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 PUBLIC LAWS--CHS. 333, 342-DEC. 3, 5, 1943 i: December 5, 1943 [S. 7631 [Public Law 1971 Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, amendments. 54 Stat. 887 . 50U.S.C.app. S 305; Supp. II, § 305. Ante, p. 391. Review of certain occupational defer- ments. [CHAPTER 342] AN ACT Amending the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940. as amended, 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 5 of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, is hereby amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsections: "(1) In the case of any registrant whose principal place of employ- ment is located outside the appeal board area in which the local board having jurisdiction over the registrant is located, any occupational deferment under subsection (c) (2) or subsection (e) of this section existing at the date of enactment of this subsection shall within thirty days after such date, and any such occupational deferment made after the date of enactment of this subsection shall within ten days after such deferment is made, be submitted for review and decision to the a patriotic statesman and philosopher, as author of the Declaration of Independence, as a private citizen and President of the United States but also in recognition of our great debt to him as a farmer, agricultural philosopher, inventive genius, educator, and leader in scientific agriculture. Creation and organ- SEC. 2. That there be created the National Agricultural Jefferson E aton. Bicentenary Committee. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby appointed Chairman of and is hereby authorized to organize such Membership. Committee. The President pro tempore of the Senate shall appoint as members of the Committee five Members of the Senate. The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint as members of the Committee five Members of the House of Representatives. The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized to appoint in his discretion an appropriate number of members of the Committee representing the following agricultural organizations: United States Department of Agriculture. The land-grant colleges (including the colleges of agriculture, the agricultural experiment stations, and the agricultural extension services). National farm organizations. The agricultural press. Scientific and learned societies dealing with agriculture. The Office of Education. Secretary. The Secretary of Agriculture is empowered to appoint a secre- rvioe uf omemenrs tary for the Committee. All members of the Committee are to serve ion; duties. without compensation. The duties of the Committee shall be to assist in bringing to the attention of the people of the United States the great services rendered by Jefferson to agriculture and to encourage and promote appropriate and timely activities in con- nection with the various agricultural organizations mentioned above and of the States of the United States, in the various agricultural meetings to be held during the current year. to encourage appro- priate programs dealing with Jefferson and agriculture in the United States Department of Agriculture and the land-grant colleges, to encourage widespread dissemination through the press, the radio, farmers' meetings, the rural schools and agricultural high schools. and so forth, information about Jefferson. SEC. 3. 'l'lT provisions of this joint resolution shall not be con- strued to autlorize the making of any appropriation to carry out its purpose. Approved December 3, 1943. 596 [57 STAT. t

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