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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture

§ 2203. Seal

Statutory text

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to procure a proper seal, with such suitable inscriptions and devices as he may approve, to be known as the official seal of the Department of Agriculture, and to be kept and used to verify official documents, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe.

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. 53–238 · 28 Stat. 264

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2203

    (Aug. 8, 1894, ch. 238, 28 Stat. 272.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 8, 1894, ch. 238, 28 Stat. 272.)

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Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 513 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, , 80 Stat. 378.

Credits

(Aug. 8, 1894, ch. 238, 28 Stat. 272.)

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