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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 30 -FEB. 16, 1938 In the case of payments of more than $1, the amount of the payment which shall be used to calculate the 40-, 20-, and 10-per-centum increases under clauses (1), (2), and (3) shall not include that part, if any, of the payment which is a fraction of a dollar. "Beginning with the calendar year 1939, no total payment for any year to any person under such subsection (b) shall exceed $10,000. In the case of payments made to any individual, partnership, or estate on account of performance on farms in different States, Terri- tories, or possessions, the $10,000 limitation shall apply to the total of the payments for each State, Territory, or possession, for a year and not to the total of all such payments." TENANT PROVISIONS SEC. 103. Section 8 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot- ment Act, as amended, is further amended by adding the following new subsections: "(f) Any change between the landlord and the tenants or share- croppers, with respect to any farm, that would increase over the previous year the amount of payments or grants of other aid under subsection (b) that would otherwise be made to any landlord shall not operate to increase such payment or grant to such landlord. Any reduction in the number of tenants below the average number of tenants on any farm during the preceding three years that would increase the payments or grants of other aid under such subsection that would otherwise be made to the landlord shall not hereafter operate to increase any such payment or grant to such landlord. Such limitations shall apply only if the county committee finds that the change or reduction is not justified and disapproves such change or reduction. "(g) A payment which may be made to a farmer under this section, may be assigned, without discount, by him in writing as security for cash or advances to finance making a crop. Such assignment shall be acknowledged by the farmer before the county agricultural exten- sion agent and filed with such agent. The farmer shall file with such county agricultural extension agent an affidavit stating that the assignment is not made to pay or secure any pre-existing indebtedness. This provision shall not authorize any suit against or impose any liability upon the Secretary or any disbursing agent if payment to the farmer is made without regard to the existence of any such assignment." APPORTIONMENT OF FUNDS SEC. 104. Section 15 of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot- ment Act, as amended, is amended by inserting at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "The funds available for payments (after allowing for estimated administrative expenses, and not to exceed 5 per centum for pay- ments with respect to range lands, noncrop pasture lands, and naval stores) shall be allocated among the commodities produced with respect to which payments or grants are to be computed. In allocat- ing funds among the commodities the Secretary shall take into con- sideration and give equal weight to (1) the average acreages planted to the various commodities (including rotation pasture), for the ten years 1928 to 1937, adjusted for abnormal weather and other condi- tions, including acreage diverted from production under the agricul- tural adjustment and soil conservation programs; (2) the value at parity prices of the production from the allotted acreages of the various commodities for the year with respect to which the payment 35 Maximum amount for any year. Tenant provisions. 49 Stat. 1149; 50 Stat. 329. 16 U. S. C., Supp. III, § 690h. Change in relation- ship between landlord and tenants, etc. Reduction in num- ber of tenants below average. Finding by county committee. Assignment of pay- ment. Poet, p. 205. No liability imposed. Apportionment of 49 Stat. 1151. 18 U. S. C., Snpp. III, § 60o. Allocation of funds available for pay- ments. Post, pp. 744, 819. Basis of apportion- ment.

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