---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 278a"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "278a"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 88–611, § 4(a)(1), Oct. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 991"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/278a"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — National Institute of Standards and Technology"
---

# [§278a. Repealed. Pub. L. 88–611, § 4(a)(1), Oct. 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 991 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act Mar. 3, 1901, ch. 872, § 11, as added July 22, 1950, ch. 486, § 2, 64 Stat. 373; amended Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 906, § 2, 70 Stat. 959; Sept. 2, 1958, Pub. L. 85–890, § 2, 72 Stat. 1712, provided for acceptance of gifts and bequests. See sections 1522 and 1523 of this title.