(of 1933), as amended, which were reenacted and amended by the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as amended, the aggregate amount expended in any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia, including regional offices, and in the several States (not including the expenses of county and local committees) shall not exceed 4 per centum of the total amount available for such fiscal year for carrying out the purposes of said Acts. In the event any administrative expenses of any county or local committee are deducted in any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, from Soil Conservation Act payments, parity payments, or loans, each farmer receiving benefits under such provisions shall be apprised of the amount or percentage deducted from such benefit payment or loan on account of such administrative expenses. The names and addresses of the members and employees of any county or local committee, and the amount of such compensation received by each of them, shall be posted annually in a conspicuous place in the area within which they are employed."

Approved, January 31, 1942.

[PUBLIC LAW 439-77TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 44-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 6353]

AN ACT

To provide for the adjustment of tobacco, wheat, and cotton-marketing quotas and acreage allotments in certain cases where farm land is acquired by the United States for defense purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 313 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:

"(h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part 1, any person who owned a farm, which in 1940 or thereafter was acquired by the United States for national-defense purposes, and who owns or acquires one or more other farms, shall, upon application to the local committee, be entitled to have an allotment for any one of such other farms owned by him for each of the five years succeeding the acquisition by the United States equal to the allotment which would have been made to such farm plus the allotment which would have been made to the farm acquired by the United States except for such acquisition: Provided, That such allotment shall not exceed 50 per centum of the acreage of cropland in the farm in the case of flue-cured tobacco, and 20 per centum of the acreage of cropland in the farm; in the case of kinds of tobacco other than flue-cured. Any farm for which the allotment has been determined under this subsection shall, after the end of such five years, have its allotment determined on the basis of past acreage of tobacco, land, labor, and equipment available for the production of tobacco, crop-rotation practices, and soil and other physical factors affecting the production of tobacco: Provided further, That the provisions of this subsection shall not be applicable so long as there is any penalty due and unpaid, or a failure to account for the disposition of tobacco produced on the farm acquired by the United States, or if the allotment next established for such farm would have been reduced because of the false. or improper identification of tobacco produced on or marketed from such farm. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as preventing the Secretary from operating any allotment pool from which allotments are made to share tenants or sharecroppers who move from farms acquired by the United States for national-defense purposes to other farms purchased and operated by such persons.

SEC. 2. Section 334 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection:

"(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the allotments established, or which would have been established, for any farm acquired in 1940 or thereafter by the United States for nationaldefense purposes shall be placed in an allotment pool and shall be used only to establish allotments for other farms owned or acquired

by the owner of the farm so acquired by the United States. The allotment so made for any farm, including a farm on which wheat has not been planted during any of the three marketing years preceding the marketing year in which the allotment is made, shall compare with the allotments established for other farms in the same area which are similar except for the past acreage of wheat."

SEC. 3. Section 344 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding the following new subsection:

"(j) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the allotment established, or which would have been established, for any farm acquired in 1940 or thereafter by the United States for nationaldefense purposes shall be placed in an allotment pool and shall be used only for establishing allotments for farms owned or acquired by the owner of the farm so acquired by the United States. The allotment so made for any farm, including a farm which was not used for cotton production during any of the three calendar years immediately preceding the year for which the allotment is made, shall compare with the allotments established for other farms in the same area which are similar except for the past acreage of cotton, taking into consideration the character and adaptability of soil and other physical facilities affecting the production of cotton. Allotments established pursuant to this subsection shall not affect the allotments for other farms in the county and the acreage allotted to farms in the county shall be increased to the extent of such allotments."

SEC. 4. Section 8 (c) (2) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, is hereby further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentences: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the allotments established, or which would have been established, for any farm acquired in 1940 or thereafter by the United States for national-defense purposes shall be placed in an allotment pool and shall be used only to establish allotments for other farms owned or acquired by the owner of the farm so acquired by the United States. The allotments so made for any farm, including a farm on which wheat has not been planted during any of the three marketing years preceding the marketing year in which the allotment is made, shall compare with the allotments established for other farms in the same area which are similar except for the past acreage of wheat."

Approved, February 6, 1942.

[PUBLIC LAW 445-77TH CONGRESS]

[CHAPTER 52-2D SESSION]

[H. R. 5833]

AN ACT

To extend the time during which orders and marketing agreements under the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, may be applicable to hops.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, by including hops as a commodity to which orders under such Act are applicable", approved April 13, 1938, as amended, is amended by striking out "September 1, 1942" and inserting in lieu thereof "September 1, 1945".

SEC. 2. Subsection (6) of section 8c of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is amended by deleting the comma after the word "hops" in the first paragraph thereof and inserting the words "and their products" and a comma.

SEC. 3. Subsection (6) of section 8c of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is further amended by adding thereto the following new paragraph:

"(F) In the case of hops and their products, in addition to, or in lieu of, the foregoing terms and conditions, orders may contain one or more of the following:

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"(i) Limiting, or providing methods for the limitation of, the total quantity thereof, or of any grade, type, or variety thereof, produced during any specified period or periods, which all handlers may handle in the current of or so as directly to burden, obstruct, or affect interstate or foreign commerce in hops or any product thereof.

"(ii) Apportioning, or providing methods for apportioning, the total quantity of hops of the production of the then current calendar year permitted to be handled equitably among all producers in the production area to which the order applies upon the basis of one or more or a combination of the following: The total quantity of hops available or estimated will become available for market by each producer from his production during such period; the normal production of the acreage of hops operated by each producer during such period upon the basis of the number of acres of hops in production, and the average yield of that acreage during such period as the Secretary determines to be representative, with adjustments determined by the Secretary to be proper for age of plantings or abnormal conditions affecting yield; such normal production or historical record of any acreage for which data as to yield of hops are not available or which had no yield during such period shall be determined by the Secretary on the basis of the yields of other acreage of hops

of similar characteristics as to productivity, subject to adjustment as just provided for.

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"(iii) Allotting, or providing methods for allotting, the quantity of hops which any handler may handle so that the allotment fixed for that handler shall be limited to the quantity of hops apportioned under preceding section (ii) to each respective producer of hops; such allotment shall constitute an allotment fixed for that handler within the meaning of subsection (5) of section 8a of this title."

Approved, February 10, 1942.