Joint resolution designating the week of August 1, 1971, as ""American Trial Lawyers Week""
PL 92-61 (H.J.Res.714), enacted 07/30/1971

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PUBLIC LAW 92-62-AUG. 3, 1971 
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(5) Administration and coordination, not more than $2,540,000. 
Expenditures and obligations under paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4) 
of this subsection may be increased by not more than 10 per centum, 
and expenditures and obligations under paragraph (5) may be 
increased by not more than 2 per centum, if any such increase under 
any paragraph is accompanied by an equal decrease in expenditures 
and obligations under one or more of the other paragraphs. 
(b) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums, to remain 
available until expended, as may be specified in annual appropriation 
authorization Acts to carry out the provisions of this Act during the 
fiscal years 1973 to 1977, inclusive, and to finance, for not more than 
three years beyond the end of said period, such grants, contracts, coop-
erative agreements, and studies as may theretofore have been under-
taken pursuant to this Act and such activities as are required to 
correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research 
undertaken pursuant to this Act. 
(c) Not more than 2 per centum of the funds to be made available search^fundV 
in any fiscal year for research under the authority of this Act may be 
expended, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure 
that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives 
of the United States, in cooperation with public or private agencies in 
foreign countries for research useful to the program in the United 
States. 
SEC. 11. The Act of July 3, 1952 (66 Stat. 328), as amended, is 
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repealed. 
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Approved July 29, 1971. 
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Public Law 92-61 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
juiy3 0.i97i 
Designating the week of August 1, 1971, as "American Trial Lawyers Week", 
[H. J. Res. 7i4] 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That iho, week commencing Lav^er's" w^eJk!^^ 
August 1, 1971, be designated as American Trial Lawyers Week, a 
Designation' 
week to honor the American Trial Lawyers Association on the occa- authorization. 
sion of its twenty-fifth anniversary, and to renew the commitment of 
each American to support the efforts of the American Trial Lawyers 
Association in enhancing the administration of justice for the public 
good, and to this end, we request the President of the United States 
to direct the appropriate Government officials to display the flag of 
the United States on all public buildings on August 2, 1971. 
Approved July 30, 1971. 
Public Law 92-62 
AN ACT 
August 3,1971 
To amend the peanut marketing quota provisions of the Agricniltural Adjustment 
[H. R. 6217] 
Act of 1938. 
Peanuts. 
Marketing quotai 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America m Congress assembled^ That section 358(c) 
(1) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is 
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amended by striking out in the last sentence thereof the language ", less 
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the acreage to be allotted to new farms under subsection (f) of this 
section,". 
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PUBLIC LAW 92-63-AUG. 4, 1971 
[85 STAT. 
Acreage allot-
ment. 
55 Stat. 88; 
65 Stat. 30. 
7 u s e 1358. 
SEC. 2. Section 358(d) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended, is amended by changing the first sentence thereof to read 
as follows: "The Secretary shall provide for the apportionment of the 
State acreage allotment for any State^ less the acreage to be allotted to 
new farms under subsection (f) of this section, through local commit-
tees among farms on which peanuts were grown in any of the three 
years immediately preceding the year for which such allotment is 
determined." 
SEC. 3. Section 358 (f) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended, is amended to read as follows: "Not more than 1 per 
centum of the State acreage allotment shall be apportioned among 
farms in the State 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 bjr the producers; 
land, labor, and equipment available for the production of peanuts; 
crop-rotation practices; and soil and other physical factors affecting 
the production of peanuts." 
Approved August 3, 1971. 
August 4,1971 
[S. 699] 
Public Law 92-63 
AN ACT 
To require a radiotelephone on certain vessels while navigating upon specified 
waters of the United States. 
Vessel Bridge-
to-Bridge Radio-
telephone Act. 
Definitions, 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
be cited as the "Vessel Bridge-to-Bridge Radiotelephone Act". 
SEC. 2. It is the purpose of this Act to provide a positive means 
whereby the operators of approaching vessels can communicate their 
intentions to one another through voice radio, located convenient to 
the operator's navigation station. To effectively accomplish this, there 
is need for a specific frequency or frequencies dedicated to the exchange 
of navigational information, on navigable waters of the United States. 
SEC. 3. For the purpose of this Act— 
(1) "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Department in 
which the Coast Guard is operating; 
(2) "power-driven vessel" means any vessel propelled by 
machinery; and 
(3) "towing vessel" means any commercial vessel engaged in 
towing another vessel astern, alongside, or by pushing ahead. 
SEC. 4. (a) Except as provided in section 7 of this Act— 
(1) every power-driven vessel of three hundred gross tons and 
upward while navigating; 
(2) every vessel of one hundred gross tons and upward carrying 
one or more passengers for hire while navigating; 
(3) every towing vessel of twenty-six feet or over in length 
while navigating; and 
(4) every dredge and floating plant engaged in or near a chan-
nel or fairway in operations likely to restrict or affect navigation 
of other vessels— 
shall have a radiotelephone capable of operation from its navigational 
bridge or, in the case of a dredge, from its main control station and 
capable of transmitting and receiving on the frequency or frequencies 
within the 156-162 Mega-Hertz band using the classes of emissions