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(2) to encourage the organization, improvement in methods, and development of effective cooperative associations.

(3) to keep advised from any available sources and make reports as to crop prices, experiences, prospects, supply, and demand, at home and abroad (June 15, 1929, c. 24, § 5, 46 Stat. 13; Mar. 27, 1933, Ex. Or. 6084; June 16, 1933, c. 98, § 50 (a), 48 Stat. 265).

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"Administration" mentioned in the text was substituted for "board' pursuant to the Executive Order cited thereto, which is set out in full at the beginning of this chapter.

Revolving fund.-There is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum of $500,000,000 which shall be made available by the Congress as soon as practicable after the approval of this subchapter and shall constitute a revolving fund to be administered by the administration as provided in this subchapter and subchapter V of this chapter (June 15, 1929, c. 24, § 6, 46 Stat. 14; Mar. 27, 1933, Ex. Or. 6084; June 16, 1933, c. 98, §§ 33, 34, 40, 41, 48 Stat. 262, 264).

"Administration" mentioned in the text was substituted for "board" pursuant to the Executive Order cited thereto, which is set out in full at the beginning of this chapter.

For use of revolving fund in purchasing capital stock in regional and central banks for cooperatives, see sections 1170 and 1183 of subchapter V.

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Loans to cooperative associations. (a) Upon application by any cooperative association the administration is authorized to make loans to it from the revolving fund [provided for in section 1141d] to assist in

(1) the effective merchandising of agricultural commodities and food products thereof and the financing of its operations;

(2) the construction or acquisition by purchase or lease, or refinancing the cost of such construction or acquisition, of physical marketing facilities for preparing, handling, storing, processing, or merchandising agricultural commodities or their food products;

(b) No loan shall be made to any cooperative association unless, in the judgment of the administration, the loan is in furtherance of the policy declared in section 1141 and the cooperative association applying for the loan has an organization and management, and business policies, of such character as to insure the reasonable safety of the loan and the furtherance of such policy.

(c) Loans for the construction or acquisition by purchase or lease of physical facilities, or for re

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financing the cost of such construction or acquistion [acquisition], shall be subject to the following conditions:

(1) No such loan shall be made in an amount in excess of 60 per centum of the value of the facilities.

(2) No loan for the purchase or lease of such facilities shall be made unless the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration finds that the purchase price or rent to be paid is reasonable.

(d) Loans for the construction or purchase of physical facilities, together with interest on the loans, shall be repaid upon an amortization plan over a period not in excess of twenty years (June 15, 1929, c. 24, § 7, 46 Stat. 14; Mar. 27, 1933, Ex. Or. 6084; June 16, 1933, c. 98, § § 50-53, 48 Stat. 265).

"Administration' mentioned in the text was substituted for "board pursuant to the Executive Order cited thereto, which is set out in full at the beginning of this chapter.

Subsection (a) of this section originally contained a fourth paragraph, relating to loans for education in the advantages of cooperative marketing, which was repealed by section 50 (a) of the Farm Credit Act of June 16, 1933. Subsection (a) of this section originally contained a fifth paragraph, as follows: "(5) enabling the cooperative association applying for the loan to advance to its members a greater share of the market price of the commodity delivered to the association than is practicable under other credit facilities."

This paragraph was repealed by section 50 (a) of the Farm Credit Act of June 16, 1933, subject to the following provision of section 50 (b) of that Act: "The repeal of section 1141e (a) (5) shall not be construed to prohibit the extension, renewal, or refinancing of any loan made thereunder and outstanding on the date of the enactment of this Act, but loans to extend, renew, or refinance any such loan shall bear interest rates as determined under section 1141f (a) of this chapter, as amended."

See sections 1134c and 1134j of subchapter V for loans to cooperative associations by banks for cooperatives, established under the Farm Credit Act of June 16, 1933, and capitalized from the revolving fund provided for in § 1141d hereof.

Miscellaneous loan provisions.-(a) Loans to any cooperative association shall bear such rates of interest as the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration shall by regulation prescribe, but in no case shall the rate be less than 3 per centum per annum or more than 6 per centum per annum on the unpaid principal. In fixing such rates of interest, the governor shall fix such rates as he deems the needs of the lending agencies require and in the case of loans made for the purposes of section 1141e (a) (1) the rate shall, as nearly as practicable, conform to a rate 1 per centum per annum in excess of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank discount rate at the time the loan is made, and in the case of loans made for the purposes of section 1141e (a) (2) the rate of interest shall, as nearly as practicable, conform to the prevailing rate on mortgage loans made to members of national farm loan associations at the time the loan is made.

(b) Payments of principal or interest upon any such loan or advance shall be covered into the revolving fund [provided for in section 1141d].

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(c) Loans to any cooperative association or stabilization corporation shall be made upon the terms specified in this sub-chapter and upon such other terms not inconsistent therewith and upon such security as the administration deems necessary.

(d) No loan or insurance agreement shall be made by the administration if in its judgment the agreement is likely to increase unduly the production of any agricultural commodity of which there is commonly produced a surplus in excess of the annual marketing requirements (June 15, 1929, c. 24, § 8, 46 Stat. 14; Mar. 27, 1933, Ex. Or. 6084; June 16, 1933, c. 98, § 54, 48 Stat. 264).

"Administration" mentioned in the text was substituted for "board" pursuant to the Executive Order cited thereto, which is set out in full at the beginning of this chapter.

See § 1141g and note thereto.

Stabilization corporations.-(a) The administration may, upon application of the advisory commodity committee for any commodity, recognize as a stabilization corporation for the commodity any corporation if

(1) The administration finds that the marketing situation with respect to the agricultural commodity requires or may require the establishment of a stabilization corporation in order effectively to carry out the policy declared in section 1141; and

(2) The administration finds that the corporation is duly organized under the laws of a State or Territory; and

(3) The administration finds that all the outstanding voting stock or membership interests in the corporation are and may be owned only by cooperative associations handling the commodity; and

(4) The corporation agrees with the administration to adopt such bylaws as the administration may from time to time require, which bylaws, among other matters, shall permit cooperative associations not stockholders or members of the corporation to become stockholders or members therein upon equitable terms.

(b) Any stabilization corporation for an agricultural commodity (1) may act as a marketing agency for its stockholders or members in preparing, handling, storing, processing, and merchandising for their account any quantity of the agricultural commodity or its food products, and (2) for the purpose of controlling any surplus in the commodity in furtherance of the policy declared in section 1141, may prepare, purchase, handle, store, process, and merchandise, otherwise than for the

§ 1141g account of its stockholders or members, any quantity of the agricultural commodity or its food products whether or not such commodity or products are acquired from its stockholders or members.

(c) Upon request of the advisory committee for any commodity the administration is authorized to make loans from the revolving fund to the stabilization corporation for the commodity for working capital to enable the corporation to act as a marketing agency for its stockholders or members as herein before provided. Not less than 75 per centum of all profits derived by a stabilization corporation each year from its operations as such a marketing agency shall be paid into a merchandising reserve fund to be established by the corporation. No such payment shall be required whenever the fund is in such amount as, in the judgment of the administration, constitutes a sufficient reserve for such operations of the corporation. Out of the remainder of such profits for the year the corporation shall repay any outstanding loan made under this subdivision and the accrued interest thereon, or if all such loans and accrued interest have been fully repaid, then it may distribute a patronage dividend to its stockholders or members. Such patronage dividend shall be paid to each stockholder or member on the basis of the total volume of the commodity or its products for the year marketed for his account through the corporation.

(d) Upon request of the advisory committee for any commodity the administration is authorized to make loans from the revolving fund to the stabilization corporation for the commodity to enable the corporation to control any surplus in the commodity as hereinbefore provided and for meeting carrying and handling charges and other operating expenses in connection therewith. The administration shall require a stabilization corporation to establish and maintain adequate reserves from its profits from its surplus control operations before it shall pay any dividends out of such profits. All losses of the corporation from such operations shall be paid from such reserves, or if such reserves are inadequate, then such losses shall be paid by the administration as a loan from the revolving fund. Any amounts so loaned for payment of losses shall be repaid into the revolving fund by the corporation from future profits from its surplus control operations. Any stabilization corporation receiving loans under this subdivision for surplus control operations shall exert every

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reasonable effort to avoid losses and to secure profits, but shall not withhold any commodity from the domestic market if the prices have become unduly enhanced, resulting in distress to domestic consumers. Stockholders or members of the corporation shall not be subject to assessment for any losses incurred in surplus control operations of the corporation.

(e) A stabilization corporation shall keep such accounts, records, and memoranda, and make such reports with respect to its transactions, business methods, and financial condition, as the administration may from time to time prescribe; shall permit the administration to audit its accounts annually and at such other times as the administration deems advisable; and shall permit the administration, upon its own initiative or upon written request of any stockholder or member, to investigate the financial condition and business methods of the corporation.

(f) No loan shall be made to any stabilization corporation unless, in the judgment of the administration, the loan is in furtherance of the policy declared in section 1141 (June 15, 1929, c. 24, § 9, 46 Stat. 14; Mar. 27, 1933, Ex. Or. 6084).

This section constituted §9 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of June 15, 1929. The powers and duties originally vested in the Federal Farm Board by this section were vested in the Farm Credit Administration, by 3 of Executive Order No. 6084, subject to the following provisions of § 6 of that Order:

"The functions vested in the Federal Farm Board by section 9 of the Agricultural Marketing Act are abolished, except that such functions shall continue to be exercised to such extent and for such time as may be necessary to permit the orderly winding up of the activities of stabilization corporations heretofore recognized under authority of such section, and the governor of the Farm Credit Administration shall take appropriate action for winding up at the earliest practicable date the activities of such corporations and all affairs related to the exercise of such functions."

The "Advisory Commodity Committees" to which reference is made in this section were provided for by § 3 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of June 15, 1929, which section was repealed by section 50 (a) of the Farm Credit Act of June 16, 1933.

"Administration" mentioned in the text was substituted for "board" pursuant to the Executive Order cited thereto, which is set out in full at the beginning of this chapter

Avoidance of duplication; cooperation with other governmental establishments; obtaining information and data; cooperation with States, Territories, and agencies or subdivisions thereof; indicating research problems; transfer of offices, functions, etc.-(a) The administration shall, in cooperation with any governmental establishment in the Executive branch of the Government, including any field service thereof at home or abroad, avail itself of the services and facilities thereof in order to avoid preventable expense or duplication of effort.

(b) The President may by Executive order direct any such governmental establishment to furnish

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