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7 5TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION-CHS . 71 8, 719-AUGUST 20, 1937 [CHAPTER 7181 AN ACT T o provide a surcharge on certain air mail carried in Alaska . Be it enacted by the Senate and Ho use of Representatives of the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That the Act of February 21, 1925, as amended by the Act approved August 24, 1935 (U . S . C ., 1934 edition, Supp. II, title 39, sec . 488), be, and it is h ereby, amend ed to read a s foll ows "The Postmaster General may provide difficult or emergency mail service in Alaska, at a total annual cost of not exceeding $25,000, including the establishment and equipment of relay stations, in such manner as he may think advisable, without advertising therefor ; and he is authorized, in his discretion, to contract, after adver- tisement in accordance with law, for the carriage of all classes of mail to, from, or within the Territory of Alaska, by airplane, pay- ment therefor to be made from the appropriation for star-route service in Alaska : Pr ovid ed, That the Postmaster General, in his discretion, may fix the postage for the mails carried, or any part thereof, by aircraft to, from, or within Alaska, at rates not exceed- ing in any case 30 cents per ounce or 15 cents per half ounce, not- wi thsta ndin g the dome stic air- mail rate auth orize d by the A ct o f June 12, 1934 (39 U. S. C., 463, 1934 edition)." Approved, August 20, 1937 . August 20, 1937 [11. R.6167] [Public, No . 327] Alaska , air m ail . 49 Stat . 744 . 39U.S .C ., Supp . II, § 488 . Emergency service . Relay stations . Contract for car- riage of mail by air- plane authorized . Proviso . Rates of postage . 48 Stat. 933. 39 U.S. C.§463. 725 [CHAPTER 719] AN ACT August 20, 193 7 To amend the Act known as the "Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930", [H . R . 67621 approved June 10, 1930, as amended .

[Public, No . 3281 Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States of America in Congress assembled, Th at paragraph 6 of section 1 of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act, 1930, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows "(6) The term dealer' means any person engaged in the business of buying or selling in carloads any perishable agricultural com- modity in interstate or foreign commerce, except that (A) no pro- ducer shall be considered as a dealer' in respect of sales of any such commodity of his own raising ; (B) no person buying any such commodity solely for sale at retail shall be considered as a dealer' in respect of any such commodity in any calendar year until his purchases of such commodity in carloads in such year are in excess of twenty ; and (C) no person buying any such commodity for can- ning and/or processing within the State where grown shall be con- sidered a dealer' whether or not the canned or processed product is to be shipped in interstate or foreign commerce, unless such prod- net is frozen or packed in ice within the meaning of paragraph 4 of this section . Any person not considered as a dealer' under cl aus es (A), (B), and (C) may elect to secure a license under the provisions of section 3, and in such case and while the license is in effect such person shall be considered as a dealer' . As used in this paragraph, the term in carloads' includes wholesale or jobbing quantities as defined for any such commodity by the Secretary

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SEC . 2 . That subsec tion 5 of se ction 2 of t he Peri shable Agric ul- tural Commodities Act, 1930, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows "(5) For any commission merchant, dealer, or broker, for a fraudulent purpose, to misrepresent by word, act, mark, stencil, label, Perishable Agricul- tural

Commodities Act of 1930, amend- ments . 46 Stat. 531 . 7 U.S.C.1499a (6). "Deale r" def ined . "In carloads." 46 Stat. 533. 7U.S.C.§499b.,5). Unfair conduct . Misre presen tation .