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title: "21 U.S.C. § 626"
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title_number: 21
title_name: "FOOD AND DRUGS"
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# 21 U.S.C. § 626 - Purchase of tags, labels, stamps, and certificates
## Text
The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to expend appropriations for meat inspection for the purchase of printed tags, labels, stamps, and certificates without regard to existing laws applicable to public printing.
(Sept. 21, 1944, ch. 412, title I, § 101(f), 58 Stat. 734.)
## Notes
Editorial Notes
Codification Section was formerly classified to section 431 of Title 7, Agriculture, prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section was enacted as part of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944, and not as part of the Federal Meat Inspection Act which is classified to subchapters I to IVA of this chapter.
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Authorization of AppropriationAuthorization of appropriation of sums necessary for the purposes of this section, see note under section 395 of Title 7, Agriculture.