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Title 48 — Territories and Insular Possessions

Chapter 8A — Guam

§ 1428. Authorization of appropriations

Statutory text

(a)

For the purpose of promoting economic development in the territory of Guam, there is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior to be paid to the government of Guam for the purposes of this subchapter the sum of $5,000,000.

(b)

In addition to the appropriations authorized in subsection (a), $1,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior to be paid to the government of Guam annually for five fiscal years commencing in fiscal year 1978 to carry out the purposes of this subchapter.

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. Guam Development Fund Act of 1968

    Pub. L. 90–601 § 2 · 82 Stat. 1172

    Enacted · 48 U.S.C. § 1428

    Pub. L. 90–601, § 2, Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1172

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 90–601, § 2, Oct. 17, 1968, 82 Stat. 1172

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 2. purpose For the purpose of promoting economic development in the territory of Guam, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior to lie paid to the government of Guam for the purposes of this Act the sum or $5,000,000.

  2. Pub. L. 95–134 title II § 202 · 91 Stat. 1159

    1. Amended · 48 U.S.C. § 1428

      Pub. L. 95–134 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)

    2. Added · 48 U.S.C. § 1428

      Pub. L. 95–134 added subsec. (b)

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 95–134 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 202. Section 2 of the Guam Development Fund Act of 1968 (82 Stat. 1172: 48 U.S.C. 1428) is amended by changing “Sec. 2.” to “Sec. 2. (a)” and adding at the end thereof the following new subsection (b): “(b) In addition to the appropriations authorized in subsection Additional appropriation authorizations. (a), $1,000,000 is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of the Interior to be paid to the Government of Guam annually for five fiscal years commencing in fiscal year 1978 to carry out the purposes of this Act.”.

3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was not enacted as part of the Organic Act of Guam which comprises this chapter.

Amendments

1977—Pub. L. 95–134 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).

Credits

1968–1977 · 2 acts
  1. 1968Pub. L. 90–601, § 2, , 82 Stat. 1172
  2. 1977Pub. L. 95–134, title II, § 202, , 91 Stat. 1161.
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(Pub. L. 90–601, § 2, , 82 Stat. 1172; Pub. L. 95–134, title II, § 202, , 91 Stat. 1161.)

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