Download 668 Resolved by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the

668
PUBLIC LAWS-CHS . 607-609, 651-DEC . 28, 1945
[59 STAT.
[CHAPTER 607]
December 28, 1945
[H . J . Res. 1801
[Public Law 287]
Flag of the U . S . A .
56 Stat. 380 .
36 U . S . C ., Supp.
IV, • 172 .
Pledge of allegiance.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Giving official recognition to the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United
States .
Resolved by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That section 7 of Public Law
Numbered 623 of June 22, 1942, entitled "To codify and emphasize
existing rules and customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag
of the United States of America", as amended, is amended to read as
follows
"SEO. 7 . The following is designated as the pledge of allegiance
to the flag : `I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of
America and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all' . Such pledge should be rendered by
standing with the right hand over the heart . However, civilians will
always show full respect to the flag when the pledge is given by merely
standing at attention, men removing the headdress . Persons in
uniform shall render the military salute ."
Approved December 28, 1945 .
[CHAPTER 6081
December 28, 1945
[H . J. Res . 290]
[Public Law 2881
Navy.
Continuance of V12 program .
Ante, p. 204.
JOINT RESOLUTION
Providing for the continuance to the end of June 1946, of the Navy's V-12
program .
Resolved by the Senate and House o f Representatives of the United
States o f America in Congress assembled, That surplus amounts under
any naval appropriation for the fiscal year 1946, not to exceed in the
aggregate $10,000,000, may be transferred to the appropriation "Naval
Reserve, 1946", for continuing the V-12 program to the end of June
1946 .
Approved December 28, 1945 .
[CHAPTER 609]
December 28,1945
[H. J. Res . 2941
[Public Law 289]
JOINT RESOLUTION
Fixing the date of meeting of the second session of the Seventy-ninth Congress .
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States o f America in Congress assembled, That the second session
of the Seventy-ninth Congress shall begin at noon on Monday,
January 14, 1946 .
Approved December 28, 1945 .
[CHAPTER 651]
December 28,1945
[H . J Res . 111]
Designating
[Public Law 290]
George Washington
Carver Day .
JOINT RESOLUTION
January 5, 1946, as George Washington Carver Day .
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States o f America in Congress assembled, That the 5th day of January
of 1946 is hereby designated as George Washington Carver Day, in
commemoration of the great scientist, and the President of the United
States is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation calling upon
officials of the Government to display the flag of the United States on
all Government buildings on such day.
Approved December 28, 1945 .
59 STAT .]
79TH CONG.,
1sT
SESS .-CH . 652-DEC . 29, 1945
669
[CHAPTER 6521
AN ACT
To extend certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities to international organizations and to the officers and employees thereof, and for other purposes .
December 29,1945
R . 448191
[Public Law 2911
[x.
Be it enacted by the senate and House of Representatives of the
United States o f America in Congress assembled,
TITLE I
SECTION 1 . For the purposes of this title, the term "international
organization" means a public international organization in which the
United States participates pursuant to any treaty or under the
authority of any-Act of Congress authorizing such participation or
making an appropriation for such participation, and which shall have
been designated by the President through appropriate Executive order
as being entitled to enjoy the privileges, exemptions, and immunities
herein provided . The President shad be authorized, in the light of
the functions performed by any such international organization, by
appropriate Executive order to withhold or withdraw from any such
organization or its officers or employees any of the privileges, exemptions, and immunities provided for in this title (including the amendments made by this title) or to condition or limit the enjoyment by any
such organization or its officers or employees of any such privilege,
exemption, or immunity. The President shall be authorized, if in his
judgment such action should be justified by reason of the abuse by an
international organization or its officers and employees of the privileges, exemptions, and immunities herein provided or for any other
reason, at any time to revoke the designation of any international
organization under this section, whereupon the international organization in question shall cease to be classed as an international organization for the purposes of this title .
SEC. 2. International organizations shall enjoy the status, immunities, exemptions, and privileges set forth in this section, as follows
(a) International organizations shall, to the extent consistent with
the instrument creating them, possess the capacityi) to contract ;
(ii) to acquire and dispose of real and personal property ;
(iii) to institute legal proceedings .
(b) International organizations, their property and their assets,
wherever located, and by whomsoever held, shall enjoy the same
immunity from suit and every form of judicial process as is enjoyed
by foreign governments, except to the extent that such organizations
may expressly waive their immunity for the purpose of any proceedings or by the terms of any contract .
(c) Property and assets of international organizations, wherever
located and by whomsoever held, shall be immune from search, unless
such immunity be expressly waived, and from confiscation . The
archives of international organizations shall be inviolable .
(d) Insofar as concerns customs duties and internal-revenue taxes
imposed upon or by reason of importation, and the procedures in
connection therewith ; the registration of foreign agents ; and the
treatment of official communications, the privileges, exemptions, and
immunities to which international organizations shall be entitled shall
be those accorded under similar circumstances to foreign governments .
SEC . 3 . Pursuant to regulations prescribed by the Commissioner
of Customs with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, the
baggage and effects of alien officers and employees of international
organizations, or of aliens designated by foreign governments to serve
as their representatives in or to such organizations, or of the families,
suites, and servants of such officers, employees, or representatives shall
International Organizations Immuni.
ties Act .
"International organization ."
Withholding, etc.,
of privileges, exemptions, and immunities .
Revocation of designation ; effect .
Powers .
Immunity from suit
and judicial process .
Immunity from
search and confiscation .
Privileges, etc ., as
accorded foreign governments .
Baggage and effects
of designated alien
personnel .