An Act to furnish emergency food aid to India
PL 82-48 (S.872), enacted 06/15/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 48—JUNE 15, 1951 
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payment, the United States may bring an action in the nature of a 
bill of interpleader against such parties, in the United States District 
Court for the District of Columbia, or in the United States district 
court of the district in which any such person resides. In such actions 
any party, if not a resident of or found within the district, may be 
brought in by order of court served in such reasonable manner as the 
court directs. If the court is satisfied that persons unknown might 
assert a claim on account of such insurance, it may direct service upon 
such persons unknown by publication in the Federal Register. Judg-
ment in any such suit shall discharge the United States from further 
liability to any parties to such action, and to all persons when service 
by publication upon persons unknown is directed by the court. 
The 
period within which suits may be commenced contained in said Act 
providing for bringing of suits against the United States shall, if 
claim be filed therefor within such period, be suspended from such 
time of filing until the claim shall have been administratively denied 
by the Secretary and for sixty days thereafter: Provided^ however^ 
That such claim shall be deemed to have been administratively denied 
if not acted upon within six months after the time of filing, unless 
the Secretary for good cause shown shall have otherwise agreed with 
the claimant. 
" S E C 1311. A person having an insurable interest in an aircraft may, 
with the approval of the Secretary, insure with other underwriters in 
an amount in excess of the amount insured with the Secretary, and, in 
that event, the Secretary shall not be entitled to the benefit of such 
insurance, but nothing in this section shall prevent the Secretary from 
entering into contracts of coinsurance. 
"SEO. 1312. The authority of the Secretary to provide insurance and 
reinsurance under this title shall expire five years from the date of 
enactment of this title." 
SEC. 2. Section 1 of the Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938, as amended, 
is hereby amended as follows: 
(1) Paragraph (20) (a) of such section is amended by striking out 
"(except the Philippine Islands)". 
(2) Paragraph (21) (a) of such section is amended by striking 
out "(except the Philippine Islands)". 
(3) Paragraph (29) of such section is amended by striking out 
"(c) the Philippine Islands, except that the operation of civil aircraft 
within the jurisdiction of the Philippine Islands shall be governed by 
laws enacted by the legislature of the islands and by executive regula-
tions designating air-space reservations or other prohibited areas; and 
(d)" and inserting in lien thereof "and (c)". 
Approved June 14, 1951. 
I n s u r a n c e w i t h 
other underwriters. 
Expiration of au-
thority. 
52 Stat. 977. 
49U. S. C. §401. 
Public Law 48 
CHAPTER 138 
AN ACT 
To furnish eiiier<i;ency food aid to India. 
June 15,1951 
[S. 872] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United of America in Congress a^seinhled^ That this Act may be cited 
as the "India Emergency Food Aid Act of 1951"'. 
SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Admin-
istrator for Pk'onomic Cooperation is authorized and directed to pro-
vide emergency food relief assistance to India on credit terms as 
India Emergency 
Food Aid Act 011961. 
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STAT. 
62 Stat. 146. 
22 U. S. C. § 1509. 
Funds available to 
President. 
64 Stat. 757. 
62 Stat. 137. 
22 U. S. C. § 150 
note. 
Issuance of notes by 
Administrator. 
40 Stat. 288. 
31U.S.C. §774(2). 
64 Stat. 768. 
Restriction on use 
of fluids. 
62 Stat. 137. 
22 U. S. C. 5 1501 
note. 
Transportation of 
supplies. 
RFC advances. 
provided in section 111 (c) (2) of the Economic Cooperation Act of 
1948, as amended, including payment by transfer to the United States 
(under such terms and in such quantities as may be agreed to between 
the Administrator and the Government of India) of materials required 
by the United States as a result of deficiencies, actual or potential, in 
its own resources. 
The Administrator is directed and instructed that 
in his negotiations with the Government of India he shall, so far as 
practicable and possible, obtain for the United States the immediate 
and continuing transfer of substantial quantities of such materials 
particularly those found to be strategic and critical. 
SEC. 3. For purposes of this Act the President is authorized to 
utilize not in excess of $190,000,000 during the period ending June 
30, 1952, of which sum (1) not less than $100,000,000 shall be made 
available immediately from funds heretofore appropriated by Public 
Law 759, Eighty-first Congress, for expenses necessary to carry out 
the provisions of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended; 
and (2) $90,000,000 shall be available from any balance of such funds 
unallotted and unobligated as of June 30,1951: Provided^ That if such 
amount unallotted and unobligated is less than $90,000,000 an amount 
equal to the difference shall be obtained from the issuance of notes in 
such amount by the Administrator for the Economic Cooperation 
Administration, who is hereby authorized and directed to issue such 
notes from time to time during fiscal years 1951 and 1952 for purchase 
by the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary of the Treasury 
is hereby authorized and directed to purchase such notes and, in making 
such purchases to use, as a public debt transaction, the proceeds of 
any public debt issue pursuant to the Second Liberty Loan Act as 
amended: And provided further. 
That $50,000,000 reserved by the 
Bureau of the Budget pui*suant to section 1214 of Public Law 759 of 
the Eight-first Congress from funds appropriated by that Act for 
expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Economic Coop-
eration Act of 1948, as amended, shall not be available for purposes 
of this section. 
SEC. 4. (a) Funds made available for purposes of this Act shall be 
used only for the purchase of food grains or equivalents in the United 
States. 
(b) No procurement of any agricultural product within the United 
States for the purpose of this Act shall be made unless the Secretary 
of Agriculture shall find and certify that such procurement will not 
impair the fulfillment of the vital needs of the United States. 
(c) The assistance provided under this Act shall be for the sole 
purpose of providing food grains, or equivalents, to meet the emer-
gency need arising from the extraordinary sequence of flood, drought, 
and other conditions existing in India in 1950. 
(d) The assistance provided under this Act shall be provided under 
the provisions of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended, 
applicable to and consistent with the purposes of this Act. 
SEC. 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, to the 
extent that the President, after consultation with appropriate Govern-
ment officials and representatives of private shipping, finds and pro-
claims that private shijDping is not available on reasonable terms and 
conditions for transportation of supplies made available under this 
Act, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized and 
directed to make advances not to exceed in the aggregate $20,000,000 
to the Department of Commerce, in such manner, at such times, and in 
such amounts as the President shall determine, for activation and 
operation of vessels for such transportation, and these advances may 
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be placed in any fnnds or accounts available for such purposes, and 
no interest shall be charged on advances made by the Treasury to the 
Reconstruction Finance Corporation for these purposes: 
Provided, 
That pursuant to agreements made between the Reconstruction 
Finance Corporation and the Department of Connnerce, the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation shall be repaid without interest not 
later than June 30, 1952, for such advances either from funds here-
after made available to the Department of Commerce for the activa-
tion and operation of vessels or, notwithstanding the provisions of 
any other Act, from receipts from vessel operations: Provided 
further, 
That pending such repayment receipts from vessel operations may be 
placed in such funds or accounts and used for activating and operating 
vessels. 
SEC. 6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, the Adminis-
trator for Economic Cooperation is authorized to pay ocean freight 
charges from United States ports to designated ports of entry in India 
of relief packages and supplies under the provisions of section 117 (c) 
of the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, as amended, including the 
relief packages and supplies of the American Red Cross. 
Funds now 
or hereafter available during the period ending June 30, 1952, for 
furnishing assistance under the provisions of the Economic Coopera-
tion Act of 1948, as amended, may be used to carry out the purposes of 
thi§ section. 
SEC. 7. (a) Any sums payable by the Government of India, under 
the interest terms agreed to between the Government of the United 
States and the Government of India, on or before January 1, 1957, 
as interest on the principal of any debt incurred under this Act, ancl 
not to exceed a total of $5,000,000, shall, when paid, be i)laced in a 
special deposit account in the Treasury of the United States, not-
withstanding any other provisions of law, to remain available until 
expended. 
This account shall be available to the Department of State 
for the following uses: 
(1) Studies, instruction, technical training, and other educational 
activities in the United States and in its Territories or possessions {A) 
for students, professors, other academic persons, and technicians who 
are citizens of India, and (B) with the approval of appropriate 
agencies, institutions, or organizations in India, for students, pro-
fessors, other academic persons, and technicians who ai'e citizens of 
the United States to participate in similar activities in India, includ-
ing in both cases travel expenses, tuition, subsistence and other allow-
ances and expenses incident to such activities; and 
(2) The selection, purchase, and shipment of (A) American scien-
tific, technical, and scholarly books and books of American literature 
for higher educational and research institutions of India, (B) Amer-
ican laboratory and technical equipment for higher education and 
research in India, and (C) the interchange of similar materials and 
equipment from India for higher education and research in the United 
States. 
(b) Funds made available in accordance with the provisions stated 
above may be used to defray costs of administering the program 
authorized herein. 
(c) Disbursements from the special deposit account shall be made 
by the Division of Disbursement of the Treasury Department, upon 
vouchers duly certified by the Secretary of State or by authorized 
certifying officers of the Department of State. 
Approved June 15, 1951. 
Relief packages and 
supplies. 
62 Stat. 153. 
22 U. S. C. 5 1515. 
Interest payments. 
Uses. 
Educational activi-
ties. 
Administrative 
penses.