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[CITE: 7USC2231]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                  CHAPTER 55--DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
Sec. 2231. Official expenses of employees stationed abroad

    Employees of the Department of Agriculture stationed abroad may, 
with the approval of the Secretary of Agriculture, enter into leases for 
official quarters, for periods not exceeding one year, and may pay rent, 
telephone, subscriptions to publications, and other charges incident to 
the conduct of their offices and the discharge of their duties, in 
advance, in any foreign country where custom or practice requires 
payment in advance.

(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title VII, Sec. 705(c), 58 Stat. 742.)

                          Codification

    This section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture 
Organic Act of 1944.
    Section was formerly classified to section 543b of Title 5 prior to 
the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization 
and Employees, by Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.


                            Prior Provisions

    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in the 
following Department of Agriculture Appropriation Acts:
    June 28, 1944, ch. 296, 58 Stat. 426.
    July 12, 1943, ch. 215, 57 Stat. 393.
    July 22, 1942, ch. 516, 56 Stat. 665.
    July 1, 1941, ch. 267, 55 Stat. 409.
    June 25, 1940, ch. 421, 54 Stat. 532.
    June 30, 1939, ch. 253, title I, 53 Stat. 940.
    June 16, 1938, ch. 464, title I, 52 Stat. 711.
    June 29, 1937, ch. 404, 50 Stat. 395.
