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PUBLIC LAW 89-743-NOV. 2, 1966

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Public Law 89-742 AN ACT

November 2, 1966

To amend section 8(g) of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act with respect to assignments.

[H. R. 17588]

Be it enacted by the tSenate and Hou-ne of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 8(g) Agriculture of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended °Assignment of (16 U.S.C. 590h(g)), is amended to read as follows: payments. " (g) A payment which may be made to a farmer under this section, ^^ us^c s^goh. may be assigned, without discount, by him in writing as security for cash or advances to finance making a crop, handling or marketing an agricultural commodity, or performing a conservation practice. Such assignment shall be signed by the farmer and witnessed by a member of the county committee or by an employee of such committee, except that where the assignee is a bank whose deposits are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Farmers Home Administration, or a production credit association supervised by the Farm Credit Administration, such assignment may be witnessed by a bonded officer of the lending institution. Such assignment shall be liled with the county committee. Such assignment shall not be made to pay or secure any preexisting indebtedness. This provision shall not authorize any suit against or impose any liability upon the Secretary or any disbursing agent if payment to the farmer is made without regard to the existence of any such assignment. The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as he determines necessary to carry out the l)rovisions of this subsection." Approved November 2, 1966.

Public Law 89-743 AN ACT

Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1967, and for other purposes.

November 2, 1966

[H. K. 17636]

FEDERAL PAYMENT TO D I S T E ICT OF COLUMBIA t e it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the District United States of America in Congress assembled, That there are lumbia ^ of Co^^^^^^^^ Appropriaappropriated for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending u"on"Acr'^r967 June 30, 1967, out of (1) the general fund of the District of Columbia (unless otherwise herein specifically provided), hereinafter known as the general fund, such fund being composed of the revenues of the District of Columbia other than those applied by law to special funds, and $50,000,000, which is hereby appropriated for the purpose out of

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