Title 7 — Agriculture
Chapter 19 — Cotton Statistics and Estimates
§ 474. Powers of Secretary of Agriculture; appropriation
Statutory text
The Secretary of Agriculture may cooperate with any department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, or possession, or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, or any person; and shall have the power to appoint, remove, and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, not in conflict with existing law, and make such expenditures for the purchase of samples of cotton, for rent outside the District of Columbia, printing, telegrams, telephones, books of reference, periodicals, furniture, stationery, office equipment, travel, and other supplies and expenses as shall be necessary to the administration of this chapter in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and there are authorized to be appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated such sums as may be necessary for such purposes. The Secretary of Agriculture shall maintain until at least , all cotton classing office locations in the State of Missouri that existed on .
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.
Pub. L. 69–337 § 4 · 44 Stat. 566
Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 474
Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 337, § 4, 44 Stat. 1373
Source evidence
Code source credit
Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 337, § 4, 44 Stat. 1373Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
Pub. L. 104–127 title IX § 912(b) · 110 Stat. 888
Inserted · 7 U.S.C. § 474
Pub. L. 104–127 inserted at end “The Secretary of Agriculture shall maintain until at least January 1, 1999, all cotton classing office locations in the State of Missouri that existed on January 1, 1996.”
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 104–127 inserted at end “The Secretary of Agriculture shall maintain until at least January 1, 1999, all cotton classing office locations in the State of Missouri that existed on January 1, 1996.”Enacted provision · exact public law section
(b) Cotton Classing Office Locations.— Section 4 of the Missouri. Act of March 3, 1927 (commonly known as the “Cotton Statistics and Estimates Act”) (7 U.S.C. 474), is amended by adding at the end the following: “The Secretary of Agriculture shall maintain until at least January 1, 1999, all cotton classing office locations in the State of Missouri that existed on January 1, 1996.”.
1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial
Editorial Notes
Amendments
1996—Pub. L. 104–127 inserted at end “The Secretary of Agriculture shall maintain until at least , all cotton classing office locations in the State of Missouri that existed on .”
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
1927–1996 · 2 acts
- 1927Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 337, § 4, 44 Stat. 1373
- 1996Pub. L. 104–127, title IX, § 912(b), , 110 Stat. 1185.
Show as published
(Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 337, § 4, 44 Stat. 1373; Pub. L. 104–127, title IX, § 912(b), , 110 Stat. 1185.)