§ 2668a. Disposition of trust funds received from foreign governments for citizens of United States

Statutory text

All moneys received by the Secretary of State from foreign governments and other sources, in trust for citizens of the United States or others, shall be deposited and covered into the Treasury.

The Secretary of State shall determine the amounts due claimants, respectively, from each of such trust funds, and certify the same to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall, upon the presentation of the certificates of the Secretary of State, pay the amounts so found to be due.

Each of the trust funds covered into the Treasury as aforesaid is appropriated for the payment to the ascertained beneficiaries thereof of the certificates provided for in this section.

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.

1896
Pub. L. 54–34 · 29 Stat. 28
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 2668a
(Feb. 27, 1896, ch. 34, 29 Stat. 32.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Feb. 27, 1896, ch. 34, 29 Stat. 32.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 547 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.

Credits

(Feb. 27, 1896, ch. 34, 29 Stat. 32.)