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# 50 U.S.C. § 40 - Transferred

## Notes

Editorial Notes

Codification Section, act June 15, 1917, ch. 30, title XIII, § 1, 40 Stat. 231, defined “United States” as used in act June 15, 1917, and was transferred to section 195 of this title.