Title 7 — AgricultureRelease 119-73
§2234 Purchases for bureaus from appropriations for contingent expenses
Title 7 › Chapter CHAPTER 55— - DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE › § 2234
Summary
The Secretary of Agriculture can buy stationery, supplies, furniture, and other small items using the contingency expense fund. Those items can be sent to Department bureaus, divisions, and offices in Washington, D.C., and the receiving units must pay back the fund from their lump-sum budgets through transfer settlements handled by the Treasury Department.
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Title 7, §2234
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The Secretary of Agriculture may purchase stationery, supplies, furniture, and miscellaneous materials from this appropriation for contingent expenses and transfer the same at actual cost to the various bureaus, divisions, and offices of the Department of Agriculture in the city of Washington, reimbursement therefor to be made to such appropriation by said bureaus, divisions, and offices from their lump-fund appropriations by transfer settlements through the Treasury Department.
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Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 542 of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.
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7 U.S.C. § 2234
Title 7 — Agriculture
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73