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 1056 73d C ONGRESS. SESS. II. CH. 648. JUNE 19, 1934 . Emergency Administration of Public Works may, in the discretion of the President, be transferred and applied to the purposes of such WMkaximumforpublic Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 : Provided further, That the amounts to be made available under the authority of this paragraph for public works under the National Industrial Recovery Act shall not e xceed in the aggre gate $ 500,00 0,000. EMERGENCY RELIEF Relief in stricken To meet the emergency and necessity for relief in stricken agri- agricultural areas. cultural areas, to remain available until June 30, 1935, $525,000,000, f• Amonnt av ailable to be allocated by the President to supplement the appropriations heretofore made for emergency purposes and in addition thereto for (1) making loans to farmers for, and/or (2) the purchase, sale, gift, or oth er dis positi on of, seed, feed, freigh t, sum mer fa llowin g Expenditures. and similar purposes ; expenditures hereunder and the manner in which they s hall b e incu rred, allowe d, and paid, shall be det ermine d by the Presi dent, and ma y incl ude ex penditu res fo r pers onal s ervice s and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and for printing and binding and may be made without regard to the provisions of sectio n 3709 of th e Revi sed St atutes. Special rat es and if, during the present drought emergency, a carrier subject to the preferences of carriers. Interstate Commerce Act shall, at the request of any agent of the United States, authorized so to do, establish special rates for the benefit o f drought sufferer s such a carrier s hall not be deemed to have violated the Interstate Commerce Act with reference to undue pref- erence or unjust discrimination by reason of the fact that it applies such special rates only to those designated as drought sufferers by the authorized agents of the United States or of any State. Reconstruction Fl- Th e Rec onst ructi on Fi nance Cor porat ion i s he reby autho rized to na nce Corporat ion to pu rchase secu rities purchase marketable securities, satisfactory to said Corporation, from Federal Emer- gency acquired or to be acquired by the Federal Emergency Administra- Pub lic P ublic works. tion of Public Works, and any sums paid for such securities shall Sums acquired avail- able for additional be available to said Federal Emergency Administration of Public loans. Works for the making of additional loans (but not grants) under the provisions of title II of the National Industrial Recovery Act Proviso' Ma xi m um inv est- Provided That the a mount tha t the Reco nstr uctio n Fin ance Corp o- ments . ration may have invested at any one time in such securities shall L imita tion on out- standing obligations. not exceed $250,000,000. The amount of notes, debentures, and bonds Vol.47,p.s. or other such obligations which the Reconstruction Finance Corpo- ration is authorized and empowered to have outstanding at any one time pursuant to section 9 of the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion Act, as amended, is hereby increased by the sums necessary for these purchases, not to exceed $250,000,000. Civilian conserve- ti Section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act for the relief of unemploy- oAnte, p p. 23 ment through the performance of useful public work, and for other purposes ", approved March 31, 1933 (48 Stat . 22), is hereby repealed, Application of em- insofar as said Act applies to enrollees in the Civilian Conservation pl oyees Compen sation Act to enrollees. Corps, and in lieu thereof the provisions of the Act entitled "An Act Vol. 39,p.742,u .s .c . P .M. provide compensation for employees of the United States suffer- ing injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes ", approved September 7, 1916, as amended (U .S .C., title 5, ch . 15), are hereby made applicable to such enrollees under the said Act of March 31, 1933, to the same extent and under the same con- ditions as is provided for employees of the Federal Civil Works An te,p .3 51 . Administration in the Act entitled "An Act making an additional appropriation to carry out the purposes of the Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933, for continuation of the Civil Works program,