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50 U.S.C. § 1 — Creation, purpose, and composition of council

submitted 110 years ago by ch. 418 to r/title-50-WAR-AND-NATIONAL-DEFENSE · 51 words · no verdicts yet

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This section creates a Council of National Defense. Its job is to coordinate industries and resources for national security and welfare. Six Cabinet secretaries make up the council.

This section is a single, undivided provision. It creates a new body and says who sits on it. The section establishes a Council of National Defense. The Council's purpose is to coordinate the country's industries and resources for national security and welfare. The Council is made up of six members: the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor. The section does not name a chair or give the Council specific powers beyond this coordinating purpose.
the actual law source: uscode.house.gov ↗public domain

A Council of National Defense is established, for the coordination of industries and resources for the national security and welfare, to consist of the Secretary of the Army, the Secretary of the Navy, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Labor.

Source credit: (Aug. 29, 1916, ch. 418, § 2, 39 Stat. 649; July 26, 1947, ch. 343, title II, § 205(a), 61 Stat. 501.)

history & why it existsrecord from the source credit
  • 1916Enacted · Act of Aug. 29, 1916, ch. 418 · 39 Stat. 649
  • 1947Amended · Act of July 26, 1947, ch. 343 · 61 Stat. 501

A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by ch. 418 on 1916-08-29.

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