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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 45 STAT. · February 4, 1929 · Chapter 146

Chapter 146. To provide for the transfer of the returns office from the Interior Department to the General Accounting Office, and for other purposes

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Chap. 146: To provide for the transfer of the returns office from the Interior Department to the General Accounting Office, and for other purposes. 1929-02-04 146 Chapter 45 Stat. 1147 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 2 public Chapter 146.— An Act To provide for the transfer of the returns office from the Interior Department to the General Accounting Office, and for other purposes.
February 4, 1929.[[H. R. 9570](/us/bill/70/hr/9570).][[Public, No. 699](/us/pl/70/699).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the returnsReturns office, Interior Department.Transfer of, its functions, etc., to General Accounting Office. office, together with its activities, personnel, contracts, bids, offers, proposals, advertisements, books, records, documents, furniture, office equipment, and papers and property of whatsoever character, is hereby transferred from the Interior Department to the GeneralComptroller General vested with full authority, etc.
Accounting Office; and all powers and duties whatsoever in connection therewith now vested in or required to be performed by or under the Secretary of the Interior are transferred to, vested in, and required to be performed by or under the Comptroller General of the United States. Sec. 2. That so much of appropriations for the Interior DepartmentDepartment appropriations transferred. as applies to expenditures for the returns office, including personnel therefor, is transferred to and made applicable for expenditure by the General Accounting Office.
Sec. 3. That the Comptroller General of the United States isRegulations, etc., to be made. authorized to perform all acts and make such rules and regulations as necessary to carry the provisions of this Act into effect. Sec. 4. That all laws and parts of laws in so far as inconsistentLaws repealed.[R. S., secs. 512–515, p. 85, repealed](/us/rs/s512–515/p85).[U. S. Code, p. 1309](/us/usc/p1309). with the provisions of this Act are hereby repealed. Sec. 5. This Act shall take effect July 1, 1929.Effective July 1, 1929.
Approved, February 4, 1929.
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