Historical and Revision Notes

Revised

Section

Source (U.S. Code)

Source (Statutes at Large)

103302

16 U.S.C. 412.

May 15, 1896, ch. 182, § 2, 29 Stat. 121; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.

In this section, the words “or Secretary of the Air Force” and “or Regular Air Force” are added because certain functions, personnel, and property, insofar as they pertain to the Air Force, were transferred from the Secretary of the Army and Department of the Army to the Secretary of the Air Force and Department of the Air Force by Secretary of Defense Transfer Order Nos. 1, September 26, 1947; 10, April 27, 1948; and 40 [App. B(65)], July 22, 1949.

In subsection (b), the words “and publish” are omitted because of 44 U.S.C. 1505.