An Act to amend section 7 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 as amended
PL 83-737 (H.R.179), enacted 08/31/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 736-AUG. 31, 1954 
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United States before the beginning of the first regular session of the 
Eighty-fourth Congress may be paid the sahiry for such office as 
provided by law. 
Termination. 
§£0. 2. Tliis Act shall cease to be in effect upon the forty-first day 
following the beginning of the first regular session of the Eighty-
fourth Congress unless prior to such day the President shall have 
submitted to the Senate a nomination to fill such office. 
Approved August 31, 1954. 
August 31, 1954 
[H. J. Res. 565] 
Public Law 736 
CHAPTER 1154 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To amend the joint resolution providing for the membership of the United States 
in the Pan American Institute of Geography and History and authorize appro-
priations therefor. 
Pan A m e r i c a n 
Institute of Geog-
rfQ}hy and History. 
49 Stat. 512. 
22 u s e 2 73. 
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Resolution 42, 
Seventy-fourth Congress, approved August 2,1935, is amended to read 
as follows: "That in order to meet the obligations of the United States 
as a member of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History, 
there are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Department of 
State— 
"(a) the sum of $98,775 for payment by the United States of its 
assessed annual contributions for the period beginning July 1, 
1951, and extending through the fiscal year expiring June 30, 
1954; and 
"(b) such sums, not to exceed $50,000 annually, as may be re-
quired thereafter for the payment by the United States of its 
share of the expenses of the Institute, as apportioned in accordance 
with the statutes of the Institute." 
Approved August 31, 1954. 
August 31, 1954 
Public Law 737 
CHAPTER 1155 
AN ACT 
:gust 31, 1954 
[H.R. 179] 
To amend section 7 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946, as amended. 
Oversea Federal 
employees. 
Travel expenses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of the 
Administrative Expenses Act of 1946 (60 Stat. 806; 5 U. S. C. 73b-3), 
as amended, is further amended by changing the period at the end of 
the first sentence to a colon and adding the following: '•''Provided 
further, That expenses of round trip travel of employee and transpor-
tation of immediate family but excluding household effects, from their 
posts of duty outside the continental United States to the places of 
actual residence at time of appointment or transfer to such overseas 
posts of duty, shall be allowed in the case of persons who have satis-
factorily completed an agreed period of service overseas and are return-
ing to their actual place of residence for the purpose of taking leave 
prior to serving another tour of duty at the same or some other overseas 
post, under a new written agreement entered into before departing 
from the overseas post: Provided further, That expenses of transpor-
tation of the immediate family and shipment of household effects of 
any employee from the \)Ost of duty of such employee outside con-
tinental United States to place of actual residence snail be allowed, not 
in excess of one time, prior to the return of such employee to the