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Title 2 — The Congress

Chapter 41 — Congressional Officers and Administration

§ 4104. American goods to be preferred in purchases for Senate and House

Statutory text

The Secretary of the Senate and the Chief Administrative Officer of the House of Representatives shall, in disbursing the public moneys for the use of the two Houses, respectively, purchase only articles the growth and manufacture of the United States, provided the articles required can be procured of such growth and manufacture upon as good terms as to quality and price as are demanded for like articles of foreign growth and manufacture.

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. R.S. § 69

    Enacted · 2 U.S.C. § 4104

    R.S. § 69

    Unresolved: No Public Law or Statutes at Large citation in the Code source.

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    R.S. § 69

  2. House of Representatives Administrative Reform Technical Corrections Act

    Pub. L. 104–186 title II § 204(57) · 110 Stat. 1718

    Substituted · 2 U.S.C. § 4104

    Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Chief Administrative Officer” for “Clerk”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Chief Administrative Officer” for “Clerk”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (57) Section 69 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (2 U.S.C. 109) is amended by striking out “Clerk” and inserting in lieu thereof “Chief Administrative Officer”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 unresolved

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 109 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

R.S. § 69 derived from act June 17, 1844, ch. 105, § 1, 5 Stat. 681.

Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–186 substituted “Chief Administrative Officer” for “Clerk”.

Credits

1996 · 2 acts
  1. R.S. § 69
  2. 1996Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(57), , 110 Stat. 1738.
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(R.S. § 69; Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 204(57), , 110 Stat. 1738.)

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