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| ACT TO BE PROSECUTED
! u. s. Attorney Summers Burkhart
writes from Albuquerque TO the
Graphic requesting publicity {or the
new food control act that Imposes
henvy penalties for violation. The law
follows:
To amend an Act entitled "An Act
to provide further for the national Sc
eurity and defense by encouraging the
lproduction, conserving the supply. and
controlling the distribution CT food
Iproducts and fuel" approved August
10, 1917. and to regulate rents I'm the
District OF Columbia.
i BE 1T ENACTED by the Senate and
House OF Representatives OF the Unit
cd States OF America In Congress as
sembled, That this Act may be cited
as the Food Control and the District
OF Columbia Rents Act
Title L-Food Control Act
| Amendments
i That section I OF the Act entitled
"An Act to provide further for the ma
tional security and defense by en-
lcouraging the production, conserving
the supply, and controlling the distri-
button OF food products and fuel" ap-
proved August 10, 1917, Is hereby
lamended to read as follows:
THAT by reason OF the existence OF
a state OF war. IL is essential TO the
national securiy and defense, for the
successful prosecution OF the war and
for the support and maintenance OF the
Army and Navy, TO assure an adequate
supply and equitable distribution, and
to facilitate the movement OF foods,
feeds, wearing apparel, containers pri-
marily designed or intended for coll
tanning foods, feeds, or fertilizers
fuel, including fuel oil and natural
gas, and fertilizer and fertilizers In.
gradients. tools utensils, implements
machinery, and equipment required for
,, the actual production OF foods, feeds
and fuel, hereafter In this Act called
necessaries; to prevent locally or gen
orally, scarcity, monopilization, hoard
!. ing, injurious speculation, manlpula'
tion, and private controls affecting
, such supply. distribution, and move
. ment; and to establish and mainair
governmental control Of such necessa
ries during the war. For such pur
pose the instrumentalities, means
methods powers, authorities, duties
obligations, and prohibitions hereaf
ter set forth are created, established
: conferred, and prescribed. The Presi
, dent Is authorized 10 make such regu
= lations and TO issue such orders as ar,
essential effectively to carry out tn,
provisions OF this Act"
Sec. 2. Section of such Act o.
: August 10 1917. is hereby amended I,
( read as follows:
"That II Is hereby made unlawful
for any person wllfully to destroy an,
necessaries for the purpose Of en-
: hancing the price or restricting th'
supply thereof; knowingly to commi
: waste or wilfully TO permit preventa
!, BILE deterioration OF any necessaries il
or In connection with their produc
tion, manufacture, or distribution; 4
hoard, as defined I'm section o Of thi
, Act, any necessaries; to monopolize o.
: attempt TO monopolize, either local..
g or generally, any necessaries; to en-
= gage in any discriminatory and un
K fair, or any deceptive or wastefu
q practice or device, or to make any un
!, Just or unreasonable rate or charg
In handling or dealing In or with an,
: necessaries; 10 conspire, combine
- agree. or arrange with any other per
: son, (a) 10 limit the facilities 70
:, transporting, producing, harvesting
4 manufacturing, supplying, storing, o
dealing In any necessares; (b) TO re
strict distribution OF any necessaries
l..l 10 sfrfn fla af ma.
O essaries i'd TO prevent, limit, or les
h sent the manufacture or production o
: any necessaries In order to enhanc
D. the price thereof; or (e) to exact eS
g cessive prices for any necessaries, o
), to aid or abet the doing Of any aC
made unlawful by this section. An
person violating any Of the provision
: of his section upon conviction thereo
A. shall be fined not exceeding $500
!. or be imprisoned for not more tina
70 two years, or both: PROVIDED, Tha
r this section shall not apply to any fal
q mer. gardener, horticulturist, win,
N yartlist, planter, ranchman, dairymai
= stockman, or other agriculturist. wit
q respect TO the farm products produce
~ or raised upon land owned, leased, q
fc cultivated by him: AND PROVIDEl
FURTHER, That nothing In this Az
shall be construed TO forbid or max
unlawful collective bargaining by an
cooperative association or other ass
citation of farmers, dairymen, gardel
ers, or other producers OF farm pro'
ucts with respect to the farm product
produced or raised by its member
upon land owned, leased, or cultivate
el by them"
Sec. 3. That sections 8 and 0 (
the Act entitled "An Act TO proyit
further for the national security an
= defense by encouraging the productic
th and conservation Of the supply, al
n controlling the distribution OF foo
= products and fuel" approved Augu
10, 1917, be, and the same are heret
= repealed: PROVIDED, That any O
rk fense committed In violation OF sa
1t sections s and 0, prior to the passal
- OF this Act, may be prosecuted and Il
We nanalties nrpscribed therein enforce