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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture

§ 2205. Duties of former Commissioner of Agriculture transferred to Secretary

Statutory text

The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized and directed to perform all the duties named in all Acts of Congress in force on , to be performed by the Commissioner of Agriculture.

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. 50–373 · 25 Stat. 176

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 2205

    Mar. 2, 1889, ch. 373, 25 Stat. 840

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Mar. 2, 1889, ch. 373, 25 Stat. 840

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 515 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.

Executive Documents

Transfer of Functions

Functions of all officers, agencies, and employees of Department of Agriculture transferred, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of Agriculture by 1953 Reorg. Plan No. 2, § 1, eff. , 18 F.R. 3219, 67 Stat. 633, set out as a note under section 2201 of this title.

Credits

1889–1890 · 2 acts
  1. 1889Mar. 2, 1889, ch. 373, 25 Stat. 840
  2. 1890July 14, 1890, ch. 707, 26 Stat. 288.
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(Mar. 2, 1889, ch. 373, 25 Stat. 840; July 14, 1890, ch. 707, 26 Stat. 288.)

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