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[CITE: 7USC361f]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
              CHAPTER 14--AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATIONS
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 361f. Publications of experiment stations; free mailing

    Bulletins, reports, periodicals, reprints of articles, and other 
publications necessary for the dissemination of results of the 
researches and experiments, including lists of publications available 
for distribution by the experiment stations, shall be transmitted in the 
mails of the United States under penalty indicia: Provided, however, 
That each publication shall bear such indicia as are prescribed by the 
United States Postal Service and shall be mailed under such regulations 
as the United States Postal Service may from time to time prescribe. 
Such publications may be mailed from the principal place of business of 
the station or from an established subunit of said station.

(Mar. 2, 1887, ch. 314, Sec. 6, 24 Stat. 441; Aug. 11, 1955, ch. 790, 
Sec. 1, 69 Stat. 673; Pub. L. 91-375, Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 1970, 84 Stat. 
773.)

                          Codification

    Section was formerly classified to section 377 of this title. See 
section 361g of this title.


                               Amendments

    1955--Act Aug. 11, 1955, amended section generally to authorize free 
mailing of publications by the agricultural experiment stations. For 
provisions which related to the unexpended balance of annual 
appropriation, see section 361g of this title.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``United States Postal Service'' substituted in text for 
``Postmaster General'' pursuant to Pub. L. 91-375, Sec. 4(a), Aug. 12, 
1970, 84 Stat. 773, set out as a note under section 201 of Title 39, 
Postal Service, which abolished office of Postmaster General of Post 
Office Department and transferred its functions to United States Postal 
Service.
