Historical and Revision Notes

Revised section

Source (U.S. Code)

Source (Statutes at Large)

4742

10:1361.

Aug. 29, 1916, ch. 418 (last par. under “Ordnance Department”), 39 Stat. 645.

The words “as may be needful or desirable” are omitted as surplusage.

Editorial Notes
Amendments

1996—Pub. L. 104–201 renumbered section 4742 of this title as this section and substituted “Secretary of Defense” for “Secretary of the Army”.