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[CITE: 22USC280h]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
                  SUBCHAPTER VIII--CARIBBEAN COMMISSION
 
Sec. 280h. Representation in Caribbean Commission; appointment 
        of commissioners and alternates
        
    The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the 
United States in the Caribbean Commission, created by ``An agreement for 
the establishment of the Caribbean Commission,'' signed in Washington on 
October 30, 1946, by representatives of the Governments of the French 
Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom of Great 
Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America, and to 
appoint the United States Commissioners, and their alternates, thereto.

(Mar. 4, 1948, ch. 97, Sec. 1, 62 Stat. 66.)


                          Purpose of Commission

    In defining the purposes of act Mar. 4, 1948, Congress stated that:
    ``Whereas representatives of the Governments of the French Republic, 
the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Northern Ireland, and the United States of America signed `An Agreement 
for the establishment of the Caribbean Commission' in Washington on 
October 30, 1946, which agreement continued and extended the 
international cooperative arrangements initiated in 1942 between the 
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United 
States; and
    ``Whereas the purpose of the Caribbean Commission is to encourage 
and strengthen international cooperation in promoting the economic and 
social welfare and advancement of the non-self-governing territories in 
the Caribbean area, whose economic and social development is of vital 
interest to the security of the United States, in accordance with the 
principles set forth in chapter XI of the Charter of the United Nations: 
Therefore be it''.


             Acceptance of Caribbean Organization Agreement

    Pub. L. 87-73, June 30, 1961, 75 Stat. 194, provided: ``That the 
President is hereby authorized to accept on behalf of the Government of 
the United States of America the `Agreement for the Establishment of the 
Caribbean Organization' signed at Washington on June 21, 1960, by 
representatives of the Governments of the Republic of France, the 
Kingdom of the Netherlands, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and 
Northern Ireland, and the United States of America; that the 
participation of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands 
of the United States in the Caribbean Organization is hereby authorized; 
that the Caribbean Organization shall, upon promulgation by the 
President of an Executive order to this effect, be entitled to the 
privileges, exemptions, and immunities conferred by the International 
Organizations Immunities Act (59 Stat. 669; 22 U.S.C. 288); and that the 
Secretary of State is hereby authorized to appoint or designate a United 
States observer to the Caribbean Organization.''


                   Termination of Caribbean Commission

    Article III of the Agreement of the Establishment of the Caribbean 
Organization provides that ``On the termination of the Agreement for the 
establishment of the Caribbean Commission, signed at Washington on 
October 30, 1946, the assets of the Caribbean Commission shall be and 
are by virtue of this Agreement transferred to and vested in the 
Caribbean Organization. The Caribbean Organization is hereby authorized 
to assume at the same time the liabilities of the Caribbean Commission 
and shall be regarded as the successor body to the Caribbean 
Commission.''
    Article IV of such Agreement provides that ``The Agreement for the 
establishment of the Caribbean Commission shall terminate at the end of 
the first meeting of the Caribbean Council provided for in the Statute 
annexed to this Agreement.''

    Ex. Ord. No. 10609. Delegation of Authority To Appoint Alternate 
                              Commissioners

    Ex. Ord. No. 10609, May 7, 1955, 20 F.R. 3147, provided:
    By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 301 of title 3 of 
the United States Code (65 Stat. 713), and as President of the United 
States, it is ordered that the Secretary of State be, and he is hereby, 
designated and empowered to exercise, without the approval, 
ratification, or other action of the President, so much of the authority 
vested in the President by the first section of the Joint Resolution of 
March 4, 1948, entitled ``Joint Resolution providing for membership and 
participation by the United States in the Caribbean Commission and 
authorizing an appropriation therefor'' (62 Stat. 66; 22 U.S.C. 280h) as 
consists of authority to appoint alternate United States Commissioners 
to the Caribbean Commission.
                                                   Dwight D. Eisenhower.
