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 tee of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency for the respective States: Availability of Providedfurther, That no part of such amounts shall be available after funds, time limit. June 30, 1945, for salaries and other administrative expenses except for payment of obligations therefor incurred prior to July 1, 1945: Pro- Trasfer of funds. vided further, That the Secretary may, in his discretion, from time to time transfer to the General Accounting Office such sums as may be necessary to pay administrative expenses of the General Accounting Purchase of farming Office in auditing payments under this item: Provided further, That materials. such amount shall be available for the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, lime, trees, or any other farming materials, or any soil-terracing serv- ices, and making grants thereof to agricultural producers to aid them in carrying out farming practices approved by the Secretary in the 49 Stat. 1148. 1944, 1945, and 1946 programs under said Act of February 29, 1936, 5g0q;Uspp II,§ 590~h as amended; for the reimbursement of any Federal, State, or local Reimbursement of government agency for such materials, or services, and for the pay- tates, etc. ment of all expenses necessary in making such grants, including all or part of the costs incident to the delivery thereof: Provided fur- Payments to ten- ther, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, persons who ants and sharecrop- n. and in 1944 carry out farming operations as tenants or sharecroppers on cropland owned by the United States Government and who comply with the terms and conditions of the 1944 agricultural conservation program, formulated pursuant to sections 7 to 17, inclusive, of said Act of February 29, 1936, shall be entitled to apply for and receive payments for their participation in said program to the same extent Irish potatoes and as other producers: Provided further, That the War Food Adminis- comprcials trarc trator is authorized and directed to make payments on Irish potatoes and commercial truck crops for fresh consumption under the 1943 Agricultural Conservation Program with respect to any farm if the War Food Administration determines that the producer would have been eligible for such payments except for the failure of such pro- ducer, because of negligence of an officer or agent of the Federal Government, to file on or before June 30, 1943, Form ACP-140, and such payments shall be made out of funds appropriated for the pur- poses of section 32 of the Act entitled "An Act to amend the Agri- 7 u. s. C . 612c; cultural Adjustment Act, and for other purposes", approved August uPolitcailactivites 24, 1935 (49 Stat. 774) : Provided further, That no part of any funds available to the Department of Agriculture, the War Food Adminis- tration, or any bureau, office, corporation, or other agency constituting a part of such Department or Administration shall be used in the fiscal year 1945 for the payment of salary or travel expenses of any person who has been convicted of violating the Act entitled "An Act to pre- 53 tat.1147. vent pernicious political activities", approved August 2, 1939, as 61t; Supp. m, t amended, or who has been found in accordance with the provisions of Ate, p. 148; po t , section 6 of the Act of July 11, 1919 (18 U. S. C. 201), to have violated 41 stat. 68. or attempted to violate such section which prohibits the use of Federal appropriations for the payment of personal services or other expenses designed to influence in any manner a Member of Congress to favor or oppose any legislation or appropriation by Congress except upon request of any Member or through the proper official channels: Pro- Triple A program vided further, That none of the funds appropriated in this Act for onditions. the War Food Administration or any of its constituent agencies shall Ante, p. 447. be paid out for the salary, per diem allowance, or expenses of any person after it is determined by the War Food Administrator that such person has, personally or by letter, demanded that a farmer join the triple A program as a condition of draft deferment or for the granting of a priority certificate for any rationed article or commodity. Hearings on charges filed with the War Food Administrator shall be held and decision made within thirty days after such charges are filed with him. PUBLIC LAWS--CH. 296-JUNE 28,1944 [58 STAT. 450

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