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[CITE: 15USC196]

 
                      TITLE 15--COMMERCE AND TRADE
 
            CHAPTER 5--STATISTICAL AND COMMERCIAL INFORMATION
 
Sec. 196. Payments for rent of offices in foreign countries

    Section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31 shall not apply to advance 
payments for rent of offices in foreign countries by the Bureau of 
Foreign and Domestic Commerce.

(Mar. 4, 1925, ch. 556, Sec. 1, 43 Stat. 1327.)

                          Codification

    ``Section 3324(a) and (b) of title 31'' substituted in text for 
``section 3648 of the Revised Statutes'' on authority of Pub. L. 97-258, 
Sec. 4(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which 
enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.
    Section was formerly classified to section 531 of Title 31 prior to 
the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by 
Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.
    Section is from the Second Deficiency Act for the fiscal year 1925.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of all other officers of Department of Commerce and 
functions of all agencies and employees of such Department, with a few 
exceptions, transferred to Secretary of Commerce, with power vested in 
him to authorize their performance or performance of any of his 
functions by any of such officers, agencies, and employees, by Reorg. 
Plan No. 5 of 1950, Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 
Stat. 1263, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees. Through internal reorganization, functions of former 
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, referred to in text, have been 
reassigned to other offices of Department of Commerce.
