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[CITE: 22USC278]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
                SUBCHAPTER V--GORGAS MEMORIAL LABORATORY
 
Sec. 278. Gorgas Memorial Laboratory; location; acceptance of 
        funds from Latin American countries or other sources
        
    There is hereby authorized to be permanently appropriated for each 
year, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the 
sum of not to exceed $2,000,000 to be paid to the Gorgas Memorial 
Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine, Incorporated (hereinafter 
referred to as the Gorgas Memorial Institute), for the maintenance and 
operation by its, of a laboratory to be known as the Gorgas Memorial 
Laboratory, upon condition (1) that the necessary building or quarters 
for said laboratory shall be constructed within the five years next 
ensuing after this subchapter shall become a law, either upon the site 
offered by the Republic of Panama therefor, at, or adjacent to, the city 
of Panama, or upon a site in the Canal Zone to be provided by the United 
States; and (2) that the said Gorgas Memorial Institute be, and it is, 
authorized within its discretion, henceforth to accept from any of the 
Latin American Governments, or from any other sources, any funds which 
may be offered or given for the use of the Gorgas Memorial Institute for 
the maintenance and operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, and for 
carrying on the work of said Laboratory wherever deemed by the said 
Institute to be necessary or desirable.

(May 7, 1928, ch. 505, Sec. 1, 45 Stat. 491; July 1, 1948, ch. 787, 62 
Stat. 1213; Apr. 19, 1954, ch. 160, 68 Stat. 57; Pub. L. 86-296, Sec. 1, 
Sept. 21, 1959, 73 Stat. 572; Pub. L. 89-181, Sept. 11, 1965, 79 Stat. 
679; Pub. L. 93-559, Sec. 47, Dec. 30, 1974, 88 Stat. 1816.)

                       References in Text

    For definition of Canal Zone, referred to in text, see section 
3602(b) of this title.


                               Amendments

    1974--Pub. L. 93-559 substituted ``$2,000,000'' for ``$500,000''.
    1965--Pub. L. 89-181 substituted ``not to exceed $500,000'' for 
``$250,000''.
    1959--Pub. L. 86-296 substituted ``$250,000'' for ``$150,000''.
    1954--Act Apr. 19, 1954, provided that donations for maintenance of 
the Laboratory may be accepted from Latin American countries and from 
other sources, in lieu of provisions which required that such countries 
be invited to contribute, and struck out provisions that such countries 
be represented on the board or council directing the administration of 
such Laboratory in proportion to the amount of their contributions.
    1948--Act July 1, 1948, substituted ``$150,000'' for ``$50,000''.


                    Effective Date of 1965 Amendment

    Pub. L. 89-181 provided that the amendment made by Pub. L. 89-181 is 
effective for fiscal years ending after June 30, 1963.


                    Effective Date of 1959 Amendment

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 86-296 provided that the amendment made by that 
section is effective for fiscal years ending after June 30, 1960.


    Additional Appropriation for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1970

    Section 505 of Pub. L. 90-574, title V, Oct. 15, 1968, 82 Stat. 
1013, provided that the annual appropriation for the maintenance and 
operation of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory for the fiscal year ending 
June 30, 1970 would be increased by $500,000.


                          Annual Appropriations

    An annual appropriation was contained in the following appropriation 
acts:
    Aug. 5, 1953, ch. 328, title I, 67 Stat. 368.
    July 10, 1952, ch. 651, title I, 66 Stat. 550.
    Oct. 22, 1951, ch. 533, title I, 65 Stat. 577.
    Sept. 6, 1950, ch. 896, ch. III, title I, 64 Stat. 610.
    July 20, 1949, ch. 354, title I, 63 Stat. 449.
    June 3, 1948, ch. 400, title I, 62 Stat. 308.
    July 9, 1947, ch. 211, title I, 61 Stat. 282.
    July 5, 1946, ch. 541, title I, 60 Stat. 453.
    May 21, 1945, ch. 129, title I, 59 Stat. 175.
    June 28, 1944, ch. 294, title I, 58 Stat. 402.
    July 1, 1943, ch. 182, title I, 57 Stat. 278.
    July 2, 1942, ch. 472, title I, 56 Stat. 474.
    June 28, 1941, ch. 258, title I, 55 Stat. 271.
    May 14, 1940, ch. 189, title I, 54 Stat. 187.
    June 29, 1939, ch. 248, title I, 53 Stat. 891.
    Apr. 27, 1938, ch. 180, title I, 52 Stat. 253.
    June 16, 1937, ch. 359, title I, 50 Stat. 267.
    May 15, 1936, ch. 405, title I, 49 Stat. 1315.
    Mar. 22, 1935, ch. 39, title I, 49 Stat. 73.
    Apr. 7, 1934, ch. 104, title I, 48 Stat. 534.
    Mar. 1, 1933, ch. 144, title I, 47 Stat. 1376.
    July 1, 1932, ch. 361, title I, 47 Stat. 485.
    Feb. 23, 1931, ch. 280, title I, 46 Stat. 1309.
    Apr. 18, 1930, ch. 184, title I, 46 Stat. 173.
    Jan. 25, 1929, ch. 102, title I, 45 Stat. 1094.


              Appropriation for Construction of Facilities

    Section 4 of act May 7, 1928, as added by section 2 of Pub. L. 86-
296, and amended Pub. L. 86-617, July 12, 1960, 74 Stat. 396, provided 
that a sum not to exceed $500,000 be appropriated for construction and 
equipment of facilities for Gorgas Memorial Laboratory, including 
preparation of plans and specifications, remodeling of buildings, and 
site improvement, but excluding the cost of acquisition of land.
