TREASURY DEPARTMENT COAST GUARD General expenses, Coast Guard: For an additional amount for general expenses, Coast Guard, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $738,000, of which amount $551,820 is hereby continued available until June 30, 1942; and the text of such appropriation is hereby amended by inserting after the words "when transferred from one official station to another for permanent duty;" the words "preparing and transporting the remains of deceased civilian employees, transportation expenses of dependents of deceased civilian employees, and packing, crating, drayage, and transportation of household effects and other personal property of deceased civilian employees under the conditions prescribed by the Act of July 8, 1940 (Public, Numbered 729), and regulations promulgated thereunder;". Ante, p. 73. 54 Stat. 64. Amendment. 54 Stat. 65. 54 Stat. 743. Ante, p. 73. Special projects, aids to navigation: For an additional amount for 1036. establishing and improving aids to navigation and other works, $2,390,000, which sum shall be available for all expenditures directly relating thereto. Emergency construction, Coast Guard vessels and shore facilities: For an additional amount for construction of Coast Guard vessels and shore facilities, including the objects specified under this head in the First Supplemental Civil Functions Appropriation Act, 1941, $428,000. BUREAU OF THE MINT Salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices: For an additional amount for salaries and expenses, mints and assay offices, fiscal year 1941, including the objects specified under this head in the Treasury Department Appropriation Act, 1941, $270,500. WAR DEPARTMENT-CIVIL FUNCTIONS CORPS OF ENGINEERS Rivers and harbors: For an additional amount for the preservation and maintenance of existing river and harbor works, and for the prosecution of projects heretofore authorized, including the objects and under the conditions specified under this head in the War Department Civil Appropriation Act, 1941, to be available until expended, $540,000. SEC. 2. This Act may be cited as the "Additional Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1941". Approved, May 24, 1941. [CHAPTER 133] JOINT RESOLUTION Relating to corn and wheat marketing quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding the provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (hereinafter referred to as the Act) (1) The farm marketing quota under the Act for any crop of wheat shall be the actual production of the acreage planted to wheat on the farm, less the normal production or the actual production, whichever is the smaller, of that acreage planted to wheat on the farm which is in excess of the farm acreage allotment for wheat. The farm marketing quota under the Act for any crop of corn shall be the actual pro Ante, p. 73. 54 Stat. 1046. "Farm excess." marketing duction of the acreage planted to corn on the farm, less the normal production or the actual production, whichever is the smaller, of that acreage planted to corn on the farm which is in excess of the farm acreage allotment for corn. The normal production, or the actual production, whichever is the smaller, of such excess acreage is hereinafter called the "farm marketing excess" of corn or wheat, as the case may be. For the purposes "Actual produc of this resolution, "actual production" of any number of acres of corn or wheat on a farm means the actual average yield of corn or wheat, as the case may be, for the farm times such number of acres. tion." Penalty on marketing excess. 52 Stat. 43. 7 U. S. C. § 1302. Computation of penalty, storage amount, etc. (2) During any marketing year for which quotas are in effect, the producer shall be subject to a penalty on the farm marketing excess of corn and wheat. The rate of the penalty shall be 50 per centum of the basic rate of the loan on the commodity for cooperators for such marketing year under section 302 of the Act and this resolution. (3) The farm marketing excess for corn and wheat shall be regarded as available for marketing, and the penalty and the storage amount or amounts to be delivered to the Secretary of the commodity shall be computed upon the normal production of the excess acreage. Where, upon the application of the producer for an adjustment of penalty or of storage, it is shown to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the actual production of the excess acreage is less than the normal production thereof, the difference between the amount of the penalty or storage as computed upon the basis of normal production and as computed upon the basis of actual Storage or delivery production shall be returned to or allowed the producer. The Secretary shall issue regulations under which the farm marketing excess of the commodity for the farm may be stored or delivered to him. Upon failure to store or deliver to the Secretary the farm marketing excess within such time as may be determined under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, the penalty computed as aforesaid shall be paid by the producer. Any corn or wheat delivered to the Secretary hereunder shall become the property of the United States and shall be disposed of by the Secretary for relief purposes in the United States or in foreign countries or in such other manner as he shall determine will divert it from the normal channels of trade and commerce. of excess to Secretary. Disposition. Crop subject to lien. Depletion in amount stored. Reduction of storage amount. (c). 52 Stat. 51. 7 U. S. C. § 1326 (b), Exemptions. Small acreage. (4) Until the producers on any farm store, deliver to the Secretary, or pay the penalty on, the farm marketing excess of any crop of corn or wheat, the entire crop of corn or wheat, as the case may be, produced on the farm shall be subject to a lien in favor of the United States for the amount of the penalty. (5) The penalty upon corn or wheat stored shall be paid by the producer at the time, and to the extent, of any depletion in the amount of the commodity so stored, except depletion resulting from some cause beyond the control of the producer. (6) Whenever the planted acreage of the then current crop of corn or wheat on any farm is less than the farm acreage allotment for such commodity, the total amount of the commodity from any previous crops required to be stored in order to postpone or avoid payment of penalty shall be reduced by that amount which is equal to the normal production of the number of acres by which the farm acreage allotment exceeds the planted acreage. The provisions of section 326 (b) and (c) of the Act shall be applicable also to wheat. (7) A farm marketing quota on corn or wheat shall not be applicable to any farm on which the acreage planted to the commodity is not in Nonallotment excess of fifteen acres. The marketing penalty on corn or wheat shall not be applicable to any farm which, under the terms of the farms. 49 Stat. 1148. Provisos. then current agricultural conservation program formulated under Conformity with conservation program. Sale of commodity before storage of ex (8) Until the farm marketing excess of corn or wheat, as the case may be, is stored or delivered to the Secretary or the penalty thereon cess, etc.; penalty. is paid, each bushel of the commodity produced on the farm which is sold by the producer to any person within the United States shall be subject to the penalty as specified in paragraph (2) of this resolution. Such penalty shall be paid by the buyer, who may deduct an amount equivalent to the penalty from the price paid to the producer. (9) The marketing penalty for cotton and rice produced in the calendar year in which any marketing year begins (if beginning with or after the 1941-1942 marketing year) shall be at a rate equal to 50 per centum of the basic rate of the loan for cooperators for such marketing year under section 302 of the Act and this resolution. (10) The Commodity Credit Corporation is directed to make available upon the 1941 crop of the commodities cotton, corn, wheat, rice, or tobacco, for which producers have not disapproved marketing quotas for the marketing year beginning in 1941, loans as follows: (a) To cooperators (except cooperators outside the commercial corn-producing area, in the case of corn) at the rate of 85 per centum of the parity price for the commodity as of the beginning of the marketing year; (b) To cooperators outside the commercial corn-producing area, in the case of corn, at the rate of 75 per centum of the rate specified in (a) above; (c) To noncooperators (except noncooperators outside the commercial corn-producing area, in the case of corn) at the rate of 60 per centum of the rate specified in (a) above and only on so much of the commodity as would be subject to penalty if marketed. (11) The provisions of this resolution are amendatory of and supplementary to the Act, and all provisions of law applicable in respect of marketing quotas and loans under such Act as so amended and supplemented shall be applicable, but nothing in this resolution shall be construed to amend or repeal section 301 (b) (6), 323 (b), or 335 (d) of the Act. Approved, May 26, 1941. Cotton and rice. 52 Stat. 43. 7 U. S. C. § 1302. Commodity Credit Applicability of provisions. 52 Stat. 40, 50, 55. 7 U. S. C. 1301 (b) (6), 1323 (b), 1335 (d). [CHAPTER 134] JOINT RESOLUTION Extending the application of section 6 of the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the strengthening of the national defense", approved July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714), to all territories, dependencies, and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of section 6 of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to expedite the strengthening of the national defense", approved July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 714), shall be applicable to all territories, dependencies, and possessions of the United States, including the Philippine Islands, the Canal Zone, and the District of Columbia, and the several courts of first instance of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands shall have jurisdiction of offenses committed in the Philippine Islands in violation of the provisions of that section or of any proclamation, or of any rule or regulation, issued thereunder. Approved, May 28, 1941. [CHAPTER 135] AN ACT To appropriate the proceeds of sales or other dispositions of strategic and critical materials acquired under the Act of June 7, 1939 (53 Stat. 811), in order to prevent depletion of the stocks of such materials available for national-defense purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That section 6 of the Act of June 7, 1939 (ch. 190, 53 Stat. 812; U. S. C., Supp. V, title 50, sec. 98e), is amended by adding at the end thereof a sentence as follows: "Any funds heretofore or hereafter received on account of sales or other dispositions of materials under the provisions of this Act shall be deposited to the credit, and be available for expenditure for the purposes, of any appropriation available at the time of such deposit, for carrying out the provisions of sections 1 to 6, inclusive, of this Act." Approved, May 28, 1941. [CHAPTER 136] AN ACT To extend the time limit for cooperation between the Bureau of Reclamation and the Farm Security Administration in the development of farm units on public lands under Federal reclamation projects. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled, That the Act of August 7, 1939 (Public, Numbered 307, Seventy-sixth Congress, first Session), as amended by the Act of June 17, 1940 (Public, Numbered 636, Seventy-sixth Congress, third session), is hereby further amended by striking out "during the fiscal year 1941", and by inserting "during the fiscal year 1942". Approved, May 28, 1941. [CHAPTER 137] AN ACT To amend an Act entitled "An Act authorizing annual appropriations for the maintenance of that portion of Gallup-Durango Highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation, and providing reimbursement therefor". Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of June 7, 1924 (43 Stat. 606), entitled "An Act authorizing annual appropriations for the maintenance of that portion of Gallup-Durango Highway across the Navajo Indian Reservation, and providing reimbursement therefor", be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: "There is hereby authorized to be appropriated annually, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary for each fiscal year, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for maintenance of that portion of the Federal-aid highway from Gallup, New Mexico, to Shiprock, New Mexico, across the Navajo Indian Reservation and that portion of the State highway in New Mexico between Gallup, New Mexico, and Window Rock, Arizona, serving the Navajo Reservation, reimbursable from the tribal funds of the Indians of said reservation: Provided, That Indian labor shall be employed as far as practicable: And provided further, That if no funds are available no expenditure shall be made." To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into an agreement fixing boundary lines on Wind River Indian lands, Wyoming. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby, authorized in his discretion to determine and fix permanently the boundaries of allotted, tribal, and ceded Indian lands along the Big Wind River in sections 21, 22, 27, and 28, township 3 north, range 1 west, Wind River meridian, in Wyoming: Provided, That the Secretary of the Interior shall not act until all of the owners, white and Indian, shall have given their consent in writing to the permanent location of the boundaries so far as they affect their respective lands. The consent of the Shoshone and Arapahoe tribes as to tribal and ceded lands may be given by the tribal business council. The consent on behalf of the minors, Indians non compos mentis, and Indians who cannot be located after advertisement and reasonable search for not less than thirty days may be executed by the Superintendent in charge of the Wind River Indian Agency. To amend the Act of May 24, 1940 (Public, Numbered 520, Seventy-sixth Congress). Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act of May 24, 1940 (Public, Numbered 520, Seventy-sixth Congress), entitled "An Act to authorize the purchase of certain lands |