An Act to amend the tobacco-marketing-quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended.
PL 84-609 (H.R.9475), enacted 06/22/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 609-JUNE 22, 1956 
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A T . 
Transfer to and 
reimbursement b y 
GSA. 
Contract of sale 
or lease. 
61 Stat. 190. 
50 u s e 98 note. 
63 Stat. 377. 
Restriction. 
is amended by striking out ".Tune 30, 1956-' and inserting in lieu 
thereof "January 31, 1957''. 
(b) All tin acquired by the Corporation by reason of the extension 
under subsection (a) shall be transferred to the General Services Ad-
ministration, which is authorized and directed to reimburse the Cor-
poration therefor at its cost. 
SEC. 6. If a contract of sale or lease is effected pursuant to the provi-
sions of this Act, then such joint resolution of June 28, 1947, shall 
terminate (notwithstanding any provision thereof) at the close of 
business on the date of the transfer of possession of the smelter, but 
the Corporation may take all action necessary or appropriate for the 
purpose of completing the disposal of supplies, byproducts, concen-
trates, and other remaining property. 
If no contract of sale or lease 
is effected pursuant to the provisions of this Act prior to January 31, 
1957, of the smelter and other assets or any part thereof, then the 
smelter or other assets or such part thereof as is not sold or leased 
shall promptly be reported as excess property for transfer and disposal 
in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Property and Admin-
istrative Services Act of 1949 (40 Stat. IT. S. C. 471-492). 
SEC. 7. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as preventing the Cor-
poration from performing or otherwise administering contracts or 
other legally binding obligations. 
Approved June 22, 1956. 
June 22, 1956 
[H. R. 9475] 
Public Law 609 
CHAPTER 427 
AN ACT 
To amend the tobacco marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural 
Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended. 
Tobacco market-
ing quotas. 
69 Stat. 557. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 312 
of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U. S. C. 
1312), is amended (a) by inserting in subsection (a) immediately 
following the words "December 1 of any marketing year" the lan-
guage "with respect to flue-cured tobacco, and February 1 of any 
marketing year with respect to other kinds of tobacco" and (b) by 
striking out in subsection (b) the words "prior to the first day of De-
cember" and inserting in lieu thereof the language "not later than 
the first day of December with respect to flue-cured tobacco and not 
later than the first day of February with respect to other kinds of 
tobacco". 
Approved June 22, 1956, 
June 22, 1956 
TH. R. 3744] 
Public Law 610 
CHAPTER 428 
AN ACT 
To amend an Act of July 1, 1!)47, to grant military leave of absence with pay 
to substitute employees in the postal field service. 
P o s t a l employ-
ees. 
NQlitary leave. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 4 of 
the Act entitled "An Act to amend existing laws relating to mili-
tary leave of certain employees of tlie I'nited States or of the District 
of Columbia so as to equalize rights to leave of absence and reemploy-
ment for such employees who are members of the Enlisted or Officers' 
Reserve Corps, the National Guard or the Naval Reserve, and for 
other purposes", approved July 1, 1947 (Public Law 153, Eightieth 
70 STAT.] 
PUBLIC LAW 611-JUNE 26, 1966 
331 
Congress; 61 Stat. 239; 10 U. S. C, sec. 37la; 32 U. S. C, sec. 76), 
is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: 
"The words 'officers and employees of the United States or of the 
District of Columbia', as used in such provisions of law, as now or 
hereafter amended, also shall be construed to mean substitute em-
ployees in the postal field service; such substitute employees shall be 
entitled to military leave of absence on the basis of one hour of such 
leave for each period or periods aggregating twenty-six hours of work 
performed in the calendar year immediately preceding the year in 
which they are ordered to duty by proper authority: Provided^ That 
the number of hours worked during the preceding calendar year shall 
not be less than one thousand forty hours before such substitute em-
ployee shall be entitled to military leave of absence, pay for such leave 
not to exceed eighty hours in each calendar year.". 
Approved June 22, 1956. 
Public Law 611 
CHAPTER 436 
AN ACT 
June 25, 1956 
To further amend section 20 of the Trading With the Enemy Act, relating to 
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fees of agents, attorneys, and representatives. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 20 of 
Trading with the 
the Trading With the Enemy Act, as amended (60 Stat. 54; 50 U. S. C. n!^nT/ ^'' ""'•"* 
App. 20), is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 20. No property or interest or proceeds shall be returned under 
this Act, nor shall any payment be made or judgment awarded in re-
spect of any property or interest vested in or transferred to any officer 
or agency of the United States under this Act unless satisfactory evi-
dence is furnished to the President or such officer or agency as he 
may designate, or the court, as the case may be, that the aggregate of 
the fees to be paid to all agents, attorneys at law or in fact, or repre-
sentatives, for services rendered in connection with such return or pay-
ment or judgment does not exceed 10 per centum of the value of such 
property or interest or proceeds or of such payment. 
Any agent, at-
torney at law or in fact, or representative, believing that the aggregate 
of the fees should be in excess of such 10 per centum may, in the case 
of any return of, or the making of any payment in respect of, such 
property or interest or proceeds by the President or such officer or 
agency as he may designate, petition the district court of the United 
States for the district in which he resides for an order authorizing fees 
in excess of 10 per centum and shall name such officer or agency as 
respondent. 
The court hearing such petition, or a court awarding any 
judgment in respect of any such property or interest or proceeds, as the 
case may be, shall approve an aggregate of fees in excess of 10 per 
centum of the value of such property or interest or proceeds only 
upon a finding that there exist special circumstances of unusual hard-
ship which require the payment of such excess. Any person accepting 
any fee in excess of an amount approved hereunder, or retaining for 
more than thirty days any portion of a fee, accepted prior to approval 
hereunder, in excess of the fee as approved, shall be guilty of a vio-
lation of this Act." 
Approved June 25, 1956. 
Fees.