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title: "33 U.S.C. § 883i"
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title_number: 33
title_name: "NAVIGATION AND NAVIGABLE WATERS"
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# 33 U.S.C. § 883i - Authorization of appropriations

## Text

There are authorized to be appropriated such funds as may be necessary to acquire, construct, maintain, and operate ships, stations, equipment, and facilities and for such other expenditures, including personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere and including the erection of temporary observatory buildings and lease of sites therefor, as may be necessary for the conduct of the activities herein authorized.

(Aug. 6, 1947, ch. 504, § 9, 61 Stat. 788.)

## Notes

Editorial Notes

References in TextHerein, referred to in text, means act Aug. 6, 1947, ch. 504, 61 Stat. 787, which is classified generally to this subchapter (§ 883a et seq.). For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Tables.