---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1470"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1470"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 98–213, § 16(v), Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1463"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1470"
units:
  - "Chapter 10 — Territorial Provisions of a General Nature"
---

# [§1470. Repealed. Pub. L. 98–213, § 16(v), Dec. 8, 1983, 97 Stat. 1463 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, R.S. § 1888, prohibited any Territorial legislative assembly from exceeding amount appropriated by Congress for its annual expenses.