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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 37 — Seeds

§ 1606. Authorization of expenditures

Statutory text

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make such expenditures for rent, outside of the District of Columbia, printing, binding, telegrams, telephones, books of reference, publications, furniture, stationery, office and laboratory equipment, travel, and other supplies, including reporting services, such research necessary to develop methods of processing, bulking, blending, sampling, testing, and merchandising seeds necessary to the administration of this chapter and other necessary expenses in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and as may be appropriated for by the Congress.

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. 76–615 · 53 Stat. 1275

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 1606

    (Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 416, 53 Stat. 1289.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 416, 53 Stat. 1289.)

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Credits

(Aug. 9, 1939, ch. 615, title IV, § 416, 53 Stat. 1289.)

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