, 1948,

ch. 787, 62 Stat. 1213; Apr. 19, 1954, ch. 160, 68

Stat. 57; Pub. L. 86–296, §1, Sept. 21, 1959, 73 Stat.

572; Pub. L. 89–181, Sept. 11, 1965, 79 Stat. 679;

Pub. L. 93–559, §47, Dec. 30, 1974, 88 Stat. 1816.)

REFERENCES IN TEXT

For definition of Canal Zone, referred to in text, see

section 3602(b) of this title.

AMENDMENTS

1974—Pub. L. 93–559 substituted ‘‘$2,000,000’’ for

‘‘$500,000’’.

1965—Pub. L. 89–181 substituted ‘‘not to exceed

$500,000’’ for ‘‘$250,000’’.

1959—Pub. L. 86–296 substituted ‘‘$250,000’’ for

‘‘$150,000’’.

1954—Act Apr. 19, 1954, provided that donations for

maintenance of the Laboratory may be accepted from

Latin American countries and from other sources, in

lieu of provisions which required that such countries be

invited to contribute, and struck out provisions that

such countries be represented on the board or council

directing the administration of such Laboratory in proportion to the amount of their contributions.

1948—Act July 1, 1948, substituted ‘‘$150,000’’ for

‘‘$50,000’’.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1965 AMENDMENT

Pub. L. 89–181 provided that the amendment made by

Pub. L. 89–181 is effective for fiscal years ending after

June 30, 1963.

EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1959 AMENDMENT

Section 1 of Pub. L. 86–296 provided that the amendment made by that section is effective for fiscal years

ending after June 30, 1960.

ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE FISCAL YEAR

ENDING JUNE 30, 1970

Section 505 of Pub. L. 90–574, title V, Oct. 15, 1968, 82

Stat. 1013, provided that the annual appropriation for

the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial

Laboratory for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1970

would be increased by $500,000.

ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS

An annual appropriation was contained in the following appropriation acts:

Aug. 5, 1953, ch. 328, title I, 67 Stat. 368.

July 10, 1952, ch. 651, title I, 66 Stat. 550.

Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title I, 65 Stat. 577.

Sept. 6, 1950, ch. 896, ch. III, title I, 64 Stat. 610.

July 20, 1949, ch. 354, title I, 63 Stat. 449.

June 3, 1948, ch. 400, title I, 62 Stat. 308.

July 9, 1947, ch. 211, title I, 61 Stat. 282.

July 5, 1946, ch. 541, title I, 60 Stat. 453.

May 21, 1945, ch. 129, title I, 59 Stat. 175.

June 28, 1944, ch. 294, title I, 58 Stat. 402.

July 1, 1943, ch. 182, title I, 57 Stat. 278.

July 2, 1942, ch. 472, title I, 56 Stat. 474.

June 28, 1941, ch. 258, title I, 55 Stat. 271.

May 14, 1940, ch. 189, title I, 54 Stat. 187.

June 29, 1939, ch. 248, title I, 53 Stat. 891.

Apr. 27, 1938, ch. 180, title I, 52 Stat. 253.

June 16, 1937, ch. 359, title I, 50 Stat. 267.

May 15, 1936, ch. 405, title I, 49 Stat. 1315.

Mar. 22, 1935, ch. 39, title I, 49 Stat. 73.

Apr. 7, 1934, ch. 104, title I, 48 Stat. 534.

Mar. 1, 1933, ch. 144, title I, 47 Stat. 1376.

July 1, 1932, ch. 361, title I, 47 Stat. 485.

Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 280, title I, 46 Stat. 1309.

Apr. 18, 1930, ch. 184, title I, 46 Stat. 173.

Jan. 25, 1929, ch. 102, title I, 45 Stat. 1094.

APPROPRIATION FOR CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITIES

Section 4 of act May 7, 1928, as added by section 2 of

Pub. L. 86–296, and amended Pub. L. 86–617, July 12, 1960,

74 Stat. 396, provided that a sum not to exceed $500,000

be appropriated for construction and equipment of facilities for Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, including

preparation of plans and specifications, remodeling of

buildings, and site improvement, but excluding the cost

of acquisition of land.

CROSS REFERENCES

Gorgas Hospital, see sections 301 and 302 of Title 24,

Hospitals and Asylums.

§ 278a. Annual report to Congress; examination

of books and accounts

The Gorgas Memorial Institute shall make to

Congress, on April 1 of each year, a full report of

the operation and work of the Gorgas Memorial

Laboratory during the fiscal year ending the

preceding September 30, and shall include therewith a complete statement of the receipts and

expenditures of said laboratory for such fiscal

year. The books and accounts of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory shall at all times be open to

examination by the Comptroller General of the

United States.

(May 7, 1928, ch. 505, §3, 45 Stat. 491; Pub. L.

95–426, title VII, §701(a), Oct. 7, 1978, 92 Stat. 991.)

AMENDMENTS

1978—Pub. L. 95–426 substituted ‘‘on April 1 of each

year’’ and ‘‘during the fiscal year ending the preceding

September 30’’ for ‘‘annually, on the first Monday in

December’’ and ‘‘up to the first of November next preceding’’, respectively.

§ 278b. Repealed. Pub. L. 95–426, title VII,

§ 701(b), Oct. 7, 1978, 92 Stat. 991

Section, act June 28, 1944, ch. 294, title I, 58 Stat. 402,

related to a report to Congress of the operation and

work of the laboratory, including the statement of the