An Act authorizing the payment of salary to any individual given a recess appointment as Comptroller General of the United States before the beginning of the 84th Congress
PL 83-735 (S.3868), enacted 08/31/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 735-AUG. 31, 1954 
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be adjudicated by such foreign government in accordance with the 
laws and regulations of such foreign government, the Secretary of 
Defense is hereby authorized— 
(a) to reimburse such foreign government for the agreed pro 
rata share of such sums as may be expended by such foreign gov-
ernment for the payment of such claims; or 
(b) to pay to such foreign government an agreed pro rata 
share of claims arising out of damage to the property of such 
foreign government, 
including costs of settlement or arbitration: Provided^ That no claim 
arising out of any action by an enemy of the United States or result-
ing directly or indirectly from any act by the Armed Forces of the 
United States, or any member thereof, engaged in combat shall be 
considered or paid under this Act. 
SEC. 2. Whenever the terms of an international agreement to which 
the United States is now or may hereafter be a party provide that 
certain claims against a foreign government arising out of acts or 
omissions in the performance of official duty within the territory of 
the United States of civilian employees of the Armed Forces, or 
military personnel, of such foreign government, be adjudicated by 
the United States in accordance with the laws and regulations of 
the United States subject to an agreed pro rata reimbursement, such 
claims may be prosecuted against the United States or settled by the 
United States under then existing laws and regulations as if such acts 
or omissions were performed by civilian employees of the Armed 
Forces or military personnel of the United States in the performance 
of official duty. 
SEC. 3. Whenever a dispute arises in the consideration, adjustment, 
settlement, compromise, or adjudication of a claim asserted under 
section 2 of this Act as to whether or not an act or omission of a civil-
ian employee or military personnel of a foreign country w^as in the 
performance of official duty, or as to w^hether or not the use of any 
vehicle of the armed forces of such party was authorized, such dis-
puted question or questions shall be decided in accordance with the 
terms of the international agreement with such foreign country, and 
such decision shall be final and conclusive. The Secretary of Defense 
is authorized to pay the United States portion of costs arising in 
connection with the securing of such a decision as provided by such 
international agreement. 
SEC. 4. Any pro rata reimbursement or payment by the United 
States with respect to a settlement, award, or compromise made pur-
suant to this Act shall be made by the Secretary of Defense out of 
appropriations for that purpose, which appropriations are hereby 
authorized, and such appropriations may be used for the purchase of 
foreign currencies necessary for any such reimbursement. 
Approved August 31, 1954. 
Restriction* 
Public Law 735 
CHAPTER 1153 
AN ACT 
Authorizing the payment of salary to any individual given a recess appointment 
as Comptroller General of the United States before the beginning of the 
Eighty-fourth Congress. 
August 31, 1954 
[S. 386«] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstand- G«ier^^*'°^^*' 
ing section 1761, as amended, of the Revised Statutes, any individual 
salary of recess 
appointed by the President to the office of Comptroller General of the appointee* 
5 use 56. 
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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