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Volume 69 · 188

Public Law 84–103

To amend section 7 of the Act approved September 22, 1922, as amended.

Approved June 28, 1955

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 7 of the Act approved September 22, 1922, as amended.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That section 7 of the Act approved September 22, 1922 (Public Law Numbered 362, Sixty-seventh Congress), as amended by section 203 of the Act approved May 17, 1950 (Public Law 516, Eighty-first Congress), is amended to read as follows:

“That hereafter the provisions of section 7 of the Act of August 23, 1912, as amended (37 Stat. 414; 54 Stat. 175; 31 U. S. C. 679), or any other law prohibiting the expenditure of public money for telephone services installed in private residences, shall not be construed to apply to or forbid the installation and use of such telephones as may be necessary for the prosecution of Government business in connection with the construction and operation of locks and dams for navigation, flood control, and related water uses, under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of the Army on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers. Not more than $30,000 shall be expended for such telephone services in any one fiscal year.”

Approved June 28, 1955.

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