An Act to abolish the offices of Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Register of the Treasury and to provide for an Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs and an additional Assistant Secretary in the Treasury Department
PL 83-516 (S.3605), enacted 07/22/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 516-JULY 22, 1954 
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Immigration and Nationality Act, unless he shall first take an oath 
before any naturalization court specified in subsection (a) of section 
310 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, or before any diplomatic 
or consular officer of the United States abroad, that he has done 
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cured under this Act shall be subject to revocation as provided in 
section 340 of the Immigration and Nationality Act, and subsection 
(f) of that section shall apply to any person claiming United States 
citizenship through the naturalization of an individual under this Act. 
Approved July 20, 1954. 
July 22,1954 
[S.3605] 
Public Law 516 
CHAPTER 557 
AN ACT 
To abolish the offices of Assistant Treasurer and Assistant Register of the 
Treasury and to provide for an Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs and 
an aXiditional Assistant Secretary in the Treasury Department. 
Treasury Dept* 
44 Stat. 237. 
2 7 Stat. 752. 
42 Stat. 3 66. 
Under Secretary. 
Under Secretary 
for Monetary Af-
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) section 
303 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U. S. C. 143), establishing 
the office of Assistant Treasurer of the United States, and the Act 
approved April 9, 1926 (31 U. S. C. 143a) designating the Deputy 
Assistant Treasurer as Assistant Treasurer, are repealed. 
(b) Section 304 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U. S. C. 
144), is amended (1) by striking out "Treasurer may, in his discre-
tion, and with the consent of the Secretary of the Treasury, authorize 
the Assistant Treasurer to act in the place and discharge any or all 
of the duties of the Treasurer of the United States; and the", and (2) 
by striking out "both the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer" and 
inserting in lieu thereof "the Treasurer". 
SEC. 2. Sections 314 and 315 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, and 
the joint resolution approved December 13,1892 (31 U. S. C. 164, 165, 
and 166), establishing the office of Assistant Register of the Treasury, 
specifying the duties of the office, and providing for the appointment 
of an Acting Assistant Register, are repealed. 
SEC. 3. The provision in the Act of February 17,1922, which estab-
lished the office of Under Secretary of the Treasury, as amended and 
supplemented (5 U. S. C. 244), is amended to read as follows: 
"There shall be in the Department of the Treasury an Under 
Secretary and an Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, each to be 
appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate. The compensation of the Under Secretary and the Under 
Secretary for Monetary Affairs shall be at the rate of $17,500 each per 
annum. 
They sliall perfoi-m such duties in the Office of the Secretary 
as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury." 
SEC. 4. Section 234 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (5 U. S. C. 
246), is further amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 234. There shall be in the Department of the Treasury three 
Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, who shall be appointed by the 
President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate." 
Approved July 22, 1954.