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[CITE: 31USC3129]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                   SUBTITLE III--FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
 
                         CHAPTER 31--PUBLIC DEBT
 
                      SUBCHAPTER II--ADMINISTRATIVE
 
Sec. 3129. Appropriation to pay expenses

    (a) Amounts to pay necessary expenses (including rent) for an issue 
of obligations authorized under this chapter are appropriated to the 
Secretary of the Treasury. However, the amount appropriated under this 
section may not be more than--
        (1) .2 percent of the amount of bonds and notes authorized under 
    this chapter;
        (2) .1 percent of the amount of certificates of indebtedness 
    authorized under section 3104 of this title; and
        (3) .1 percent of the amount of certificates of indebtedness 
    authorized under the First Liberty Bond Act.

    (b) An appropriation under this section is available for obligation 
only through the end of the fiscal year after the fiscal year in which 
the issue was made. During a period for which an appropriation for a 
specified amount is made for expenses for which this section makes an 
appropriation for an unspecified amount, only the appropriation for the 
specified amount is available for obligation.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 947.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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3129.................................  31:753(d)(last sentence less    Sept. 24
, 1917, ch. 56, 40 Stat. 288,
                                        related to 31:771).             Sec.  1
8(d)(last sentence less related
                                                                        to Sec.
  8); added Mar. 3, 1919, ch.
                                                                        100, Se
c.  1, 40 Stat. 1310.
                                       31:757c(e).                     Sept. 24
, 1917, ch. 56, 40 Stat. 288,
                                                                        Sec.  2
2(e); added Feb. 4, 1935, ch. 5,
                                                                        Sec.  6
, 49 Stat. 21; restated Feb. 19,
                                                                        1941, c
h. 7, Sec.  3, 55 Stat. 8.
                                       31:759.                         Apr. 24,
 1917, ch. 4, Sec.  8, 40 Stat.
                                                                        37; May
 29, 1928, ch. 901, Sec.
                                                                        1(20)(r
elated to 40 Stat. 37), 45 Stat.
                                                                        987.
                                       31:760.                         Sept. 24
, 1917, ch. 56, Sec.  10, 40
                                                                        Stat. 2
92; May 29, 1928, ch. 901, Sec.
                                                                        1(20)(r
elated to 40 Stat. 292), 45 Stat.
                                                                        987; Ju
ne 1, 1955, ch. 119, Sec.  3, 69
                                                                        Stat. 8
2.
                                       31:761.                         June 16,
 1921, ch. 23, Sec.  1(last par.
                                                                        last se
ntence under heading ``Office of
                                                                        the Sec
retary''), 42 Stat. 36.
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    In subsection (a), before clause (1), the words ``an issue of 
obligations authorized under this chapter'' are substituted for 
31:761(less proviso) to reflect consolidation of the authority for 
issues of obligations in the revised chapter and for consistency. The 
text of 31:757c(e) is omitted as unnecessary and superseded by 39:410. 
The words ``out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 
appropriated'' in 31:760 are omitted as unnecessary and for consistency. 
The words ``to be expended as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct'' 
in 31:760 are omitted as surplus. In clause (1), the .2 percent 
limitation on expenses of bonds referred to in 31:760 is made applicable 
to a ``note'' because of the definition of bond in 31:753(d)(last 
sentence). The words ``sections 735 to 738, . . . 765, . . . 773 of this 
title and section 84 of title 12'' in 31:753(d)(last sentence) are 
omitted because they refer to sections previously repealed (31:735-738, 
765) or obsolete (31:773, which was superseded by 39:410) and because 
12:84 was amended to express the result required by the source 
provisions by section 10 of the Act of February 25, 1927 (ch. 191, 44 
Stat. 1229).
    In subsection (b), the words ``appropriation for the specified 
amount'' are substituted for ``definite appropriation'', and the words 
``appropriation for an unspecified amount'' are substituted for 
``indefinite appropriation'', as being more precise. The word ``only'' 
is substituted for ``and the indefinite appropriation shall not be 
available for obligation'' to eliminate unnecessary words.

                       References in Text

    The First Liberty Bond Act, referred to in subsec. (a)(3), is act 
Apr. 24, 1917, ch. 4, 40 Stat. 35, which enacted sections 746, 755, 
755a, 759, 764, 774, and 804 of former Title 31 and section 462a of 
Title 12, Banks and Banking, and amended sections 745 and 768 of former 
Title 31, and was repealed by Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 5(b), Sept. 13, 1982, 
96 Stat. 1072.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 40 section 723.
