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 78TI CONG. , 2D SESS.-CH. 16 -FEB. 14, 1944 including the furnishing of health and medical services to (a) agri- cultural workers and their families housed in any labor supply center operated as a part of this program, or (b) migratory agricultural workers and their families who, without recruitment or assistance of any Government agency, have entered the area served by any such labor supply center and are engaged in agricultural work in such area, and to whom adequate health and medical services are not otherwise avail- able; (3) advancing to workers of sums due from employers within the United States who are under contractual obligation to reimburse the United States for such advances; the repayments from employers for such advances to be credited to the funds available to the Admin- istrator; (4) determination and payment of claims (not exceeding $50 in any one case) of workers recruited in foreign countries (a) who, in preparation for transportation to or from the United States and subsequent failure of such transportation, have suffered losses or (b) who have been transported to the United States and during said transportation, including embarkation and debarkation, have suffered the loss of or damage to personal effects; (5) lease, repair, alteration, relocation, and operation of labor supply centers and other necessary facilities and services; and (6) operating personnel and expenses to carry out the above purposes. (b) The Administrator is authorized and directed to enter into agreements with the agricultural extension services of the land-grant colleges in the respective States to furnish, on behalf of the United States, for domestic interstate agricultural workers and their families and foreign agricultural workers and their families, while such workers are employed within any such State, any or all of the following serv- ices or functions which such State extension services are willing to undertake: Health and medical and burial services, training, sub- sistence, allowances, supervision, protection and shelter, maintenance and keeping of records of compliance with contracts and international agreements or treaties respecting such workers, and health and medi- cal services for agricultural workers and their families encompassed by clauses (a) and (b) of subsection (a) (2) of this section. The Administrator may require the modification or termination of any agreement with any such extension service whenever he finds such action to be necessary in order to carry out the terms of any treaty or international agreement to which the United States of America is signatory. Whenever a satisfactory agreement cannot be negotiated with any such extension service, or pending the negotiation of an agree- ment, or whenever the Administrator finds it necessary to terminate an agreement, he shall carry out the foregoing responsibilities and func- tions with respect to such workers and their families by direct expendi- ture by the War Food Administration. The Administrator shall allocate to any State extension service from the amount made avail- able by this section, in the manner provided in section 2 of this title, such funds as may be necessary to carry out the duties and responsibili- ties agreed upon by the Administrator and such State extension service under the provisions of this subsection. The Administrator is further authorized, in connection with the purposes of this subsection, to loan to any State any labor supply center and the facilities and equipment thereof, owned by the United States, under such terms and condi- tions as he may specify. (c) Not more than 1z per centum of the combined sum of the appro- priation in Public Law 45, Seventy-eighth Congress, and the direct appropriation in section 1 hereof shall be available for administrative expenses of the Administrator under such Public Law 45 and this Act, including (1) the employment of persons and organizations, by con- tract or otherwise, at the seat of government and elsewhere; (2) pur- Advances to work- ers. Repayments from employers. Claims of workers recruited in foreign countries. Labor supply cen- ters, etc. Personnel and ex- penses. Agreements with ex- tension services. Modification or ter- mination. Performance of serv. ices by direct expend- iture. Allocations. Loan of labor sup- ply centers. Administrative ex- penses, limitation. 57 Stat. 70. 50 U. S. C., Sup). m, app. 1351 -1355 . Post, pp. 157, 863 58 STAT.]

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