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 77TH CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CH. 39-APR. 3 ,1941 89 that the national marketing quota established for any subsequent year shall be quantity of peanuts sufficient to provide a national acre- age allotment of not less than 95 per centum of that established for the crop produced in the calendar year 1941. "(b) Not later than December 15 of each calendar year the Secre- Referendum. tary shall conduct a referendum of farmers engaged in the produc- tion of peanuts in the calendar year in which the referendum is held to determine whether such farmers are in favor of or opposed to marketing quotas with respect to the crops of peanuts produced in the three calendar years immediately following the year in which the referendum is held, except that, if as many as two-thirds of the farmers voting in any referendum vote in favor of marketing quotas, no referendum shall be held with respect to quotas for the second and third years of the period. The Secretary shall proclaim the results of the referendum within thirty days after the date on which it is held, and, if more than one-third of the farmers voting in the referendum vote against marketing quotas, the Secretary also shall proclaim that marketing quotas will not be in effect with respect to the crop of peanuts produced in the calendar year immediately follow- ing the calendar year in which the referendum is held. Notwith- standing any other provisions of this section, the Secretary shall pro- claim a national marketing quota with respect to the crop of peanuts produced in the calendar year 1941 equal to the minimum quota pro- vided for said year in subsection (a) hereof and shall provide for the holding of a referendum on such quota within thirty days after the date upon which this Act becomes effective, and the State and farm acreage allotments established under the 1941 agricultural con- servation program shall be the State and farm acreage allotments for the 1941 crop of peanuts. "(c) The national acreage allotment shall be apportioned among Stte acreage allot- States on the basis of the average acreage of peanuts harvested for nuts in the five years preceding the year in which the national allot- ment is determined, with adjustments for trends, abnormal condi- tions of production, and the State peanut-acreage allotment for the crop immediately preceding the crop for which the allotment here- under is established: Provided,That the allotment established for any ro State for any year subsequent to 1941 shall be not less than 95 per centum of the allotment established for such State for the crop pro- duced in the calendar year 1941: Provided further, That for the sec- ond or third year of any three-year period in which marketing quotas are in effect the acreage allotment for each State for such year shall be increased above or decreased below the allotment for the State for the immediately preceding year by the same percentage as the national marketing quota for such year is increased above or decreased below the national marketing quota for the preceding year. "(d) The Secretary shall provide for apportionment of the State menctt."reag alot- acreage allotment for any State through local committees among farms on which peanuts were grown in any of the three years immediately preceding the year for which such allotment is determined. Such apportionment shall be made on the basis of the tillable acreage avail- able for the production of peanuts and the past acreage of peanuts on the farm, taking into consideration the peanut-acreage allotments established for the farm under previous agricultural adjustment and conservation programs. Any acreage of peanuts harvested in excess trcEtiEosn hrvet;dis of the allotted acreage for any farm for any year shall not be consid- ered in the establishment of the allotment for the farm until the third year following the year in which such excess acreage is harvested and the total increases made in farm-acreage allotments in any year based 55 STAT.]

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