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shall be entitled to have his pay computed at the rates prescribed by that section, as amended by this Act. For the purposes of that computation, an oiRcer with less than three years of service for pay purposes, or a warrant officer or an enlisted person with less than two years of service for pay purposes, retired for physical disability or placed on the temporary disability retired list, shall have those rates increased by 6 per centum. SEC. 6. Members and former members of the uniformed services who are entitled to receive retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay under laws in effect prior to October 1, 1949, shall be entitled to an increase of 6 per centum of the retired pay, retirement pay, retainer pay, or equivalent pay, to which they are now entitled. SEC. 7. This Act shall become effective on the first day of the month following the date of enactment of this Act. SEC. 8. No person, active or retired, in any of the uniformed services, including a reserve component thereof and the National Guard, shall suffer by reason of this Act an}' reduction in basic or retired pay to which he was entitled upon the effective date of this Act. Approved March 31, 1955.

Effective date. Restriction.

CHAPTER 21

Public Law 21 AN ACT

Directing a redetermination of the national marketing quota for hurley tohacco for the 1955-1956 marketing year, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted iy the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That notwithstanding any other provision of law— (1) The Secretary of Agriculture shall, within ten days after enactment of this Act, redetermine the national marketing quota for hurley tobacco for the 1955-1956 marketing year on the basis of the latest available statistics of the Federal Government, apportion such quota among States, convert the State quotas to State acreage allotments, and allot the same among farms pursuant to and in accordance with applicable provisions of law: Provided, That hurley tobacco marketing quotas and acreage allotments heretofore established for the 1955-1956 marketing year shall not be effective, but the preliminary hurley tobacco acreage allotment for any farm determined under section 725.616 of the hurley and flue-cured tobacco marketing quota regulations, 1955-1956 marketing year, issued by the Secretary of Agriculture (19 Federal Register 3549), shall not be reduced by more than 25 per centum (except for reductions under section 725.619 of said regulations); (2) Burley tobacco farm acreage allotments of seven-tenths of an acre or less heretofore determined for the 1955-1956 marketing year when redetermined pursuant to paragraph (1) of this Act may pe reduced but not more than one-tenth acre: Provided, however, That no allotment of five-tenths of an acre or less shall be reduced under this section; (3) Within twenty days after the issuance of the proclamation of the national marketing quota for burley tobacco for the 19551956 marketing year as redetermined pursuant to paragraph (1) of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall conduct a referendum of farmers who were engaged in the production of the 1954 crop of burley tobacco to determine whether such farmers are in favor of or opposed to such redetermined quota. If more than one-third of the farmers voting in the referendum oppose

March 31, 1955 [H. R. 4951]

Burley tobacco.i Redetermination of marketing quotib

Referendum.

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