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PUBLIC LAW 85-431-MAY 29, 1958

SEC. 7. The Architect of the Capitol, under the direction of the Senate Office Building Commission, is authorized to enter into contracts and to make such other expenditures, including expenditures for personal and other services, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. SEC. 8. The appropriation of such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act is hereby authorized. Approved May 29, 1958.

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Public Law 85-430 AN ACT To provide for reports on the acreage planted to cotton, to repeal the prohibitions against cotton acreage reports based on farmers' planting intentions, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted, by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1 of the Act of May 27, 1912, as amended (37 Stat. 118, 44 Stat. 1374; 7 U.S.C. 476), is amended to read as follows: "The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be issued a report on or before the 10th day of July of each year showing by States and in toto the estimated acreage of cotton planted, to be followed on August 1 with an estimate of the acreage for harvest and on December 1 with an estimate of the harvested acreage". SEC. 2. The first sentence of section 1 of the Act of May 3, 1924, as amended (43 Stat. 115, 44 Stat. 1373, 60 Stat. 940: 7 U.S.C. 475), is amended to read as follows: "The Secretary of Agriculture shall cause to be issued as of the first of each month during the cotton growing and harvesting season from August to December inclusive, reports describing the condition and progress of the crop and stating the probable number of bales which will be ginned, these reports to be issued simultaneously with the cotton-ginning reports of the Bureau of the Census relating to the same dates, the two reports to be issued from the same place at 11 o'clock antemeridian of the eighth day following that to which the respective reports relate". Approved May 29, 1958.

May 29, 1958 [H. R. «765]

Cotton. Acreage report s.

Public Law 85-431 AN ACT To provide for the release of restrictions and reservations contained in instrument conveying certain land by the United States to the State of Wisconsin.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of General Services is authorized and directed, upon payment to the United States by the State of Wisconsin of the fair market value of the fee simple title thereof, to convey, quitclaim or release to the State of Wisconsin any right, reservation, restriction or interest reserved to the United States in the real property described in section 2 (a) of the Act approved July 18, 1956 (70 Stat. 576) providing for conveyance to the State of Wisconsin without monetary consideration of certain real property described therein. Approved May 29, 1958.

May 29, 1958 [H. R. 7(545]

L a C r o s s e, Wis.

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