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title: "50 U.S.C. § 503"
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# 50 U.S.C. § 503 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, not to exceed $75,000,000 to carry out the purposes of sections 501 and 502 of this title.

(May 11, 1949, ch. 98, § 3, 63 Stat. 66.)