An Act to further amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and for other purposes
PL 84-279 (S.2297), enacted 08/09/1955

69 STAT.3 
PUBUC LAW 279-AUG. 9, 1955 
557 
ment of this Act is only discovered after such date of enactment to 
have been made contrary to such contractual provisions or to said 
clause (d). 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to amend any 
contract, which has been entered into prior to the date of enactment 
of this Act, to conform with the provisions of the first section of this 
Act. 
The consent of the United States is hereby given to the record-
ing, at the expense of the party benefited thereby, of any such amended 
contract and to the simultaneous discharge of record of the original 
contract. 
The consent of the United States is likewise given to the 
discharge of record, at the expense of the party benefited thereby, of 
any contract which the Secretary of the Interior or his duly author-
ized agent finds is rendered nugatory by the enactment of this Act. 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
Public Law 278 
CHAPTER 638 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of May 19, 1947 (ch. 80, 61 Stat. 102), as amended, so as to 
I)ermit per capita payments to the individual members of the Shoshone Tribe 
and the Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, to be 
made quarterly. 
August 9,1955 
[S. 2087] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress ossemMed^ That section 3 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the segregation and expendi-
ture of trust funds held in joint ownership by the Shoshone and 
Arapahoe Tribes of the Wind River Reservation" approved May 19, 
1947 (ch. 80, 61 Stat. 102), as amended, is hereby amended by striking 
the words "and the first day of March" wherever it appears therein, 
and inserting in lieu thereof "the first day of December, the first day 
of March, and the first day of June". 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
Sho s h o n e and 
Arapahoe Tribes. 
Per capita pay-
ments. 
25 u s e 613. 
Public Law 279 
CHAPTER 639 
AN ACT 
August 9, 1955 
To further amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, and for other 
[S. 2297] 
purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 312 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S. C. 
1312), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
SEC, 312. (a) The Secretary shall, not later than December 1 of 
any marketing year, proclaim a national marketing quota for any 
kind of tobacco for each of the next three succeeding marketing years 
whenever he determines with respect to such kind of tobacco— 
(1) that a national marketing quota has not previously been 
proclaimed and the total supply as of the beginning of such 
marketing year exceeds the reserve supply level therefor; 
(2) that such marketing year is the last year of three consecu-
tive years for which marketing quotas previously proclaimed will 
be in eif 
ect j 
(3) that amendments have been made in provisions for estab-
lishing farm acreage allotments which will cause material revi-
sion of such allotments before the end of the period for which 
quotas are in effect; or 
Tobacco market-
ing quotas. 
52 Stat. 46.