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[CITE: 41USC14]

 
                       TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS
 
                      CHAPTER 1--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 14. Restriction on purchases of land

    No land shall be purchased on account of the United States, except 
under a law authorizing such purchase.

(R.S. Sec. 3736.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 3736 derived from act May 1, 1820, ch. 52, Sec. 7, 3 Stat. 
568.


                            Cross References

    Section inapplicable to lease-purchase contracts, see section 356 of 
Title 40, Public Buildings, Property, and Works.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 40 section 356.
