Payments for Agricultural Adjustment: To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to meet all obligations and commitments (including salaries and administrative expenses) heretofore incurred under the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, or reguÎations heretofore issued thereunder, except refunds pursuant to section 21 (d) of that Act, an additional amount of $296,185,000, together with a sum not exceeding $700,000, equal in amount to the unexpended balances of the funds heretofore established by the President under authority of section 15 (f) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, and directed by the Secretary of Agriculture, with the approval of the President, to be spent for the benefit of agriculture in Puerto Rico and Hawaii, said sums to remain available until expended. The expenditures authorized under this appropriation shall include rental and benefit payments, expenditures for rent and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, stenographic reporting services, supplies and equipment, past purchases and exchange of law books, books of reference, directories, periodicals, newspapers, traveling expenses, printing and binding in addition to allotments under existing law, and such other expenses as may be necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes of this appropriation. No part of the sums appropriated herein shall be used for rental or benefit payments in connection with adjustment contracts entered into on or after January 6, 1936, and as to those contracts entered into prior to January 6, 1936, no part of the sums appropriated herein shall be used for rental or benefit payments in connection with adjustment contracts unless there has been partial performance by the farmer: Provided, That such funds shall be available for rental and benefit payments in an amount that the Secretary determines to be fair and equitable to farmers who have applied for contracts, and who prior to January 6, 1936, have in good faith made adjustments in acreage and otherwise substantially complied with the requirements of the Secretary of Agriculture in connection with a crop program, regardless of whether contracts have been signed. Funds herein made available for administrative expenses shall be available for allotment to the bureaus and offices of the Department of Agriculture and for transfer to such other agencies of the Federal or State Governments as the Secretary of Agriculture may request to cooperate with or assist in the administration of the work under this appropriation or of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, including necessary investigative work.

Approved, Feb. 11, 1936.

[S. 4786]

AN ACT

To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to make such adjustments and revisions found to be due on contracts entered into by the Government with crop producers under the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the third sentence of the item "Payments for agricultural adjustment" contained in the Supplemental Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1936 (Public, Numbered 440, Seventy-fourth Congress), is amended by striking out the period at the end thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a semicolon and the following: "and the determination of the Secretary as to the correct base acreage and production figures (regardless of the figures on which the contract was based) and as to the person or persons entitled to receive such fair and equitable payments shall be final and conclusive."

Approved, June 25, 1936.

(70)

[H. R. 11138]

AN ACT

To extinguish tax liabilities and tax liens arising out of the Tobacco, Cotton, and Potato Acts.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act entitled "An Act to repeal the Kerr Tobacco Act, the Bankhead Cotton Act of 1934, and the Potato Act of 1935", approved February 10, 1936, is amended by striking out "; and all liens for taxes imposed as provided in subdivision (f) of section 4 of Public Law Numbered 169 are hereby canceled and released." and inserting in lieu thereof a period and the following: "No tax, civil penalty, or interest which accrued under any provision of law repealed by this Act and which is uncollected on the date of the enactment of this Act shall be collected; and all liens for taxes, civil penalties, or interest arising out of taxes under such provisions of law are canceled and released." Approved, March 2, 1936.

(71)

[H.R. 7478]

AN ACT

To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act so as to include cattle and other products as basic agricultural commodities, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 11 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by adding after the word "hogs" a comma and the word "cattle ".

SEC. 2. Subsection (a) of section 12 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows:

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To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to finance, under such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, surplus reductions and production adjustments with respect to the dairy- and beef-cattle industries, and to carry out any of the purposes described in subsections (a) and (b) of this section (12) and to support and balance the markets for the dairy and beef cattle industries, there is authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $200,000,000: Provided, That not more than 60 per centum of such amount shall be used for either of such industries."

SEC. 3. (a) Subsection (d) of section 9 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by renumbering paragraph (5) as paragraph (6) and by adding after paragraph (4) a new paragraph as follows:

"(5) In case of peanuts, the term 'processing' means the cleaning, polishing, grading, shelling, crushing, or other processing thereof." (b) Section 11 of such Act, as amended, is amended by adding after the word tobacco a comma and the word "peanuts".

SEC. 4. Section 11 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by adding after the word "wheat" a comma and the words "rye, flax, barley ".

SEC. 5. Section 11 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by adding after the words "field corn" a comma and the words "grain sorghums".

SEC. 6. There is authorized to be appropriated the sum of $50,000,000 to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make advances to the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation for the purchase of dairy and beef products for distribution for relief purposes, and to enable the Secretary of Agriculture, under rules and regulations to be promulgated by him and upon such terms as he may prescribe, to eliminate diseased dairy and beef cattle, including cattle suffering from tuberculosis or Bangs' disease, and to make payments to owners with respect thereto.

SEC. 7. The first sentence of subsection (2) of section 8 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "After due notice and opportunity for hearing, to enter into

marketing agreements with processors, producers, associations of producers, and others engaged in the handling of any agricultural commodity or product thereof, in the current of or in competition with, or so as to burden, obstruct, or in any way affect, interstate or foreign commerce."

Approved, April 7, 1934.