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[CITE: 22USC285]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
           CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
 
                 SUBCHAPTER XIV--ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK
 
Sec. 285. Acceptance of membership by United States in Asian 
        Development Bank
        
    The President is hereby authorized to accept membership for the 
United States in the Asian Development Bank (hereinafter referred to as 
the ``Bank'') provided for by the agreement establishing the Bank 
(hereinafter referred to as the ``agreement'') deposited in the archives 
of the United Nations.

(Pub. L. 89-369, Sec. 2, Mar. 16, 1966, 80 Stat. 71.)


                               Short Title

    Section 1 of Pub. L. 89-369 provided: ``That this Act [enacting this 
subchapter and amending section 24 of Title 12, Banks and Banking] may 
be cited as the `Asian Development Bank Act'.''


                         Par Value Modification

    For Congressional direction that the Secretary of the Treasury 
maintain the value in terms of gold of the Asian Development Bank's 
holdings of United States dollars following the establishment of a par 
value of the dollar at $38 for a fine troy ounce of gold pursuant to the 
Par Value Modification Act and for the authorization of the 
appropriations necessary to provide such maintenance of value, see 
section 5152 of Title 31, Money and Finance.
