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§7654 Quartermaster Supplies: Military Instruction Camps

Title 10 › Subtitle Subtitle B— Army › Part IV— SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › Chapter 771— ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN TO ARMED FORCES › § 7654

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of the Army can give quartermaster supplies to any school where an Army officer teaches military science and tactics so the school can set up and run a military training camp for its students. The Secretary sets the rules for how and when the supplies are issued. The Secretary must require a bond equal to the value of the supplies. The bond promises the school will look after the supplies and return them when asked, except for items that are properly used up.

Full Legal Text

Title 10, §7654

Armed Forces — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

Under such conditions as he may prescribe, the Secretary of the Army may issue, to any educational institution at which an Army officer is detailed as professor of military science and tactics, such quartermaster supplies as are necessary to establish and maintain a camp for the military instruction of its students. The Secretary shall require a bond in the value of the property issued under this section, for the care and safekeeping of that property and, except for property properly expended, for its return when required.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised sectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 465410:1182.May 18, 1916, ch. 124, 39 Stat. 123. The words “at his discretion and” and “belonging to the Government, and which can be spared for that purpose, as may appear to be” are omitted as surplusage. The words “except for property properly expended” are inserted for clarity. The word “stores” is omitted as covered by the word “supplies”.

Editorial Notes

Prior Provisions

A prior section 7654 was renumbered section 8854 of this title.

Amendments

2018—Pub. L. 115–232 renumbered section 4654 of this title as this section.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2018 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 115–232 effective Feb. 1, 2019, with provision for the coordination of

Amendments

and special rule for certain redesignations, see section 800 of Pub. L. 115–232, set out as a note preceding section 3001 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

10 U.S.C. § 7654

Title 10 — Armed Forces

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60