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Title 33 — Navigation and Navigable Waters

Chapter 12 — River and Harbor Improvements Generally

§ 557. Payment of costs of printing

Statutory text

The printing of matter relating to river and harbor works, including all reports, compilations, regulations, and so forth, whose preparation is allowable under Department of the Army regulations, shall be done and paid for out of regular annual appropriations for printing and binding for the Department of the Army.

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. 62–253 § 13 · 37 Stat. 201

    Enacted · 33 U.S.C. § 557

    July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 13, 37 Stat. 234

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 13, 37 Stat. 234

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 13. The printing of matter relating to river and harbor works, Reports, etc. including all reports, compilations, regulations, and so forth, whose Payment for printing. preparation is allowable under War Department regulations, may, upon recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and approval by the Secretary of War, be paid for from river and harbor appropriations.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section is from section 1 of act , repealing section 13 of act .

Section 1 of that act was a provision, following an appropriation for printing for the War Department, of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for 1917.

The repealed section 13 of act , read as follows: “The printing of matter relating to river and harbor works, including all reports, compilations, regulations, and so forth, whose preparation is allowable under War Department regulations, may, upon recommendation of the Chief of Engineers and approval by the Secretary of War, be paid for from river and harbor appropriations.”

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

Department of War designated Department of the Army and title of Secretary of War changed to Secretary of the Army by section 205(a) of act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, 61 Stat. 501. Section 205(a) of act , was repealed by section 53 of act Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 641. Section 1 of act , enacted “Title 10, Armed Forces” which in sections 3010 to 3013 continued Department of the Army under administrative supervision of Secretary of the Army.

Credits

1912–1947 · 3 acts
  1. 1912July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 13, 37 Stat. 234
  2. 1916July 1, 1916, ch. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 330
  3. 1947July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.
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(July 25, 1912, ch. 253, § 13, 37 Stat. 234; July 1, 1916, ch. 209, § 1, 39 Stat. 330; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

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