§ 556. Appropriations for Forest Service; use for transportation or traveling expenses; preparation or publication of newspaper or magazine articles

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1922

   Pub. L. 67–185 · 42 Stat. 507

   Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 556

   May 11, 1922, ch. 185, 42 Stat. 521

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   May 11, 1922, ch. 185, 42 Stat. 521

2. 1958

   Pub. L. 85–464 § 8 · 72 Stat. 216

   Changed · 16 U.S.C. § 556

   Pub. L. 85–464 made prohibition inapplicable to scientific or technical articles prepared for or published in scientific publications

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 85–464 made prohibition inapplicable to scientific or technical articles prepared for or published in scientific publications.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   Sec. 8. The proviso in the Act of May 11, 1922, making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1923, under the item “General expenses, Forest Service”, limiting the expenditure of funds for publication (42 Stat. 507, 521, 16 U. S. C. 556) is hereby amended by substituting for the phrase “And provided further,” the phrase “Provided further” and adding a further proviso so that the limiting provisions shall read “Provided further, That hereafter no part of any funds appropriated for the Forest Service shall be paid or used for the purpose of paying for, in whole or in part, the preparation or publication of any newspaper or magazine article but this shall not prevent the giving out to all persons, without discrimination, including newspapers and magazine writers and publishers, of any facts or official information of value to the public: And provided further, That this prohibition shall not apply to scientific or technical articles prepared tor or published in scientific publications.”

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