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 448 Agricultural wage stabilization. PUBLIC LAWS--C. 296-JUNE 28, 1944 [58 STAT. shall be used for the promulgation or execution of orders under which assessments are made against producers or handlers of agricultural products, excepting walnuts, for administration of such orders: Pro- vided further, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for agricultural wage stabilization with respect to any commodity unless a majority of the producers of such commodity within the area affected have requested the intervention of the Administrator of the War Food Administration. Ane, p. 105. COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION Post, p. 875. Salaries and administrative expenses: Not to exceed $7,208,526 of the funds of the Commodity Credit Corporation shall be available for administrative expenses of the Corporation in carrying out its activities as authorized by law, including personal services in the Travel expenses. District of Columbia and elsewhere; travel expenses, in accordance with the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and the Act 44 tat6. 8 p. of June 3, 1926, as amended (5 U. S . C. 821-833); printing and I823. ss. binding; lawbooks and books of reference; not to exceed $400 for periodicals, maps, and newspapers; procurement of supplies, equip- ment, and services; rent in the District of Columbia; and all other Nonadministrative necessary administrative expenses: Provided, That all necessary expenses. expenses (including legal and special services performed on a con- tract or fee basis, but not including other personal services) in con- nection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, or disposition of any real or personal property belonging to the Corporation or in which it has an interest, including expenses of col- lections of pledged collateral, shall be considered as nonadminis- Accounting. trative expenses for the purposes hereof: Provided further, That none of the fund made available by this paragraph shall be obligated or expended unless and until an appropriate appropriation account shall have been established therefor pursuant to an appropriation warrant or a covering warrant, and all such expenditures shall be 42 Stat. 20 31T.S 's c. 1; upp. accounted for and audited in accordance with the Budget and III. 1t6t se. Accounting Act of 1921, as amended: Provided further, That none of Sales at less than parity price. an the fund made available by this paragraph shall be used for admin- istrative expenses connected with the sale of Government-owned or Government-controlled stocks of farm commodities at less than parity 2Stat. 38; 55 tat. price as defined by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 or the 7u.s.c. *1301 (a); comparable price as provided by section 4 (a) of the Act of July 1, 713a-8 (a). " 1941, as amended (15 U. S . C . 713a-8); and the method that is now used for the purposes of Commodity Credit Corporation loans for determining the parity price or its equivalent for 7 /8 -inch middling cotton at the average location used in fixing the base loan rate for cotton shall also be used for determining the parity price for 7 /8-inch middling cotton at such average location for the purposes of this proviso: Provided further, That the foregoing shall not apply to the sale or other disposition of any agricultural commodity substan- tially deteriorated in quality (or in the case of perishable fruits and vegetables if there is danger of deterioration or of accumulation of stocks) or sold for the purpose of feeding, or the extraction of peanut oil, or commodities sold to farmers for seed or for new or byproduct Saleofwheatorcorn uses: Provided further, That no wheat or corn shall be sold for feed at a price less than the parity price of corn at the time such sale is made: Provided further, That in making regional adjust- ments in the sale price of corn or wheat in the minimum price need not be higher in any area than the United States average parity price of corn.

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