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+title: "7 U.S.C. § 404"
+description: "Authorization of appropriations"
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+kind: "code_section"
+title_number: 7
+title_name: "AGRICULTURE"
+chapter_number: "16"
+chapter_name: "BUREAU OF DAIRY INDUSTRY"
+section: "404"
+citation: "7 U.S.C. § 404"
+status: "current"
+release_point: "119-100"
+release_date: "2026-06-26"
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+---
+
+# 7 U.S.C. § 404 - Authorization of appropriations
+
+## Text
+
+For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this chapter and the activities of the Bureau of Dairy Industry, such sums of money as Congress may deem necessary are authorized to be appropriated.
+
+(May 29, 1924, ch. 208, § 4, 43 Stat. 243; May 11, 1926, ch. 286, 44 Stat. 499.)
+
+## Notes
+
+Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
+
+Change of Name “Bureau of Dairying” established by act May 29, 1924, designated “Bureau of Dairy Industry” by act May 11, 1926.
+
+Executive Documents
+
+Transfer of Functions Functions of Bureau of Dairy Industry transferred to Secretary of Agriculture by 1947 Reorg. Plan No. 1, § 301, eff. July 1, 1947, 12 F.R. 4534, 61 Stat. 952. See note set out under section 391 of this title. Bureau of Dairy Industry consolidated with other agencies into Agricultural Research Administration for duration of World War II by Ex. Ord. No. 9069, Feb. 23, 1942, 7 F.R. 1409.