Title 10, Armed ForcesRelease 119-102
§7654 Quartermaster Supplies: Military Instruction Camps
Title 10 › Subtitle B — Army › PART IV — SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT › CHAPTER 771 — ISSUE OF SERVICEABLE MATERIAL OTHER THAN TO ARMED FORCES › § 7654
Summary
The Secretary of the Army can give military supplies to schools where an Army officer teaches military science and tactics for camps. A bond must cover that property's value, except used-up items.
Full Legal Text
Title 10, §7654
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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.
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Citation
10 U.S.C. § 7654
Title 10, Armed Forces
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102