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 PUBLIC LAWS-CHS. 330, 332-JULY 28, 31, 1945 [CHAPTER 330] JOINT RESOLUTION July 28, 1945 [H. J. Res. 98] Relating to the marketing of fire-cured and dark air-cured tobacco under the [Public Law 163] Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended. Fire-cured and dark air-cured tobacco. Marketing quotas. 52 Stat. 46 . 7 U. S. C., Supp. IV, § 1312 (a). 52 Stat. 47. 7 U. S. O., Supp. IV, § 1313. Additional acreage. 53 Stat. 1261 . 7U.S. C. §1313(g). Commodity Credit Corporation loans. July 31, 1945 [S. 1270] [Public Law 164] Subsidy payments. Meat, butter, and flour. Ante, p. 51. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding the provisions of section 312 (a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, relating to the finding of the total supply of tobacco, the reserve supply level, and the amount of the national marketing quota, and the provisions of section 313 of said Act relat- ing to the apportionment of the national marketing quota for tobacco among the States and farms, national marketing quotas for fire-cured and dark air-cured tobacco for the marketing years 1946-1947, 1947-1948, and 1948-1949, shall be proclaimed and the national mar- keting quota and State and farm acreage allotments shall be the same for the marketing year 1946-1947 as were established for the marketing year 1943-1944, and the farm acreage allotments for the marketing years 1947-1948 and 1948-1949 shall be increased or decreased in the ratio which the national marketing quota for the 1943-1944 marketing year bears to the amount of tobacco which the Secretary determines to be required to make the carry-over at the beginning of the marketing year equal the reserve supply level: Provided, however, That an additional acreage not in excess of 5 per centum of the total acreage allotted to all farms in each State for the 1943-1944 marketing year shall be allotted each year by the local committees among farms in the State in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary so as to establish allotments which the committee find will be fair and equitable in relation to the past acreage of tobacco (harvested and diverted); land, labor, and equip- ment available for the production of tobacco; and crop-rotation practices, and an additional acreage equal to not more than 5 per centum of the acreage allotted to all farms for the 1943-1944 mar- keting year shall be allotted each year to farms on which no tobacco was produced in the last five years in accordance with the provisions of subsection (g) of section 313 applicable to farms on which no tobacco was produced during the last five years. The foregoing pro- visions of this section shall not have the effect of modifying or repealing any other provisions of said Act. SEC. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commod- ity Credit Corporation is authorized and directed beginning with the 1945 crop, to make available upon any crop of fire-cured, dark air-cured and Virginia sun-cured tobacco, if producers have not dis- approved marketing quotas for such tobacco for the marketing year beginning with the calendar year in which such crop is harvested, loans or other price support at, in the case of fire-cured tobacco, 75 per centum of the loan rate for burley tobacco for the corresponding crop and, in the case of dark air-cured and Virginia sun-cured tobacco, at 662/3 per centum of such burley tobacco loan rate. Approved July 28, 1945. [CHAPTER 332] AN ACT Relating to the payment of subsidies by the Commodity Credit Corporation and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the amount of funds authorized to be expended by Commodity Credit Corporation pursuant to section 3 of the Act of April 12, 1945 (Public, 30, Seventy- ninth Congress), shall be increased by such amounts as may from time to time be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture as follows: [59 STAT.

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