Volume 45
Public Law 70–146
To provide for the transfer of the returns office from the Interior Department to the General Accounting Office, and for other purposes.
Approved February 4, 1929
Statutory text
An Act
To provide for the transfer of the returns office from the Interior Department to the General Accounting Office, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the returns
Returns office, Interior Department.
Transfer of, its functions, etc., to General Accounting Office.
office, together with its activities, personnel, contracts, bids, offers, proposals, advertisements, books, records, documents, furniture, office equipment, and papers and property of whatsoever character, is hereby transferred from the Interior Department to the General
Comptroller General vested with full authority, etc.
Accounting Office; and all powers and duties whatsoever in connection therewith now vested in or required to be performed by or under the Secretary of the Interior are transferred to, vested in, and required to be performed by or under the Comptroller General of the United States.
Sec. 2.
That so much of appropriations for the Interior Department
Department appropriations transferred.
as applies to expenditures for the returns office, including personnel therefor, is transferred to and made applicable for expenditure by the General Accounting Office.
Sec. 3.
That the Comptroller General of the United States is
Regulations, etc., to be made.
authorized to perform all acts and make such rules and regulations as necessary to carry the provisions of this Act into effect.
Sec. 4.
That all laws and parts of laws in so far as inconsistent
Laws repealed.
R. S., secs. 512–515, p. 85, repealed.
U. S. Code, p. 1309.
with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed.
Sec. 5.
This Act shall take effect July 1, 1929.
Effective July 1, 1929.
Approved, February 4, 1929.