An Act to adjust the amount of funds available for farm operating loans made pursuant to section 21(b) of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended
PL 87-8 (H.R.1822), enacted 03/29/1961

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PUBLIC LAW 87-8-MAR. 29, 1961 
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Appropriixtion. 
not be made with respect to any individual for any day of unemploy-
ment to the extent that such payment, when added to the sum of the 
benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act and under 
this Act paid such individual with respect to prior days in the benefit 
year, would exceed one hundred and ninety-five times such individual's 
daily benefit rate for such benefit year. 
An employee who has filed, 
and established, a first claim for benefits under the provisions of the 
Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1961, may 
not thereafter establish a claim under this section, and an employee 
who has registered for, and established, a claim under this section may 
not thereafter establish a claim under the provisions of the Temporary 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1961. Except to the 
extent inconsistent with this section, the provisions of the Railroad 
Unemployment Insurance Act shall be applicable in the administration 
of this section. 
SEC. 3. The Secretary of Labor, upon request, shall furnish the b(fr*"n d
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Railroad Retirement Board information deemed necessary by such |*ch^*r*of^brfw^ 
Board for the administration of section 2 hereof, and such Board, mation. 
upon request, shall furnish the Secretary of Labor information deemed 
necessary by the Secretary for the administration of the Temporary 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1961. 
SEC. 4. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the rail-
road unemployment insurance account, without fiscal year limitation, 
such amounts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this 
Act. 
The amounts so appropriated shall be transferred from time 
to time to the railroad unemployment insurance account on the basis 
of estimates by the Secretary of the Treasury after consultation with 
the Railroad Retirement Board of the amounts required from time 
to time to carry out the provisions of this Act. Amounts so trans-
ferred shall be repayable advances without interest. 
Such repayable 
advances shall be repaid by transfers, from the railroad unemploy-
ment insurance account to the general fund of the Treasury, at such 
times as the amoimt in the railroad unemployment insurance account 
derived from the increased contributions provided for in section 5 of 
this Act is determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consulta-
tion with the Railroad Retirement Board, to be adequate for such 
purpose. 
SEC. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 8(a)2 of the 
Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, the rate of contribution re-
quired to be paid under the Railroad Unemplovment Insurance Act 
by every employer as defined in such Act shall oe 4 per centum with 
respect to compensation as defined in such Act, paid after December 31, 
1961, and before January 1,1964. 
Approved March 24, 1961. 
Contribution rate. 
Increase. 
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Public Law 87-8 
AN ACT 
To adjust the amount of funds available for farm operating loans made 
pursuant to section 21(b) of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as 
amended. 
March 29, 1961 
[H. R. 11822] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the second 
BanWiead-j«3ne« 
sentence of section 21(b) of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant It^dmentT *'*' 
Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1007(b)), is amended by striking the 
7o stat. 802. 
words "10 per centum" and by inserting in lieu thereof the words 
"25 per centum". 
Approved March 29, 1961.