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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 7 — International Bureaus, Congresses, Etc.

§ 268b. Advances from appropriation “Boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and the United States and Canada”

Statutory text

Advances of money under the appropriation “Boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and the United States and Canada”, may be made to the commissioner on the part of the United States and by his authority to chiefs of parties prior to .

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. Pub. L. 65–52 · 40 Stat. 273

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 268b

    Apr. 15, 1918, ch. 52, 40 Stat. 523

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Apr. 15, 1918, ch. 52, 40 Stat. 523

  2. Pub. L. 89–554 § 8(a) · 80 Stat. 378

    Struck · 22 U.S.C. § 268b

    Pub. L. 89–554 struck out provisions that related to traveling expenses of the commissioner

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 89–554 struck out provisions that related to traveling expenses of the commissioner.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) The laws specified in the following schedule are repealed except with respect to rights and duties that matured, penalties that were incurred, and proceedings that were begun, before the effective date of this Act and except as provided by section 7 of this Act.

  3. Pub. L. 92–310 title II § 231(aa) · 86 Stat. 201

    Struck · 22 U.S.C. § 268b

    Pub. L. 92–310 struck out provisions that required chiefs of parties to give bonds

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 92–310 struck out provisions that required chiefs of parties to give bonds.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (aa) The Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen”, approved April 15, 1918 (40 Stat. 523; 31 U.S.C. 535), and the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922”, approved March 2, 1921 (41 Stat. 1210; 31 U.S.C. 535), relating to the bond required of the commissioner on the part of the United States who is advanced public moneys in connection with activities regarding the United States-Canada boundary, which is under the heading “Boundary Line, Alaska and Canada, and The United States and Canada”, are each amended by striking out in the first proviso thereto the following: “, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of State may direct,”.

  4. General Accounting Office Act of 1996

    Pub. L. 104–316 title I § 111(a) · 110 Stat. 3826

    Substituted · 22 U.S.C. § 268b

    Pub. L. 104–316 substituted “chiefs of parties” for “chiefs of parties and accounts arising under advances shall be rendered through and by the commissioner on the part of the United States to the General Accounting Office as under advances made to chiefs of parties”

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 104–316 substituted “chiefs of parties” for “chiefs of parties and accounts arising under advances shall be rendered through and by the commissioner on the part of the United States to the General Accounting Office as under advances made to chiefs of parties”.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (a) Accounts of Advances for Operations of the International Joint Commission on the United States-Canada Boundary Waters.— The first section of the Act of March 2, 1921 (chapter 113; 22 U. S. C. 268b) is amended by striking “chiefs of parties” the first place it appears and all that follows through “chiefs of parties” the next place it appears and inserting “chiefs of parties”.

3 of 4 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is from the Diplomatic and Consular Service Appropriation Act of . Similar provisions were contained in act , and other prior acts.

Acts ; ; ; ; and , were appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, and 1931, respectively. These Acts made applicable boundary appropriations for the enumerated fiscal years.

Section was formerly classified to section 535 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, § 1, , 96 Stat. 877.

Amendments1966–1996 · 3 rounds

1996

Pub. L. 104–316 substituted “chiefs of parties” for “chiefs of parties and accounts arising under advances shall be rendered through and by the commissioner on the part of the United States to the General Accounting Office as under advances made to chiefs of parties”.

1972

Pub. L. 92–310 struck out provisions that required chiefs of parties to give bonds.

1966

Pub. L. 89–554 struck out provisions that related to traveling expenses of the commissioner.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Transfer of Functions

“General Accounting Office” substituted in text for “Treasury Department” pursuant to act , which transferred powers and duties conferred upon Comptroller, six auditors, and certain other officers of the Treasury to General Accounting Office. See section 701 et seq. of Title 31, Money and Finance.

Credits

1918–1996 · 11 acts
  1. 1918Apr. 15, 1918, ch. 52, 40 Stat. 523
  2. 1921Mar. 2, 1921, ch. 113, 41 Stat. 1210
  3. 1921June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 24
  4. 1926Apr. 29, 1926, ch. 195, title I, 44 Stat. 336
  5. 1927Feb. 24, 1927, ch. 189, title I, 44 Stat. 1185
  6. 1928Feb. 15, 1928, ch. 57, title I, 45 Stat. 70
  7. 1929Jan. 25, 1929, ch. 102, title I, 45 Stat. 1101
  8. 1930Apr. 18, 1930, ch. 184, title I, 46 Stat. 179
  9. 1966Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), , 80 Stat. 643
  10. 1972Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 231(aa), , 86 Stat. 212
  11. 1996Pub. L. 104–316, title I, § 111(a), , 110 Stat. 3833.
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(Apr. 15, 1918, ch. 52, 40 Stat. 523; Mar. 2, 1921, ch. 113, 41 Stat. 1210; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, § 304, 42 Stat. 24; Apr. 29, 1926, ch. 195, title I, 44 Stat. 336; Feb. 24, 1927, ch. 189, title I, 44 Stat. 1185; Feb. 15, 1928, ch. 57, title I, 45 Stat. 70; Jan. 25, 1929, ch. 102, title I, 45 Stat. 1101; Apr. 18, 1930, ch. 184, title I, 46 Stat. 179; Pub. L. 89–554, § 8(a), , 80 Stat. 643; Pub. L. 92–310, title II, § 231(aa), , 86 Stat. 212; Pub. L. 104–316, title I, § 111(a), , 110 Stat. 3833.)

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