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PUBLIC LAW 87-128-AUG.8, 1961

funds are advanced or a loan is purchased by a lender other than the United States. I n connection with insurance 6i loans, the Secretary— (a) is authorized to make agreements with respect to the servicing of loans insured hereunder and to purchase such loans on such terms and conditions as he may prescribe, except that no agreement shall provide for purchase by the Secretary at a date sooner than three years from the date of the note; and (b) shall retain out of payments by the borrower a charge at a rate determined by the Secretary from time to time equivalent to not less than one-half of 1 per centum per annum on the principal unpaid balance of the loan. Any contract of insurance executed by the Secretary under this subtitle shall be an obligation supported by the full faith and credit of the United States and incontestable except for fraud or misrepresentation of which the holder has actual knowledge. SEC. 309. (a) The fund established pursuant to section 11(a) of the Bankhead-Jones F a r m Tenant Act, as amended, shall hereafter be called the Agricultural Credit Insurance Fund and is hereinafter in this subtitle referred to as the "fund". The fund shall remain available as a revolving fund for the discharge of the obligations of the Secretary under agreements insuring loans under this subtitle and loans and mortgages insured under prior authority. (b) Moneys in the fund not needed for current operations shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the fund or invested in direct obligations of the United States or obligations guaranteed by the United States. The Secretary may purchase with money in the fund any notes issued by the Secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of obtaining money f0|r the fund. (c) The Secretary is authorized to make and issue notes to the Secretary of the Treasury for the purpose of obtaining funds necessary for discharging obligations under this section and for authorized expenditures out of the fund. Such notes shall be in such form and denominations and have such maturities and be subject to such terms and conditions as may be prescribed by the Secretary with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. Such notes shall bear interest at a rate fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consideration the current average market yield of outstanding inarketable obligations of the United States having maturities comparable to the notes issued by the Secretary under this subtitle. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to purchase any notes of the Secretary issued hereunder, and, for that purpose, £he Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use as a public debt tr?insaction the proceeds from the sale of any securities issued under th^ Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, and the purposes for which such securities may be issued under such Act, as amended, are extended to include the purchase of notes issued by the Secretary. All redemptions, purchases, and sales by the Secretary of the Treasury of such notes shall be treated as public debt transactions of the United States. (d) Notes and security acquired by the Secretary in connection with loans insured under this subtitle and under prior authority shall become a part of the fund. Notes may be held in the fund and collected in accordance with their terms or may be sold by the Secretary with or without agreements for insurance thereof at the balance due thereon, or on such other basis as the Secretary may determine from time to time. All net proceeds from such collections, including sales of notes or property, shall be deposited in and become a part of the fund. (e) The Secretary shall deposit in the fund such portion of the charge collected in connection with the insurance of loans at least

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