Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 8 — Foreign Service Buildings
§ 294a. Contracts requiring payment in foreign currency
Statutory text
Whenever a contract is made for the construction, alteration, or repair of a Foreign Service building which requires payments in a foreign currency, the Secretary of State is authorized to purchase such currency at such times and in such amounts (within the total amount of the payments to be made under such contract) as he may deem necessary, the currency so purchased to be disbursed and accounted for at its cost price.
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.
Pub. L. 76–189 · 54 Stat. 181
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 294a
(May 14, 1940, ch. 189, title I, 54 Stat. 186.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(May 14, 1940, ch. 189, title I, 54 Stat. 186.)
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Editorial Notes
Codification
Section was not enacted as a part of the Foreign Service Buildings Act, 1926, which comprises this chapter.
Prior Provisions
Prior similar provisions were contained in act June 29, 1939, ch. 248, title I, 53 Stat. 890.
Credits
(May 14, 1940, ch. 189, title I, 54 Stat. 186.)