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60 STAT.] 79TH CONG. , 2D SESS.-CHS. 30-32 -FEB. 18 , 19, 20, 1946 joint recommendation for revision of the Pay Readjustment Act of 1942, as amended, including but not restricted to recommendations with respect to increases authorized for flying pay, parachute pay, glider pay, submarine pay, and similar special pay and allowances. SEC. 301. This Act may be cited as the "First Supplemental Sur- plus Appropriation Rescission Act, 1946". Approved February 18, 1946. [CHAPTER 31] AN ACT To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Law Numbered 118, Seventy-eighth Congress, as amended by Public Law Numbered 276, Seventy-eighth Congress, is amended by striking out all of the first sentence therein following the words "marketing years 1944-45, 1945-46" and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "1946-47 and 1947-48 shall be proclaimed and the national marketing quota proclaimed by the Secretary and the State and farm acreage allotments established pursuant to the proclaimed national quota for burley tobacco for the 1946-47 marketing year shall be reduced uni- formly so as to make available a supply of burley tobacco for such marketing year not less than the reserve supply level: Provided, That no allotment of one acre or less shall be reduced by more than 10 per centum." The amendment made by this section shall not apply to flue-cured tobacco for the 1946-47 marketing year. SEC. 2. The first sentence of section 314 (a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "The marketing of any kind of tobacco in excess of the marketing quota for the farm on which the tobacco is produced shall be subject to a penalty of 40 per centum of the average market price (calculated to the nearest whole cent) for such kind of tobacco for the immediately preceding marketing year." The amendment made by this section shall become effective July 1, 1946, except that in the case of flue-cured tobacco such amendment shall become effective May 1, 1947. Approved February 19, 1946. [CHAPTER 32] AN ACT To amend section 409 of the Interstate Commerce Act, with respect to the utilization by freight forwarders of the services of common carriers by motor vehicle. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 409 of the Interstate Commerce Act, as amended, is amended to read as follows: "'U T IL IZATION BY FREIGHT FORWARDERS OF SERVICES OF COMMON CARRIERS BY MOTOR VEHICLE "SEC. 409. (a) (1) The Commission shall at the earliest practi- cable time determine and by order prescribe the reasonable, just, and equitable terms and conditions, including terms and conditions governing the determination and fixing of the compensation to be paid or observed, under which freight forwarders subject to this part may utilize the services and instrumentalities of common carriers 21 56 Stat. 359. 37 U. S. C., Supp. V, §§ 101-120. Ante, p. 20; post, pp. 343 et seg., 858 et seg., 868. Short title. February 19, 1946 IH. R. 5135] [Public Law 302] Burley and flue- cured tobacco. Marketing quotas. 57 Stat. 387; 58 Stat. 136. 7U.S.C., Supp.V, § 1313 note. Excess marketing. 54 Stat. 393. 7 U. S. C.§ 1314(a). Effective dates. February 20, 1946 [H. R . 27641 [Public Law 303] Freight forwarders. 66 Stat. 290. 49U.S. C, Supp.V, 11009. Terms and condi- tions.