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1945-1948 POCKET SUPPLEMENT

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LAWS APPLICABLE

TO THE

UNITED STATES

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

(1948 EDITION)

EMBRACING

STATUTES OF A PERMANENT CHARACTER
REORGANIZATION PLANS AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS

AFFECTING THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

WHICH WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE REVISED EDITION, 1945 OR WHICH HAVE BEEN ENACTED OR ISSUED BETWEEN JANUARY 1, 1945, AND DECEMBER 31, 1948

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HD 185 . A3 1945

NITED STATES OF AMERICA 3-23-50

TITLE 1.-GENERAL PROVISIONS

Chapter 1.-RULES OF CONSTRUCTION

§1. Words denoting number, gender, and so forth.-In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, unless the context indicates otherwise

words importing the singular include and apply to several persons, parties, or things;

words importing the plural include the singular;

words importing the masculine gender include the feminine as well; words use in the present tense include the future as well as the present;

the words "insane" and "insane person" and "lunatic" shall include every idiot, lunatic, insane person, and person non compos mentis; the words "person" and "whoever" include corporations, companies, associations, firms, partnerships, societies, and joint stock companies, as well as individuals;

"officer" includes any person authorized by law to perform the duties of the office;

"signature" or "subscription" includes a mark when the person making the same intended it as such;

"oath" includes affirmation, and "sworn" includes affirmed;

"writing" includes printing and typewriting and reproductions of visual symbols by photographing, multigraphing, mimeographing, manifolding, or otherwise. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, § 1, 61 Stat. 633, amended June 25, 1948, ch. 645, § 6, 62 Stat. 859.)

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1So in original. Probably should read "used."

1948 Amendment.-Act June 25, 1948, cited to text, amended section to include within the definition the words "tense", "whoever", "signature", "subscription", and "writing" and a broader definition of the term "person".

Effective date.-Section 20 of Act June 25, 1948, cited to text, provided that the amendment of this section should be effective as of Sept. 1, 1948.

§2. "County" as including "parish", and so forth.

The word "county" includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, § 1, 61 Stat. 633.)

§3. "Vessel" as including all means of water transportation.

The word "vessel" includes every description of watercraft or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on water. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, § 1, 61 Stat. 633.)

84. "Vehicle" as including all means of land transportation. The word "vehicle" includes every description of carriage or other artificial contrivance used, or capable of being used, as a means of transportation on land. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, § 1, 61 Stat. 633.)

§ 5. "Company" or "association" as including successors and assigns.

The word "company" or "association", when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association", in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, § 1, 61 Stat. 633.)

§ 6. Limitation of term "products of American fisheries." Wherever, in the statutes of the United States or in the rulings, regulations, or interpretations of various administrative bureaus and agencies of the United States there appears or may appear the term "products of American fisheries" said term shall not include fresh or frozen fish fillets, fresh or frozen fish steaks, or fresh or frozen slices of fish substantially free of bone (including any of the foregoing divided into sections), produced in a foreign country or its territorial waters, in whole or in part with the use of the labor of persons who are not residents of the United States. (July 30, 1947, ch. 388, § 1, 61 Stat. 633.)

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