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# 4 U.S.C. § 146 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

For the purposes of this chapter, there are authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, sums of not more than $50,000 for any one fiscal year.

(Added Oct. 31, 1951, ch. 655, § 12, 65 Stat. 715.)

## Notes

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Similar Provisions; Repeal; Saving Clause; Delegation of Functions; Transfer of Property and Personnel See note preceding section 141 of this title.