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[CITE: 40USC51]

 
             TITLE 40--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, PROPERTY, AND WORKS
 
CHAPTER 1--PUBLIC BUILDINGS, GROUNDS, PARKS, AND WHARVES IN DISTRICT OF 
                                COLUMBIA
 
Sec. 51. Authority of Chief of Engineers

    The Chief of Engineers and his necessary assistants are empowered to 
use all lawful means for the discharge of their duties; and, 
particularly, he shall have full control over the Washington Aqueduct, 
to regulate the manner in which the authorities of the District of 
Columbia may tap the supply of water to the inhabitants thereof; and he 
shall stop the same whenever it is found to be no more than adequate to 
the wants of the public buildings and grounds.

(R.S. Sec. 1810.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 1810 derived from acts May 2, 1828, ch. 45, Sec. 4, 4 
Stat. 266; Mar. 3, 1859, ch. 84, Sec. 1, 11 Stat. 435.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 52 of this title.
