tion and (b) the person authorized to approve the loan or advance on behalf of the Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation finds that a greater quantity of the crops or livestock specified in the application would be likely to be produced if the loan or advance is made than would be produced otherwise, or (2) any loan or advance under the provisions of section 201 (e) of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 (12 U. S. C. 1148), as amended (other than loans or advances under bulletins F-1 and F-2 made or approved on the conditions specified in this section) except (a) in regions in which loans or advances had been made under said section 201 (e) of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932 within one year prior to December 1, 1942, or (b) in any region which the Secretary shall have designated as a region in which the making of such loans or advances is necessary in order to finance the production of crops or livestock that otherwise would not be produced in such region: Provided, That none of the limitations provided for by this section shall apply with respect to any loan or advance made or approved at any time for the purpose of financing the completion of production undertaken before July 12, 1943, or for the purpose of protecting or preserving the security for or assisting in the collection or liquidation of any loan or advance made or approved before such date. SEC. 3. Within the unit limit of cost fixed by law the lump-sum appropriations herein made for the Department shall be available for the purchase of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles necessary in the conduct of the field work of the Department outside the District of Columbia, but the number of such vehicles purchased or otherwise acquired for all the activities of the Department for which appropriations are made in this Act shall not exceed the total number indicated for purchase by the Department under the statements of proposed expenditures for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles in the Budget plus twelve additional such vehicles for work in connection. with experimental forests and ranges: Provided, That such vehicles shall be used only for official service outside the District of Columbia, but this shall not prevent the continued use for official service of motortrucks in the District of Columbia: Provided further, That appropriations contained in this Act shall be available for the maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passengercarrying vehicles: Provided further, That the funds available under the appropriation "Conservation and use of agricultural land resources" may be used for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one passenger-carrying vehicle in the District of Columbia. SEC. 4. Provisions of law prohibiting or restricting the employment of aliens shall not apply to (1) the temporary employment of translators when competent citizen translators are not available; (2) employment in cases of emergency of persons in the field service of the Department for periods of not more than sixty days; (3) employment on the emergency rubber project; (4) employment by the Rural Electrification Administration of not to exceed twenty junior engineer trainees who are citizens of other American republics; and (5) employment under the appropriation for the Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations. SEC. 5. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or that such person does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That such administrative or supervisory employees of the Department as may be designated for the purpose by the Secretary are hereby authorized to administer the oaths to persons making affidavits required by this section, and they shall charge no fee for so doing: Provided further, That any person who engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall be construed to require an affidavit from any person employed for less than sixty days for sudden emergency work involving the loss of human life or destruction of property, and payment of salary or wages may be made to such persons from applicable appropriations for services rendered in such emergency without execution of the affidavit contemplated by this section. SEC. 6. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to alter, or modify in any manner whatsoever, the aggregate maximum personnel ceilings established by section 14 (a) of the Federal Employees' Pay Act of 1946 (Public Law No. 390) nor to authorize the compensation of a greater aggregate number than the number provided for in the aforesaid Act. In the case of any activity whose personnel may be increased in consequence of appropriations contained in this Act, the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall recommend and effectuate such reduction in personnel in such governmental agencies as he may deem advisable as will offset any increase in personnel for which provision is made in this Act. SEC. 7. This Act may be cited as the "Department of Agriculture Appropriation Act, 1947". (June 22, 1946. Public Law, 422, 79th Cong., 2d sess.) INDEX [References are to Title and Section] ABATEMENT AND REVIVAL ground for, 5 § 133y-7 ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT— Exemptions, agencies or bodies exempt from Administrative Adjustment of tort claims Exhibits, record for decision, 5 § 1006 against U. S., 28 § 921 Suits on tort claims against U. S., 28 § 931- ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT Service Commission, 5 § 1010 Agency for decision of officer, 5 § 1007 Appearing, rule making, 5 § 1003 Certification of entire record to agency for Certiorari, review of decision of agency, 5 § 1009 Civil Service Commission, powers, 5 § 1010 Construction and operation, 5 § 1011 Copy of submitted data or evidence, right to Counsel, right to representation by, 5 § Court martial, exemption from Act, 5 § 1001 Decisions, 5 §§ 1006, 1007, 1009 Notice of proposed rule making, 5 § 1003 Finality of agency action, 5 § 1009 Hearings, 5 § 1003, 1004, 1006 Initial decision by agency without presiding Denials, 5 § 1005 Proposed rule making 5 § 1003 Withdrawal suspension or revocation of Declaratory orders, authority of agency to Oaths and affirmations, authority of presid- issue, 51004 Definitions, 5 § 1001 Denials, 5 §§ 1005, 1007 ing officers to administer, 5 § 1006 Opinions of agency available to public in- spection, 5 1002 Deposition, power of presiding officers to Orders, 5 § 1001 take, 5 1006 Effect on other laws, 5 § 1011 Effective date, 5 § 1011 Evidence, 5 §§ 1005-1007, 1009 Examiners appointment, assignment, etc., 5 Exceptions to decisions, submission before Agency available to public inspection, 5 ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT-| ADMINISTRATOR OF FARMERS' Continued Pendency of judicial review, 5 § 1009 Petition or request, denials, 5 § 1005 Presiding officers, decision, 5 § 1007 Process or demand, contest, 5 § 1005 Public information, 5 § 1002 Civil Service Commission, 5 § 1010 Affidavit of bias or disqualification of offi- Decision, 5 §§ 1006, 1007 Judicial review, 5 § 1009 Subpoena by Civil Service Commission, 5 Reports, Civil Service Commission's right Rule making 5 §§ 1001, 1003, 1007 Authority granted agencies, 5 § 1011 HOME ADMINISTRATION Appointment, 7 § 1015 ADVERTISEMENTS Public Contracts, Advertising for proposals for purchases Exceptions, Transportation for govt. etc. 49 § 65 ADVISORY COMMITTEE Consumers Advisory Committee, notice of Industry advisory committee, Strategic and critical war materials, 50 § 98a Labor advisory committee, notice of price AFFIDAVITS Bias or prejudice, Administrative Procedure Substitute check or warrant, issuance on ADVANCES OF PUBLIC MONEYS Extension of classification act, 5 § 681 AGRICULTURAL ADUSTMENT ACT Tobacco quota and acreage allotments, 7 AGRICULTURAL ADUSTMENT ACT Hops and their products included, 7 § 608c-1 Cotton in year beginning Aug. 1, 1947, 7 Crop insurance premium advances, loans by Declaration of Policy, 7 § 1282 Loans by Commodity Credit Corporation, 7 AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT | AGRICULTURAL LABOR OF 1938-Continued Marketing quotas See Farm Labor Alien workers, 50 App. § 1355 Cotton, prohibited in year beginning Aug. Appropriation to provide supply of workers, 1, 1947, 7 § 1341 note Corn & wheat, 7 § 1330 Peanuts for 1947, 7 § 1357 note, 1358. Apportionment, 7 § 1313 Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945, Separate appropriation accounts for admin- MINISTRATION FUNCTIONS note AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES Emergency Price Control, this index AGRICULTURAL CREDIT AGENCY 50 App. §§ 1351-1355 Civilian Conservation Corps camps, use by agricultural labor, 50 App. § 1355 Definition, 50 App. § 1355 Head Tax, exemption from payment, 50 App. Identification card of alien worker, 50 App. Immigration restrictions, exemption from, Income tax Deductions of payments to aliens brought Exemption from law providing for with- AGRICULTURAL LANDS AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT OF Generally, 7 §§ 1621-1629 Agricultural products, defined, 7 § 1626 Powers, functions and duties, 7 §§ 1030, Allotments to state, 7 § 1623 1031 AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Coordination and consolidation of functions, Emergency supplies for territories and pos- Farm Labor Supply Appropriation Act, 50 Opium Poppy Control Act, assistance in en- Special research fund, availability, 7 § 427i Annual financial statement, 7 § 367 Research, 7 §§ 427h, 427i, 427j Research, 7 §§ 427, 427i, 427j 343d-1 Appropriations for research, service work, Committees, establishment by Secretary of Cooperation with other branches of govern- Coordination and consolidation of functions National Advisory Committee, establishment Officers and employees, appointments, re- AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AGREE- Economic Stabilization Director, delegation AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AGREE- Economic Stabilization Director, approval Stabilization Administrator, approval of or- |