PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 518 -AUG. 29, 1949
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(2) Subsection (b) (10) is amended (i) by deleting from subpara-
§ 301 (b) (10).
graph (A) the word "cotton" where it first appears and the language
Postp. 1057.
"40 per centum in the case of cotton" and (ii) by adding a new
subparagraph (C) as follows:
"Normalsupply. "
4(C) The 'normal supply' of cotton for any marketing year shall
be the estimated domestic consumption of cotton for the marketing
year for which such normal supply is being determined, plus the esti-
mated exports of cotton for such marketing year, plus 30 per centum
of the sum of such consumption and exports as an allowance for
carry-over."
7 U.St. C,
pp. I
(3) Subsection (b) (16) is amended by (i) striking from subpara-
§1(b)(1a6).
graph (A) the word "cotton" and (ii) by adding a new subparagraph
(C) as follows:
"Totalsupply."
"(C) 'Total supply' of cotton for any marketing year shall be the
carry-over at the beginning of such marketing year, plus the estimated
production of cotton in the United States during the calendar year in
which such marketing year begins and the estimated imports of cotton
into the United States during such marketing year."
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(b) Section 374 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as
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amended, is amended by inserting "(a)" before the first paragraph
and by adding the following new paragraph:
toMhenemnt prior
"(b) With respect to cotton, the Secretary, upon such terms and
conditions as he may by regulation prescribe, shall provide, through
the county and local committees for the measurement prior to planting
of an acreage on the farm equal to the farm acreage allotment if so
requested by the farm operator, and any farm on which the acreage
planted to cotton does not exceed such measured acreage shall be
Remeasurement.
deemed to be in compliance with the farm acreage allotment. The
Secretary shall similarly provide for the remeasurement upon request
by the farm operator of the acreage planted to cotton on the farm,
but the operator shall be required to reimburse the local committee for
the expense of such remeasurement if the planted acreage is found
to be in excess of the allotted acreage. If the acreage determined to
be planted to cotton on the farm is in excess of the farm acreage allot-
ment, the Secretary shall by appropriate regulation provide for a
reasonable time within which such planted acreage may be adjusted
to the farm acreage allotment."
5 f.t. 1362 .
(c) Section 362 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as
anmended, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following:
Notitotallotnwlt
"Notice of the farm acreage allotment established for each farm
shown by the records of the county committee to be entitled to such
allotment shall insofar as practicable be mailed to the farm operator
in sufficient time to be received prior to the date of the referendum."
standadgrasde.
SEC. 3. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, Middling
seven-eighths inch cotton shall be the standard grade for purposes of
parity and price support.
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1330(9),
(b) Paragraph (9) of Public Law 74, Seventy-seventh Congress, is
1340(9).
amended by striking out "cotton and".
SEC. 4. Subsection (c) of section 358 of the Agricultural Adjust-
7u.s ..s
a8358(c). ment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
tatreage allot-
(c) The national acreage allotment shall be apportioned among
ments.
the States on the basis of the average acreage of peanuts harvested
for nuts in the State in the five years preceding the year in which
the national allotment is determined, with adjustments for trends,
abnormal conditions of production, and the State peanut acreage allot-
ment for the crop immediately preceding the crop for which the allot-
mont.
ment hereunder is established: Provided, That the allotment estab-
lished for any State shall be not less than (1) the allotment estab-
lished for such State for the crop produced in the calendar year 1941,
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