An Act to amend the act known as the ""Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946,"" approved August 14, 1946.
PL 84-272 (S.1757), enacted 08/09/1955

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thereof, to construct, maintain, and operate a toll bridge across the 
Connecticut River at or near Old Saybrook, Connecticut", are each 
amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 2. The last sentence of section 4 of such Act of March 23,1906, 
shall not be applicable to the bridge constructed pursuant to the pro-
visions of this Act." 
SEC. 2. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as amending any pro-
vision of existing Federal law relating to the expenditure of Federal-
aid highway funds. 
Approved August 9, 1965. 
34 Stat. 85. 
33 u s e 494. 
Public Law 272 
CHAPTER 632 
AN ACT 
August 9, 1955 
To amend the Act known as the "Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946", approved 
[s. 1757] 
August 14,1946. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Represeiitatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection (h) 
of section 203 of the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (7 U. S. C. 
1622 (h)) is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the follow-
ing new sentence: "Whoever knowingly shall falsely make, issue, alter, 
forge, or counterfeit any official certificate, memorandum, mark, or 
other identification, or device for making such mark or identification, 
with respect to inspection, class, grade, quality, size, quantity, or con-
dition, issued or authorized under this section or knowingly cause or 
procure, or aid, assist in, or be a party to, such false making, issuing, 
altering, forging, or counterfeiting, or whoever knowingly shall pos-
sess, without promptly notifying the Secretary of Agriculture or his 
representative, utter, publish, or use as true, or cause to be uttered, 
published, or used as true, any such falsely made, altered, forged, or 
counterfeited official certificate, memorandum, mark, identification, or 
device, or whoever knowingly represents that an agricultural product 
has been officially inspected or graded (by an authorized inspector 
or grader) under the authority of this section when such commodity 
has in fact not been so graded or inspected shall be fined not more 
than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.". 
SEC. 2. The farm produce inspection clause contained in various 
appropriation Acts (7 U. S. C. 414) and the second, third, and fourth 
sentences of section 1 of the Produce Agency Act of March 3,1927 (7 
U. S. C. 492) are hereby repealed. 
Approved August 9, 1955. 
Inspection cer-
tifications. 
60 Stat. 1088. 
Repeals. 
44 Stat. 1355. 
Public Law 273 
CHAPTER 633 
AN ACT 
To amend the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, to modify, 
clarify, and provide additional authority for insurance of loans. 
August 9, 1955 
[S. 1758] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Vnited States of America in Congress assemoled^ That the Bankhead-
Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended (7 U. S. C. 1000 and the follow-
ing) , is further amended as follows: 
Title I of the Act is amended by the addition of the following new 
section 16: 
"SEC. 16. (a) The Secretary is authorized to insure and to make 
commitments for the insurance of loans made for the purposes spec-
F a rtn t e n a 
loans. 
I n s u r a n c e i 
thority. 
60 Stat. 1072.