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PUBLIC LAW 117-JULY 14, 1953

National Cemetery, and to accept in exchange for said lands a conveyance by the Quincy-Graceland Cemetery Association of lands owned by said association which are located within the fenced area of said Quincy National Cemetery, and such lands of the Quincy-Graceland Cemetery Association lying between the southern boundary fence of said national cemetery and Emerj'^ Creek, all as set out on map designated as "Plat of Survey of a tract of land in the northwest quarter of section 5, township 2 south, range 8 west, of the fourth principal meridian, known as the Quincy National Cemetery, and located near Quincy, in Adams County, Illinois", dated August 1949, on file in the Office, Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army. Approved July 14, 1953. Public Law 117

CHAPTER 194

AN ACT To Huiend the wheat marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938,. 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 334 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended as follows: (a) By inserting in subsection (a) after the words "The national acreage allotment for wheat" the language ", less a reserve of not to exceed one per centum thereof for apportionment as provided in this subsection,". (b) By adding at the end of subsection (a) a new sentence to read as follows: "The reserve acreage set aside herein for apportionment by the Secretary shall be used to make allotments to counties, in addition to the county allotments made under subsection (b) of this section, on the basis of the relative needs of counties for additional allotment because of reclamation and other new areas coming into the production of wheat during the ten calendar years ending with the calendar year in which the national acreage allotment is proclaimed. (c) By inserting in subsection (b) after the words "The State acreage allotment for wheat" the language ", less a reserve of not to exceed 3 per centum thereof for apportionment as provided in subsection (c) of this section,". (d) By inserting in the first sentence of subsection (c) after the words "on the basis of" the language "past acreage of wheat,". (e) By striking out in the second sentence of subsection (c) the words "such county" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "the State". (f) By striking out in subsection (d) the figure "1940" and inserting in lieu thereof the figtire "1950", SEC. 2. Section 339 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (53 Stat. 65), is repealed. SEC. 3. Puolic Law 74, Seventy-seventh Congress (55 Stat. 203), as amended, is amended by striking out in the second sentence of paragraph (2) the language "shall be 50 per centum of the basic rate of the loan on the commodity for cooperators for such marketing year under section 302 of the Act and this resolution." and inserting in lieu thereof the language "on wheat shall be 45 per centum of the parity price per bushel of wheat as of May 1 of the calendar year in which the crop is harvested.^.

July 14, 1953 [H. R. 5451]

Wheat. Marketing quotas. 52 Stat. 53; 56 Stat. 5 2. 7 USC 1334. Re serve acreage. National.

State.

52 Stat. 5 5. 7 USC 1339. 7 US e 1340.

1330,

Marketing p e n alty. 7 USC 1302.

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