An Act to protect the integrity of grade certificates under the United States Grain Standards Act.
PL 84-861 (S.1400), enacted 08/01/1956

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PUBLIC LiAW 861-AUG. 1, 1956 
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Per diem. 
60 Stat. 808. 
69 Stat. 394. 
Interagency com-
mittees. 
Cultural program. 
(e) No member of the Committee shall receive any compensation 
for his services as such; but each such member shall be paid actual 
transportation expenses and paid in lieu of subsistence the per diem 
rates prescribed or established pursuant to section 5 of the Administra-
tive Expense Act of 1946, as amended (5 IT. S. C. 73b-2), while away 
from home in attendance at meetings of the Committee or in consulta-
tion with officials of the Government in carrying out the duties of the 
Committee. 
(f) Staft' and secretarial services for the Committee shall be pro-
vided by the departmental staft* of the United States Advisory Com-
mission* oii Educational Exchange, with the assistance of the Inter-
national Educational Exchange Service. 
SEC. 11. The President is authorized to create such interagency com-
mittees as in his judgment may be of assistance in carrying out the 
purpose of this Act. 
Such committees shall include individuals hav-
ing special knowledge and experience in the field of the cultural arts as 
well as individuals whose knowledge and experience in other fields 
will assist in carrying out the program established by this Act. 
The 
provisions of section 214 of the Act of May 3, 1945 (59 Stat. 134; 31 
IT. S. C , sec. 691), shall be applicable to any interagency committee 
created pursuant to this section. 
SEC. 12. The cultural program authorized by this Act should include, 
to the greatest extent possible, presentations and other activities in 
such major art fields as: music, drama, poetry, and dance; new writing 
and literature; architecture, landscape architecture, city and regional 
planning, civic art and design, historic preservation; housing, interior 
design and decoration, and urban renewal and redevelopment; paint-
ing, sculpture, graphic arts, and hand arts and crafts; motion pictures 
and photography; and radio and television. 
Approved August 1, 1966. 
Public Law 861 
CHAPTER 812 
«u.t 1,1956 
AN ACT 
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To protect the integrity of grade certificates under the United States Grain 
Standards Act. 
U.S. Grain stand-
ards A c t , amend> 
ment. 
39 Stat. 485. 
Penalty for vio-
lations. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 9 of the 
United States Grain Standards Act (7 U. S. C. 85) is amended to 
read as follows: 
"SEC. 9. Any person who shall knowingly violate any of the pro-
visions of sections 4 or 7 of this Act, or any inspector licensed under 
this Act, or any person sampling grain for inspection under this Act, 
who shall knowingly inspect, grade, or sample improperly any grain 
which has been shipped or delivered for shipment m interstate or 
foreign commerce, or shall knowingly give any false or incorrect cer-
tificate of grade, or shall accept money or other consideration, directly 
or indirectly, for any neglect or improper performance of duty, and 
any person who shall improperly influence or attempt to improperly 
influence any such inspector or sampler in the performance of his 
duty, or shall knowingly or willfully cause, or attempt to cause, the 
issuance of a false or incorrect certificate of grade under this Act by 
deceptive loading, handling, or sampling of grain, or by submitting 
grain for inspection knowing that it has been so loaded, handled, or 
sampled, or by any other means, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and 
upon^ conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $1,000, or be 
imprisoned not more than one year, or both." 
Approved August 1, 1956.