An Act to promote the foreign policy of the United States by authorizing a loan to the United Nations and the appropriation of funds therefor
PL 87-731 (S.2768), enacted 10/02/1962

76 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 87-731-OCT. 2, 1962 
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an employee performed during the period beginning on September 1, 
1957, and ending on June 30, 1960, whether or not compensated from 
the appropriation referred to in subsection (a). Continuity of service 
for the purpo§^ of this subsection shall not be deemed to be broken 
by separations from service of not more than thirty days, by the per-
formance of service as an employee, other than an employee subject to 
the provisions of this section, whose compensation is disbursed by the 
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or by the performance of active military service in the armed forces of 
the United States, but such separations and service shall not be 
credited for the purposes of this section. Longevity compensation 
under this section shall be payable on and after the first day of the 
first month following completion of the five-year period upon which 
such compensation is based. 
(c) The Act of February 13, 1945 (Public Law 2, 79th Cong.; 2 
U.S.C. 60i), is repealed, and no longevity increase payable under 
authority of such Act prior to the effective date of this section shall 
be payable on or after such date. 
(d) Section 105 of the Legislative Branch Appropriation Act, 1959 
(Public Law 85-570) is repealed. Any member of the Capitol Police 
who prior to the effective date of this section completed service enti-
tling him to be paid at a rate specified in such section 105 shall be 
entitled, so long as he continues to serve without break in service of 
more than thirty days as a member of the Capitol Police, to continue to 
be paid at such rate and, in addition, to receive any longevity increases 
for which he may become qualified under subsection (b) of this sec-
tion, except that while receiving compensation at a rate specified in 
such section 105(1) no such member shall receive more than three 
longevity increases under subsection (b) based upon any period of 
continuous service, and (2) in computing length of service for the 
purpose of such longevity increases, only service performed sub-
sequent to the date on which such member began receiving compensa-
tion at a rate prescribed by such section 105 shall be counted. 
(e) This section shall become effective on September 1, 1962. 
This Act may be cited as the "Legislative Branch Appropriation 
A«t, 1963". 
Approved October 2, 1962. 
Repeals. 
59 Stat. 4. 
72 Stat. 453. 
Effective date. 
Short title. 
Public Law 87-731 
AN ACT 
To promote the foreign policy of the TJnited States by authorizing a loan to the 
United Nations and the appropriation of funds therefor. 
October 2, 19^2 
[S.2768] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of^ Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated to the President, without fiscal-year 
limitation, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropri-
ated, $100,000,000 for a loan to the United Nations. The proceeds 
of such loan shall not be used to relieve members of the United Nations 
of their obligation to pay arrearages on payments of any United 
Nations assessments, and shall not be used to reduce regular or special 
assessments against any such members. 
SEC. 2. The total amount of money that may be loaned to the United 
Nations pursuant to the authorization contained in the first section of 
this Act shall not exceed the aggregate amount of loans made by other 
nations. 
United Nations. 
Loan. 
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[76 STAT. 
Future borrow-
ing. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
SEC. 3. There shall be deducted from the annual payment of the 
assessed share of the United States of the budget of the United Nations 
an amount equal to the corresponding annual installment of principal 
and interest due to the United States on account of the loan made 
pursuant to section 1. 
SEC. 4. Nothing herein shall be regarded as authorizing the United 
States to participate in any future United Nations borrowing. 
It is 
the sense of the Congress that the United States shall use its best 
efforts to promote a pattern of United Nations financing (including a 
vigorous program for collection of delinquencies on annual assess-
ments of nations and maintenance of such annual assessments on a 
current basis) that will avoid any future large-scale deficits. 
The 
Department of State is hereby instructed to submit to the Congress, 
not later than January 31, 1963, a report on steps taken in the l7th 
Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on long-term 
financing of the United Nations. 
SEC. 5. The Congress hereby expresses its satisfaction that the Inter-
national Court of Justice has decided that the expenditures authorized 
in resolutions of the United Nations General Assembly relating to 
"Expenses o
f 
Operations in the Middle East and in the Congo are "expenses of the 
the organization." Organization" within the meaning of the United Nations Charter, 
thereby providing a sound basis for obtaining prompt payment of 
assessments for such expenditures by making them obligations of all 
members of the United Nations. 
SEC. 6. It is the sense of the Congress that the United Nations should 
take immediate steps to give effect to the advisory opinion of the Inter-
national Court of Justice on the financial obligations of members of 
the United Nations in order to assure prompt payment of all assess-
ments, including assessments to cover the cost of operations to main-
tain or restore international peace and security. 
Approved October 2, 1962. 
October 2, 1962 
[H. R. 8520] 
Public Law 87-732 
A^f' ACT 
To amend the Soil Conservation ana Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, to 
add a new section 16A to limit finapcial and technical assistance for drainage 
of certain wetlands. 
Agriculture Dept, 
Wetlands drain-
age assistance, 
limitation. 
49 Stat. 1151. 
16 u s e 590p. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate (md House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Soil Con-
servation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, is further amended 
by inserting after section 16 thereof the following new section: 
"SEC. 16A. The Secretary of Agriculture shall not enter into an agree-
ment in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota to 
provide financial or technical assis'tance for wetland drainage on a farm 
under authority of this Act, if the Secretary of the Interior has made 
a finding that wildlife preservation will be materially harmed on 
that farm by such drainage and that preservation of such land in its 
undrained status will materially contribute to wildlife preservation 
and such finding, identifying specifically the farm and the land on 
that farm with respect to which the finding was made, has been filed 
with the Secretary of Agriculture within ninety days after the filing 
of the application for drainage assistance: Provided, That the limita-
tion against furnishing such financial or technical assistance shall 
terminate (1) at such time as the Secretary of the Interior notifies 
the Secretary of Agriculture that such limitation should not be ap-
plicable, (2) one year after the date on which the adverse finding 
of the Secretary of the Interior was filed unless during that time an