§ 268b. — Advances from appropriation "Boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and the United States and Canada".
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 22USC268b]
TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
CHAPTER 7--INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS, CONGRESSES, ETC.
Sec. 268b. Advances from appropriation ``Boundary line, Alaska
and Canada, and the United States and Canada''
Advances of money under the appropriation ``Boundary line, Alaska
and Canada, and the United States and Canada'', may be made to the
commissioner on the part of the United States and by his authority to
chiefs of parties prior to March 2, 1921.
(Apr. 15, 1918, ch. 52, 40 Stat. 523; Mar. 2, 1921, ch. 113, 41 Stat.
1210; June 10, 1921, ch. 18, title III, Sec. 304, 42 Stat. 24; Apr. 29,
1926, ch. 195, title I, 44 Stat. 336; Feb. 24, 1927, ch. 189, title I,
44 Stat. 1185; Feb. 15, 1928, ch. 57, title I, 45 Stat. 70; Jan. 25,
1929, ch. 102, title I, 45 Stat. 1101; Apr. 18, 1930, ch. 184, title I,
46 Stat. 179; Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 8(a), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 643;
Pub. L. 92-310, title II, Sec. 231(aa), June 6, 1972, 86 Stat. 212; Pub.
L. 104-316, title I, Sec. 111(a), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3833.)
Codification
Section is from the Diplomatic and Consular Service Appropriation
Act of Mar. 2, 1921. Similar provisions were contained in act Apr. 15,
1918, and other prior acts.
Acts Apr. 29, 1926; Feb. 24, 1927; Feb. 15, 1928; Jan. 25, 1929; and
Apr. 18, 1930, were appropriation acts for the fiscal years 1927, 1928,
1929, 1930, and 1931, respectively. These Acts made applicable boundary
appropriations for the enumerated fiscal years.
Section was formerly classified to section 535 of Title 31 prior to
the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by
Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.
Amendments
1996--Pub. L. 104-316 substituted ``chiefs of parties'' for ``chiefs
of parties and accounts arising under advances shall be rendered through
and by the commissioner on the part of the United States to the General
Accounting Office as under advances made to chiefs of parties''.
1972--Pub. L. 92-310 struck out provisions that required chiefs of
parties to give bonds.
1966--Pub. L. 89-554 struck out provisions that related to traveling
expenses of the commissioner.
Transfer of Functions
``General Accounting Office'' substituted in text for ``Treasury
Department'' pursuant to act June 10, 1921, which transferred powers and
duties conferred upon Comptroller, six auditors, and certain other
officers of the Treasury to General Accounting Office. See section 701
et seq. of Title 31, Money and Finance.
