An Act directing a redetermination of the national marketing quota for burley tobacco for the 1955-56 marketing year, and for other purposes
PL 84-21 (H.R.4951), enacted 03/31/1955

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PUBLIC LAW 21-MAR. 31, 1955 
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shall be entitled to have his pay computed at the rates prescribed by 
that section, as amended by this Act. For the purposes of that com-
putation, an oiRcer with less than three years of service for pay pur-
poses, or a warrant officer or an enlisted person with less than two 
years of service for pay purposes, retired for physical disability or 
placed on the temporary disability retired list, shall have those rates 
increased by 6 per centum. 
SEC. 6. Members and former members of the uniformed services who 
are entitled to receive retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or 
equivalent pay under laws in effect prior to October 1, 1949, shall be 
entitled to an increase of 6 per centum of the retired pay, retirement 
pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay, to which they are now entitled. 
SEC. 7. This Act shall become effective on the first day of the month 
following the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 8. No person, active or retired, in any of the uniformed serv-
ices, including a reserve component thereof and the National Guard, 
shall suffer by reason of this Act an}' reduction in basic or retired 
pay to which he was entitled upon the effective date of this Act. 
Approved March 31, 1955. 
Effective date. 
Restriction. 
Public Law 21 
CHAPTER 21 
AN ACT 
Directing a redetermination of the national marketing quota for hurley tohacco 
for the 1955-1956 marketing year, and for other purposes. 
March 31, 1955 
[H. R. 4951] 
Be it enacted iy the Senate and House of Representatwes 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law— 
(1) The Secretary of Agriculture shall, within ten days after 
enactment of this Act, redetermine the national marketing quota 
for hurley tobacco for the 1955-1956 marketing year on the basis 
of the latest available statistics of the Federal Government, appor-
tion such quota among States, convert the State quotas to State 
acreage allotments, and allot the same among farms pursuant to 
and in accordance with applicable provisions of law: Provided, 
That hurley tobacco marketing quotas and acreage allotments 
heretofore established for the 1955-1956 marketing year shall not 
be effective, but the preliminary hurley tobacco acreage allotment 
for any farm determined under section 725.616 of the hurley and 
flue-cured tobacco marketing quota regulations, 1955-1956 market-
ing year, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture (19 Federal 
Register 3549), shall not be reduced by more than 25 per centum 
(except for reductions under section 725.619 of said regulations); 
(2) Burley tobacco farm acreage allotments of seven-tenths 
of an acre or less heretofore determined for the 1955-1956 market-
ing year when redetermined pursuant to paragraph (1) of this 
Act may ])e reduced but not more than one-tenth acre: Provided, 
however, That no allotment of five-tenths of an acre or less shall 
be reduced under this section; 
(3) Within twenty days after the issuance of the proclamation 
of the national marketing quota for burley tobacco for the 1955-
1956 marketing year as redetermined pursuant to paragraph (1) 
of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct a refer-
endum of farmers who were engaged in the production of the 
1954 crop of burley tobacco to determine whether such farmers 
are in favor of or opposed to such redetermined quota. If more 
than one-third of the farmers voting in the referendum oppose 
Burley tobacco.i 
Redetermination 
of marketing quotib 
Referendum. 
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7 u s e 1315. 
Acreage a l l o t -
ments. 
Excess harvest. 
53 Stat. 1261. 
7 u s e 1313. 
7 u s e 1313. 
False report. 
68 Stat. 270. 
7 u s e 1314. 
such redetermined quota, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, 
within thirty days after the date of the referendum, proclaim 
the result of the referendum and (1) no quota for hurley tobacco 
for the 1955-1956 marketing year shall be effective thereafter, 
and (2) no price support shall be made available on the 1955 crop 
of hurley tobacco. 
SEC. 2. Public Law 528, Eighty-second Congress (66 Stat. 597), 
is hereby amended, effective for the 1956 and subsequent crops of 
hurley tobacco, to read as follows: "The farm acreage allotment for 
hurley tobacco for any year shall not be less than the smallest of (1) 
the allotment established for the farm for the immediately preceding 
year, (2) five-tenths of an acre, or (3) 10 per centum of the cropland: 
Provided, hotoever^ That no allotment of seven-tenths of an acre or 
less shall be reduced more than one-tenth of an acre in any one year. 
Tlie additional acreage required under this Act shall be in addition 
to the State acreage allotments and the production on such acreage 
shall be in addition to the national marketing quota." 
SEC. ?). Section 313 (g) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 
1938, as amended, is amended by adding immediately after the first 
sentence thereof a new sentence to read as follows: "Any acreage of 
tobacco harvested in excess of the farm acreage allotment for the year 
1955, or any subsequent crop shall not be taken into account in estab-
lishing State and farm acreage allotments." 
SEC. 4. The last sentence of section 313 (g) of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding in the 
last sentence thereof immediately following the language "if proof 
of the disposition of any amount of tobacco is not furnished as required 
by the Secretary" the language "or if any producer on the farm files, 
or aids or acquiesces in the filing of, any false report with respect to 
the acreage of tobacco grown on the farm required by regulations 
issued pursuant to this Act". 
SEC. 5. Section 314 (a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended, is hereby amended, effective July 1, 1955, with respect 
to flue-cured tobacco, and October 1,1955, with respect to other kinds 
of tobacco, by striking out the figure "50" therein and inserting in 
lieu thereof the figure "75". 
Approved March 31, 1955. 
April 5, 1955 
Public Law 22 
CHAPTER 23 
AN ACT 
April 5, i»5S 
[H» R. 4941] 
rj,Q ftiueiid the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, and for other purposes 
Foreign Service 
A c t 
Amendments 
of 1955. 
60 Stat. 1003. 
22 u s e 868. 
A p p o i n t i v e 
salary. 
22 u s e 888. 
differ en-
Salary 
tial. 
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 "Foreign Service Act Amendments of 1955". 
SEC. 2. Section 413 of the Foreign Service Act of 1946, as amended, 
is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 413. A person appointed as a Foreign Service officer shall 
receive basic salary at one of the rates of the class to which he is 
appointed which the Secretary shall, taking into consideration his 
age, qualifications, and experience, determine to be appropriate for 
him to receive." 
SEC. 3. Section 443 of such Act is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 443. The President may, under such regulations as he may 
prescribe, establish rates of salary differential, not exceeding 25 per 
centum of basic salary, for Foreign Service officers. Reserve officers, 
and staff' officers and employees assigned to posts involving extraor-