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PUBLIC LAW 87-749-OCT. 5, 1962

Public Law 87-749 AN ACT To amend the Smith-Lever Act of May 8, 1914, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of May 8, 1914 (38 Stat. 372), as amended by the Act of June 26, 1953 (7 U.S.C. 341-348), and by the Act of August 11, 1955 (7 U.S.C. 347a), is hereby amended as follows: (a) Section 2 is amended by inserting the words "or Territory or possession" immediately before the words "receiving the benefits of this Act." (b) Subsection 3(b) is amended by: (1) deleting the phrase ", Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Eico,"; (2) substituting the word "available" for the word "received"; (3) substituting the date "1962" for the date "1953"; (4) deleting the phrase "such sums shall be"; (5) deleting the phrase ", Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico as existed immediately prior to the passage of this Act"; and (6) deleting the proviso to said subs^tion. (c) Subsection 3(c) 1 is amended to read as follows: " 1. Four per centum of the sum so appropriated for each fiscal year shall be allotted to the Federal Extension Service for administrative, technical, and other services, and for coordinating the extension work of the Department and the several States, Territories, and possessions." (d) Subsection 3(c)2 is amended by: (1) deleting so much thereof as precedes the first proviso and substituting therefor the following: "Or the remainder so appropriated for each fiscal year 20 per centum shall be paid to the several States in equal proportions, 40 per centum shall be paid to the severia,l States in the proportion that the rural population of each bears to the total rural population of the several States as determined by the census, and the balance shall be paid to the several States in the proportion that the farm population of each bears to the total farm population of the several States as determined by the census:"; and (2) deleting the phrase ", Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico" from the first proviso. (e) Subsection 3(d) is amended by adding the word "additional" immediately after the word "such" in said subsection. (f) Section 4 is amended by (1) deleting the phrase ", Territory or possession" wherever it appears in said section; and (2) by striking out the phrase "equal semi-annual payments on the first day of January and July " and substituting the phrase "equal quarterly payments in or about July, October, January, and April". (g) Sections 5 and 6 are amended by deleting therefrom the phrases ", Territory, or possession," and ", Territory, or possession" wherever they occur therein. (h) Subsection 8(b) is amended by deleting the phrase ", Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico". (i) By adding a new section 10 reading as follows: "The term 'State' means the States of the Union and Puerto Rico." Approved October 5, 1962.

October 5, 1962 [H. R. 12589]

Smith-Lever Act, amendment. 67 Stat. 83; 69 Stat. 683.

Federal Extension Service. 7 USC 343.

Appropriation distribution.

Allocation of funds on quarterly basis.

7 USC 347 a. Definition.

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