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 PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 516 -JULY 22, 1942 50 Stat. 530. 7U.S. C. §1017. 50 Stat. 526. Post, p. 725. Total. Assistance to needy farmers. Compensation of ex- perts. 42 Stat. 1488; post, p. 733. 5 U. S. C.§§ 661-674; Supp. I, ch. 13 . Performance of work required. Disability or death benefits. 5U.S.C.§796. Proviso. Additional funds for rural rehabilitation loans. Conditions. LIQUIDATION AND MANAGEMENT OF RESETTLEMENT PROJECTS To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of section 43 of title IV of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (7 U. S. C. 1014-1029), including the employ- ment of persons and means, in the District of Columbia and else- where, exclusive of printing and binding, as authorized by said Act, $500,000. LAND UTILIZATION AND RETIREMENT OF SUBMARGINAL LAND To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out the provisions of title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, approved July 22, 1937 (7 U. S . C . 1010-1013), including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $1,591,182. Total, Farm Tenant Act, $3,716,182. LOANS, GRANTS, AND RURAL REHABILITATION To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to continue to provide assistance through rural rehabilitation and grants to needy farmers in the United States, its Territories and possessions, including (1) farm debt adjustment service, and making and servicing of loans and grants under this and prior law; (2) loans; (3) grants; (4) the prosecution of Federal rural rehabilitation projects under the supervision of the Farm Security Administration on July 1, 1941; (5) projects involving provision of water facilities; and (6) not exceeding $1,400,000 for operation and maintenance of existing migratory labor camps; $37,819,557, together with not to exceed $5,000,000 of the unobligated balance of the appropriation made under this head for the fiscal year 1942, which sum shall be also available for necessary administrative expenses incident to the foregoing, including personal services in the District of Columbia and else- where; compensation of experts (including the Administrator and not to exceed three Assistant Administrators of the Farm Security Administration) without regard to the Classification Act of 1923, as amended; purchase of lawbooks, books of reference, periodicals, and newspapers; purchase, operation, maintenance, and exchange at the seat of government and elsewhere, of motor-propelled passenger- carrying vehicles; and printing and binding. In making any grant payments under this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to require with respect to such payments the performance of work on useful public projects, Federal and non- Federal, including work on private or public land in furtherance of the conservation of natural resources, and the provisions of the Act of February 15, 1934 (48 Stat. 351), as amended, relating to disability or death compensation, and benefits shall apply to those persons per- forming such work: Provided,That this section shall not apply to any case coming within the purview of the workmen's compensation law of any State, Territory, or possession, or in which the claimant has received or is entitled to receive similar benefits for injury or death. For additional funds for the purpose of making rural rehabilita- tion loans to needy farmers, the Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion is authorized and directed to make advances to the Secretary of Agriculture upon his request in an aggregate amount of not to exceed $97,500,000. Such advances shall be made: (1) With interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum payable semiannually; (2) upon the security of obligations acceptable to the Corporation here- tofore or hereafter acquired by the Secretary pursuant to law; (3) in amounts which shall not exceed 75 per centum of the then unpaid [56 STAT.

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