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1080 Dealers, etc ., to re- port qua rterly quan- tity on hand. Punishment for re- fusal to furnish reports, etc . "Person" construed . Access to internal reve nue tobac co r ec- ords. Sworn returns re- quired . Information for sta- tistical purposes only . Restriction on pu b- lica tion, etc . Census Bureau col- lection repealed . Vol .37,p . 106, re- pealed . Invalidity o f any pro- vision, etc ., not to af- feet remainder of Act. January 14, 1929. [S . 3779.] [Public, No. 662.] Western Navajo In- dian Reservation, Ariz . Sum authorized for tel ephon e to Kay enta Tub ercul osis San ato- rium on . Post, p. 1638. SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss. II. CHs. 69, 70 . 1929 . SEC . 3 . It shall be the duty of every dealer, manufacturer, growers' cooperative association, warehouseman, broker, holder, or owner, other than the original grower, except such persons as are excluded by the proviso to section 1 of this Act, to furnish within ten days after January 1, April 1, July 1, and October 1 of each year, com- pletely and correctly, to the best of his knowledge, a report of the quantity of leaf tobacco on hand, segregated in accordance with the blanks furnished by the Secretary of Agriculture . Any person, firm, association, or corporation required by this Act to furnish a report, and any officer, agent, or employee thereof who shall refuse or willfully neglect to furnish any of the information required by this Act, or shall willfully give answers that are false or misleading, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fine d not less th an $300 or mor e than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both . SEC . 4. The word "person )5 as used in this Act shall be held to embrace also any partnership, corporation, association, or other legal entity . SEC. 5 . The Secretary of Agriculture shall have access to the tobacco records of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue and of the several collectors of internal revenue for the purpose of obtaining lists of the persons subject to this Act and for the purpose of aiding the collection of the information herein required, and the Commis- sioner of Internal Reve nue and the s everal collec tors of intern al revenue shall cooperate with the Secretary of Agriculture in effectuating the provisions of this Act . SEC. 6. The returns herein provided for shall be made under oath before a collector or deputy collector of internal revenue, a post- master, assistant postmaster, or anyone authorized to administer oaths by State or Federal law. SEC . 7 . That the information furnished under the provisions of this Act shall be used only for the statistical purposes for which it is supplied . No publication shall be made by the Secretary of Agri- culture whereby the data furnished by any particular establishment can be identified, nor Shall the Secretary of Agriculture permit any- one other than the sworn employees of the Department of Agriculture to examine the individual reports . SEC . 8 . The Act approved April 30, 1912, providing for the collec- tion of tobacco statistics by the Bureau of the Census is hereby repealed . SEC . 9 . If any provision of this Act is declared unconstitutional or the applicability thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provisions to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby . Approved, January 14, 1929 . CHAP. 70.-An Act To authorize the construction of a telephone line from Flagstaff to Kayenta on the Western Navajo Indian Reservation, Arizona . Be it enacte d by the Sena te and House of Representat ives of t he United States o f America in Congress assembled, That not more than $35,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the recon- str uction of th e tele phone line from F lagst aff to the W estern Navajo Indian Agency at Tuba City, and for the construction of a continuation of said telephone line from Tuba City to the Tuber- culosis Sanatorium at Kayenta, Arizona . Approved, January 14, 1929 .