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[CITE: 2USC132a]

 
                          TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
 
                     CHAPTER 5--LIBRARY OF CONGRESS
 
Sec. 132a. Appropriations for increase of general library

    The unexpended balance of any sums appropriated by Congress for the 
increase of the general library, together with such sums as may 
hereafter be appropriated to the same purpose, shall be laid out under 
the direction of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library.

(R.S. Sec. 82; Feb. 7, 1902, No. 5, 32 Stat. 735; Aug. 2, 1946, ch. 753, 
title II, Sec. 223, 60 Stat. 838.)

                          Codification

    R.S. Sec. 82 derived from acts Apr. 24, 1800, ch. 37, Sec. 5, 2 
Stat. 56, and Jan. 26, 1802, ch. 2, Sec. 6, 2 Stat. 129.


                               Amendments

    1946--Act Aug. 2, 1946, changed composition of Joint Committee. See 
section 132b of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1946 Amendment

    Amendment by act Aug. 2, 1946, effective Jan. 3, 1947, see section 
245 of that act, set out as a note under section 72a of this title.