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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
Reorganization of executive agency as

ground for, 5 § 133y-7

ACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Administrative Adjustment of tort claims
against U. S., 28 § 921

Suits on tort claims against U. S., 28 § 931-
945.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT
Generally, 5 §§ 1001 to 1011
Action for judicial review, 5 § 1009
Adjudication, 5 §§ 1001, 1004
Advisory committees, appointment by Civil
Service Commission, 5 § 1010

Agency action, 5 §§ 1001, 1009
Ancillary matters, 5 § 1005
Appeal,

Agency for decision of officer, 5 § 1007
Superior agency authority, 5 § 1009

Appearance, 5 § 1005

Appearing, rule making, 5 § 1003

Certification of entire record to agency for
decision, 5 § 1007

5

Certiorari, review of decision of agency,
§ 1009
Civil Service Commission, powers, 5 § 1010
Claims for money or benefits, procedure for
submission of evidence, 5 § 1006
Conference for settlement or simplification
of issuance, power of presiding
officer, 5 § 1006

Construction and operation, 5 § 1011
Contempt, punishment for failure to appear
as witnss or produce evidence, 5
§ 1005

Copy of submitted data or evidence, right to
procure, 5 § 1005

Counsel, right to representation by, 5 §
1005

Court martial, exemption from Act, 5 § 1001
Cross examinations, right of party to con-
duct, 5 § 1006

Decisions, 5 §§ 1006, 1007, 1009

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT—
Continued

Exemptions, agencies or bodies exempt from
Act, 5 § 1001

Exhibits, record for decision, 5 § 1006
Federal register, Publication of

Notice of proposed rule making, 5 § 1003
Rules by agencies, 5 § 1002
Finality of agency action, 5 § 1009
Form of action for judicial review, 5 § 1009
Habeas corpus, action for judicial review, 5
§ 1009

Hearings, 5 § 1003, 1004, 1006

Initial decision by agency without presiding
at taking evidence, 5 § 1007
Injunction, action for judicial review, 5
§ 1009

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Denials, 5 § 1005

Proposed rule making 5 § 1003

Withdrawal suspension or revocation of
license, 51008

Declaratory orders, authority of agency to Oaths and affirmations, authority of presid-

issue, 5 § 1004

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
§§ 1006, 1010

Exceptions to decisions, submission before
decision upon agency reviewed, 5
§ 1007

Agency available to public inspection, 5

§ 1002

Appearance of witness, 5 § 1005
Declaratory orders, 5 § 1004
Evidence 5 §§ 1005, 1006

Jurisdiction for issuance, 5 § 1008
Record, 5 1007

Partial invalidity, 5 § 1011
Party defined, 5 § 1001

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Continued

Pendency of judicial review, 5 § 1009
Petition for issuance, amendment or repeal
of rule, 5 § 1003

Petition or request, denials, 5 § 1005
Postponement of effective date of action by
agency pending judicial review, 5
§ 1009

Presiding officers, decision, 5 § 1007
Process, postponement of effective date of
agency action pending review, 5
§ 1009

Process or demand, contest, 5 § 1005
Proposed findings and conclusions, submis-
sion, 51007

Public information, 5 § 1002
Publication or service of rule, 5 § 1003
Recommendations,

Civil Service Commission, 5 § 1010
Decision by officers, 5 § 1007
Record, 5 §§ 1002, 1007

Affidavit of bias or disqualification of offi-
cer, 5 § 1006

Decision, 5 §§ 1006, 1007
Evidence, 5 § 1006
Judicial review, 5 § 1009

Subpoena by Civil Service Commission, 5
§ 1010

Reports, Civil Service Commission's right
to require by agencies, 5 § 1010
Review of initial decision of officer by
agency, 51007

Rule making 5 §§ 1001, 1003, 1007
Rules, 51001

Authority granted agencies, 5 § 1011
Civil Service Commission, promulgation
by, 5 § 1010

Evidence, 5 § 1006

Jurisdiction for issuance of substantive
rule, 5 § 1008

Open to inspection by public, 5 § 1002
Petition for issuance, amendment or re-
peal, 5 § 1003

Record, 51007

Sanction, 5 §§ 1001, 1008
Evidence, 5 § 1006

Record, 5 § 1007

Separability, 5 § 1011

Separation of functions, 5 § 1004
Subordinates, action by, 5 § 1007
Subpoenas, 5 §§ 1005, 1006, 1010
Subsequent legislation, 5 § 1011
Time of becoming effective 5 § 1011
Transcript of evidence 5 §§ 1005, 1006
Trial de novo by reviewing court 5 § 1009
Venue of action for judicial review 5 § 1009
Veterans' Emergency Housing, exemption

from operation of act, 5 § 1001
Withdrawal of officer deeming himself dis-
qualified, 5 § 1006

Witnesses, powers of Civil Service Commis-
sion, 5 § 1010

ADMINISTRATOR

Emergency Price Control, this index
War Food Administrator, this index

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Bias or prejudice, Administrative Procedure
Act, 5 1006

Substitute check or warrant, issuance on
loss, etc. of check of Post Office
Department, 31 § 528

ADVANCES OF PUBLIC MONEYS
Prohibition against, 31 § 529
AGENCIES
Civil Service,

Extension of classification act, 5 § 681
Defined, 5 § 1001

AGRICULTURAL ADUSTMENT ACT
Acreage allotments, additional acreage, 7
§ 1358
Refunds, 7 § 612a

Tobacco quota and acreage allotments, 7
§ 1312 note

AGRICULTURAL ADUSTMENT ACT
Emergency Price Control Act, application,
50 App. § 902

Hops and their products included, 7 § 608c-1
AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT
OF 1938
Acreage allotments,

Cotton in year beginning Aug. 1, 1947, 7
§ 1341 note

Crop insurance premium advances, loans by
Commodity Credit Corporation to
make, 7 § 1391

Declaration of Policy, 7 § 1282
Transfer of functions, 7 § 1282
Emergency farm acreage allotment, 7
§ 1344 note

Loans by Commodity Credit Corporation, 7
§ 1302

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.
Tobacco, 7 § 1312

Apportionment, 7 § 1313
Penalties, 7 § 1314
Wheat, 7 § 1334

Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1945,
60 § 208

Separate appropriation accounts for admin-
istrative expenses, 7 § 1392
Suspension of provisions, 7 § 1381 note
AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT AD-

MINISTRATION FUNCTIONS
transferred to Department of Agri-
culture, Reorganization Plan 3 of
1946, 5 § 133y-133y-16, 7 § 610

note

AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES
Distribution and marketing of agricultural

products, 7 §§ 1621-1629

Emergency Price Control, this index

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.
§ 1355

Identification card of alien worker, 50 App.
§ 1355

Immigration restrictions, exemption from,
50 App. § 1355

Income tax

Deductions of payments to aliens brought
into country as laborers, 50 App.
§ 1355

Exemption from law providing for with-
holding at source, 26 § 1621
Old Age assistance, wages earned in agri-

culture labor not to affect benefits
under, 50 App. § 1355

AGRICULTURAL LANDS
Research, 7 §§ 427, 427i

Investigation in interstate shipment, 7 § 414 AGRICULTURAL MARKETING ACT OF

Maximum price, 50 App. § 963

AGRICULTURAL CREDIT AGENCY
Powers, functions and duties, 7 §§ 1030,

1031

AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT
Appropriations, this index

Coordination and consolidation of functions,
etc., to increase marketing research,
etc., 7 § 1625

Emergency supplies for territories and pos-
session, Second Supplemental Sur-
plus Appropriation Rescission Act,
1946, 60 § 215

Farm Labor Supply Appropriation Act, 50
App. 88 1351, 1355
Foreign economic administration's functions
transferred to, 50 App. § 601, Ex.
Ord. No. 9630

Opium Poppy Control Act, assistance in en-
forcement, 21 § 188j
Solicitor, legal work under Farm Tenancy
Act, 7 § 1015

Special research fund, availability, 7 § 427i
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STA-
TIONS

Annual financial statement, 7 § 367
Appropriations,

Research, 7 §§ 427h, 427i, 427j
Marketing research projects, use of appro-
priations, 7 § 427j

Research, 7 §§ 427, 427i, 427j
Sale by Secretary of Agricultural Experi-
ment Station products in Puerto
Rico, 7 § 419
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION WORK
APPROPRIATION, 7 § 343c,

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Generally, 7 §§ 1621-1629

Agricultural products, defined, 7 § 1626
Allotments to state, 7 § 1623

Appropriations for research, service work,
etc., 7 § 1623

Committees, establishment by Secretary of
Agriculture, 7 §§ 1628, 1629
Contracts for research and service work, 7
§ 1624

Cooperation with other branches of govern-
ment, private research organiza-
tions, etc., 7 § 1624

Coordination and consolidation of functions
of department, increase marketing
research, etc., 7 § 1625
Expenditures for administration of act, 7
§ 1627

National Advisory Committee, establishment
and functions, 7 § 1628

Officers and employees, appointments, re-
moval, etc., for administration of
act, 7 § 1627

AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AGREE-
MENT ACT

Economic Stabilization Director, delegation
to Director of certain functions
under act, Ex. Ord. No. 9705,
7 § 608c

AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AGREE-
MENT ACT OF 1937

Economic Stabilization Director, approval
of orders by, Ex. Ord. No. 9705,
7 § 608c

Stabilization Administrator, approval of or-
ders issued under act, Ex. Ord. No.
9705, 7 § 608c

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