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Title 16 — Conservation

Chapter 8 — Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge

§ 728. Expenditures

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to make such expenditures for construction, equipment, maintenance, repairs, and improvements, including expenditures for personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere, as may be necessary to execute the functions imposed upon him by this chapter and as may be provided for by Congress from time to time.

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. The Upper Mississippi River Wild Life and Fish Refuge Act

    Pub. L. 68–346 § 9 · 43 Stat. 650

    Enacted · 16 U.S.C. § 728

    June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 9, 43 Stat. 652

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 9, 43 Stat. 652

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 9. (a) The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce are authorized to make such expenditures for construction, equipment, maintenance, repairs, and improvements, including expenditures for personal sendees at the seat of government and elsewhere, as may be necessary to execute the functions imposed upon them by this Act and as may be provided for by Congress from time to time. (b) For such expenditures there is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $50,000, to be available until expended, $25,000 of such sum to be available for expenditure by the Secretary of Agriculture and $25,000 by the Secretary of Commerce.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

As originally enacted, this section contained an additional paragraph which appropriated a sum half of which was to be available, until expended, for the expenditures mentioned herein.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Transfer of functions of Secretary of Agriculture and Secretary of Commerce to Secretary of the Interior, by Reorg. Plan No. II of 1939, see Transfer of Functions note set out under section 723 of this title.

Credits

1924–1939 · 2 acts
  1. 1924June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 9, 43 Stat. 652
  2. 19391939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), (f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.
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(June 7, 1924, ch. 346, § 9, 43 Stat. 652; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, § 4(e), (f), eff. , 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1433.)

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