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 436 52 Stat. 69. 7U.S. C. 1392. 60 Stat. 246 . Interchange of cer- tain limitations. 62 Stat. 70 . 7U.S.C. 1392(b). Parity payments. 54 Stat. 563. Payments to ten- ants and sharecrop- pers. Post, p. 860. 49 Stat. 1148 . 16U.S. C.i 5690g- 590q. 52 Stat. 45 . 7U. S. C. §1303. Transfer of funds. Ante, p. 414. IProiso. I)eductlons for ex- cess acreage. Adjustment of pay- ments. 49 Stat. 1148 . 16U. S. C. ch. 3B. PUBLIC LAWS-H. 267-JULY 1, 1941 [56 STAT. Act and for other purposes", approved August 24, 1935 (7 U. S. C. 612c), shall be available during the fiscal year 1942 for adminis- trative expenses, in accordance with the provisions of section 392 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, in carrying out the provisions of said section 32, and the provisions of the Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act of 1937 (7 U. S . C . 608c-08d), including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, in accordance with the provisions of law applicable to the employment of persons and means by the Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration, except that within the total of limitations imposed by section 392 (b) of said Act for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia, regional offices, and in the several States, such limitations may, in connection with the activities of the Surplus Marketing Administration, be interchanged, in whole or in part, during the current fiscal year between the District of Columbia, regional offices, and the several States: Provided further, That the funds appropriated under the head "Parity payments, Department of Agriculture", for the fiscal year 1941 shall remain available until June 30, 1943: Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons who in 1940 and 1941 carried out farming operations as tenants or share-croppers on cropland owned by the United States Government and who complied with the terms and conditions of the 1940 and 1941 agricultural conservation programs, formulated pursuant to sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of the SoiT Con- servation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended, shall be entitled to apply for and receive payments, or to retain payments heretofore made, for their participation in said program to the same extent as other producers. PARITY PAYMENTS To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to make parity payments to producers of wheat, cotton, corn (in the commercial corn-producing area), rice, and tobacco pursuant to the provisions of section 303 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, $212,000,000, of which $97,375 shall be transferred to and made a part of the appropriation, "Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Agricultural Economics", to remain available until June 30, 1944: Provided, That such payments with respect to any such commodity shall be made with respect to a farm in full amount only in the event that the acreage planted to the commodity for harvest on the farm in 1942 is not in excess of the farm acreage allotment established for the commodity under the agricultural conservation program, and, if such allotment has been exceeded, the parity payment with respect to the commodity shall be reduced by not more than 10 per centum for each 1 per centum, or fraction thereof, by which the acreage planted to the commodity is in excess of such allotment. The Secretary may also provide by regulations for similar deductions for planting in excess of the acreage allotment for the commodity on other farms or for planting in excess of the acreage allotment or limit for any other commodity for which allotments or limits are established under the agricultural conservation program on the same or any other farm. If the sum of the prevailing basic-loan rate or the average farm price, whichever is the higher, for the crop year 1941 and the appli- cable rate of the payments announced under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, for the purposes of the 1942 agricul- tural conservation program and the parity payments herein appro- priated, exceed an amount sufficient to increase the farmers' returns to parity prices, parity payments shall be so adjusted as to provide a return to producers which is equal to but not greater than parity price.

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