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[CITE: 40USC314]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
                     CHAPTER 4--THE PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
Sec. 314. Sale of war supplies, lands, and buildings

    The President is authorized, through the head of any executive 
department, to sell, upon such terms as the head of such department 
shall deem expedient, to any person, partnership, association, 
corporation, or any other department of the Government, or to any 
foreign State or Government, engaged in war against any Government with 
which the United States is at war, any war supplies, material and 
equipment, and any by-products thereof, and any building, plant or 
factory, acquired since April sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, 
including the lands upon which the plant or factory may be situated, for 
the production of such war supplies, materials, and equipment which, 
during the emergency existing July 9, 1918, may have been purchased, 
acquired, or manufactured by the United States: Provided further, That 
sales of guns and ammunition made under the authority contained in this 
section or any other Act shall be limited to sales to other departments 
of the Government and to foreign States or Governments engaged in war 
against any Government with which the United States is at war, and to 
members of the National Rifle Association and of other recognized 
associations organized in the United States for the encouragement of 
small-arms target practice.

(July 9, 1918, ch. 143, 40 Stat. 850; Feb. 25, 1919, ch. 39, Sec. 3, 40 
Stat. 1173; May 29, 1928, ch. 901, Sec. 1(8), 45 Stat. 986; Aug. 7, 
1946, ch. 770, Sec. 1(55), 60 Stat. 870.)


                               Amendments

    1946--Act Aug. 7, 1946, repealed same provisions, relating to 
reports to Congress, which were repealed by act May 29, 1928.
    1928--Act May 29, 1928, discontinued report required by act July 9, 
1918, to be made to Congress of money received by sales of supplies, 
materials, equipment, or other property purchased, acquired, or 
manufactured, in the United States in connection with the prosecution of 
the war.
    1919--Act Feb. 25, 1919, repealed following proviso: ``Any moneys 
received by the United States as the proceeds of any such sale shall be 
deposited to the credit of that appropriation out of which was paid the 
cost to the Government of the property thus sold, and the same shall 
immediately become available for the purposes named in the original 
appropriation.''


                            Cross References

    Disposal of surplus property, see section 484 of this title.
