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[CITE: 22USC294a]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                  CHAPTER 8--FOREIGN SERVICE BUILDINGS
 
Sec. 294a. Contracts requiring payment in foreign currency

    Whenever a contract is made for the construction, alteration, or 
repair of a Foreign Service building which requires payments in a 
foreign currency, the Secretary of State is authorized to purchase such 
currency at such times and in such amounts (within the total amount of 
the payments to be made under such contract) as he may deem necessary, 
the currency so purchased to be disbursed and accounted for at its cost 
price.

(May 14, 1940, ch. 189, title I, 54 Stat. 186.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as a part of the Foreign Service Buildings 
Act, 1926, which comprises this chapter.


                            Prior Provisions

    Prior similar provisions were contained in act June 29, 1939, ch. 
248, title I, 53 Stat. 890.
