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 PUBLIC LAW 156-JULY 28, 1953

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for conducting cultural surveys, or for the maintenance of regional offices. Crop and livestock estimates: For collecting, compiling, abstracting, analyzing, summarizing, interpreting, and publishing data relating to iagriculture, including crop and livestock estimates, acreage, yield, grades, staples of cotton, stocks, and value of farm crops and numbers, grades, and value of livestock and livestock products on farms, production, distribution, and consumption of turpentine and rosin pursuant 49 Stat. 6 5 3. to the Act of August 15, 1935 (5 U.S.C. 556b), and for the collection P e a n u t s t a t i s - and publication of statistics of peanuts as provided by the Act tics. approved June 24, 1936, as amended May 12, 1938 (7 U.S.C. 95149 Stat. 1898; 52 957), $3,158,000: Provided, That no part of the funds herein approStat. 348. cotton and apple priated shall be available for any expense incident to ascertaining, collating or publishing a report stating the intention of farmers as to the acreage to be planted in cotton, or for estimates of apple production for other than the commercial crop.., AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATOR

60 Stat. 1091.

58 Stat. 742. 60 Stat. 810. B u i l d i n g s and Improvements.

For necessary expenses of the Office of the Administrator, including travel and subsistence expenses of advisory committees authorized by title III of the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1628-1629), $341,677: Provided., That of the several appropriations of the Agricultural Research Administration, not to exceed $15,000 shall be available for employment pursuant to the second sentence of section 706(a) of the Organic Act of 1944 (5 U.S.C. 574), as amended by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U.S.C. 55a): Provided further.. That the several appropriations of the Agricultural Research Administration shall be available for the construction, alteration, and repair of buildings and improvements: Provided.^ however., That unless otherwise provided, the cost of constructing any one building (excepting headhouses connecting greenhouses and experimental farm houses) shall not exceed $5,000, the total amount for construction of buildings costing more than $2,500 each shall be within the limits of the estimates submitted and approved therefor, and the cost of altering any one building during the fiscal year shall not exceed $2,500 or 2 percentum of the cost of the building, whichever is greater: Provided further., That transfers not to exceed $11,000 may be made to this appropriation from the several appropriations of the Agricultural Research Administration for general-use capital improvements at the Agricultural Research Center. OFFICE OF EXPERIMENT STATIONS

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P A Y M E N T S TO STATES, H A W A II., A L A S K A, A N D PUERTO RICO

24 Stat. 4 4 0. 34 Stat. 6 3. 43 Stat. 9 7 0. 49 Stat. 4 3 6. 49 Stat. 436; 60 Stat. 1083.

For payments to the States, Hawaii, Alaska, and Puerto Rico to be paid quarterly in advance where applicable, to carry into effect the provisions of the following Acts relating to agricultural experiment stations: Hatch Act, the Act approved March 2, 1887 (7 U.S.C. 362, 363, 365, 368, 377-379), $720,000; Adams Act, the Act approved March 16, 1906 (7 U.S.C. 369), $720,000; Purnell Act, the Act approved February 24 1925 (7 U.S.C. 361, 366, 370, 371, 373-376, 380, 382), $2,880,000; Bankhead-Jones Act, title 1 of the Act approved June 29, 1935 (7 U.S.C. 427-427g), sections 3 and 5; $2,863,708, and sections 9 and 11 of said Act as added by the Act of August 14, 1946 (7 U.S.C. 427h, 427j), including administration by the Office of Experiment

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