such extension services for such advances; (5) employment of personnel and other administrative expenses; (6) payment to or reimbursement of other public or private agencies or individuals for furnishing services or facilities for such purposes; and (7) rendering assistance with respect to the deferment of agricultural labor, including among other things the furnishing of information on the contribution that individuals subject to selective service are making to agricultural production. Such extension services may enter into agreements with other public and private agencies and individuals and utilize the facilities and services of such agencies and individuals in carrying out the purposes of this section.

(b) The Administrator shall certify to the Secretary of the Treasury, from time to time, the amounts to be paid to each State under this section and the time or times such amounts are to be paid; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to the State, at the time or times fixed by the Administrator, the amounts so certified. (Feb. 14, 1944, ch. 16, title 1, § 2, 58 Stat. 12.)

§ 1353. Same; purpose of expenditures by Administrator of Food Production and Distribution; cooperation of Administrator with other agencies.-(a) The funds appropriated by section 1 [section 1351 of this Appendix] and not apportioned by the Administrator among the several States pursuant to section 2 [section 1352 of this Appendix] shall be available for expenditure by the Administrator. The purposes for which such funds may be expended shall include, among other things, (1) the recruiting and transportation of workers and their families and necessary personal property, within the United States and elsewhere; (2) furnishing, by loans or otherwise, of health and medical and burial services, training, subsistence, allowances, protection, and shelter for such workers and their families, including the furnishing of health and medical services to (a) agricultural workers and their families housed in any labor supply center operated as a part of this program, or (b) migratory agricultural workers and their families who, without recruitment or assistance of any Government agency, have entered the area served by any such labor supply center and are engaged in agricultural work in such area, and to whom adequate health and medical services are not otherwise available; (3) advancing to workers of sums due from employers within the United States who are under contractual obligation to reimburse the United States for such advances, the repayments from employers for such advances to be credited to the funds available to the Administrator; (4) determination and payment of claims (not exceeding $50 in any one case) of workers recruited in foreign countries (a) who, in preparation for transportation to or from the United States and subsequent failure of such transportation, have suffered losses, or (b) who have been transported to the United States and during said transportation, including embarkation and debarkation, have suffered the loss of or damage to personal effects; (5) lease, repair, alteration, relocation, and operation of labor supply centers and other necessary facilities and services; and (6) operating personnel and expenses to carry out the above purposes.

(b) The Administrator is authorized and directed to enter into agreements with the agricultural extension services of the landgrant colleges in the respective States to furnish, on behalf of the United States, for domestic interstate agricultural workers and their families and foreign agricultural workers and their families, while such workers are employed within any such State, any or all of the following services or functions which such State extension services are willing to undertake: Health and medical and burial services, training, subsistence, allowances, supervision, protection and shelter, maintenance and keeping of records of compliance with contracts and international agreements or treaties respecting such workers, and health and medical services for agricultural workers and their families encompassed by clauses (a) and (b) of subsection (a) (2) of this section. The Administrator may require the modification or termination of any agreement with any such extension service whenever he finds such action to be necessary in order to carry out the terms of any treaty or international agreement to which the United States of America is signatory. Whenever a satisfactory agreement cannot be negotiated with any such extension service, or pending the negotiation of an agreement, or whenever the Administrator finds it necessary to terminate an agreement, he shall carry out the foregoing responsibilities and functions with respect to such workers and their families by direct expenditure by the War Food Administration. The Administrator shall allocate to any State extension service from the amount made available by this section, in the manner provided in section 2 of this title [section 1352 of this Appendix], such funds as may be necessary to carry out the duties and responsibilities agreed upon by the Administrator and such State extension service under the provisions of this subsection. The Administrator is further authorized, in connection with the purposes of this subsection, to loan to any State any labor supply center and the facilities and equipment thereof, owned by the United States, under such terms and conditions as he may specify.

(c) Not more than 12 per centum of the combined sum of the appropriation in Public Law 45, Seventy-eighth Congress [set out as a note under section 1351 of this Appendix], and the direct appropriation in section 1 hereof [section 1351 of this Appendix], shall be available for administrative expenses of the Administrator under such Public Law 45 and this Act [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix], including (1) the employment of persons and organizations, by contract or otherwise, at the seat of government and elsewhere; (2) purchase, exchange, operation, and maintenance of passenger-carrying vehicles; (3) printing and binding; (4) travel expenses of persons employed in administrative, supervisory, or facilitating capacities within a foreign country or from a foreign country to the United States and return, including such expenses to first-duty stations; and (5) payment to or reimbursement of other agencies or individuals for administrative expenses incurred by them.

(d) For the purpose of this title [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix], the Administrator is authorized

(1) to utilize the facilities, services, and personnel of units and agencies within the Department of Agriculture; to enter into agreements with other public or private agencies or individuals; to utilize (pursuant to such agreements) the facilities and services of such agencies and individuals and to delegate to them functions under this title [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix]; and to allocate or transfer funds to (in addition to the transfers authorized by the Department of Agriculture Appropriation Acts for the fiscal years 1944 and 1945), or otherwise to pay or reimburse such units, agencies, and individuals for expenses in connection therewith;

(2) to accept and utilize voluntary and uncompensated services; and

(3) to cooperate with the Secretary of State in the negotiation or renegotiation of agreements with foreign governments relating to the importation of workers into the United States. (Feb. 14, 1944, ch. 16, title I, § 3, 58 Stat. 12.)

EXPENSE LIMITATION

Act Apr. 1, 1944, ch. 152, title I, § 1, 58 Stat. 157, provided in part: "Notwithstanding the percentage limitation in section 3 (c) of the Farm Labor Supply Appropriation Act, 1944, [section 1353 (c) of this Appendix] a total amount not exceeding $972,000 shall be available for administrative expenses pursuant to such section under the combined sum of the direct appropriation in section 1 of such Act [section 1351 of this Appendix] and the appropriation in Public Law 45 of the Seventy-eighth Congress [set out as a note under section 1351 af this Appendix].”

§ 1354. Same; limitations on use of funds.—(a) No part of the funds appropriated in this title [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix] shall be expended for the transportation of any worker from the county where he resides or is working to a place of employment outside of such county without the prior consent in writing of the county extension agent of such county, if such worker has resided in such county for a period of one year or more immediately prior thereto and has been engaged in agricultural labor as his principal occupation during such period.

(b) No part of the funds appropriated in this title [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix], or heretofore appropriated or made available to any department or agency of the Government for the recruiting, transportation, or placement of agricultural workers, shall be used directly or indirectly to fix, regulate, or impose minimum wages or housing standards, to regulate hours of work, or to impose or enforce collective-bargaining requirements or union membership, with respect to any agricultural labor, except with respect to workers imported into the United States from a foreign country and then only to the extent required to comply with agreements with the government of such foreign country: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall prevent the expenditure of such funds in connection with the negotiation of agreements with employers of agricultural workers which may provide that prevailing wage rates shall be paid for particular crops and areas involved and that shelter shall be provided for such workers.

(c) No part of the funds appropriated in this title [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix] shall be used for the establishment

or maintenance of regional offices. (Feb. 14, 1944, ch. 16, title I, § 4, 58 Stat. 14.)

§ 1355. Same; payments as liable to withholding tax; definitions; deposit of certain receipts; transfer of C. C. C. camps, applicability of social security, immigration and alien registration laws; amendment and supersedure of act April 29, 1943, ch. 82, 57 Stat. 70; use of prisoners of war; short title.-(a) Funds appropriated by this title [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix] may be expended without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes [Title 41, § 5].

(b) Any payments made by the United States or other public or private agencies or employers to aliens brought into the United States under this title shall not be subject to deduction or withholding under section 143 (b) of the Internal Revenue Code [Title 26, § 143 (b)].

(c) For the purpose of this title [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix]

(1) the term "State" includes Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico; (2) the term "worker" includes nationals of the United States and aliens;

(3) the term "agricultural labor" includes any services or activities included within the provisions of section 3 (f) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 [Title 29, § 203 (f)] or section 1426 (h) of the Internal Revenue Code [Title 26, § 1426 (h)].

(d) Effective July 1, 1943, notwithstanding section 3 of the Act of June 29, 1936 (U. S. C., title 40, sec. 433), receipts derived for the account of the United States from the use and occupancy of agricultural labor supply centers, including camps and facilities heretofore used by or under the control of the Farm Security Administration, shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided, That all receipts derived from the furnishing of subsistence to workers shall be credited to the appropriation in section 1 [section 1351 of this Appendix] and be available for expenditure by the Administrator for the replenishment of subsistence supplies and for expenses incident to the furnishing of such subsistence.

(e) The former Civilian Conservation Corps camps shall be transferred without charge to the Administrator, to the extent that he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this title [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix]: Provided, That no such camp which is being utilized by any other agency of the Government, or which has been transferred to any State, county, municipality, or nonprofit organization, shall be transferred to the Administrator under this subsection without the consent of such agency, State, county, municipality, or organization.

(f) Notwithstanding provisions of title I of the Social Security Act, as amended [Title 42, §§ 301-306] (relating to grants to States for old-age assistance), and of appropriations for payments thereunder, in any case in which any State pays old-age assistance to any individual at a rate not in excess of the rate of old-age assistance paid to such individual during the month of July 1943, any failure to take into consideration any income and resources of such individual arising from agricultural labor performed by him

as an employee, or from labor otherwise performed by him in connection with the raising or harvesting of agricultural commodities, after the date of enactment of this Act [sections 13511355 of this Appendix] and prior to the seventh calendar month occurring after the termination of hostilities in the present war, as proclaimed by the President shall not be a basis of excluding payments made to States under section 3 of such title [Title 42, §303], of refusing to approve a State plan under section 2 of such title [Title 42, § 302], or of withholding certification pursuant to section 4 of such title [Title 42, § 304].

(g) In order to facilitate the employment by agricultural employers in the United States of native-born residents of North America, South America, and Central America, and the islands adjacent thereto, desiring to perform agricultural labor in the United States, during continuation of hostilities in the present war, any such resident desiring to enter the United States for that purpose shall be exempt from the payment of head tax required by section 2 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 [Title 8, § 132], and from other admission charges, and shall be exempt from those excluding provisions of section 3 of such Act [Title 8, § 136] which relate to contract laborers, the requirements of literacy, and the payment of passage by corporations, foreign government, or others; and any such resident shall be admitted to perform agricultural labor in the United States for such time and under such conditions (but not including the exaction of bond to insure ultimate departure from the United States) as may be required by regulations prescribed by the Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization with the approval of the Attorney General; and in the event such regulations require documentary evidence of the country of birth of any such resident which he is unable to furnish, such requirement may be waived by the admitting officer of the United States at the point where such resident seeks entry into the United States if such official has other proof satisfactory to him that such resident is a native of the country claimed as his birthplace. Each such resident shall be provided with an identification card (with his photograph and fingerprints) to be prescribed under such regulations which shall be in lieu of all other documentary requirements, including the registration at time of entry or after entry required by the Alien Registration Act of 1940 [Title 8, §§ 137, 155, 156a, 451-460 and Title 18, §§ 9-13]. Any such resident admitted under the foregoing provisions who fails to maintain the status for which he was admitted or to depart from the United States in accordance with the terms of his admission shall be taken into custody under a warrant issued by the Attorney General at any time after entry and deported in accordance with section 20 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917 [Title 8, § 156]. Sections 5 and 6 of such Act [Title 8, §§ 139, 142] shall not apply to the importation of aliens under this title [sections 1351-1355 of this Appendix]. No provision of this title shall authorize the admission into the United States of any enemy alien.

(h) When authorized by the Administrator, workers under the program may be used in the packing, canning, freezing, dry