An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended
PL 82-17 (H.R.2615), enacted 04/12/1951

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persons entitled to file claims under the provisions of this Act admin-
istered by the Commission of their rights under such provisions, and 
to assist them in the preparation and filing of their claims." 
Approved April 5, 1951. 
Public Law 17 
CHAPTER 28 
AN ACT 
April 12, 1951 
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended. 
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Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of Amterica in Congress assembled, That section 358 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended 
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to read as follows: 
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1. Subsection (c) is amended to read as follows: 
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"(c) (1) The national acreage allotment for 1951, less the acreage 
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to be allotted to new farms under subsection (f) of this section, shall mraits. 
be apportioned among the States on the basis of the larger of the 
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following for each State: (a) The acreage allotted to the State as 
its share of the 1950 national acreage allotment of two million one 
hundred thousand acres, or (b) the State's share of two million one 
hundred thousand acres apportioned to States on the basis of the 
average acreage harvested for nuts in each State in the five years 
1945-1949: Provided, That any allotment so determined for any State 
which is less than the 1951 State allotment announced by the Secretary 
prior to the enactment of this Act shall be increased to such announced 
allotment and the acreage required for such increases shall be in addi-
tion to the 1951 national acreage allotment and shall be considered in 
determining State acreage allotments in future years. For any year 
subsequent to 1951, the national acreage allotment for that year, less 
the acreage to be allotted to new farms under subsection (f) of this 
section, shall be apportioned among the States on the basis of their 
share of the national acreage allotment for the most recent year in 
which such apportionment was made. 
"(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the Secretary 
of Agriculture determines, on the basis of the average yield per acre 
of peanuts by types during the preceding five years, adjusted for trends 
in yields and abnormal conditions of production affecting yields in 
such five years, that the supply of any type or types of peanuts for any 
marketing year, beginning with the 1951-1952 marketing year, will 
be insufficient to meet the estimated demand for cleaning and shelling 
purposes at prices at which the Commodity Credit Corporation may 
sell for such purposes peanuts owned or controlled by it, the State 
allotments for those States producing such type or types of peanuts 
shall be increased to the extent determined by the Secretary to be 
required to meet such demand but the allotment for any State may 
not be increased under this provision above the 1947 harvested acreage 
of peanuts for such State. The total increase so determined shall be 
apportioned among such States for distribution among farms produc-
ing peanuts of such type or types on the basis of the average acreage 
of peanuts of such type or types in the tliree years immediately pre-
ceding the year for which the allotments are being determined. The 
additional acreage so required shall be in addition to the national 
acreage allotment, the production from such acreage shall be in addi-
tion to the national marketing quota, and the increase in acreage 
allotted under this provision shall not be considered in establishing 
future State, county, or farm acreage allotments." 
2. Subsection (d) is amended by changing the second sentence 
to read as follows: 
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Farm acreage allot-
ments. 
County acreage al-
lotment. 
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Ante, p. 29. 
"New" farms. 
Reapportionment 
to other farms. 
Allotments for dis-
placed farm owners. 
"(d) The state acreage allotment for 1952 and any subsequent 
year shall be apportioned among farms on which peanuts were pro-
duced in any one of the three calendar years immediately preceding 
the year for which such apportionment is made, on the basis of the 
following: Past acreage of peanuts, taking into consideration the 
acreage allotments previously established for the farm; abnormal 
conditions affecting acreage; land, labor, and equipment available 
for the production of peanuts; crop-rotation practices; and soil and 
other physical factors affecting the production of peanuts." 
3. Add new subsections (e), (f), (g), and (h) as follows: 
"(e) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section, the 
Secretary may, if the State committee recommends such action and 
the Secretary determines that such action will facilitate the effective 
administration of the provisions of the Act, provide for the appor-
tionment of the State acreage allotment for 1952 and any subsequent 
year among the counties in the State on the basis of the past acreage 
of peanuts harvested for nuts (excluding acreage in excess of farm 
allotments) in the county during the five years immediately preceding 
the year in which such apportionment is made, with such adjust-
ments as are deemed necessary for abnormal conditions affecting 
acreage, for trends in acreage, and for additional allotments for types 
of peanuts in short supply under the provisions of subsection (c). 
The county acreage allotment shall be apportioned among farms on 
the basis of the factors set forth in subsection (d) of this section. 
"(f) Not more than one per centum of the national acreage allot-
ment shall be apportioned among farms on which peanuts are to be 
produced during the calendar year for which the allotment is made 
but on which peanuts were not produced during any one of the past 
three years, on the basis of the following: Past peanut-producing 
experience by the producers; land, labor, and equipment available 
for the production of peanuts; crop-rotation practices; and soil and 
other physieal factors affecting the production of peanuts. 
"(g) Any part of the acreage allotted to individual farms under 
the provisions of this section on which peanuts will not be produced 
and which is voluntarily surrendered to the county committee shall 
be deducted from the allotments to such farms and may be reappor-
tioned by the county committee to other farms in the same county 
receiving allotments, in amounts determined by the county committee 
to be fair and reasonable on the basis of land, labor, and equipment 
available for the production of peanuts, crop-rotation practices, and 
soil and other physical factors affecting the production of peanuts. 
Any transfer of allotments under this provision shall not operate 
to reduce the allotment for any subsequent year for the farm from 
which acreage is transferred, except as the farm becomes ineligible 
for an allotment by failure to produce peanuts during a three-year 
period, and any such transfer shall not operate to increase the allot-
ment for any subsequent year for the farm to which the acreage is 
transferred: Provided, 
That, notwithstanding any other provisions 
of this Act, any part of any farm acreage allotment may be perma-
nently released in writing to the county committee by the owner and 
operator of the farm, and reapportioned as provided herein. 
" (h) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the allot-
ment determined or which would have been determined for any 
land which is removed from agricultural production in 1950 or any 
subsequent year for any purpose because of acquisition by any Fed-
eral, State, or other agency having a right of eminent domain shall 
be placed in a pool and shall be available for use in providing equita-
ble allotments for farms ow^ned or acquired by owners displaced 
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Eestriction. 
Nonapplicability. 
because of acquisition of their farms by such agencies. Upon appli-
cation to the county committee, within five years from the date of 
such acquisition of the farm, any owner so displaced shall be entitled 
to have an allotment for any other farm owned or acquired by him 
equal to an allotment which would have been determined for such 
other farm plus the allotment which would have been determined 
for the farm so acquired: Provided^ That such allotment shall not 
exceed 50 per centum of the acreage of cropland on the farm. 
"The provisions of this section shall not be applicable if (a) there is 
any marketing quota penalty due with respect to the marketing of 
peanuts from the farm acquired by the Federal, State, or other agency 
or by the owner of the farm; (b) any peanuts produced on such farm 
have not been accounted for as required by the Secretary; or (c) the 
allotment next established for the farm acquired by the Federal, State, 
or other agency would have been reduced because of false or improper 
identification of peanuts produced on or marketed from such farm." 
SEO. 2. Section 359 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended, is amended as follows: 
1. Subsection (a) is amended by adding at the end thereof a new 
sentence as follows: "Notwithstanding any other provisions of this 
title, no refund of any penalty shall be made because of peanuts kept 
on the farm for seed or for home consumption." 
2. Subsection (g) is amended by (1) adding after "1947" in the 
first sentence the words "or 1948, if no peanuts were harvested on the § i359'(g'). 
farm in 1947", (2) striking out after the word "That," where it first 
appears in the proviso, the following words: "for the 1950 crop", and 
(3) by inserting the following new sentences after the fifth sentence: 
"As an alternative to designated agencies paying the prevailing dil 
value for such excess peanuts of any type in insufficient supply and 
the subsequent distribution of sales proceeds therefrom in accordance 
with the foregoing provisions of this subsection, the Secretary may 
also authorize peanut buyers approved pursuant to regulations of the 
Secretary to purchase such peanuts from producers at prices not less 
than those at which such peanuts may be sold for cleaning and shelling 
by the Commodity Credit Corporation. 
In the event of such author-
ization by the Secretary, producers shall have the option of either 
delivering such peanuts to designated agencies or selling such peanuts 
to approved peanut buyers, and such sales to approved buyers shall 
have the same effect, with respect to avoidance of the marketing 
penalty and classification of producers as cooperators, as deliveries 
to designated agencies." 
SEC. 3. The first sentence of section 363 of the Agricultural Adjust-
ment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "Any Sup.'i'vr'§§l363 note; 
farmer who is dissatisfied with his farm marketing quota may, within 
fifteen days-after mailing to him of notice as provided in section 362, 
have such quota reviewed by a local review committee composed of 
three farmers from the same or nearby counties appointed by the 
Secretary." 
Approved April 12, 1951. 
55 Stat. 90. 
7 U. S. C , Sup. IV„ 
§ 135S. 
64 Stat. 42. 
7 U. S. C , Sup. IV, 
Excess peanuts. 
52 Stat. 63, 62. 
7 U. S. C. § 1363; 
Public Law 18 
CHAPTER 29 
AN ACT 
To authorize the printing: of tl)e annual reports of tlie Girl Scouts of the United 
States of America as separate House document.s. 
April 16, 1961 
[H. B. 3020] 
Be it enacted hy the SenMe and Home of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the annual 
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Report.