---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 U.S.C. § 851a"
title: "33"
title_heading: "Navigation and Navigable Waters"
number: "851a"
heading: "Repealed. June 3, 1948, ch. 390, § 22(a), formerly § 21(a), 62 Stat. 300; renumbered § 22(a), Sept. 14, 1961, Pub. L. 87–233, § 1(f), 75 Stat. 506"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/33/851a"
units:
  - "Chapter 17 — National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration"
  - "Subchapter I — General Provisions"
---

# [§851a. Repealed. June 3, 1948, ch. 390, § 22(a), formerly § 21(a), 62 Stat. 300; renumbered § 22(a), Sept. 14, 1961, Pub. L. 87–233, § 1(f), 75 Stat. 506 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, act Jan. 19, 1942, ch. 6, § 1, 56 Stat. 6, related to distribution of the total number of commissioned officers in rank.