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# 22 U.S.C. § 1796 - Participation in Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in China

## Text

The President is authorized to continue to participate in the Joint Commission on Rural Reconstruction in China and to appoint citizens of the United States to the Commission.

(Aug. 26, 1954, ch. 937, ch. IV, § 536, 68 Stat. 861.)