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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 625 -627-DEC. 26, 1941 Penalties for viola- tions of regulations. December 26, 1941 [S. 5881 [Public Law 374] Soil Conservation and Domestic Allot- ment Act, amend- ments. 49 Stat. 1149; 50 Stat. 329. 16U.S. C.§590h (a). Agricultural Adjust- ment Act of 1938, amendments. Commodity Credit Corporation loans. Ante, p. 205. December 26, 1941 [8. 1544 [Public Law 3751 Inter-American Highway. Appropriation authorized for cooper- ative survey and con- struction. Expenditures sub- ject to certain condi- tions. SEC. 10. The Commissioners shall have the power to prescribe reasonable penalties for violation of any regulation promulgated pursuant to this Act, not exceeding a fine of $300 or ninety days' imprisonment, or both. Prosecution for such violations shall be on information in the police court by the corporation counsel or his assistants. Approved, December 26, 1941. [CHAPTER 626] AN ACT To extend the period within which the Secretary of Agriculture may carry out the purposes of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act by making payments to agricultural producers, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 8 (a), as amended, of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (U. S. C., 1934 edition, Supp. V, title 16, sec. 590 (h) (a)) is amended (a) by striking out "January 1, 1942" wherever appearing therein and inserting in lieu thereof "January 1, 1947", and (b) striking out "December 31, 1941" and inserting in lieu thereof "December 31, 1946". SEC. 2. The paragraph numbered (10) of the Act entitled "An Act relating to corn and wheat marketing quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended", approved May 26, 1941, is amended- (a) By striking out the words and figures "1941 crop of the com- modities, cotton, corn, wheat, rice, or tobacco" and insert "1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945 and 1946 crops of the commodities cotton, corn, wheat, rice, tobacco and peanuts"; (b) By striking out "for the marketing year beginning in 1941" and inserting in lieu thereof "for the marketing year beginning in the calendar year in which such crop is harvested". Approved, December 26, 1941. [CHAPTER 627] AN ACT To provide for cooperation with Central American republics in the construction of the Inter-American Highway. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the sum not to exceed $20,000,000 to enable the United States to cooperate with the governments of the American republics situated in Central America-that is, with the Governments of the Republics of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama-in the survey and construction of the proposed Inter-American Highway within the borders of the aforesaid republics. Expenditures of such sums in any such country shall be subject to the receipt of a request therefor and of satisfactory assurances from the government of that country that appropriate commitments have been made by such government to assume at least one-third of the expenditures proposed to be incurred henceforth by that country and by the United States in the survey and construction of such highway within the borders of such country. In no such country shall the expenditures of this Government from the appro- priations herein authorized exceed two-thirds of the total expenses henceforth incurred for said survey and construction in that country. 860 [55 STAT.

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