---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 539"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "539"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 86–3, § 14(e), Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 10"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/539"
units:
  - "Chapter 3 — Hawaii"
---

# [§539. Repealed. Pub. L. 86–3, § 14(e), Mar. 18, 1959, 73 Stat. 10 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts Apr. 30, 1900, ch. 339, § 92, 31 Stat. 159; May 27, 1910, ch. 258, § 8, 36 Stat. 448; July 9, 1921, ch. 42, § 314, 42 Stat. 120, authorized governor to employ a private secretary at an annual salary of $3,000.