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 55 STAT.] 77TH CONG.. 1ST SESS.-CH. 267-JULY 1, 1941 The proviso contained in the paragraph headed "Parity Payments" in the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1941, is amended to read as follows: "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 1941 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.": Provided, That the item entitled "Parity Payments", contained in the Department of Agriculture Appropria- tion Act, 1941, is amended by inserting immediately following the figures $212,000,000 and before the colon, a comma and the following: "together with the unobligated balances of the appropriation made under this head by the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1940, approved June 30,1939 (53 Stat. 939)". COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION Salaries and administrative expenses: Not to exceed $1,500,000 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be available for administrative expenses of the Corporation in carrying out its activi- ties as authorized by law, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act of June 3, 1926, as amended (5 U. S . C . 821-833); printing and binding; law- books and books of reference; not to exceed $250 for periodicals, maps, and newspapers; procurement of supplies, equipment, and services; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, includ- ing their repair and exchange; rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and all other necessary administrative expenses: Provided, That all necessary expenses (including legal and special services per- formed on a contract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of any real or personal property belong- ing to the Corporation or in which it has an interest, including expenses of collections of pledged collateral, shall be considered as nonadministrative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided fur- ther, That the Secretary of Agriculture may make allotments from this appropriation, subject to the approval of the Director of the Bureau of the Budget, to the offices and divisions of the office of the Secretary for the performance of departmental services for the Com- modity Credit Corporation: Provided further, That none of the fund made available by this paragraph shall be obligated or expended unless and until an appropriate appropriation account shall have been established therefor pursuant to an appropriation warrant or a covering warrant, and all such expenditures shall be accounted for and audited in accordance with the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, as amended. DISPOSAL OF SURPLUS COMMODITIES To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to further carry out the provisions of section 32, as amended, of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes", approved August 24, 1935, and subject to all provisions of law relating to the expenditure of funds appropriated by such section, $100,150,000, of which $116,850 shall be transferred to and made a part of the 437 Department of Agri- culture Appropriation Act, 1941, amend- ments. 54 Stat. 563. Deductions for ex- cess acreage. Proviso. Reappropriation. Post, p. 498. Post, p. 550. Travel expenses. 44 Stat. 688. Provisos. Nonadministrative expenses. Allotments. Accounting. 42 Stat. 20. 31U.S.C.ch.1. Ante, p. 407. 49 Stat. 774 . 7 U. S.C. C. 612c Transfer of funds

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