An Act to amend the rice-marketing-quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended
PL 84-29 (H.R.4647), enacted 05/05/1955

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Public Law 27 
CHAPTER 29 
AN ACT 
Ap,il 30, 1955 
To amend the rice marketing quota provisions of tlie Agricultural Adjustment Act 
[H. R. 2839] 
of 1938, as amended. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 353 of 
fi'stat. 6L 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended, 
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effective beginning with the 1955 crop of rice, by adding at the end 
thereof the following new subsection: 
'•(e) Any part of the farm rice acreage allotment on which rice will of^8iSISd*i?ld'^-
not be planted and which is voluntarily surrendered to the county lotment. 
committee shall be deducted from the allotment to such farm and may 
be reapportioned by the county committee to other farms in the same 
county receiving allotments in amounts determined by the county 
committee to be fair and reasonable on the basis of the past production 
of rice by the producers on the farm or the past production of rice on 
the farm, as the case may be; acreage allotments previously established 
for the farm or for the producers on the farm, as the case may be; 
abnormal conditions affecting acreage; land, labor, water, and equip-
ment aA'ailable for the production of rice; crop-rotation practices; 
and the soil and other physical factors affecting the production of rice. 
Any allotment surrendered under this provision shall be regarded for 
the purposes of subsection (b) of this section as having been planted on 
the farm from which surrendered, except that this shall not operate to 
make the farm from which the allotment was surrendered eligible for 
an allotment as having rice planted thereon, or to make any producer 
thereon eligible for an allotment as having produced rice, during the 
five-year base period." 
Approved April 30, 1955. 
Public Law 28 
CHAPTER 30 
AN ACT 
April 30, 1955 
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, with I'espect to rice allotment 
[H. R. 4356] 
history. 
Be it en/icted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 353 of 
Aifotment hia-
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by tory. 
adding to subsection (c) thereof the following new paragraph: 
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"In determining the past production of rice by producers on a farm 
for the purpose of establishing farm acreage allotments for the 1956 
and subsequent crops, the acreage of rice on the farm for any year for 
which farm acreage allotments were in effect shall be divided among 
the producers thereon in the proportion in which they contributed to 
the farm acreage allotment." 
Approved April 30, 1955. 
Public Law 29 
CHAPTER 31 
AN ACT 
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.Mays, 1955 
To amend the rice marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment 
[H. R. 4647] 
Act of 1938, as amended. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
7nited States of America in Congress assemhled^ That section 353 of 
Rice. 
63 Stat. 1059. 
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State allotments. 
Increase and ap-
portionment. 
Reserve acreage. 
the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by 
adding to subsection (c) thereof, two new paragraphs reading as 
follows: 
"(3) Each of the State acreage allotments for 1955 heretofore pro-
claimed by the Secretary shall be increased by 2 per centum or by 
such greater acreage as may be necessary to provide such State with 
an allotment equal to its 1950 allotment. In any State having county 
acreage allotments for 1955 (i) the increase in the State allotment 
shall be apportioned among counties in the State on the same basis 
as the State allotment was heretofore apportioned among the counties, 
but without regard to adjustments for trends in acreage, and (ii) the 
1955 allotment for any county in which the 1950-1954 average planted 
plus diverted acreage of rice, adjusted for trends in acreage, exceeds 
the 1945-1949 average planted acreage of rice, similarly adjusted, by 
more than 2 per centum shall then be further increased by such addi-
tional acreage as may be necessary to provide such county with an 
allotment equal to its 1950 allotment. 
The increases in the county 
acreage allotments and the increases in the State allotments, where 
county allotments are not determined, shall be used to establish farm 
acreage allotments which are fair and reasonable in relation to the 
applicable allotment factors specified in subsection (b) of this section 
and to correct inequities and prevent hardships. 
"(4) The reserve acreage made available for 1955 in any State for 
apportionment to farms operated by persons who have not produced 
ric« during the preceding five years or on which rice has not been 
planted in the preceding five years shall not be less than five hundred 
acres; and the additional acreage necessary to provide such minimum 
reserve acreages shall be in addition to the National and State acreage 
allotments." 
Approved May 5, 1955. 
May 5, I'^SS 
[H. J. Res. 107] 
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CHAPTER 32 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To peiinit the United States of America to release reversionary rights in a 
thirty-six and seven liundred and tifty-nine one-thousandths acre tract to the 
Viiieland Scliool Disti-ict of tlie county of Kern, State of California. 
Vineland School 
District. Calif. 
Conveyance. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
/States of America 
in Congress assembled, That, upon the written 
consent of the director of the California State Department of Agricul-
ture, the Secretary of Agriculture of the United States is authorized 
and directed to convey, for a consideration of $1, by quitclaim deed to 
the Vineland School District, Bakersfield, county of Kern, State of 
California, and its successors and assigns, all of the right, title, and 
interest reserved or retained by the quitclaim deed from the United 
States of America to the aforesaid Vineland School District dated 
November 28, 1947, covering thirty-six and seven hundred and fifty-
nine one-thousandths acres, more or less, and recorded on December 
10, 1947, in book 1341 of official records, page 424, in the office of the 
county recorder, Kern County, California. 
Approved May 5, 1955.