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title: "48 U.S.C. § 1596"
description: "Repealed. Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 224(3), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1752"
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title_number: 48
title_name: "TERRITORIES AND INSULAR POSSESSIONS"
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chapter_name: "VIRGIN ISLANDS [1954]"
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# 48 U.S.C. § 1596 - Repealed. Pub. L. 104–186, title II, § 224(3), Aug. 20, 1996, 110 Stat. 1752

## Notes

Section, act July 22, 1954, ch. 558, § 15, as added May 27, 1975, Pub. L. 94–26, § 2, 89 Stat. 94, related to clerk hire allowance and reimbursement for transportation expenses of the Delegate from the Virgin Islands to the House of Representatives.