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Title 7 — Agriculture

Chapter 4 — Naval Stores

§ 97. Purchase and analysis by Secretary of samples of spirits of turpentine to detect violations; reports to Department of Justice; publication of results of analysis, etc.

Statutory text

The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to purchase from time to time in open market samples of spirits of turpentine and of anything offered for sale as such for the purpose of analysis, classification, or grading and of detecting any violation of this chapter. He shall report to the Department of Justice for appropriate action any violation of this chapter coming to his knowledge. He is also authorized to publish from time to time results of any analysis, classification, or grading of spirits of turpentine and of anything offered for sale as such made by him under any provision of this chapter.

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. 67–217 § 7 · 42 Stat. 635

    Enacted · 7 U.S.C. § 97

    (Mar. 3, 1923, ch. 217, § 7, 42 Stat. 1436.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Mar. 3, 1923, ch. 217, § 7, 42 Stat. 1436.)

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

Credits

(Mar. 3, 1923, ch. 217, § 7, 42 Stat. 1436.)

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