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title: "22 U.S.C. § 1976"
description: "Authorization of appropriations"
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title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
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chapter_name: "PROTECTION OF VESSELS ON THE HIGH SEAS AND IN TERRITORIAL WATERS OF FOREIGN COUNTRIES"
section: "1976"
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# 22 U.S.C. § 1976 - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.

(Aug. 27, 1954, ch. 1018, § 6, 68 Stat. 883.)