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 56 STAT.] 77TH CONG., 2D SESS. - CH. 140-MAR. 5, 1942 127 controlled by the Intercontinental Rubber Company, or any of its subsidiaries, and all equipment, materials, structures, factories, real property, seed, seedlings, growing shrub, and other facilities, patents and processes of the Intercontinental Rubber Company, or any of its subsidiaries, located in California, and for such rights, properties, and facilities of the Intercontinental Rubber Company or any of its sub- sidiaries, the Secretary is authorized to pay not to exceed $2,000,000; (2) To plant, or contract for the planting of, not in excess of Planting inWestern seventy-five thousand acres of guayule in areas in the Western Pepshere" 9 . Hemisphere where the best growth and yields may be expected in order to maintain a nucleus planting of guayule to serve as a domestic source of crude rubber as well as of planting material for use in further expanding guayule planting to meet emergency needs of the United States for crude rubber; to establish and maintain nurseries Nurseries. to provide seedlings for field plants; and to purchase necessary equipment, facilities, and land for nurseries; (3) To acquire by lease, or other agreement, for not exceeding ten Leases, surveys,re years, rights to land for the purpose of making plantings of guayule; dPost, p. 797. to make surveys, directly or through appropriate Government agen- cies, of areas in the Western Hemisphere where guayule might be grown; and to establish and maintain records indicating areas to which guayule cultivation could be extended for emergency production; (4) To construct or operate, or to contract for the operation of, 'lPertin"of tact- factories for the extraction of rubber from guayule, and from Post, p . 797. Chrysothamnus, commonly known as rabbit brush; and to purchase, operate, and maintain equipment for the harvesting, storing, trans- porting, and complete processing of guayule, and Chrysothamnus, commonly known as rabbit brush, and to purchase land as sites for processing plants; (5) To conduct studies, in which he may cooperate with any other studies, experi- public or private agency, designed to increase the yield of guayule by breeding or by selection, and to improve planting methods; to make surveys of areas suitable for cultivating guayule; to make experimental plantings; and to conduct agronomic tests, (6) To conduct tests, in which he may cooperate with any other Tests to determine public or private agency, to determine the qualities of rubber obtained from guayule and to determine the most favorable methods of com- pounding and using guayule in rubber manufacturing processes; (7) To improve methods of processing guayule shrubs and rubber New irocse and to obtain and hold patents on such new processes; (8) To sell guayule or rubber processed from guayule and to use Slesl nd use of re funds so obtained in replanting and maintaining an area of seventy- Post, p. 797. five thousand acres of guayule inside the Western Hemisphere; and (9) To exercise with respect to rubber-bearing plants other than rExtension of pow- guayule the same powers as are granted in the foregoing provisions of this section with respect to guayule. SEC. 2. (a) The Secretary is authorized to appoint such employees, Pe e797 including citizens of countries in the Western Hemisphere, as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Act. Such appointments may be made without regard to the provisions of the civil-service laws, and the compensation of the persons so appointed may be fixed without regard to the provisions of the Classification 42t Stc.4§§667 Act of 1923, as amended. All appointments so made by the Secretary Supp. I, ch. 13 . shall be made only on the basis of merit and efficiency. Pst,p. 733 (b) The Secretary may delegate any of the powers and duties con- thoDeeton of a ferred on him by this Act to any agency or bureau of the Department of Agriculture.

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