An Act making appropriations for mutual security for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1957, and for other purposes.
PL 84-853 (H.R.12130), enacted 07/31/1956

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General Counsol. 
"Ninth. The Department of Labor. 
"Tenth. The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare." 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) of this section shall 
not be construed to make applicable to the Department of Health, 
Education, and Welfare any provision of law inconsistent with Reor-
ganization Plan No. 1 of 1953 or Public Law 13, 83d Congress, or to 
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supersede or limit any function or authority of the Department of note. 
Health, Education, and Welfare, or any officer thereof, under any law 
in effect prior to the enactment of this Act, or prevent or limit the 
expenditure of funds for any such function or authority. 
SEC. 2. (a) There shall be in the Department of Health, Education, 
and Welfare, a General Counsel who snail be appointed by the Presi-
dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall 
receive compensation at the rate now or hereafter provided by law 
for assistant secretaries of executive departments. The General Coun-
sel shall be the chief legal officer of the Department and shall perform 
such functions as the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 
may prescribe. 
(b) The General Counsel shall act as Secretary during the absence 
or disability, or in the event of a vacancy in the office, of the Secretary 
of Health, Education, and Welfare and of the Under Secretary and 
the Assistant Secretaries of Health, Education, and Welfare. 
Approved July 31, 1956, 5:00 p.m. 
Public Law 853 
CHAPTER 803 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for Mutual Security for tlie fistal year ending June 30, 
1957, and for otlier purposes. 
July 31,1956 
[H. R. 12130] 
Be it eimcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
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United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following Appro^r*ationX;tI 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other- '^^''* 
wise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, namely: 
MUTUAL SECURITY 
For expenses necessary to enable the President to carry out the pro-
visions of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, as follows: 
Military assistance: For assistance authorized by section 103 (a) 
(3), including not to exceed $23,000,000 for administrative expenses to 
carry out the purposes of title I, chapter 1, and section 124, $2,017,-
500,000 of which $67,500,000 shall be available for infrastructure as 
authorized by section 104 (a) ; and in addition not to exceed $195,500,-
000 of unobligated and unreserved funds heretofore appropriated 
under authority of section 103 (a), section 104 and section 124 of the 
Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, are continued available 
until June 30, 1957, for the purposes of sections 103 (a) (3) and 104: 
Provided, That none of the funds made available for military assist-
ance under this Act shall be used to furnish military equipment to 
Yugoslavia except for maintenance of equipment heretofore furnished 
or to provide spare parts for replacement purposes ; 
Defense support: For assistance authorized by section 131 (c), for 
Europe (excluding Greece and Turkey), $68,700,000: Provided, That 
at least $50,000,000 on a grant basis shall be available for Spain, 
exclusive of inter-regional expenses: 
Provided 
further, 
That not 
less than $18,500,000 of the amount available for Spain shall be used 
for agricultural commodities; for the Near East (including Greece 
and Turkey) and Africa, $167,500,000; for Asia, $873,500,000; and for 
Ante, p. 555. 
69 Stat. 284. 
22 u s e 1834. 
22 u s e 1814. 
R«atriction. 
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Ante, p, 556. 
Ante, p. 557. 
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Ante, p. 558. 
22 u s e 1925. 
Restriction. 
Ante, p. 558. 
Ante, p. 558. 
Ante, p. 558. 
22 u s e 1927. 
69 Stat. 436. 
Ante, p. 558. 
Ante, p. 558. 
Ante, p. 558. 
Ante, p. 565. 
68 Stat. 830. 
31 u s e 200. 
Latin America, $52,000,000, of which not less than $15,000,000 snail 
be used for assistance to Guatemala; 
Development assistance: For assistance authorized by section 201, 
$250,000,000; 
Technical cooperation, general authorization: 
For 
assistance 
authorized by section 304 (b), $135,000,000; 
United Nations expanded program of technical assistance: 
For 
contributions authorized by section 306 (a), which shall constitute 
the total United States contribution through December 31, 1957, 
$15,500,000: Provided, That the ITnited States contribution to the 
1958 calendar year program shall not exceed 33.33 per centum of the 
United Nations program; 
Technical cooperation programs of the Organization of American 
States: For contributions authorized by section 306 (b), $1,500,000; 
Special Presidential Fund: For assistance authorized by section 
401 (b), $100,000,000; 
Special assistance in joint control areas in Europe: For assistance 
authorized by section 403 (b), $12,200,000; 
Intergovernmental Committee for European Migration: 
For con-
tributions authorized by section 405 (a), $12,500,000: Provided, That 
no funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to assist directly in 
the migration to any nation in the Western Hemisphere of any per-
son not having a security clearance based on reasonable standards to 
insure against Communist infiltration in the Western Hemisphere: 
United Nations Refugee Fund: For contributions authorized by 
section 405 (c), which shall constitute the total United States contri-
bution through June 30,1957, $1,900,000; 
Escapee program: For assistance authorized by section 405 (d), 
$6,000,000; 
United Nations Children's Fund: 
For contributions authorized by 
section 406 (b), which shall constitute the total United States contri-
bution through December 31, 1957, $10,000,000; 
United Nations Relief and Works Agency: For contributions au-
thorized by section 407 (b), $45,300,000 of unobligated balances of 
funds appropriated under this head in the Mutual Security Appro-
priation Act, 1956, are continued available through June 30, 1957, 
for the purposes authorized by section 407; 
Ocean freight charges. United States voluntary relief agencies* 
For payments authorized by section 409 (c), $2,500,000; 
Control Act expenses: For carrying out the purposes of the Mutual 
Defense Assistance Control Act of 1951, as authorized by section 410, 
$1,175,000; 
Administrative expenses: For expenses authorized by section 411 
(b), $33,595,000; 
Foreign research reactor projects: For expenses necessary to enable 
the President to carry out foreign research reactor projects author-
ized by section 12 of the Mutual Security Act of 1956, $5,500,000; 
Funds appropriated under each paragraph of this Act (other than 
appropriations under the head of military assistance), including speci-
fied amounts of unobligated balances, and amounts certified pursuant 
to section 1311 of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1955, as 
having been obligated against appropriations heretofore made for the 
same general purpose as such paragraph, which amounts are hereby 
continued available during the fiscal year 1957, may be consolidated 
in one account for each paragraph. 
E n g i n a e r i n g 
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GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 102. Payments made from funds appropriated herein for engi-
neering fees and services to any individual engineering firm on any 
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one project in excess of $25,000 shall be reported to the Committees oi. ^/i'f®'?" *
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Appropriations of the Senate and House of Kepresentatives at least mittee*. 
twice annually. 
SEC. 103. Pursuant to section 1415 of the Supplemental Appropria- rency!* ^*'"/"" 
tion Act, 1953, and in addition to other amounts made availaole pur- 
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suant to said section, not to exceed the equivalent of $2,000,000 of 
foreign currencies or credits owed to or owned by the United States 
shall remain available until expended, without reimbursement to the 
Treasury, for liq^uidation of obligations incurred against such curren-
cies or credits prior to July 1,19.53, pursuant to authority contained in 
the Mutual Security Act of 1951, as amended, and Acts for which 
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funds were authorized by that Act and, hereafter, foreign currencies «
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generated under the provisions of this Act shall be utilized only for 
the purposes for which the funds providing the commodities which 
generated the currency were appropriated. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds provided by this Act nor any of the tne^t'debu.^"'^''"*' 
counterpart funds generated as a result of assistance under this or 
any other Act shall be used to make payments on account of the prin-
cipal or interest on any debt of any foreign government or on any 
loan made to such government by any other foreign government; nor 
shall any of these funds be expended for any purpose for which funds 
have been withdrawn by any recipient country to make payment on 
such debts: Provided^ ho^vever^ That to the extent that funds have 
been borrowed by any foreign government in order to make a deposit 
of counterpart and such deposit is in excess of the amount that would 
be required to be deposited pursuant to the formula prescribed by 
section 142 (b) of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended, such f
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counterpart may be used in such country for any agreed purpose con-
sistent with the provisions of such Act. 
SEC. 105. Except for the appropriation entitled "Special Presiden- 
Restriction, 
tial Fund", not more than 20 per centum of any appropriation item 
made available by this Act shall be obligated and/or reserved during 
the last two months of the fiscal year. 
SEC. 106. Section 108 of the Mutual Security Appropriation Act, 
1956 (Public Law 208, 84th Congress), is herebv amended by substi- 
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tuting "during the two succeeding fiscal years for "until June 30, 
1958" in the third sentence thereof, and by substituting "under the 
authority of the Mutual Security Act of 1954, as amended" for "in 
this Act" in the fifth proviso thereof. 
SEC. 107. None of the funds contained in this Act shall be used to 
carry out the purposes of section 13 of the Mutual Security Act of 
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1956. 
SEC. 108, The Congress hereby reiterates its opposition to the seating fnu^^V"lhin^°Tn 
in the United Nations of the Communist China regime as the repre- u. N., opposition, 
sentative of China, and it is hereby declared to be the continuing sense 
of the Congress that the Communist regime in China has not demon-
strated its willingness to fulfill the obligations contained in the 
Charter of the United Nations and should not be recognized to repre-
sent China in the United Nations. 
In the event of the seating of 
representatives of the Chinese Communist regime in the Security 
Council or General Assembly of the United Nations, the President is port^tS^con^i^.i.** 
requested to inform the Congress insofar as is compatible with the 
requirements of national security, of the implications of this action 
tipon the foreign policy of the United States and our foreign relation-
ships, including that created by membership in the United Nations, 
together with any recommendations which he may have with respect 
to the matter. 
SEC. 109. This Act may be cited as the "Mutual Security Appro- 
short title, 
priation Act, 1957". 
Approved July 31, 1956.