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PUBLIC LAW 279-AUG. 9, 1955

ment of this Act is only discovered after such date of enactment to have been made contrary to such contractual provisions or to said clause (d). SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to amend any contract, which has been entered into prior to the date of enactment of this Act, to conform with the provisions of the first section of this Act. The consent of the United States is hereby given to the recording, at the expense of the party benefited thereby, of any such amended contract and to the simultaneous discharge of record of the original contract. The consent of the United States is likewise given to the discharge of record, at the expense of the party benefited thereby, of any contract which the Secretary of the Interior or his duly authorized agent finds is rendered nugatory by the enactment of this Act. Approved August 9, 1955. CHAPTER 638

Public Law 278 AN ACT

To amend the Act of May 19, 1947 (ch. 80, 61 Stat. 102), as amended, so as to I)ermit per capita payments to the individual members of the Shoshone Tribe and the Arapahoe Tribe of the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, to be made quarterly.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress ossemMed^ That section 3 of the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the segregation and expenditure of trust funds held in joint ownership by the Shoshone and Arapahoe Tribes of the Wind River Reservation" approved May 19, 1947 (ch. 80, 61 Stat. 102), as amended, is hereby amended by striking the words "and the first day of March" wherever it appears therein, and inserting in lieu thereof "the first day of December, the first day of March, and the first day of June". Approved August 9, 1955.

Public Law 279

August 9, 1955 [S. 2087]

S h o s h o n e and Arapahoe Tribes. Per capita payments. 25 USC 613.

CHAPTER 639

AN ACT To further amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 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 312 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (7 U.S.C. 1312), is hereby amended to read as follows: SEC, 312. (a) The Secretary shall, not later than December 1 of any marketing year, proclaim a national marketing quota for any kind of tobacco for each of the next three succeeding marketing years whenever he determines with respect to such kind of tobacco— (1) that a national marketing quota has not previously been proclaimed and the total supply as of the beginning of such marketing year exceeds the reserve supply level therefor; (2) that such marketing year is the last year of three consecutive years for which marketing quotas previously proclaimed will be in eifect j (3) that amendments have been made in provisions for establishing farm acreage allotments which will cause material revision of such allotments before the end of the period for which quotas are in effect; or

August 9, 1955 [S. 2297]

Tobacco marketing quotas. 52 Stat. 46.

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