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STAT.]

PUBLIC

LAW 85-459-JUNE 13, 1958

199

FEDERAL FARM MORTGAGE CORPORATION

The Federal Farm Mortgage Corporation is authorized to make such expenditures, within available funds and in accordance with law, as may be necessary to liquidate its assets: Provided, That funds realized from the liquidation of assets which are determined by the Board of Directors to be in excess of the requirements for expenses of liquidation shall be declared as dividends which shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury. FEDERAL INTERMEDIATE CREDIT BANKS

Not to exceed $1,693,000 (to be computed on an accrual basis) of the funds of the banks shall be available for administrative expenses for the six months ending December 31, 1958, including the purchase of not to exceed one passenger motor vehicle for replacement only and services performed for the banks by other Government agencies (except services and facilities furnished and examinations made by the F a r m Credit Administration, and services performed by any Federal Reserve bank and by the United States Treasury in connection with the financial transactions of the banks); and said total sum shall be exclusive of interest expense, legal and special services performed on a contract or fee basis, and expenses in connection with the acquisition, operation, maintenance, improvement, protection, or disposition of real or personal property belonging to the banks or in which they have an interest. TITLE IV—GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 401. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law, appropriations y^^f^Y*"^*' ™°*^' and authorizations made for the Department under this Act shall ''^ be available for the purchase, in addition to those specifically provided for, of not to exceed 466 passenger motor vehicles of which 462 shall be for replacement only, and for the hire of such vehicles. SEC. 402. Provisions of law prohibiting or restricting the employ- gifgJfP^°5""«"* °* ment of aliens shall not apply to employment under the appropriation for the Foreign Agricultural Service. SEC. 403. Funds available to the Department of Agriculture shall an^M?'"'" aiiowbe available for uniforms or allowances therefor as authorized, by the Act of September 1, 1954, as amended (5 U.S.C. 2131). so Stat. 11 u. Cotton SEC. 404. No part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be predictions. p r i c e used for the payment of any officer or employee of the Department who, as such officer or employee, or on behalf of the Department or any division, commission, or bureau thereof, issues, or causes to be issued, any prediction, oral or written, or forecast, except as to damage threatened or caused by insects and pests, with respect to future prices of cotton or the trend of same. SEC. 405. Except to provide materials required in or incident to Purchase of research or experimental work where no suitable domestic product *''^"*' is available, no part of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be expended in the purchase of twine manufactured from commodities or materials produced outside of the United States. SEC. 406. Not less than $1,500,000 of the appropriations of the Department for research and service work authorized by the Acts of August 14, 1946, and July 28, 1954 (7 U.S.C. 427, 1621-1629), eo Stat. io82shall be available for contracting in accordance with said Acts. es'Stat. 574. SEC. 407. No part of any appropriation contained in'this Act or PubutYt'y or of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency propaganda.

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