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[CITE: 40USC298a]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
             CHAPTER 3--PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND WORKS GENERALLY
 
Sec. 298a. Acceptance of gifts of real, personal, or other 
        property
        
    The Administrator of General Services, together with the United 
States Postal Service where his office is concerned, is authorized to 
accept on behalf of the United States unconditional gifts of real, 
personal, or other property in aid of any project or function within 
their respective jurisdictions.

(June 16, 1949, ch. 218, title IV, Sec. 404, 63 Stat. 199; June 30, 
1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 380; Pub. L. 91-375, 
Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 773.)

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of Federal Works Agency and of all agencies thereof, 
together with functions of Federal Works Administrator transferred to 
Administrator of General Services by section 103(a) of act June 30, 
1949, which is classified to section 753(a) of this title. Federal Works 
Agency and office of Federal Works Administrator abolished by section 
103(b) of act June 30, 1949.
    ``United States Postal Service'' substituted for ``Postmaster 
General'' in text pursuant to Pub. L. 91-375 which abolished office of 
Postmaster General of Post Office Department and transferred its 
functions to United States Postal Service.

                 Effective Date of Transfer of Functions

    Transfer of functions by act June 30, 1949, effective July 1, 1949, 
see section 605 of act June 30, 1949, set out as an Effective Date note 
under section 471 of this title.


                       Repeal of Inconsistent Acts

    Section 413 [formerly section 411] of act June 16, 1949, 63 Stat. 
200, as redesignated by acts July 22, 1954, ch. 560, Sec. 101, 68 Stat. 
518, and July 12, 1955, ch. 331, 69 Stat. 297, provided that: ``All Acts 
and parts of Acts inconsistent or in conflict with the foregoing 
provisions [enacting this section and sections 37a, 297, 297a, 298, 298b 
to 298d, and 352 to 356a of this title and amending section 345 of this 
title] are hereby repealed to the extent of such inconsistency or 
conflict.''
