An Act to amend and extend the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, and for other purposes
PL 84-545 (H.R.7030), enacted 05/29/1956

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of title 18, United States C'ode, is amended by inserting after the 
word "escape" in line 2 thereof the phrase ", or attempt to escape,". 
Approved May 28, 1956. 
62 Stat. 735. 
Public Law 545 
CHAPTER 342 
AN ACT 
To amend and extend the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 101 
(d) of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, is amended to read as 
follows: 
"(d) The term 'raw sugar' means any sugars (exclusive of liquid 
sugar from foreign countries having liquid sugar quotas), whether or 
not principally of crystalline structure, which are to be further refined 
or improved in quality to produce any sugars principally of crystal-
line structure or liquid sugar." 
SEC. 2. Section 101 (e) of such Act is amended to read as follows: 
"(e) The term 'direct-consumption sugar' means any sugars princi-
pally of crystalline structure and any liquid sugar (exclusive of liquid 
sugar from foreign countries having liquid sugar quotas), which are 
not to be further refined or improved in quality." 
SEC. 3. Section 101 (i) of such Act is amended by deleting the 
parenthetical word "(Clerget)". 
SEC. 4. Section 101 of such Act is amended by adding at the end 
thereof a new paragraph to read as follows: 
"(n) The term 'to be further refined or improved in quality' means 
to be subjected substantially to the processes of (1) affination or 
defecation, (2) clarification, and (3) further purification by adsorp-
tion or crystallization. 
The Secretary is authorized, after such hear-
ing and upon such notice as he may by regulations prescribe, to de-
termine wnether specific processes to which sugars are subjected are 
sufficient to meet the requirements of this paragraph (n) and whether 
sugars of specific qualities are raw sugar within the meaning of para-
graph (d) of this section, or direct-consumption sugar within the 
meaning of paragraph (e) of this section." 
SEC. 5. Section 201 of such Act is amended by striking in the second 
sentence thereof the words "1947 prior to the termination of price 
control of sugar" and inserting in lieu thereof "1947-1949". 
SEC. 6. Section 202 (a) of such Act is amended to read as follows: 
"(a) (1) For domestic sugar-producing areas by apportioning 
among such areas four million four hundred and forty-four thousand 
short tons, raw value, as follows: 
Short tons, 
Area 
raw value 
Domestic beet sugar 
1, 800, 000 
Mainland cane sugar 
500, 000 
Hawaii 
1, 052, 000 
Puerto Rico 
1, 080, 000 
Virgin Islands 
12, 000 
"(2) To the above total of four million four hundred forty-four 
thousand short tons, raw value, there shall be added an amount e^ual 
to 55 per centum of the amount by which the Secretary's determina-
tion of requirements of consumers in the continental United States 
for the calendar year exceeds eight million three hundred and fifty 
thousand short tons, raw value. 
Such additional amount shall be ap-
portioned among and added to the quotas established under paragraph 
May 29. 1956 
[H. R. 7030] 
Sugar Act of 
1948f amendment a. 
61 Stat. 9221 
7 u s e 1100. 
Definitiona. 
Baae period. 
7 use n i l . 
P r o r a t i o n 
quota*. 
65 Stat. 318. 
7 u s e 1112. 
Domestic. 
of 
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(1) of this subsection for such domestic sugar-producing areas, re-
spectively, as follows: (A) The first one hundred sixty-five thousand 
short tons, raw value, or any part thereof, by which quotas for the 
domestic areas are so increased shall be apportioned 51.5 per centum 
to the domestic beet sugar area and 48.5 per centum to the mainland 
cane sugar area; (B) the next twenty thousand short tons, raw value, 
or any part thereof, by which such quotas are so increased shall be 
apportioned to Puerto Rico; (C) the next three thousand short tons, 
raw value, or any part thereof, by which such quotas are so increased 
shall be apportioned to the Vir^n Islands; (D) any additional amount 
shall be apportioned on the basis of the quotas established in paragraph 
(1) of this subsection as adjusted by subparagraphs (A), (B), and 
(C) of this paragraph (2)." 
7^scfVii2. 
^^^* '^' Section 202 (c) of such Act is amended by striking out 
"For" after "(c)" and inserting in lieu thereof "(1) For the calendar 
year 1956, for" and by adding at the end thereof the following new 
paragraphs: 
"(2) For the calendar year 1957 and for each subsequent calendar 
year, for foreign countries other than the Republic of the Philippines, 
(A) by prorating to Cuba 96 per centum and to other foreign coun-
tries 4 per centum of the amoimt of sugar, raw value, by which eight 
million three hundred and fifty thousand short tons, raw value, or such 
lesser amount as determined pursuant to section 201 exceeds the sum of 
four million four hundred and forty-four thousand short tons, raw 
value, and the quota established pursuant to subsection (b) of this 
section; and (B) by prorating 45 per centum of the amount of sugar, 
raw value, by which the amount determined pursuant to section 201 
exceeds the sum of eight million three hundred and fifty thousand 
short tons, raw value, as follows: 
Country 
Per centum 
Cuba 
29.59 
Peru 
4. 33 
Dominican Republic 
4.95 
Mexico 
5.10 
Other countries 
1.03 
45.00 
The above proration of 1.03 per centum to foreign countries other 
than Cuba, the Republic of the Philippines, Peru, the Dominican 
Republic, and Mexico shall be apportioned to such other countries 
whose average entries within the quotas during 1953 and 1954 exceeded 
one thousand short tons, raw value, on the basis of the average entries 
within the quotas from each such country for the years 1951, 1952, 
1953, and 1954. 
"(3) For the calendar year 1957 and for each subsequent calendar 
year, the proration of 4 per centum under paragraph (2) (A) of this 
subsection for foreign countries other than Cuba and the Republic 
of the Philippines shall be apportioned, first, by assigning to each such 
foreign country whose average entries within the quotas during the 
years 1953 and 1954 were less than one thousand short tons, raw value, 
a proration equal to its average entries within the quotas during 1953 
and 1954; second, by assigning to each such foreign country whose 
average entries within the quotas during 1953 and 1954 were not less 
than one thousand nor more than two thousand short tons, raw value, 
a proration of three thousand short tons, raw value; third, by assigning 
to each foreign country whose average entries within the quotas dur-
ing 1953 and 1954 were more than two thousand and less than three 
thousand short tons, raw value, a proration equal to the average entries 
from each such country within the quotas during 1953 and 1954, 
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plus two thousand short tons, raw vahie; fourth, by assigning to each 
foreign country whose average entries within the quotas during 1953 
and 1954 were not less than three thousand nor more than ten thousand 
short tons, raw value, a proration equal to the average entries from 
each such country within the quotas during 1953 and 1954; and, fifth, 
by prorating the balance of such proration to such foreign countries 
whose average entries within the quotas during 1953 and 1954 exceeded 
ten thousand short tons, raw value, on the basis of the average entries 
within the quotas from each such country for the years 1951, 1952, 
1953, and 1954. 
SEC. 8. Section 202 of such Act is amended by adding the following 
new subsection: 
"(e) Whenever in any year any foreign country with a quota or 
proration thereof of more than ten thousand short tons fails to fill 
such quota or proration by more than 10 per centum and at any time 
during such year the world price of sugar exceeds the domestic price, 
the quota or proration thereof for such country for subsequent years 
shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount by which such 
country failed to fill its quota or proration thereof, unless the Secre-
tary finds that such failure was due to crop disaster or force majeure 
or finds that such reduction would be contrary to the objectives of this 
Act. 
Any reduction hereunder shall be prorated in the same manner 
as deficits are prorated under section 204." 
SEC. 9. (a) The second sentence of section 204 (a) of such Act is 
amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof a colon 
and the following: Provided^ That any deficit in any domestic sugar-
producing area occurring by reason of inability to market that part 
of the quota for such area allotted under the provisions of section 202 
(a) (2) shall first be prorated to other domestic areas on the basis of 
the quotas then in effect". 
(b) The last paragraph of section 204 (a) of such Act is amended 
by inserting before the period at the end thereof a semicolon and the 
following: "except that in the case of proration of any such deficit in 
any domestic sugar-producing area occurring by reason of inability to 
market that part of the quota for such area allotted under and by 
reason of section 202 (a) (2), the Secretary shall apportion the 
unfilled amount on such basis and to such other domestic areas as he 
determines is required to fill such deficit, and if he finds that no 
domestic area will be able to supply such unfilled amount, he shall 
add it to the quota for Cuba". 
SEC. 10. Section 205 (a) of such Act is amended by inserting imme-
diately before the final sentence thereof the following: "In making 
such allotments, the Secretary may also take into consideration and 
make due allowance for the adverse effect of drought, storm, flood, 
freeze, disease, insects, or other similar abnormal and uncontrollable 
conditions seriously and broadly affecting any general area served by 
the factory or factories of such person.". 
SEC. 11. (a) Section 207 (a) of such Act is amended by adding 
after the word "year" the following: ", plus an amount equal to the 
same percentage of twenty-nine thousand six hundred and sixteen 
short tons, raw value, that the increase in the quota for Hawaii under 
section 202 is of one million fifty-two thousand short tons, raw value,". 
(b) Section 207 (b) of such Act is amended by striking the period 
at the end thereof and by adding the following: "which shall be princi-
pally of crystalline structure, plus an amount equal to the same per-
centage of one hundred twenty-six thousand and thirty-three ?hort 
tons, raw value, that the increase in the quota for Puerto Kico under 
section 202 is of one million eighty thousand short tons, raw value, 
65 Stau 318. 
7 u s e 1112. 
Pr o r a t i o n 
deficits. 
65 Stat. 319. 
7 u s e 1114. 
o f 
Allotments. 
61 Stat. 926. 
7 u s e 1115. 
Direct - consump-
tion sugar. 
Hawaii. 
7 u s e 1117. 
Puerto Rico. 
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65 SUt. 319* 
7 use 1111. 
7 use 1131. 
Dome Stic pro-
ducers. 
Conditional pay 
ments. 
7 u s e 1132. 
Forfeitures. 
61 Stat. 933. 
7 u s e 1155. 
Non 
applic 
ability 
of pen^ty. 
7 u s e 1157. 
7 u s e 1135. 
which latter amount may be filled by direct-consumption sugar 
whether or not principally of crystalline structure.". 
SEC. 12. Section 207 (h) of such Act is amended by striking out 
"The" after " ( h ) " and inserting in lieu thereof "(1) For the calendar 
year 1956, the" and by adding the following new paragraph: 
"(2) For the calendar year 1957 and each subsequent calendar year, 
the quota for foreign countries other than Cuba and the Republic of 
the Philippines may be filled by direct-consumption sugar to the extent 
of 1.36 per centum of the amount of sugar determined pursuant to 
section 201 less the sum of the quotas established in subsections (a) and 
(b) of section 202: Provided, That such limitation shall not apply to 
countries receiving prorations under section 202 (c) of seven thousand 
short tons or less. The direct-consumption portion of such quota 
which is subject to the 1.36 per centum limitation referred to above 
shall be prorated to countries which receive prorations under section 
202 (c) of more than seven thousand short tons on the basis of average 
imports of direct-consumption sugar within the quota for the years 
1951,1952, 1953, and 1954." 
SEC. 13. Section 301 (b) of such Act is amended by inserting after 
the words " (or processed)" the following: ", except for livestock feed, 
or for the production of livestock feed, as determined by the Secre-
tary,". 
SEC. 14. Section 302 (b) of such Act is amended by inserting after 
"(or processed)" the words "within the proj)ortionate share" and by 
striking the period at the end thereof and inserting the following: 
"and of the producers in any local producing area whose past pro-
duction has been adversely, seriously, and generally affected by 
drought, storm, flood, freeze, disease, insects, or other similar abnormal 
and uncontrollable conditions. 
For the purposes of establishing pro-
portionate shares hereunder and in order to encourage wise use of 
land resources, foster greater diversification of agricultural produc-
tion, and promote the conservation of soil and water resources in 
Puerto Rico, the Secretary, on application of any owner of a farm 
in Puerto Rico, is hereby authorized, whenever he determines it to be 
in the public interest and to facilitate the sale or rental of land for 
other productive purposes, to transfer the sugarcane production rec-
ord for any parcel or parcels of land in Puerto Rico owned by the 
applicant to any other parcel or parcels of land owned by such appli-
cant in Puerto Rico.". 
SEC. 15. Section 405 of such Act is amended by inserting " ( a ) " at 
the beginning thereof, by striking out " ( a ) " and "(b)" and inserting 
in lieu thereof "(1)" and "(2)", respectively, and by adding the fol-
lowing new subsection: 
" (b) Any person whose sugar processing operations otherwise meet 
the requirements of section 101 (n) and who subjects to such processes 
sugar imported or brought into the continental United States under a 
declaration that it is raw sugar but which sugar subsequently is de-
termined to be of direct-consumption quality, shall forfeit to the 
United States a sum equal to 1 cent per pound for each pound, raw 
value, of such sugar in excess of that part of the direct-consumption 
portion of the applicable quota or proration or allotment thereof 
remaining unfilled at the time of such determination, which forfeiture 
shall be recoverable in a civil suit brought in the name of the United 
States." 
SEO. 16, Section 407 of such Act is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following sentence: "The provisions of this section shall 
not apply to persons whose services are obtained pursuant to section 
305.". 
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SEC. 17. Section 411 of such Act is renumbered as section 412, sec-
tion 412 of such Act is renumbered as section 413, and a new section 
411 inserted as follows: 
"SEC. 411. The Secretary is authorized to issue such regulations as 
may be necessary to carry out article 7 of the International Sugar 
Agreement for the Kegulation of the Production and Marketing of 
Sugar (ratified by and with the advice and consent of the United 
States Senate on April 29, 1954), restricting importations of sugar 
into the United States from foreign countries not participating in 
such agreement, or to carry out the corresponding provisions of any 
such future agreements ratified by and with the advice and consent of 
the United States Senate." 
SEC. 18. Eenumbered section 412 of such Act (relating to termi-
nation of the powers of the Secretary under the Act) is amended by 
striking out "1956" in each place it appears therein and inserting in 
lieu thereof "1960". 
SEC. 19. Sections 4501 (c) and 6412 (d) (relatingto the termination 
of taxes on sugar) of the Internal Eevenue Code of 1954 are amended 
by striking out "1957" in each place it appears therein and inserting 
in lieu thereof "1961". 
SEC. 20. Section 4502 (4), chapter 37, subchapter A, "Sugar", of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 is amended as follows: Strike out 
the parenthetical word "(Clerget)" where it occurs in the first sen-
tence and delete the second sentence thereof. 
SEC. 21. (a) Section 4504, chapter 37, subchapter A, "Sugar", of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 is amended by adding before the 
period at the end thereof the following: ", and except that such tax 
may be subject to refunds as a tax under the provisions of section 
&il8 (a)". 
(b) Section 6418 (a) of chapter 65 of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1954 is amended by striking out the " ( a ) " immediately following 
"section 4501". 
SEC. 22. Except as otherwise provided, the amendments made 
hereby shall become effective as of January 1, 1956, except that sec-
tions 1 through 4 shall become effective upon publication in the Fed-
eral Register of regulations implementing such sections, or six months 
after the date of enactment of this Act, whichever is earlier. 
Approved May 29, 1956. 
7 u s e llOlnc'te. 
Regulations. 
TIAS 3177. 
7 u s e 1101 note. 
Termination. 
Taxes. 
6 6 A S t a t . <I33« 
795. 
2 6 u s e 
4 5 0 1, 
6412. 
26 u s e 450 Z, 
26 u s e 4504.. 
26 u s e 641&. 
Effective dates. 
P u b l i c a t i o n in 
FR. 
Public Law 546 
CHAPTER 343 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to contract with tlie Middle Rio 
Grande Conservancy District of New Mexico for the payment of operation and 
maintenance charges on certain Pueblo Indian lands. 
May 29, 1956 
[H. R. 9207] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representath}eH of the 
United States of Amenca in Congress assembled, That the provisions 
of the Act of August 27, 1935 (49 Stat. 887), as amended by section 
5 of the Act of June 20,1938 (52 Stat. 779), and by the Act of April 
24, 1946 (60 Stat. 121), authorizing the Secretary of the Interior to 
provide by agreement with the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy Dis-
trict, a subdivision of the State of New Mexico, for the payment of 
operation and maintenance charges on newly reclaimed Pueblo Indian 
lands and lands purchased by the United States by virtue of the Act 
of June 7,1924 (43 Stat. 636), as amended, for certain Pueblo Indians, 
are hereby extended for an additional period of ten years to 1965. 
Approved May 29, 1956. 
Pu e b 1 o 
lands. 
Indian