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[CITE: 40USC47]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 47. Apartments of Chief of Engineers

    The Chief of Engineers shall be furnished official apartments in one 
of the public buildings in the city of Washington, as may be directed by 
the Administrator of General Services, and shall be supplied by the 
Government with the stationery, instruments, books, and furniture which 
may be required for the performance of his duties.

(R.S. Sec. 1808; June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title I, Sec. 103(a), 63 Stat. 
380.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1808 derived from act Mar. 3, 1859, ch. 84, Sec. 1, 11 
Stat. 435.


                                 Repeals

    Section 10 of act Mar. 1, 1919, ch. 86, 40 Stat. 1269, formerly set 
out as a credit to this section, was repealed by Pub. L. 89-554, 
Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 644.

                          Transfer of Functions

    Functions of office of Commissioner of Public Buildings and Public 
Buildings Administration 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. Office of Commissioner of Public Buildings 
and Public Buildings Administration abolished by section 103(b) of act 
June 30, 1949.
    R.S. Sec. 1808 provided that official apartments should be furnished 
to the Chief of Engineers at the direction of the President. The 
function of allotment of space in public buildings in the District of 
Columbia was placed in the Public Buildings Commission by act Mar. 1, 
1919, ch. 86, Sec. 10, 40 Stat. 1269.

                 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.


                            Cross References

    Operations of buildings and related activities by Administrator of 
General Services, general powers and duties, see section 490 of this 
title.
