An Act to direct the Secretary of the Army to reestablish and correct the boundaries of the Quincy National Cemetery by the exchange of Government owned lands in the Quincy-Graceland Cemetery, Quincy, Illinois
PL 83-116 (H.R.3411), enacted 07/14/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 116-JULY 14, 1953 
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64 Stat. 1109. 
stock industry. The committee shall perform such additional func-
tions under this Act, including general direction of the servicing of 
the loans, as the Secretary may prescribe. The members shall serve 
at such compensation as the Secretary shall determine not exceeding 
$25 for each day spent on the work of the committee and shall be 
entitled to receive transportation costs and per diem in accordance 
with standard Government travel regulations. 
"EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE IN FURNISHING FEED AND SEED 
"(d) The Secretary is authorized in connection with any major dis-
aster determined by tne President to warrant assistance by the Federal 
Government under Public Law 875, Eighty-first Congress (42 U. S. C. 
1855), as amended, to furnish to established farmers, ranchers, or 
stockmen feed for livestock or seeds for planting for such period or 
periods of time and under such terms and conditions as the Secretary 
may determine to be required by the nature and effect of the disaster. 
The Secretary may utilize the personnel, facilities, property, and 
funds of any agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, 
including Commodity Credit Corporation, for carrying out these func-
tions and shall reimburse the agencies so utilized for the value of any 
commodities furnished which are not paid for by the farmers or ranch-
men, and for costs and administrative expenses necessary in performing 
such functions." 
AMENDMENTS TO EXISTING PROVISIONS 
(B) The last sentence of subsection (a) is designated as subsection 
(e) and a comma and the word "reimbursement", shall be inserted 
after the word "loans" where it first appears in said subsection. 
(C) The letter " ( a ) " in the last clause of subsection (b) is deleted, 
the subsection is redesignated as subsection (f), and there shall be 
Appropriations, 
added at the end thereof the following new sentence: "There is hereby 
authorized to be appropriated to the revolving fund such additional 
sums as the Congress shall from time to time determine." 
Loan security. 
SEO. 2. Loans undcT tliis Act shall be secured by the personal obli-
gation and available security of the producer or producers, and in the 
case of loans to corporations or other business organizations, by the 
personal obligation and available security of each person holding as 
much as 10 per centum of the stock or other interest in the corporation 
or organization. 
Approved July 14, 1953. 
[alyl4. 1953 
[H. R. 3411] 
Public Law 116 
CHAPTER 193 
AN ACT 
To direct the Secretary of the Army to reestablish and correct the boundaries 
of the Qiiincy National Cemetery by the exchange of Government-owned lands 
in the Quincy-Graceland Cemetery. Quincy, Illinois. 
Quincy National 
Cemetery, HI. 
Boundaries. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the purpose 
of reestablishing and correcting the boundaries of the Quincy Na-
tional Cemetery, Quincy, Illinois, the Secretary of the Army is 
directed to convey to the Quincy-Graceland Cemetery Association 
all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to those parcels 
of land acquired by deed dated October 25, 1899, from the Quincy 
Cemetery Association, which lie outside the fenced area of the Quincy 
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National Cemetery, and to accept in exchange for said lands a con-
veyance by the Quincy-Graceland Cemetery Association of lands 
owned by said association which are located within the fenced area of 
said Quincy National Cemetery, and such lands of the Quincy-Grace-
land Cemetery Association lying between the southern boundary fence 
of said national cemetery and Emerj'^ Creek, all as set out on map 
designated as "Plat of Survey of a tract of land in the northwest 
quarter of section 5, township 2 south, range 8 west, of the fourth 
principal meridian, known as the Quincy National Cemetery, and 
located near Quincy, in Adams County, Illinois", dated August 1949, 
on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army. 
Approved July 14, 1953. 
Public Law 117 
CHAPTER 194 
AN ACT 
To Huiend the wheat marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment 
Act of 1938,. as amended, and for other purposes. 
July 14, 1953 
[H. R. 5451] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 334 of 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended as 
follows: 
(a) By inserting in subsection (a) after the words "The national 
acreage allotment for wheat" the language ", less a reserve of not to 
exceed one per centum thereof for apportionment as provided in this 
subsection,". 
(b) By adding at the end of subsection (a) a new sentence to read 
as follows: "The reserve acreage set aside herein for apportionment 
by the Secretary shall be used to make allotments to counties, in addi-
tion to the county allotments made under subsection (b) of this 
section, on the basis of the relative needs of counties for additional 
allotment because of reclamation and other new areas coming into 
the production of wheat during the ten calendar years ending with 
the calendar year in which the national acreage allotment is 
proclaimed. 
(c) By inserting in subsection (b) after the words "The State 
acreage allotment for wheat" the language ", less a reserve of not to 
exceed 3 per centum thereof for apportionment as provided in sub-
section (c) of this section,". 
(d) By inserting in the first sentence of subsection (c) after the 
words "on the basis of" the language "past acreage of wheat,". 
(e) By striking out in the second sentence of subsection (c) the 
words "such county" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "the 
State". 
(f) By striking out in subsection (d) the figure "1940" and inserting 
in lieu thereof the figtire "1950", 
SEC. 2. Section 339 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended (53 Stat. 65), is repealed. 
SEC. 3. Puolic Law 74, Seventy-seventh Congress (55 Stat. 203), 
as amended, is amended by striking out in the second sentence of para-
graph (2) the language "shall be 50 per centum of the basic rate of 
the loan on the commodity for cooperators for such marketing year 
under section 302 of the Act and this resolution." and inserting in 
lieu thereof the language "on wheat shall be 45 per centum of the 
parity price per bushel of wheat as of May 1 of the calendar year in 
which the crop is harvested.^. 
Wheat. 
M a r k e t i n g 
quotas. 
52 Stat. 53; 56 
Stat. 52. 
7 u s e 1334. 
Re serve acreage. 
National. 
State. 
52 Stat. 55. 
7 u s e 1339. 
7 U S e 
1 3 3 0 , 
1340. 
Marketing p e n-
alty. 
7 u s e 1302.