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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 16 — Bureau of Dairy Industry

§ 403. Transfer of activities of Department of Agriculture to bureau; employment of clerks, etc.

Statutory text

For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of Agriculture and the Chief of the Bureau of Dairy Industry to carry out the purposes of this chapter, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to transfer to the Bureau of Dairy Industry such activities of the Department of Agriculture as he may designate which relate primarily to the dairy industry, and to employ such additional persons in the city of Washington and elsewhere, as may be necessary.

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. 68–208 § 3 · 43 Stat. 243

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 403

    May 29, 1924, ch. 208, § 3, 43 Stat. 243

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    May 29, 1924, ch. 208, § 3, 43 Stat. 243

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 3. For the purpose of enabling the Secretary of Agriculture Transfer of Department activities relating to dairy industry. and the Chief of the Bureau of Dairying to carry out the purposes of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to transfer to the Bureau of Dairying such activities of the Department of Agriculture as he may designate which relate primarily to the dairy industry, and to employ such additional persons in the city of Washington and elsewhere, as may be necessary.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Change of Name

“Bureau of Dairying” established by act , designated “Bureau of Dairy Industry” by act .

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.

Functions of Bureau of Dairy Industry transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1947 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 301, eff. , 12 F.R. 4534, 61 Stat. 952. See note set out under section 391 of this title.

Bureau of Dairy Industry consolidated with other agencies into Agricultural Research Administration for duration of World War II by Ex. Ord. No. 9069, , 7 F.R. 1409.

Credits

1924–1926 · 2 acts
  1. 1924May 29, 1924, ch. 208, § 3, 43 Stat. 243
  2. 1926May 11, 1926, ch. 286, 44 Stat. 499.
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(May 29, 1924, ch. 208, § 3, 43 Stat. 243; May 11, 1926, ch. 286, 44 Stat. 499.)

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