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[CITE: 33USC770]

 
                TITLE 33--NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS
 
                         CHAPTER 16--LIGHTHOUSES
 
Sec. 770. Regulations for expenditure of moneys accruing from 
        commutation of rations and provisions
        
    Money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions for 
working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and 
tenders, and officials and other authorized persons on board of such 
tenders or vessels, after payment on proper vouchers to the officer in 
charge of the mess of such vessel or party, as provided by law, may be 
expended and accounted for pursuant to regulations prescribed by the 
Secretary of Transportation, notwithstanding the provisions of sections 
1321 and 1322(a) of title 31.

(May 13, 1938, ch. 215, Sec. 3, 52 Stat. 353; 1939 Reorg. Plan No. II, 
Sec. 2(a), eff. July 1, 1939, 4 F.R. 2731, 53 Stat. 1432; Pub. L. 89-
670, Sec. 6(b)(1), Oct. 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 938.)

                          Codification

    ``Sections 1321 and 1322(a) of title 31'' substituted in text for 
``the Act of June 26, 1934 (48 Stat. 1233) [31 U.S.C. 725s]'' 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.

                          Transfer of Functions

    The money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions refer 
to such moneys of persons in the Lighthouse Service. The Lighthouse 
Service was under the Secretary of Commerce prior to the transfer and 
consolidation of the Bureau of Lighthouses, of which the Lighthouse 
Service was a part, with the Coast Guard which was under the Secretary 
of the Treasury by Reorg. Plan No. II, Sec. 2(a), set out in the 
Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. 
Subsequently, the functions of the Secretary of the Treasury relating to 
the Coast Guard were transferred to the Secretary of Transportation by 
section 6(b)(1) of Pub. L. 89-670. See section 108 of Title 49, 
Transportation.
