During the Cultural Revolution, following the downfall of Liu Shaoqi, who was Chairman of the People's Republic of China, no successor was named, so the duties of the head of state were transferred collectively to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

Thus in March 1979 Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, who kept absolute power ( until his overthrow in 2011 referred to as " Guide of the Revolution "), after ten years as combined Head of State and Head of government of the Libyan Jamahiriya (" state of the masses "), styled Chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council, formally transferred both qualities to the General secretaries of the General People's Congress ( comparable to a Speaker ) respectively to a Prime Minister, in political reality both were his creatures.

Article 1, section 8, of the Constitution of the United States ( 1789 ), transferred this power to Congress ; " The Congress shall have power ... To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ".

In that case, however, Congress transferred the judges of the Commerce Court to the Circuit Courts.

Congress transferred land previously allocated to the Utah Territory by declaring the boundary of Colorado to be the 32nd meridian west from Washington.

Congress transferred several agencies that had previously been under the aegis of the Treasury department to other departments as a consequence of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

RFC was " abolished as an independent agency by act of Congress ( 1953 ) and was transferred to the Dept.

") After several failed attempts to rectify this situation, Congress finally passed the Radio Act of 1927, which transferred most of the responsibility for radio to a newly created Federal Radio Commission.

In the United States, the US Congress is not only the national legislature, but also is the States Rights Legislature on US Military Bases in the US and the District of Columbia ( under Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the US Constitution ), replacing the State Legislature when State Legislature jurisdiction is transferred to the Federal Government.

When it came time for the battle, Arnold transferred his flag to Congress, a row galley.

Before he transferred power to a younger generation of leaders, Jiang had his theory of Three Represents written into the Party's constitution, alongside Marxism – Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought, and Deng Xiaoping Theory at the 16th CPC Congress in 2002.

This property was later transferred to the U. S. Department of Agriculture and has been designated by Congress as the Roman L. Hruska U. S. Meat Animal Research Center.

In 1903, Congress transferred the Bureau of Immigration to the newly created ( now-defunct ) Department of Commerce and Labor, and on June 10, 1933 the agency was established as the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The Learning Centre library opened in 1994 and, in 1996, the Trades Union Congress library collections, established in 1922, transferred to the university.

In 2011, the 112th United States Congress enacted the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2012, which transferred to the Architect of the Capitol the NPS " property which is bounded on the north by Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, on the east by First Street Northwest and First Street Southwest, on the south by Maryland Avenue Southwest, and on the west by Third Street Southwest and Third Street Northwest ".

Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, the United States Congress ostensibly guaranteed that current residents would retain their land rights after the New Mexico territory was transferred to U. S. ownership.

In 1987, Congress, through legislation, transferred control of the airport from the FAA to the new Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority with the Authority's decisions being subject to a Congressional review panel.

After the Napoleonic Wars, the 1815 Congress of Vienna transferred the town from the Kingdom of Saxony to the Kingdom of Prussia.

President Obama, however, notified Congress that no authorization was needed, since the US leadership was transferred to NATO, and since US involvement is somewhat limited.

In 1905 Congress transferred the Mariposa Grove and Yosemite Valley to the park.

In 1954, the Constitution transferred this function to the National People's Congress.

In 1814, as a result of the Napoleonic Wars Swedish Pomerania was ceded to Denmark in exchange for Norway in the Treaty of Kiel, and in 1815, as a result of the Congress of Vienna, transferred to Prussia.

In January 1806 Rapp traveled to Washington, D. C. to hear discussions in Congress regarding the Harmonists ’ petition for a grant that would allow them to purchase approximately acre of land in the Indiana Territory.

In addition to the Jonathan regime's alienation of Basotho powerbrokers and the local population, South Africa had virtually closed the country's land borders because of Lesotho support of cross-border operations of the African National Congress ( ANC ).

* 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.

The first effort by any government to set aside such protected lands was in the United States, on April 20, 1832, when President Andrew Jackson signed legislation that the 22nd United States Congress had enacted to set aside four sections of land around what is now Hot Springs, Arkansas to protect the natural, thermal springs and adjoining mountainsides for the future disposal of the US government.

According to Stephen Kinzer's 2006 book Overthrow, in 1898 the chief of the French Canal Syndicate ( a group that owned large swathes of land across Panama ), Philippe Bunau Varilla, hired William Nelson Cromwell to lobby the U. S. Congress for the Panama Canal.

The response that Jackson received from Butler was unexpected: the Attorney-General held that until Congress dictated otherwise, the land rightfully belonged to Michigan.

Congress supported it with 30-year U. S. government bonds and extensive land grants of government-owned land.

To allow the railroads to raise additional money Congress provided additional assistance to the railroad companies in the form of land grants of federal lands.

* Winfield Scott Stratton Post Office in Colorado Springs ; named by an act of Congress in 1995 ; Stratton had sold the land the post office was built on to the federal government at a fraction of its value with the understanding that it would be used for the post office.

Secretary Ickes recommended to President Franklin Roosevelt that the Antiquities Act, which permitted Presidents to set aside land for protection without the approval of Congress, be used to establish a National Monument in Jackson Hole.

Relations between the president and Congress were strained, and Jackson did not want to see the Capitol out his window, though in reality the Treasury Building was simply built on what was cheap government land.

Knowing that such speculation, combined with Congressional grants of land sections to veterans of the Revolution, could result in a lucrative opportunity, Ebenezer Zane in 1796 petitioned the US Congress to grant him a contract to blaze a trail through Ohio, from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Limestone, Kentucky, ( near modern Maysville, Kentucky ) a distance of.

On May 29, 1908, the United States Congress authorized the United States Secretary of the Interior to allot Lehmann, as an adopted member of the Comanche nation, one hundred and sixty acres of Oklahoma land, near Grandfield.

As the 19th century progressed and the nation's land base expanded further west, Congress encouraged the settlement of the land by enacting a wide variety of laws, including the Homestead Act and the Mining Law of 1872.

Unlike the Turner Plan, which provided an equal grant to each state, the Morrill bill allocated land based on the number of senators and representatives each state had in Congress.

Later on, other colleges such as the University of the District of Columbia and the " 1994 land-grant colleges " for Native Americans were also awarded cash by Congress in lieu of land to achieve " land-grant " status.

adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.

In the words of Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who testified before Congress, Western Europe needed assistance against Soviet “ encroachment .” The measure was intended to signal Washington ’ s resolve to allies and to the Kremlin that the United States was capable of and committed to containing communism globally, even while it fought a protracted land war in Korea.

In 1860 the United States Congress confirmed the land grant as a private grant, rather than a community grant, due to mistranslated and concealed documents.

In the United States, a Wilderness Area is an area of federal land set aside by an act of Congress.

* Tribes grant right of way for rail roads authorized by Congress ; A Land patent, or " first-title deed " to alternate sections of land adjacent to rail roads would be granted to the rail road upon completion of each 20 mile section of track and water stations

Oil and natural gas drilling is allowed within the park due to the inability of Congress to approve the purchase of the mineral rights within the park's boundaries after surveying the land in 1957.