An Act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes
PL 82-135 (H.R.3973), enacted 08/31/1951

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number: Provided^ That in no event shall the number of pmssenger-
carrying vehicles which may be operated during the current fiscal year 
at the seat of government under any appropriation or authorization 
in this Act exceed 50 per centum of the number in use as of June 30, 
1951. 
SEC. 706. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, 
except appropriations for the Public Health Service, shall be used to 
pay the compensation of any employee engaged in personnel work in 
excess of the number that would be provided by a ratio of one such 
employee to one hundred and five, or a part thereof, full-time, part-
time, and intermittent employees of the agency concerned: Provided^ 
That for purposes of this section employees shall be considered as 
engaged in personnel work if they spend half time or more in per-
sonnel administration consisting of direction and administration of 
the personnel program; employment, placement, and separation; job 
evaluation and classification; employee relations and services; train-
ing ; committees of expert examiners and boards of civil-service exam-
iners ; wage administration; and processing, recording, and reporting. 
SEC. 707. This Act may be cited as the "Labor-Federal Security 
Appropriation Act, 1952". 
Approved August 31, 1951. 
Employees engaged 
in personnel work-
Short title,. 
Public Law 135 
CHAPTER 3 7 4 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 
ending June 80, 1952, and for other purposes. 
August 31, 1951 
[H. R. 3973] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following ^Department of 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise priauon"Act, 1952!'^° 
appropriated, for the Department of Agriculture for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1952, namely : 
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
TITLE I—REGULAR ACTIVITIES 
RESEARCH AND MARKETING ACT OF 1946 
To enable the Secretary to improve and develop, independently or 
through cooperation among Federal and State agencies, and others, a 
sound and efficient system for the distribution and marketing of agri-
cultural products under the provisions of titles I I and I I I of the Act of 
August 14, 1946, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1621-1629), $4,750,000: Pro-
vided, That not less than $600,000 of this amount shall be available for 
contracts in accordance with the provisions of section 205 of said Act: 
Provided 
further, 
That the Secretary may make available to any 
bureau, office, or agency of the Department such amounts from this 
appropriation as may be necessary to carry out the functions for which 
it is made (but amounts made available to the Office of the Secretary, 
Office of the Solicitor, and Office of Information, shall not exceed those 
which the Bureau of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with repre-
sentatives of the Department, shall determine), and any such amounts 
shall be in addition to amounts transferred or otherwise made available 
to other appropriation items of the Department: Provided 
further^ 
That no part of this appropriation shall be available for work relating 
to fish or shellfish or any product thereof, except for the support of 
60 Stat. 1087. 
7 U. S. C. § 1624. 
A v a i l a b i l i t y 
funds. 
Work r e l a t i n g to 
fish, etc. 
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equitable transportation rates before Federal agencies concerned with 
such rates and for development of foreign markets. 
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS 
For necessary expenses in carrying out the provisions of the Act 
42stat.532. 
establishing the Bureau of Agricultural Economics (7 U. S. C. 411) 
and related Acts, as follows: 
Economic investigations: For conducting investigations and for 
acquiring and diffusing useful information among the people of 
the United States, relative to agricultural production, distribution, 
land utilization, and conservation in their broadest aspects, including 
farm management and practice, utilization of farm and food prod-
ucts, purchasing of farm supplies, farm population and rural life, 
farm labor, farm finance, insurance and taxation, adjustments in 
production to probable demand for the different farm and food 
products; land ownership and values, costs, prices and income in 
their relation to agriculture, including causes for their variations 
and trends, $2,150,000: Provided., that no part of the funds herein 
appropriated or made available to the Bureau of Agricultural Eco-
nomics under the heading "Economic investigations" shall be used 
for State and county land-use planning, for conducting cultural sur-
veys, or for the maintenance of regional offices. 
Crop and livestock estimates: For collecting, compiling, abstract-
ing, analyzing, summarizing, interpreting, and publishing data relat-
ing to agriculture, including crop and livestock estimates, acreage, 
yield, grades, staples of cotton, stocks, and value of farm crops and 
numbers, grades, and value of livestock and livestock products on 
farms, production, distribution, and consumption of turpentine and 
49Stat. 653. 
roslu pui'suant to the Act of August 15, 1935 (5 U. S. C. 556b), and 
Peanut statistics, 
f^p (;he collection and publication of statistics of peanuts as provided 
by the Act approved J u n e 24, 1936, as amended May 12, 1938 (7 
sttt 348*^' ^^^^' " U. S. C. 951-957), $2,848,304: Provided, 
T h a t no part of the funds 
Cotton and apple herein appropriated shall be available for any expense incident to 
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ascertaining, collating, or publishing a report stating the intention 
of farmers as to the acreage to be planted in cotton, or for estimates 
of apple production for other than the commercial crop. 
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION 
, 
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATOR 
For necessary expenses of the Office of Administrator, including 
travel and subsistence expenses of advisory committees authorized 
60Stat. 1091. 
t,y ^i^ig j i j ^f ti^g p^^^ Qf August 14,1946 (7 U. S. C. 1628-1629), and 
the maintenance, operation, and furnishing of facilities and services 
Reimbursement. 
j^t the Agricultural Research Center, $541,440: Provided, That the 
appropriation current at the time services are rendered may be reim-
bursed (by advance credits or reimbursements based on estimated or 
actual charges) from applicable appropriations, to cover the charges, 
including handling and other related services, for equipment rentals 
(including depreciation, maintenance, and repairs) ; for services, sup-
plies, equipment, and material furnished: Provided further, That of 
the several appropriations of the Agricultural Research Adminis-
tration, not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for employment 
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act 
58Stat. 742. 
of 1944 (5 xj. s. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 
Buildings" and im- ^' ^^^^ (5 U. S. C 55a) : Provided 
further. 
T h a t the several appropria-
provements. 
tions of the Agricultural Research Administration shall be available 
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for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improve-
ments: Provided^ however^ That unless otherwise provided, the cost 
of constructing any one building (excepting headhouses connecting 
greenhouses and experimental farm houses) shall not exceed $5,000, 
the total amount for construction of buildings costing more than $2,500 
each shall be within the limits of the estimates submitted and approved 
therefor, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal 
year shall not exceed $2,500 or 2 per centum of the cost of the building 
as certified by the Research Administrator, whichever is greater, 
except for the alteration of one building at Greenfield, Massachusetts, 
at a cost not to exceed $7,500: ProHded further. That not to exceed 7 
Limitation. 
per centum of the funds of any research appropriation of the Agricul-
tural Research Administration, including the appropriation for the 
Office of the Administrator, may be transferred by the Administrator, 
with the approval of the Secretary, to any other such research 
appropriation in order to provide for a more effective research pro-
gram: Provided, however, That no appropriation may be increased 
more than 7 per centum by such transfers. 
RESEARCH ON ACJRICULTURAL PROBLEMS OF ALASKA 
For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to conduct research 
into the basic agricultural needs and problems of the Territory of 
Alaska, through such agencies of the Department as he may designate, 
independently or in cooperation with appropriate agencies of the Ter-
ritory of Alaska, $250,000. 
O m C E OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS 
Payments to States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico 
For payments to the States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico to be 
paid quarterly in advance where applicable, to carry into effect the 
provisions of the following Acts relating to agricultural experiment 
stations: 
Hatch, Adams, Purnell, Bankhead-Jones, and related Acts: Hatch 
Act, the Act approved March 2, 1887 (7 U. S. C. 362, 363, 365, 368, 
377-379), $720,000; Adams Act, the Act approved March 16, 1906 
24Stat.44o. 
(7 U. S. C. 369), $720,000; Purnell Act, the Act approved February 
s^stat.es. 
24, 1925 (7 U. S. C. 361, 366, 370, 371, 373-376, 380, 382), $2,880,000; 
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Bankhead-Jones Act, title I of the Act approved June 29, 1935 
(7 U. S. C. 427-427g), sections 3 and 5, $2,863,708, and sections 9 
and 11 of said Act as added by the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 U. S. C. 
427h, 427j), including administration by the Ofiice of Experiment ^
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Stations in the United States Department of Agriculture, $5,000,000, 
no part of which latter amount shall be used for beginning construc-
tion of any building costing in excess of $15,000, except that a poultry 
breeding house may be constructed at Purdue University at a cost t« 
this appropriation of not to exceed $29,000; Hawaii, the Act approved 
May 16, 1928 (7 U. S. C. 386-386b), extending the benefits of certain 
45Stat.57i. 
Acts of Congress to the Territory of Hawaii, $90,000; Alaska, the Act 
approved February 23, 1929 (7 U. S. C. 386c), extending the benefits 
of the Hatch Act to the Territory of Alaska, $15,000, and the pro-
visions of section 2 of the Act approved June 20, 1936, as amended 
(7 U. S. C. 369a, Public Law 739, approved August 29, 1950), extend- staJfe^!"^" '^'*' ^* 
ing the benefits of the Adams and Purnell Acts to the Territory of 
Alaska, $50,000; Puerto Rico, the Act approved March 4, 1931, as 
amended (7 U. S. C. 386d-386f), extending the benefits of certain 
46stat.i52o. 
Acts of Congress to Puerto Rico, $90,000; in all, payments to States, 
Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, $12,428,708. 
45 Stat. 1256. 
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Salaries and Expenses 
For necessary expenses in connection with administration of grants 
and coordination of research with States pursuant to the Acts approved 
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«6^68*stif'735 ^*^*' thereto (7 U. S. C. 361-363, 365-383, 386-386f), and title I of the Act 
approved June 29, 1935, as amended by the Act of September 21, 1944 
(7 U. S. C. 427-427g), and for the administration, operation, and main-
tenance of an agricultural experiment station in Puerto Rico, $367,090; 
and the Secretary shall prescribe the form of the annual financial 
statement required under the above Acts, ascertain whether the expen-
ditures are in accordance with their provisions, coordinate the research 
work of the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations in the 
lines authorized in said Acts with research of the Department in 
similar lines, and make report thereon to Congress. 
BUREAU OF H U M A N NUTRITION AND HOME ECONOMICS 
For necessary expenses in connection with conducting investigations 
of the relative utility and economy of agricultural products for food, 
clothing, and other uses in the home, with special suggestions of plans 
and methods for the more effective utilization of such products for 
these purposes, and such economic investigations, including housing 
and household buying, as have for their purpose the improvement of 
the rural home, for coordinating nutrition services made available by 
Federal, State, and other agencies, and for disseminating useful infor-
mation on these subjects, $1,350,000. 
BUREAU OF ANIMAL INDUSTRY 
Salaries and Expenses 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act, as 
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and for investi|^ation concerned with the livestock and meat industries 
and the domestic raising of fur-bearing animals, as follows: 
Animal research: For animal husbandry investigations; investiga-
tions of diseases of animals and of tuberculin, serums, antitoxins, and 
analogous products; and cooperation in the administration of regula-
tions for the improvement of poultry, poultry products, and hatch-
eries, as authorized by law (7 U. S. C. 429, Public Law 662, approved 
64 Stat. 413. 
August 4,1950); $3,250,000. 
Animal disease control and eradication: For the control and eradi-
cation of tuberculosis and paratuberculosis of animals, avian tubercu-
losis, Bang's disease of cattle, scabies in sheep and cattle, southern 
cattle ticks, hog cholera and related swine diseases, and dourine in 
horses, and other inspection and quarantine work authorized by law; 
for supervision of the transportation of livestock, including adminis-
tration of the twenty-eight-hour law; for inspection of vessels; and 
for carrying out the provisions of the Act of March 4,1913 (21 XJ. S. C. 
37stat.832. 
151-158), relating to veterinary biological products, $7,731,022, 
including $30,000 for the acquisition of land and construction of 
buildings for inspection of livestock at Canadian border ports of 
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^ entry: Provided^ That no payment hereunder as compensation for any 
cattle condemned for slaughter for tuberculosis, paratuberculosis, or 
Bang's disease shall exceed (1) $25 for any grade animal or $50 for 
any pure bred animal, (2) one-third of the difference between the 
49 Stat. 781. 
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229 
appraised value and the value of salvage thereof, or (3) the amount 
paid or to be paid by the State or other cooperating agency, and no 
payment hereunder shall be made for any animal if at the time of test 
or condemnation it shall belong to or be upon the premises of any 
person, firm, or corporation to which it has been sold, shipped, or 
delivered for slaughter. 
Marketing agreements, hog cholera virus and serum: For carrying 
into effect sections 56 to 60, inclusive, of the Act approved August 24, 
1936 (7 U. S. C. 851-856) regulating the marketing of anti-hog-
cholera serum and hog-cholera virus, $47,906. 
Meat inspection: For carrying out the provisions of laws relating 
to Federal inspection of meat and meat-food products, including the 
purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only, 
$12,800,000: Provided, That hereafter reimbursement may be made 
by any person, firm, or organization for the expenses of meat inspec-
tion in excess of those which can be met from the amount appropriated 
for such purposes each year. 
BUREAU OF DAIRY INDUSTRY 
For necessary expenses in carrving out the provisions of the Act 
of May 29,1924 (7 U. S. C. 401^04), including investigations, experi- 
« stat. 243. 
ments, and demonstrations in dairy industry, the applicable provisions 
Qf the Act of May 9, 1902 (26 U. S. C. 2326, 2326 (c)), relating to 
^^stat.ioe. 
flrocess or renovated butter, as amended, and the Act of May 23, 
1908 (21 U. S. C. 94 (a)), insofar as it relates to the exportation 
3«stat.254. 
of process or renovated butter, $1,475,000. 
BUREAU OF AGRICULTURAL AND INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY 
For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, and demon-
strations established under the provisions of section 202 (a^ to 202 (e), 
inclusive, of title II of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 
(7 U. S. C. 1292) ; for the development of new and extended food, 
feed, and industrial uses for agricultural commodities, both plant and 
animal, and potential replacement crops, and processing, biological, 
chemical, physical, pharmacological, toxicological, and technological 
investigation thereof, $7,250,000. 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, SOILS, AND AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING 
Plant, soil, and agricultural engineering research: For expenses 
necessary for investigations, experiments, and demonstrations con-
cerning plants, soils, and agricultural engineering, including those 
related to the production, improvement, handling, processing, trans-
portation, and storage of farm and other crops; control of weeds, 
plant diseases, and nematodes; discovery and introduction of new 
and useful plants, both foreign and native; soil and water manage-
ment to improve soil productivity; the relation of soils to plant, 
animal, and human nutrition; classification and mapping of soils; 
fertilizers, liming materials, and soil amendments; farm machinery 
and processing equipment; larm buildings, and farm electrification; 
and for the operation and maintenance of airplanes; $10,589,73P, l
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including not to exceed $275,000 for the construction of a laboratory 
at Orlando, Florida. 
National Arboretum: For the maintenance and development of 
the National Arboretum established under the provisions of the Act 
approved March 4, 1927 (20 U. S. C. 191-194), $136,920. 
'' ^tat. 1422. 
52 Stat. 37. 
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37 Stat. 315. 
42 Stat. 833; 33 Stat. 
12ri9; 56 Stat. 40. 
58 Stat. 735. 
Oriental froitflv. 
60 Stat. 1085. 
37 Stat. 315. 
Establishment of 
cotton-froe areas. 
62 Stat. 442. 
7U.S.C.§§150-I50g. 
State, etc. 
tion. 
BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY AND PLANT QUARANTINE 
Salaries and Expenses 
For expenses necessary for investigations, experiments, demonstra-
tions, and surveys for the promotion of economic entomolo^, for 
investigating and ascertaining the best means of destroying insects 
and related pests injurious to agriculture, for importing useful and 
beneficial insects and bacterial, fungal, and other diseases of insects 
and related pests, for investigating and ascertaining the best means 
of destroying insects affecting man and animals, and the best ways 
of utilizing beneficial insects, for carrying into effect the provisions 
of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20,1912, as amended (7 U. S. C. 
151-167), the Honey Bee Act (7 U. S. C. 281-283), the Insect Pest 
Act (7 U. S. C. 141-144), the Mexican Border Act (7 U. S. C. 149), 
and the Organic Act of 1944 (7 U. S. C. 147a), as amended, authorizing 
the eradication, control, and prevention of spread of injurious insects 
and plant pests; including the operation and maintenance of airplanes 
and the purchase of not to exceed two, as follows: 
Insect investigations: For the investigation of insects affecting 
fruits, grapes, nuts, trees, shrubs, forests and forest products, truck 
and garden crops, cereal, forage and range crops, cotton, tobacco, 
sugar plants, ornamental and other plants and agricultural products, 
household possessions, and man and animals; for bee culture and 
apiary management; for classifying, identifying, and collecting infor-
mation to determine the distribution and abundance of insects; for 
investigations in connection with introduction of natural enemies of 
injurious insects and related pests and for the exchange with other 
countries of useful and beneficial insects and other arthropods; for 
developing methods, equipment, and apparatus to aid in enforcing 
plant quarantines and in the eradication and control of insect pests 
and plant diseases; and for investigations of insecticides and fungi-
cides, including methods of their manufacture and use and the effects 
of their application, $^^,650,000: Provided^ That of the amount allotted 
for oriental fruitfly, not to exceed $250,000 may be used for contracts 
with public or private agencies for research in accordance with section 
10 (a) of the Act of August 14,1946 (7 U. S. C. 427i), and the amounts 
obligated for contract research shall remain available until expended. 
Insect and plant-disease control: For carryiiig out operations or 
measures to eradicate, suppress, control, or to prevent or retard the 
spread of Japanese beetle, sweetpotato weevil, Mexican fruitflies, 
phony peach and peach mosaic, cereal rusts, pink bollworm and 
Thurberia weevil, golden nematode, citrus blackfly, white-fringed 
beetle. Hall scale, and gypsy and brown-tail moths, including the 
enforcement of quarantine regulations and cooperation with States 
to enforce plant quarantines as authorized by the Plant Quarantine 
Act of Auoust 20, 1912, as amended (7 U. S. C. 151-167), and 
including the establishment of such cotton-free areas as may be 
necessary to stamp out any infestation of the pink bollworm as 
authorized by the Act of February 8, 1930 (46 Stat. 67), and for 
cooperation with States in the compensation of growers for losses 
resulting from the destruction of or for not planting potatoes and 
tomatoes on lands infested or exposed to infestations of the golden 
nematode for the purpose authorized by the Golden Nematode Act 
(Public Law 645, approved June 15, 1948), $4,600,000: Provided. That 
no part of this appropriation shall be used to pay the cost or value 
of trees, farm animals, farm crops, or other property injured or 
destroyed, except potatoes and tomatoes as authorized under the 
Golden Nematode Act: Provided further^ That, in the discretion of 
the Secretary, no })art of this appropriation shall be expended for 
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231 
the control of sweetpotato weevil in any State until such State has 
provided cooperation necessary to accomplish this purpose, or for 
barberry eradication until a sum or sums at least equal to such 
expenditures shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed 
by States, counties, or local authorities, or by individuals or organi-
zations for the accomplishment of this purpose, or with respect to 
the golden nematode except as prescribed in section 4 of the Golden 
Nematode Act. 
7 u. s. c. § looc. 
Plant quarantines: For operations against the introduction of insect 
pests or plant diseases into the United States, including the enforce-
ment of foreign-plant quarantines and regulations promulgated under 
sections 5 and 7 of the Plant Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as 
amended (7 U. S. C. 151-167), the Insect Pest Act of 1905 (7 U. S. C. '^' ^'^'- ^'^• 
141-144), and the Mexican Border Act of 1942 (7 U. S. C. 149), for ^^33stat.i269;56stat. 
enforcement of domestic-plant quarantines as they pertain to Terri-
tories and districts of the United States, for the enforcement of plant 
quarantines through inspection in transit, including the interception 
and disposition of materials found to have been transported in viola-
tion of Federal plant quarantine laws or regulations, and operations 
under the Terminal Inspection Act (7 U. S. C. 166) and enforcement 
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of regulations governing the movement of plants into and from the 
District of Columbia promulgated under section 15 of the Plant 
Quarantine Act of August 20, 1912, as amended, and for inspection 
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and certification of plants and plant products to meet the sanitary 
requirements of foreign countries, as authorized in section 102 of the 
Organic Act of 1944 (7 U. S. C. 147a), $2,600,000. 
58 Stat. 735. 
Control of Emergency Outbreaks of Insects and Plant Diseases 
For expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the joint 
resolution approved May 9,1938 (7 U. S. C. 148-148e), including the 
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operation and maintenance of airplanes and the purchase of not to 
exceed two, and surveys and control operations in Canada in coopera-
tion with the Canadian Government or local Canadian authorities, 
and the employment of Canadian citizens, $1,800,000, of which $1,000,-
000 shall be apportioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised 
Statutes, as amended, for the purposes of said joint resolution only 
si u. s. c. § 665. 
to the extent that the Secretary, with the approval of the Bureau of 
the Budget, finds necessary to meet emergency conditions. 
CONTROL OF FOREST PESTS 
For expenses necessary for carrying out operations, measures, or 
surveys necessary to eradicate, suppress, control, or to prevent or 
retard the spread of insects or diseases which endanger forest trees 
on any lands in the United States, and for such quarantine measures 
relating thereto as may be necessary pursuant to the Plant Quarantine 
Act of August 20, 1912, as amended (7 U. S. C. 151-167), including 
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the purchase (not to exceed two) and operation and maintenance of 
airplanes, and construction and alteration of necessary buildings: 
Provided, That the cost of constructing or altering any one building 
during the fiscal year shall not exceed $2,500, as follows: 
Forest Pest Control Act: For carrying out the provisions of the 
Act approved June 25, 1947 (16 U. S. C, Supp. I, 594-1—594-5), 
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$2,700,000, of which $500,000 shall be apportioned for use pursuant 
to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, for the purposes 
^i u. s. c. § ees. 
of said Act only to the extent that the Secretary, with the approval 
of the Bureau of the Budget, finds necessary to meet emergency 
conditions. 
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A v a i l a b i l i t y of 
funds. 
54 Stat. 168. 
White pine blister rust: White pine blister rust, pursuant to the 
Act of April 26, 1940 (16 U. S. C. 594a), $3,300,000, of which $505,-
000 shall be available to the Department of the Interior for the control 
of white pine blister rust on or endangering Federal lands under the 
jurisdiction of that Department or lands of Indian tribes which are 
under the jurisdiction of or retained under restrictions of the United 
States; $1,750,000 to the Forest Service for the control of white pine 
blister rust on or endangering lands under its jurisdiction; and 
$1,045,000 to the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine for 
leadership and general coordination of the entire program, method 
development, and for operations conducted under its direction for such 
control, including, but not confined to, the control of white pine 
blister rust on or endangering State and privately owned lands. 
FOREST SERVICE 
58 Stat. 742. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Experiments and in-
vestigations. 
Cost of buildings. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary, including not to exceed $10,000 for employ-
ment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic 
Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of 
August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a); to experiment and make investigations 
and report on forestry, national forests, forest fires, and lumbering, 
but no part of this appropriation shall be used for any experiment or 
test made outside the jurisdiction of the United States; to advise the 
owners of woodlands as to the proper care of the same; to investigate 
and test American timber and timber trees and their uses, and methods 
for the preservative treatment of timber; to seek, through investiga-
tions and the planting of native and forei^ species, suitable trees for 
the treeless regions; to erect necessary buildings: Provided^ That the 
cost of any building purchased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of 
the cost (not to exceed $1,000) of constructing a water-supply or sani-
tary system and of connecting the same with any such building, and 
exclusive of the cost of any tower upon which a lookout house may be 
erected, shall not exceed $15,000, with the exception that any building 
erected, purchased, or acquired, the cost of which was $15,000 or more, 
may be improved out of the appropriations made under this Act for 
the Forest Service by an amount not to exceed 2 per centum of the 
cost of such building as certified by the Chief of the Forest Service; 
to protect, administer, and improve the national forests, including 
tree planting and other measures to prevent erosion, drift, surface 
wash, soil waste, and the formation of floods, and to conserve water; 
Care o
f fish and to ascertain the natural conditions upon and utilize the national for-
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ests, to transport and care for fish and game supplied to stock the 
national forests or the waters therein; to collate, digest, report, and 
illustrate the results of experiments and investigations made by the 
Forest Service, as follows: 
National forest protection and management: For the administra-
tion, protection, use, maintenance, improvement, and development of 
the national forests, including the establishment and maintenance of 
forest tree nurseries, including the procurement of tree seed and 
nursery stock by purchase, production, or otherwise, seeding and tree 
planting and the care of plantations and young growth; the operation 
and maintenance of aircraft and the purchase of not to exceed three; 
the maintenance of roads and trails and the construction and main-
tenance of all other improvements necessary for the proper and econom-
ical administration, protection, development, and use of the national 
forests, including experimental areas under Forest Service admin-
istration, except that where direct purchases will be more economical 
than construction, improvements may be purchased; the construction 
Protection, etc., of 
national forests. 
game. 
Direct purchases. 
65 
STAT. 
PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
233 
(not to exceed $15,000 for any one structure), equipment, and main-
tenance of sanitary and recreational facilities; timber cultural opera-
tions; development and application of fish and game management 
plans; propagation and transplanting of plants suitable for planting 
on semiarid portions of the national forests; estimating and apprais-
ing of timber and other resources and development and application 
of plans for their effective management, sale, and use; expenses of the 
National Forest Reservation Commission as authorized by section 14 
of the Act of March 1,1911 (16 U. S. C. 514); examination, classifica-
tion, surveying, and appraisal of land incident to effecting exchanges 
authorized by law and of lands within the boundaries of the national 
forests that may be opened to homestead settlement and entry under 
the Act of June 11,1906, and the Act of August 10,1912 (16 U. S. C. 
506-509), as provided by the Act of March 4,1913 (16 U. S. C. 512); 
investigation and establishment of water rights, including the pur-
chase thereof or of lands or interests in lands or rights-of-way for use 
and protection of water rights necessary or beneficial in connection 
with the administration and public use of the national forests; and all 
expenses necessary for the use, maintenance, improvement, protection, 
and general administration of the national forests, $27,322,025, of 
which not to exceed $75,000 shall be available for the purchase of three 
nursery sites. 
Fighting forest fires: For fighting and preventing forest fires on 
or threatening lands under Forest Service administration, including 
lands under contract for purchase or in process of condemnation for 
Forest Service purposes, and for liquidation of obligations incurred 
in the preceding fiscal year for such purpose, $6,000,000, of which 
$2,500,000 shall be apportioned for use, pursuant to section 3679 of the 
Revised Statutes, as amended, only to the extent that the Secretary, 
with the approval of the Bureau of the Budget, finds necessary to meet 
emergency conditions. 
Forest research: For forest research at forest or range experiment 
stations, the Forest Products Laboratory, or elsewhere, in accordance 
with the provisions of sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of the Act approved 
May 22,1928, as amended (16 U. S. C. 581, 581a, 581f-581i), including 
the construction and maintenance of improvements; fire, silvicultural, 
watershed, and other forest investigations and experiments; investi-
gations and experiments to develop improved methods of management 
of forest and other ranges; experiments, investigations, and tests of 
forest products; a comprehensive forest survey; and investigations in 
forest economics; $5,108,603: Provided^ That hereafter funds may be 
received from any State, other political subdivision, organization, or 
individual for the purpose of establishing or operating any forest 
research facility located within the United States, its Territories, or 
possessions. 
FOREST DEVEIX)PMENT ROADS AND TRAILS 
For expenses necessary for carrying out the provisions of section 
23 of the Federal Highway Act approved November 9, 1921, as 
amended (23 U. S. C. 23, 23a), relating to forest development roads 
and trails, including the construction, reconstruction, and mainte-
nance of roads and trails on experimental areas under Forest Service 
administration, $13,000,000, which sum is authorized to be appro-
priated by the Acts of June 29,1948 (Public Law-834), and September 
7, 1950 (Public Law 769), to remain available until expended: Pro-
vided, That this appropriation shall be available for the rental, 
purchase, construction, or alteration of buildings necessary for the 
storage and repair of equipment and supplies used for road and trail 
construction and maintenance, but the total cost of any such building 
purchased, altered, or constructed under this authorization shall not 
36 Stat. 963. 
Homestead lands. 
34 Stat. 2.33; 37 Stat. 
287, 842. 
31 U. S. C. §665. 
45 Stat. 699. 
42 Stat. 218; 49 Stat. 
1520. 
Experimental areas. 
62 Stat. 1105. 
23U. S. C. §§21,23e. 
64 Stat. 785. 
23 IJ. S. C. § 3a 
notes. 
234 
PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
exceed $15,000 with the exception that any building erected, pur-
chased, or acquired, the cost of which was $15,000 or more, may be 
improved within any fiscal year by an amount not to exceed 2 per 
centum of the cost of such buildings certified by the Chief of the 
Forest Service. 
ACQUISITION OF LANDS FOE NATIONAL FORESTS 
Weeks Act 
For the acquisition of forest lands under the provisions of the Act 
3
6 Stat. 961. 
approved March 1, 1911, as amended (16 U. S. C. 513-519, 521), 
$75,000, to be available only for payment toward the purchase price 
of any lands acquired, including the cost of surveys in connection 
with such acquisition: Provided^ That no part of such funds shall 
be used for the purchase of lands in the counties of Adair, Cherokee, 
and Sequoyah, in the State of Oklahoma, without the specific approval 
of the Board of County Commissioners of the county in which such 
lands are situated. 
Superior National Forest 
For the acquisition of forest land within the Superior National 
Forest, Minnesota, under the provisions of the Act approved June 22, 
li u^s^*§5 5
7
7
c
- ^^*^ (Public Law 733), $125,000, to remain available until expended. 
§§ 577c 
577h. 
Special Acts 
For the acquisition of land to facilitate the control of soil erosion 
and flood damage originating within the exterior boundaries of the 
following national forests, in accordance with the provisions of the 
following Acts authorizing annual appropriations of forest receipts 
for such purposes, and in not to exceed the following amounts from 
such receipts: Uinta and Wasatch National Forests, Utah, Act of 
4
9 Stat. 866. 
August 26, 1935 (Public Law 337), as amended, $39,830; Cache 
6
2 Stat. 347. 
National Forest, Utah, Act of May 11, 1938 (Public Law 505), as 
amended, $10,000; San Bernardino and Cleveland National Forests, 
5
2 Stat. 699. 
Riverside County, California, Act of June 15,1938 (Public Law 634), 
as amended, $22,000; Nevada and Toiyabe National Forests, Nevada, 
5
2 Stat. 1
2
0
5
. 
^^t of Juuc 25,1938 (Public Law 748), as amended, $10,000; Angeles 
5
4 Stat. 299. 
National Forest, California, Act of June 11, 1940 (Public Law 591), 
$20,000; Cleveland National Forest, San Diego County, California, 
5
4 Stat. 297. 
^^.^ Qf j^jjjg 11^ 1940 (Public Law 589), $5,000; Sequoia National 
5
4 Stat. 402. 
Forest, California, Act of June 17, 1940 (Public Law 637), $34,850; 
in all $141,680. 
STATE 
AND 
PRIVATE 
FORESTRY 
COOPERATION 
For expenses necessary for cooperation with the various States in 
forest-fire prevention ana suppression, in forest tree planting, in forest 
management and processing, and in farm forestry extension, pursuant 
^
« ?f^'o*??• s. 
to the Act of August 25,1950 (Public Law 729), and sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 
56M 
*
* 
' and 5 of the Act of June 7, 1924 (16 U. S. C. 564-568a), and Acts 
43 Stat. 653. 
supplementary thereto; advising timberland owners, associations, and 
other appropriate agencies in tlie application of forest management 
principles to federally owned lands leased to States and to private 
forest lands, and advising wood-using industries in processing of 
forest products, so as to attain sustained-yield management, the con-
servation of the timber resources, the productivity of forest lands, and 
the stabilization of emplovment and economic continuance of forest 
industries; $10,750,000. 
65 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
2 3 5 
COOPERATIVE RANGE IMPROVEMENTS 
For artificial revegetation, construction, and maintenance of range 
improvements, control of rodents, and eradication of poisonous and 
noxious plants on national forests, as authorized by section 12 of the 
Act of April 24, 1950 (Public Law 478). $700,000, to remain available 
6
4 stat ^. ^ ^^^^ 
until expended: Provided^ That no part of this appropriation shall be 
available in any national forest in excess of three times the amount 
available for such forest from sources (including claims recognized 
IffJ^Jii^^-
by the Act of December 29, 1950, and receipts under 16 U. S. C. 500) 
other than Federal sources. 
FLOOD CONTROL 
For expenses necessar}^, in accordance with the Flood Control Act, 
approved June 22, 1930 (Public Law 738), as amended and supple- 
3
3 u^l ^cf°s§ 7
0
1
a 
mented, to make preliminary examinations and surveys, and to per- 7oih. 
form works of improvement, and to plan the agricultural phases of the 
development of the Columbia Basin area, the Arkansas-White-Red 
River area, and the New England-New York area, in accordance with 
the provisions of laws relating to the activities of the Department, 
including not to exceed $100,000 for employment pursuant to the 
second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 
574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 
^s stat. 742. 
55a), to remain available until expended, $6,372,800, with which shall 
'^ ^^^^- ^'o 
be merged the unexpended balances of funds heretofore appropriated 
or transferred to the Department for flood-control purposes: Provided^ T Jifa^hatehie wat"/-
That no part of such funds shall be used for the purchase of lands in sheds. 
the Yazoo and Little Tallahatchie watersheds without specific approval 
of the county board of supervisors of the county in which such lands 
are situated, nor shall any part of such funds be used for the purchase 
of lands in the counties of Adair, Cherokee, and Sequoyah, in the State 
of Oklahoma, without the specific approval of the Board of County 
Commissioners of the county in which such lands are situated: Pro-
vided further^ That of the funds available herein, not in excess of 
$6,000,000 (with which shall be merged the unexpended balance of 
funds heretofore made available for these purposes) may be expended 
in watersheds heretofore authorized by section 13 of the Flood Control 
^
^ ^^^'' ^^• 
Act of December 22,1944, for necessary gully control, floodwater deten-
tion, and floodway structures in areas other than those over which the 
Department of the Army has jurisdiction and responsibility. 
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
49 Stat. 163. 
For necessary expenses for carrying out the provisions of the Act 
of April 27, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 590a-590f), title I I I of the Act of July 
22, 1937 (7 U. S. C. 1010-1012), and the Act of August 11, 1945 (7 
so stat. 525. 
U. S. C. 1011 note), including research and investigations into the 
59stat.532. 
character, cause, extent, history, and effects of erosion, soil and mois-
ture depletion, and methods of soil and water conservation (including 
the construction and hydrologic phases of farm irrigation and land 
drainage, and the construction, operation, and maintenance of experi-
mental watersheds, stations, laboratories, plots, and installations); 
making conservation surveys and plans and establishing measures to 
conserve soil and water (including farm irrigation and land drainage 
and such special measures as may be necessary to prevent floods and 
the siltation of reservoirs) ; establishment and operation of conserva-
tion nurseries; development and manageinent of land utilization proj-
ect lands and facilities; dissemination of information; purchase and 
236 
PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Cost of buildings. 
Restrictions. 
49 Stat. 163. 
58 Stat. 742. 
60 Stat. 810. 
erection or alteration of permanent buildings; operation and mainte-
nance of aircraft; and furnishing of subsistence to employees; 
$53,474,991: Provided^ That the cost of any permanent building pur-
chased, erected, or as improved, exclusive of the cost of constructing 
a water supply or sanitary system and connecting the same to any such 
building and with the exception of buildings acquired in conjunction 
with land being purchased for other purposes, shall not exceed $2,500, 
except for eight buildings to be constructed or improved at a cost 
not to exceed $15,000 per building and except that alterations or 
improvements to other existing permanent buildings costing $2,500 
or more may be made in any fiscal year in an amount not to exceed 
$500 per building: Provided further^ That no part of this appropria-
tion shall be available for the construction of any such building on 
land not owned by the Government: Provided further^ That in the 
State of Missouri, where the State has established a central State 
agency authorized to enter into agreements with the United States or 
any of its agencies on policies and general programs for the saving of 
its soil by the extension of Federal aid to any soil conservation district 
in such State, the agreements made by or on behalf of the United 
States with any such soil conservation district shall have the prior 
approval of such central State agency before they shall become effec-
tive as to such district: Provided fwrther^ That no part of this appro-
priation may be expended for soil and water conservation operations 
under the Act of April 27, 1935 (16 U. S. C. 590a-590f), in demon-
stration projects: Provided further^ That not to exceed $5,000 may 
be used for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 
706 (a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by 
section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a): Provided 
further^ That not to exceed $265,000 of funds authorized for fiscal 
year 1951 for development of land utilization projects may remain 
available until expended: Provided further^ That qualified local engi-
neers may be temporarily employed at per diem rates to perform the 
technical planning work of the service. 
54 
Stat. 1119. 
6
.
S 
Stat. 277. 
64 
Stat. 769. 
7 U. S. 
C. §§ 1033-
1030. 
WATER CONSERVATION AND UTILIZATION PROJECTS 
For expenses necessary to carry into effect the functions of the 
Department under the Acts of May 10, 1939 (53 Stat. 685, 719), 
October 14, 1940 (16 U. S. C. 590y-z-10), as amended and supple-
mented, June 28, 1949 (Public Law 132), and September 6, 1950 
(Public Law 760), relating to water conservation and utilization 
projects, to remain available until expended, $235,500, which sum 
shall be merged with the unexpended balances of funds heretofore 
appropriated or transferred to said Department for the purposes 
of said Act. 
PRODUCTION AND MARKETING ADMINISTRATION 
49 
Stat. 1148. 
04 
Stat. 
657. 
CONSERVATION AND USE OF AGRICULTURAL, LAND RESOURCES 
TO enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of 
sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic 
Allotment Act, approved February 29, 1936, as amended (16 U. S. C. 
590g-590q), including not to exceed $6,000 for the preparation and 
display of exhibits, including such displays at State, interstate, and 
international fairs within the United States; $260,000,000, to remain 
available until December 31 of the next succeeding fiscal year for 
compliance with the program of soil-building practices and soil- and 
water-conserving practices authorized under this head in the Depart-
ment of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1951, carried out during 
the period July 1, 1950, to December 31, 1951, inclusive: Provided^ 
65 
STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
237 
That not to exceed $25,250,000 of the total sum provided under this 
head shall be available during the current fiscal year for salaries 
and other administrative expenses for carrying out such program, 
the cost of aerial photographs, however, not to be charged to such 
limitation; but not more than $4,966,000 shall be transferred to the 
appropriation account, "Administrative expenses, section 392, Agri-
cultural Adjustment Act of 1938": Provided further^ That payments 
to claimants hereunder may be made upon the certificate of the 
claimant, which certificate shall be in such form as the Secretary may 
prescribe, that he has carried out the conservation practice or practices 
and has complied with all other requirements as conditions for such 
payments and that the statements and information contained in the 
application for payment are correct and true, to the best of his 
knowledge and belief, under the penalties of title 18, United States 
Code: Provided further^ That none of the funds herein appropriated 
or made available for the functions assigned to the Agricultural 
Adjustment Agency pursuant to the Executive Order Numbered 9069, 
of February 23, 1942, shall be used to pay the salaries or expenses 
of any regional information employees or any State information 
employees, but this shall not preclude the answering of inquiries or 
supplying of information at the county level to individual farmers: 
Provided further^ That such amount shall be available for salaries 
and other administrative expenses in connection with the formulation 
and administration of the 1952 program of soil-building practices 
and soil- and water-conserving practices, under the Act of February 
29, 1936, as amended (amounting to $256,500,000, including adminis-
tration, and formulated on the basis of a distribution of the funds 
available for payments and grants among the several States in 
accordance with their conservation needs as determined by the 
Secretary, except that the proportion allocated to any State shall 
not be reduced more than 15 per centum from the distribution for 
the next preceding program year, and no participant shall receive 
more than $2,500); but the payments or grants under such programs 
shall be conditioned upon the utilization of land with respect to 
which such payments or grants are to be made in conformity with 
farming practices which will encourage and provide for soil-building 
and soil- and water-conserving practices in the most practical and 
effective manner and adapted to conditions in the several States, as 
determined and approved by the State committees appointed pursuant 
to section 8 (b) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment 
Act, as amended (16 U. S. C. 590h (b)), for the respective States: 
Provided further^ That not to exceed 5 per centum of the allocation 
for the agricultural conservation program for any county may, on 
the recommendation of such county committee and approval of the 
State committee, be withheld and allotted to the Soil Conservation 
Service for services of its technicians in formulating and carrying 
out the agricultural conservation program in the participating 
counties, and the funds so allotted may be placed in a single account 
for each State, and shall not be utilized by the Soil Conservation 
Service for any purpose other than technical and other assistance 
in such counties: Provided 
further^ That such amounts shall be 
available for the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, lime, trees, or any 
other farming materials, or any soil-terracing serAaces, and making 
grants thereof to agricultural producers to aid them in carrying out 
farming practices approved by the Secretary under 
programs 
provided for herein: Provided 
further^ That no part of any funds 
available to the Department, or any bureau, office, corporation, or 
other agency constituting a part of such Department, shall be used 
in the current fiscal year for the payment of salary or travel expenses 
of any person who has been convicted of violating the Act entitled 
h2 Stat. 69. 
7 U. S. C. § 13.92. 
Payments to claim-
ants. 
62 Stat. 683. 
50U.S. C.app. §601 
note. 
Program of soil-
build ing practices, etc. 
49 Stat. 1148. 
16 U. S. C. §§ 590g-
590q. 
Allocations to States. 
49 Stat. 1150. 
Purchase of soods, 
etc. 
Salary or travel ex-
penses, restriction. 
238 
PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
"An Act to prevent pernicious political activities", approved August 
l^'^^tat. 1H7. ^ 1
1
8
k ^' 1939, as amended, or who has been found in accordance with the 
note. • • ' ' 
provisions of title 18, United States Code, section 1913, to have 
6
2 Stat. 792. 
violated or attempted to violate such section which prohibits the 
use of Federal appropriations for the payment of personal services 
or other expenses designed to influence in any manner a Member of 
Congress to favor or oppose any legislation or appropriation by 
Congress except upon request of any Member or through the proper 
official channels. 
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION 
PROGRAMS 
To enable the Secretary to formulate and carry out acreage allot-
ment and marketing quota programs pursuant to provisions of title 
III of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 
5
2 Stat. 38. 
u g Q 1301-1393), including the measurement of the acreage planted 
to cotton on the farms whether or not marketing quotas are in effect, 
providing that not more than $1,000,000 shall be available for this 
purpose, and to provide assistance in obtaining equipment, materials, 
and facilities necessary to attain needed production of agricultural 
commodities, $10,000,000, of which not more than $2,800,000 shall 
7 u. s. c. !
j 1
3
9
2
. 
be transferred to the appropriation account "Administrative expenses, 
section 392, Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938". 
SUGAR ACT PROGRAM 
To enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of the 
6
1 Stat. 922. 
Sugar Act of 1948 (T U. S. C. 1101-1160), $70,000,000, to remain 
available until June 30 of the next succeeding fiscal year: 
Provided, 
That expenditures (including transfers) from this appropriation 
for other than payments to sugar producers shall not exceed $1,500,000. 
NATIONAL SCHOOL L U N C H PROGRAM 
To enable the Secretary to carry out the provisions of the National 
6
0 Stat. 230. 
School Luuch Act (42 U. S. C. 1751-1760), $83,367,491: 
Provided, 
That no part of this appropriation shall be used for nonfood assistance 
4
2 u. s. c. § 1
7
5
4
. 
under section 5 of said Act. 
MARKETING 
SERVICES 
For expenses necessary for acquiring and diffusing market infor-
mation on agricultural commodities, food products and by-products, 
the standardization, classification, grading, handling, storage and 
marketing thereof, including the demonstration and promotion of the 
use of uniform standards of classification of American farm and food 
products throughout the world, the analysis of cotton fiber, the classing 
of cotton for producer members of cotton quality improvement groups, 
the establishment of classification standards and maintenance of an 
44Stat. 1
3
7
2
; 50Stat, inspcctiou servicc for tobacco (7 U. S. C. 471-476, 501-508, 511-511q) ; 
62; 4
3 Stat. 1
1
5
; 3
7 Stat. - ^- 
.- 
.- 
-, 
,•<. -^ 
• 
• • j - x
.
- 
i. 
tJ* 
1
1
8
; 4
5 Stat. 1
0
7
9
; 4
9 for investigating and certifying, in one or more jurisdictions, to ship-
stat.731. 
ppj.g jjj^^j other interested parties the class, quality, and condition of 
any agricultural commodity or food product, whether raw or proc-
essed, and any product containing an agricultural commodity or 
derivative thereof when offered for interstate shipment or when 
received at such important central markets as the Secretary may from 
time to time designate, or at points which may be conveniently reached 
therefrom under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe. 
65 
STAT. 
PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
2 3 9 
including: the collection of such fees as are reasonable and as nearly 
as may cover the cost of the service rendered; for performing the 
duties imposed upon the Secretary by chapter 14 of the Internal 
Revenue Code relating to cotton futures (26 U. S. C. 1920-1935); 
53st3t.2io. 
and for carrying into effect the United States Cotton Standards Act 
(7 IT. S. C. 51-65), the United States Grain Standards Act (7 U. S. C. 
^'' ^'^'- ''''• 
71-87), the Naval Stores Act (7 U. S. C. 91-99), section 201 (a) to 
^9|tat.48?. 
201 (d), inclusive, of title II of the Agricultural Adjustment Act 
of 1938 (7 U. S. C. 1291), including not to exceed $25,000 for employ- 
^
^ stat. 36. 
ment at rates not to exceed $100 per diem, pursuant to the second 
sentence of section 706 (a), of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 
574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 
55a), the Acts to provide standards for containers for fruits and 
^Itatlio 
vegetables (15 U. S. C. 251-257i), the United States Warehouse Act 
3
9 stat. 673: 
(7 IT. S. C. 241-273), the Federal Seed Act (7 U. S. C. 1551-1610), 
lilatilm. 
the Packers and Stockyards Act (7 U. S. C. 181-229), the Federal 
i^llZ-
Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (7 U. S. C. 135-135k), 
M stat. 231: 
and the Tobacco Plant and Seed Exportation Act (7 U. S. C. 516), 
$10,800,000: Provided, 
That hereafter there may be transferred to 
appropriations available for classing or grading any agricultural 
commodity without charge to the producers thereof such sums from 
nonadministrative funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation as 
may be necessary in addition to other funds available for these pur-
poses, such transfers to be reimbursed from subsequent appropriations 
therefor. 
COMMODITY EXCHANGE AUTHORITY 
Post, p. 247. 
49 Stat. 1491. 
To enable the Secretary to carry into effect the provisions of the 
Commodity Exchange Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. l-17a), $650,000. 
FEDERAL CROP INSURANCE CORPORATION 
For operating and administrative expenses, $7,949,911. 
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION 
To carry into effect the provisions of the Rural Electrification Act 
of 1936, as amended (7 U. S. C. 901-924), as follows: 
^^'^'^'- '^^• 
LOAN AUTHORIZATIONS 
For loans in accordance with said Act, and for carrying out the pro-
visions of section 7 thereof, to be borrowed from the Secretary of the 
fv^f.'c^l'ooi. 
Treasury in accordance with the provisions of section 3 (a) of said 
Act as follows: Rural electrification program, $100,000,000; and rural 
^ ^- ^ ^- ^^• 
telephone program, $9,000,000; and additional amounts, not to exceed 
$75,000,000, may be borrowed for the rural electrification program, 
and $25,000,000 for the rural telephone program, under the same terms 
and conditions to the extent that such additional amounts are required 
during the fiscal year 1952, under the then existing conditions, for the 
expeditious and orderly development of the program. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For administrative expenses, including not to exceed $500 for finan-
cial and credit reports, and not to exceed $150,000 for employment 
pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic Act 
of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 
2,1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), $7,750,000. 
76100 0 - 5 2 (PT. I) - 18 
58 Stat. 742. 
60 Stat. 810. 
240 
PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
FARMERS' HOME ADMINISTRATION 
To carry into effect the provisions of titles I, II, and the related 
provisions of title IV of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as 
so Stat. 5
2
2
. 
amended (7 U. S. C. 1000-1031), the Farmers' Home Administration 
60Stat. 1
0
6
2
. 
^ct of 1946 (7 U. S. C. 1001, note; 31 U. S. C. 82h; 12 U. Su C. 371; 
35 D. C. Code 535; 60 Stat. 1062-1080); the Act of July 30, 1946 (40 
6
0 Stat. 711. 
X
T
. S. C. 436^39); the Act of August 28,1937, as amended (16 U. S. C. 
0 Stat. 869. 
590r-590x, 590z-5), for the development of facilities for water storage 
and utilization in the arid and semiarid areas of the United States; 
the provisions of title V of the Housing Act of 1949 relating to finan-
63 Stat. 432. 
cial assistauce for farm housing (42 IT. S. C. 1471-1483); the Kural 
Rehabilitation Corporation Trust Liquidation Act, approved May 3, 
64 statg98.^ 
^
^
^ 1950 (Public Law 499); and the Act to direct the Secretary of Agri-
no^. • 
culture to convey certain mineral interests, approved September 6, 
^r?*^|- ^^^-»«,n« 1950 (Public Law 760), as follows: 
7 U. S. C. 58 1033- 
^ 
' ' 
1039. 
LOAN 
AUTHORIZATION 
For loans (including payments in lieu of taxes and taxes under 
50 Stat. 531. 
section 50 of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, and 
, u. s. 
§ 1
0
2
4
. 
advances incident to the acquisition and preservation of security of 
obligations under the foregoing several authorities) : Title I and 
section 43 of title IV of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as 
5
0 Stat. 5
2
2
; 6
3 Stat, amended, and title V of the Housing Act of 1949 (except grants under 
7 u. s. c. §
§ 1
0
0
0
, 504 (a)) $38,000,000, of which not to exceed $5,000,000 of the amount 
u^s."c.'^§§i47i-H83^.^ available for the purposes of title I and section 43 of the Bankhead-
Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, may be distributed to States and 
Territories without regard to farm population and prevalence of 
tenancy, in addition to the amount otherwise distributed thereto, for 
loans in reclamation projects and to entry 
men on unpatented public 
land (sums available for loans under title V of the Housing Act of 
5
0 Stat. 5
2
4
. 
1949 to remain available until expended) ; title II of the Bankhead-
1009. 
Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, $110,000,000; the Act of August 
fe u.^s.^c." §
§ 590r- 28, 1937, as amended, $5,000,000: Provided, 
That not to exceed the 
590Z-5. 
foregoing several amounts shall be borrowed in one account from the 
Secretary of the Treasury, and, hereafter, such sums annually for the 
purposes of this paragraph as the Congress may determine by provision 
in appropriation acts, on the request of the Secretary of Agriculture, 
at such rate of interest as may be determined by the Secretary of the 
Treasury, but not in excess of 3 per centum per annum; and the Secre-
tary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to lend such 
sums to the Secretary upon the security of any obligations of bor-
rowers from the Secretary under the provisions of said Acts: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may utilize proceeds from payments of 
principal and interest under such Acts to repay the Secretary of the 
Treasury the airiounts borrowed therefrom for the purposes of such 
Acts: Provided further. That for the purpose of making loans pur-
suant to the foregoing authority, the Secretary of the Treasury is 
authorized to use as a public-debt transaction the proceeds from the 
sale of any securities issued under the Second Liberty Bond Act, as 
3iu^s (f §
7
7
4 (2) 'imended, and the purposes for which securities may be issued under 
that Act are extended to include such loans to the Secretary: Provided 
fwrther. That repayments to the Secretary of the Treasury on such 
loans shall be treated as a public-debt transaction. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For the making, servicing, and collecting of loans and insured 
mortgages, the servicing and collecting of loans made under prior 
authority, the liquidation of assets transferred to Farmers' Home 
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241 
Administration pursuant to the Farmers' Home Administration Act 
of 1946, the extension of financial assistance under the Housing Act 
of 1949, and the administration of assets transferred under subsection 
2 (f) of the Act of May 3, 1950, $27,825,000, together with a transfer 
to this appropriation item of not to exceed $230,000 of the fees and 
administrative expense charges made available by subsections (d) 
and (e) of section 12 of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, 
as amended. 
FARM CREDIT ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses, including library membership fees or dues 
in organizations which issue publications to members only or to mem-
bers at a lower price than to others, payment for which may be made 
in advance; not to exceed $20,000 for expenditures authorized by 
section 602 of the Organic Act of 1944 (12 U. S. C. 833) ; $400,000, 
together with not to exceed $2,325,000 of receipts from Farm Credit 
agencies, to be advanced to this appropriation, to cover the cost of 
supervision, facilities, examinations, and other services rendered to 
such agencies; $2,725,000. 
EXTENSION SERVICE 
60 
Stat. 1062. 
7 U. S. 
C. 
§ 1001 
note. 
63 
Stat. 
833. 
42 U. 8. 
C. § 1441 
note. 
60 
Stat. 1076. 
7 U. 
S. 
C. 
§ 1005b 
(d), (e). 
58 
Stat. 
741. 
Post, p. 247. 
PAYMENTS TO STATES, HAWAII, ALASKA, AND PUERTO RICX) 
For payments to the States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico, for 
cooperative agricultural extension work as follows: 
Capper-Ketcham, Bankhead-Jones, and related Acts: Capper-
Ketcham Act, the Act approved May 22,1928 (7 U. S. C. 343a, 343b), 
$1,480,000; Bankhead-Jones Act, section 21, title I I , of the Act 
approved June 29,1935 (7 U. S. C. 343c), $12,000,000; Bankhead-Jones 
Acty section 23, title II, of the Act approved June 29,1935, as amended 
by the Act of June 6,1945 (7 U. S. C. 343d-l), $12,500,000; additional 
extension work, the Act approved April 24, 1939, as amended (7 
U. S. C. 343C-1), $555,000; Alaska, the Act approved February 23, 
1929 (7 U. S. C. 386c), extending the benefits of the Smith-Lever Act 
to the Territory of Alaska, $13,950, and the Act approved October 
27, 1949 (7 U. S. C. 343d-4, 5), extending to the Territory of Alaska 
the benefits of the Capper-Ketcham Act and sections 21 and 23 of title 
II of the Bankhead-Jones Act, $42,150; Puerto Rico, section 3 of the 
Act of March 4, 1931 (7 U. S. C. 386f), authorizing extension of the 
Capper-Ketcham Act to Puerto Rico, $31,348; the Act approved 
August 28, 1937 (7 U. S. C. 343f-343g), extending the benefits of 
section 21 of the Bankhead-Jones Act to Puerto Rico, $408,000, and 
the Act approved October 26, 1949 (7 U. S. C. 343d-2, 3), extending 
the benefits of section 23 of title I I of the Bankhead-Jones Act to 
Puerto Rico, $71,502; and section 506a of title V of the Housing Act 
of 1949 (42 U. S. C. 1476), $33,050; in all, payments to States, Hawaii, 
Alaska, and Puerto Rico, $27,135,000. 
Cooperative agricul-
tural extension work. 
45 Stat. 711. 
49 Stat. 438. 
59 Stat. 231. 
53 Stat. 589 
45 Stat. 1256 
63 Stat. 939. 
46 Stat. 1521. 
50 Stat. 881. 
63 Stat. 926. 
63 Stat. 435. 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For expenses necessary to administer the provisions of the Smith-
Lever Act, approved May 8, 1914 (7 U. S. C. 341-348), and Acts 
amendatory or supplementary thereto, and to coordinate the extension 
work of the Department and the several States, Territories, and insular 
possessions, $850,000. 
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY 
For expenses of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, including 
the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only; 
travel expenses, including examination of estimates for appropria-
tions in the field; stationery, supplies, materials, and equipment; 
38 Stat. 372. 
Post, p. 247. 
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[65 STAT. 
Adjust me Ills 
amounts. 
Post, p. 247. 
34 Stat. 690. 
Yearbook of A gr 
culture. 
freight, express, and diayage charges; advertising of bids, communi-
cation service, postage, washing towels, repairs and alterations, and 
other miscellaneous supplies and expenses not otherwise provided 
for and necessary for the practical and efficient work of the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, $2,025,000, together with such amounts from 
other appropriations or authorizations as are provided in the schedules 
in the Budget for the current fiscal year for such services and expenses, 
which several amounts or portions thereof, as may be determined by 
the Secretary, not exceeding a total of $109,280, shall be transferred 
to and made a part of this appropriation: Provided, however, That if 
the total amounts of such appropriations or authorizations for the 
current fiscal year shall at any time exceed or fall below the amounts 
estimated, respectively, therefor in the budget for such year, the 
amounts transferred or to be transferred therefrom to this appropria-
tion shall be increased or decreased in such amounts as the Bureau 
of the Budget, after a hearing thereon with representatives of the 
Department, shall determine are appropriate to the requirements as 
changed by such reductions or increases in such appropriations or 
authorizations. 
OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR 
For necessary expenses, including payment of fees or dues for the 
use of law libraries by attorneys in the field service, $2,200,000, together 
with such amounts from other appropriations or authorizations as 
are provided in the schedules in the budget for the current fiscal year 
for such expenses which several amounts not exceeding a total of 
$207,000 shall be transferred to and made a part of this appropriation. 
OFFICE OF FOREIGN AGRICDLTURAL KKLATIONS 
For necessary expenses for the Office of Foreign Agricultural 
Relations and for enabling the Secretary to coordinate and integrate 
activities of the Department in connection with foreign agricultural 
work, including the purchase of one passenger motor vehicle for 
replacement only, $575,000. 
OFFICE OF INFORMATION 
For necessary expenses in connection with the publication, indexing, 
illustration, and distribution of bulletins, documents, and reports, the 
preparation, distribution, and display of agricultural motion and 
sound pictures, and exhibits, and the coordination of informational 
work and programs authorized by Congress in the Department, 
$1,215,268, together with such amounts from other appropriations or 
authorizations as are provided in the schedules in the Budget for the 
current fiscal jeixr for such expenses, which seA^eral amounts not ex-
ceeding a total of $16,200, shall be transferred to and made a part of 
this appropriation, of which total appropriation amounts not exceed-
ing those specified may be used for the purposes enumerated as follows: 
For preparation and display of exhibits^, $104,725; for preparation, 
distribution, and display of motion and sound pictures, $75,600; for 
farmers' bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the 
people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion 
of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the 
addressed franks furnished by the Senators, Representatives, and 
Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct (7 U. S. C. 417) and not 
less than two hundred thirty thousand eight hundred and fifty copies 
for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives of part 2 of 
the annual report of the Secretary (known as the Yearbook of Agri-
culture), as authorized by section 73 of the Act of January 12, 1895 
65 
STAT.] 
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243 
28 Stat. 612. 
Transfer of funds. 
(44 U. S. C. 241), $611,128: Provided, That additional funds for 
preparation and display of agricultural motion pictures and exhibits 
relating to the programs of the various agencies of the Department 
authorized by Congress, not exceeding $150,000, may be transferred 
to and made a part of this appropriation, from the funds applicable, 
and shall be available for the objects specified herein: Promded 
fur-
ther, That in the preparation of motion pictures or exhibits by the 
Department, not exceeding a total of $10,000 may be used for employ-
ment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706 (a) of the Organic 
Act of 1944 (5 U. S. C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of 
August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a) : Provided further, That no part of 
this appropriation shall be used for the establishment or maintenance fiew'offlces. 
of regional or State field offices, or for the compensation of employees 
in such offices. 
LIBRARY 
For necessary expenses, including dues for library membership in 
societies or associations which issue publications to members only 
or at a price to members lower than to subscribers who are not 
members; $641,237. 
TITLE II—SPECIAL ACTIVITIES 
58 Stat. 742. 
60 Stat. 810. 
Regional or State' 
RESEARCH ON STRATEGIC AND CRITICAL AGRICULTURAL MATERIALS 
For expenses necessary to enable the Secretary to carry out his 
responsibilities under sectiton 7 (b) of the Strategic and Critical 
Materials Stock Piling Act of July 23,1946 (50 U. S. C. 98f), $550,000: 
Provided, That this appropriation shall be subject to applicable pro-
visions contained in the item "Office of Administrator, Agricultural 
Research Administration". 
60 Stat. .599. 
Eradication of Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Other Contagious Dis-
eases of Animals and Poultry, Agricultural Research Adminis-
tration 
For expenses necessary in the arrest and eradication of foot-and-
mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other con-
tagious or infectious diseases of animals, or European fowl pest and 
similar diseases in poultry, including the payment of claims growing 
out of past and future purchases and destruction of animals (includ-
ing poultry) affected by or exposed to, or of materials, contaminated 
by or exposed to, any such disease, wherever found a^d irrespective 
of ownership, under like or substantially similar circumstances, when 
such owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations; and 
for foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest programs undertaken 
pursuant to the provisions of the x\ct of February 28, 1947, and the 
Act of May 29,1884, as amended (7 U. S. C. 391; 21 U. S. C. 111-122), 
including expenses in accordance with section 2 of said Act of Febru-
ary 28, 1947, the Secretary may transfer from other appropriations 
or funds available to the bureaus, corporations, or agencies of the 
Department such sums as he may deem necessary, to be available 
only in an emergency which threatens the livestock or poultry indus-
try of the country, and any unexpended balances of funds transferred 
under this head in the next preceding fiscal year shall be merged with 
such transferred amounts: Provided, That, except for payments made 
pursuant to said Act of February 28, 1947, the payment for such 
animals hereafter purchased may be made on appraisement based on 
the meat, egg-production, dairy, or breeding value, but in case of 
Payment of claims. 
61 Stat. 7. 
21 U. S. 0. i 
IHd. 
23 Stat. 31. 
i 114b— 
Basis of appraisp-
mcnt. 
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[65 
STAT. 
Group appraisal for 
poultry. 
Ante, p. 226. 
6.3 Stat. 324. 
appraisement based on breeding value no appraisement of any such 
animal shall exceed three times its meat, egg-production, or dairy 
value, and, except in case of an extraordinary emergency, to be deter-
mined by the Secretary, the payment by the United States Government 
for any such animals shall not exceed one-half of any such appraise-
ments : Provided fiiirther, That poultry may be appraised in groups 
when the basis for appraisal is the same for each bird: 
Provided 
further^ That this appropriation shall be subject to applicable provi-
sions contained in the item "Office of Administrator, Agricultural 
Research Administration": Provided further^ That the Secretary of 
the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to discharge indebted-
ness of the Commodity Credit Corporation to the Secretary of the 
Treasury by canceling notes issued by the Corporation to the Secre-
tary of the Treasury in the amount of $32,700,000 for funds trans-
ferred and expenses incurred under this head through fiscal year 1950 
pursuant to authority granted in the Department of Agriculture 
Appropriation Act, 1950. 
INTERNATIONAL 
WHEAT 
AGREEMENT 
63 Stat. 94.5. 
To discharge indebtedness of the Commodity Credit Corporation 
to the Secretary of the Treasury for the net costs during the fiscal 
year 1950 under the International Wheat Agreement Act of 1949 
(7 U. S. C. 1641-1642), $76,808,000. 
TITLE III—CORPORATIONS 
59 Stat. 598. 
31 U. S. C. § : 
Administrative 
penses. 
Nonadministrative 
expenses. 
Discharge of indebt-
edness. 
52 Stat. 108. 
31 U. 8. C. 1665. 
The following corporations and agencies are hereby authorized to 
make such expenditures, within the limits of funds and borrowing 
authority available to each such corporation or agency and in accord 
with law, and to make such contracts and commitments without regard 
to fiscal year limitations as provided by section 104 of the Govern-
ment Corporation Control Act, as amended, as may be necessary in 
carrying out the programs set forth in the budget for the fiscal year 
1952 for such corporation or agency, except as hereinafter provided: 
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. 
Commodity Credit Corporation: Nothing in this Act shall be so 
construed as to prevent the Commodity Credit Corporation from car-
rying out any activity or any program authorized by law: Provided^ 
That not to exceed $16,500,000 (and the amount in the last proviso 
in this paragraph is increased to $2,500,000) shall be available for 
administrative expenses of the Corporation: Provided further^ That 
all necessary expenses (including legal and special services performed 
on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) 
in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improve-
ment, or disposition of any real or personal property belonging to the 
Corporation or in which it has an interest, including expenses of 
collections of pledged collateral, shall be considered as nonadminis-
trative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further^ That the 
Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to dis-
charge indebtedness of the Commodity Credit Corporation to the 
Secretary of the Treasury by canceling notes issued by the Corpora-
tion to the Secretary of the Treasury in the amount of the capital 
impairment determined by the appraisal of June 30, 1950 (but not to 
exceed $427,000,000), pursuant to sections 1 and 4 of the Act of March 
8, 1938, as amended (15 U. S. C. 7l3a-l, 4) : Provided further, That 
$1,000,000 of this appropriation shall be placed in reserve, to be appor-
tioned for use pursuant to section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as 
amended, only in such amounts and at such times as may become 
necessary due to the existence of substantial surpluses of the basic 
commodities requiring mandatory price support. 
65 
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PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
245 
Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation: Not to exceed $1,100,000 
(to be computed on an accrual basis) of the funds of the Corporation 
shall be available for administrative expenses, including employment 
on a contract or fee basis of persons, firms, and corporations for the 
performance of special services, including legal services, and the use 
of the services and facilities of Federal land banks, national farm 
loan associations, Federal Reserve banks, and agencies of the Govern-
ment as authorized by the Act of January 31, 1934 (12 U. S. C. 
1020-1020h) ; and said total sum shall be exclusive of services and 
facilities furnished and examinations made by the Farm Credit 
Administration central office, interest expense, and expenses in con-
nection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, 
protection, or disposition of real or personal property belonging to 
the Corporation or in which it has an interest: Provided^ That 
promptly after June 30 of each fiscal year all cash funds in excess of 
the estimated operating requirements for the current fiscal year shall 
be declared as dividends and paid into the general fund of the Treas-
ury : Provided further^ That the aggregate amount of bonds the Cor-
poration may issue and have outstanding at any one time shall not 
exceed $500,000,000. 
Federal intermediate credit banks: Not to exceed $1,496,000 (to be 
computed on an accrual basis) of the funds of the banks shall be 
available for administrative expenses and services performed for 
the banks by other Government agencies (except services and facilities 
furnished and examinations made by the Farm Credit Administration 
central office, and services performed by any Federal Reserve bank 
and by the United States Treasurj^ in connection with the financial 
transactions of the banks) ; and said total sum shall be exclusive of 
interest expense, legal and special services performed on a contract 
or fee basis, and expenses in connection with the acquisition, operation, 
maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of real or per-
sonal property belonging to the banks or in which they have an 
interest. 
Production credit cor[wrations: Not to exceed $1,358,000 (to be 
computed on an accrual basis) of the funds of the corporations shall 
be available for administrative expenses and services performed for 
the corporations by other Government agencies (except services and 
facilities furnished and examinations made by the Farm Credit 
Administration central office); and said total sum shall be exclusive of 
interest expense, legal and special services performed on a contract or 
fee basis, and expenses in connection with the acquisition, operation, 
maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of real or per-
sonal property belonging to the corporations or in which they have an 
interest. 
TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
48 Stat. 3.34. 
Dividends. 
Bonds. 
Administrative 
penses. 
SEC. 401. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, the lump-sum 
appropriations and authorizations made for the Department under 
this Act shall be available for the purchase, in addition to those spe-
cifically provided for, of not to exceed 350 passenger motor vehicles 
for replacement only, and for the hire of such vehicles, necessary in 
the conduct of the work of the Department outside the District of 
Columbia. 
SEC. 402. Provisions of law prohibiting or restricting the employ-
ment of aliens shall not apply to (1) the temporary employment of 
translators when competent citizen translators are not available; (2) 
employment in cases of emergency of persons in the field service of the 
Department for periods of not more than sixty days; and (3) employ-
ment under the appropriation for the Office of Foreign Agricultural 
Relations. 
Passenger motor 
vehicles. 
E m p l o y m e n t of 
aliens. 
246 
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[65 
STAT. 
Purchase of lands. 
Cotton-price predic-
tions. 
Purchase of twine. 
60 Stat. 1085. 
Emergency forest 
fire fighting, etc. 
Persons engaging, 
etc., in strikes against 
or advocating o v e r -
throw of U. S. Qov-
ernment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Emergency work. 
SEC. 40i>. Of appropriations herein made whicli are available for 
the purchase of lands, not to exceed $1 may be expended for each 
option to purchase any particular tract or tracts of land. 
SEC. 4{)4. No part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department 
who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or 
any division, commission, or bureau thereof, issues, or causes to be 
issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast, except as to damage 
threatened or caused by insects and pests, with respect to future prices 
of cotton or the trend of same. 
SEC. 405. Except to provide materials required in or incident to re-
search or experimental work where no suitable domestic product is 
available, no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
expended in the purchase of twine manufactured from commodities 
or materials produced outside of the United States. 
SEC. 406. Not less than $575,000 shall be available for contracts in 
accordance V7ith section 10 (a) of the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 
U. S. C. 427i) from appropriations herein made for the Bureau of 
Agricultural Economics; Bureau of Animal Industry; Bureau of 
Dairy Industry; Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural 
Engineering; Bureau ot Entomology and Plant Quarantine; Bureau 
of Agricultural and Industrial Chemistry; Bureau of Human Nutri-
tion and Home Economics; and the Forest Service. 
SEC. 407. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Depart-
ment is hereby authorized hereafter to employ or otherwise contract 
with persons at regular rates of pay for necessary hours of work for 
emergency forest fire fighting and pest control and for handling of 
animals, including dairy cattle, without regard to Sundays, Federal 
holidays, and the regular workweek. 
SEC. 408. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included in 
this Act, shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who 
engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or 
who is a member of an organization of Government employees that 
asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, 
or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, 
the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or 
violence: Provided^ That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be 
considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit 
has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike 
against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an 
organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike 
against the Government of the United States, or that such person 
does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that 
advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by 
force or violence: Provided further^ That any person who engages in 
a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a mem-
ber of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right 
to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the over-
throw of the Government of the United States by force or violence 
and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from 
any appropriation or fund contained in this Act shall be guilty of a 
felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or 
imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided 
further^ 
That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in 
substitution for, any other provisions of existing law: Provided 
fur-
ther, That nothing in this section shall be construed to require an 
affidavit from any person employed for less than sixty days for sud-
den emergency work involving the loss of human life or destruction 
65 STAT. 
PUBLIC LAW 135—AUG. 31, 1951 
247 
of property, the payment of salary or wages may be made to such 
persons from applicable appropriations for services rendered in such 
emergency without execution of the affidavit contemplated by this 
section. 
No part of any appropriation contained in this Act or of the funds 
available for expenditure by any corporation or agency included in 
this Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes to 
support or defeat legislation pending before the Congress. 
SEC. 409. No part of any appropriation or authorization contained 
in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any incumbent 
appointed to any civil office or position which may become vacant 
during the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 1951: Provided^ That this 
inhibition shall not apply— 
(a) to not to exceed 25 per centum of all vacancies; 
(b) to positions filled from within the department; 
(c) to offices or positions required by law to be filled by appoint-
ment of the President by and with the advice and consent of the 
Senate; 
(d) to seasonal and casual workers; 
(e) to meat inspectors; 
(f) to field employees of the Soil Conservation Service and 
Production and Marketing Administration who provide conser-
vation assistance to farmers and ranchers; 
(g) to field operating and research employees engaged in work 
of county offices and other field locations; 
(h) to employees of the crop and livestock reporting service: 
Provided further^ That with the exception of the agencies and func-
tions listed in (a) to (h) above, not more than 90 per centum of the 
amounts shown in the budget estimates for personal services shall be 
available for such purpose: Provided further^ That when the total 
number of personnel subject to this section has been reduced to 90 
per centum of the total provided for in the budget estimates for 1952, 
this section may cease to apply: Provided further^ That in addition 
to the funds otherwise allowed under this section, the following agen-
cies shall be allowed additional sums for personnel as follows: Com-
modity Exchange Authority, $58,928; Extension Service, salaries and 
expenses, $31,327; Office of the Secretary, $32,832; Office of Foreign 
Agricultural Relations, $26,946. 
SEC. 410. No part of any appropriation or authorization contained 
in this Act shall be used to pay the compensation of any employee 
engaged in personnel work in excess of the number that would be 
provided by a ratio of one such employee to one hundred and fifteen, 
or a part thereof, full-time, part-time, and intermittent employees 
of the Department and its instrumentalities, cooperators and collab-
orators receiving personnel services from the Department: Provided, 
That for purposes of this section employees shall be considered as 
engaged in personnel work if they spend half-time or more in personnel 
administration consisting of direction and administration of the 
personnel program; employment, placement, and separation; job 
evaluation and classification; employee relations and services; train-
ing; committees of expert examiners and boards of civil service 
examiners; wage administration; and processing, recording, and 
reporting: Provided further^ That nothing contained in this section 
shall be construed as permitting any increase whatever in personnel 
officers over and above the number otherwise provided for in this Act. 
SEC. 411. Except for the car officially assigned to the Secretary of 
Agriculture, no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used to pay the compensation of any civilian employee of the 
Government whose principal duties consist of acting as chauffeur of 
any Government-owned passenger motor vehicle (other than a bus or 
Publicity or propa-
ganda respecting legis-
lation. 
Restriction on a p-
pointnients. 
Nonapplicabilily. 
Additional sums for 
designated agencies. 
Employees engaged 
in personnel work. 
Chauffeurs. 
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[65 STAT. 
Informational and 
editorial functions. 
Nonapplicability. 
Short title. 
ambulance), unless such appropriation is specifically authorized to be 
used for paying the compensation of employees performing such 
duties. 
SEC. 412. No part of the money appropriated for the Department of 
Agriculture by this Act or made available for expenditure by any cor-
poration by this Act which is in excess of 75 per centum of the amount 
required to pay the compensation of all persons the budget estimates 
for personal services heretofore submitted to the Congress for the 
fiscal year 1952 contemplated would be employed by the Department 
of Agriculture or by such corporation, respectively, during such 
fiscal year in the performance of— 
(1) functions performed by a person designated as an informa-
tion specialist, information and editorial specialist, publications 
and information coordinator, press relations officer or counsel, 
photographer, radio expert, television expert, motion-picture ex-
pert, or publicity expert, or designated by any similar title, or 
(2) functions performed by persons who assist persons per-
forming the functions described in (1) in drafting, preparing, 
editing, typing, duplicating, or disseminating public informa-
tion publications or releases, radio or television scripts, maga-
zine articles, photographs, motion pictures, and similar material, 
shall be available to pay the compensation of persons performing the 
functions described in (1) or (2) : Provided, That this section shall 
not apply to personnel engaged in the preparation and distribution 
of technical agricultural publications and farmers bulletins, and the 
Agriculture Yearbook, the reporting and dissemination of the re-
sults of research and investigations, the preparation and broadcast-
ing of the "Farm and Home Hour" and similar radio programs, and 
other work required to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the 
Department imposed by law other than work intended primarily for 
press, radio and television services, and popular publications. 
SEC. 413. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Agriculture 
Appropriation Act, 1952". 
Approved August 31, 1951. 
Public Law 136 
CHAPTER 375 
AN ACT 
August 31, 1951 
[H. R. 3790] 
Making appropriations for ttie Department of the Interior for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1952, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States 
Interior Department of America in Congress assembled, 
Appropriation Act, 
19.52. 
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TITLE I—DEPARTMENT OF T H E INTERIOR 
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the Department of the 
Interior for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1952, namely: 
OFFICE OF T H E SECRETARY 
49 Stat. 30. 
ENFORCEMENT OF CONNALLY HOT OIL ACT 
For expenses necessary for controlling the interstate shipment of 
contraband oil as required by law (15 U. S. C. 715), including purchase 
of not to exceed three passenger motor vehicles for replacement only, 
$158,670, of which not to exceed $137,970 shall be available for per-
sonal services.