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PUBLIC LAW 202-AUG. 6, 1953

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Administration and shall be administered therein under the general direction and supervision thereof. (b) Employees in the Department of Agriculture who are being utilized on the effective date of this Act primarily for the performance of functions, powers, and duties heretofore or by this Act vested in the Farm Credit Administration, shall be transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Farm Credit Administration in those instances in which the Governor determines that they are qualified and necessary to carry out the functions, powers, and duties of the Farm Credit Administration. (c) All assets, funds, contracts, property, and records used and employed in the execution of the functions, powers, and duties heretofore or by this Act vested in the Farm Credit Administration are hereby transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the F a r m Credit Administration. (d) So much of the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, and other funds available or to be made available for salaries, expenses, and all other administrative expenditures as the Director of the Bureau of the Budget shall determine for use in the execution of the functions heretofore or by this Act vested in the Farm Credit Administration, shall be transferred to and vested in the Farm Credit Administration. (e) All unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations, or other funds, other than those mentioned in subsection (d) of this section, available (including those available for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1953) for the Farm Credit Administration and/or for the Secretary of Agriculture on account of the functions and activities of F a r m Credit Administration, shall be transferred to the F a r m Credit Administration and shall remain available for the exercise of the functions and activities of the Farm Credit Administration. DELEGATIONS TO DISTRICT INSTITUTIONS

SEC. 8. The F a r m Credit Administration is authorized and directed, by order or rules and regulations, to delegate to a Federal land bank such of the duties, powers, and authority of the Farm Credit Administration with respect to and over National Farm Loan Associations, their officers and employees, in the farm credit district wherein such Federal land bank is located, as may be determined to be in the interest of effective administration; and, in like manner, to delegate to a production credit corporation such of the duties, powers, and authority of the F a r m Credit Administration with respect to and over production credit associations, their officers and employees, in the farm credit district wherein such production credit corporation is located, as may be determined to be in the interest of effective administration; and, in either case the duties, powers, and authority so delegated shall be performed and exercised under such conditions and requirements and upon such terms as the F a r m Credit Administration may specify. Any Federal land bank or production credit corporation to which any such duties, powers, or authority may be delegated is hereby authorized and empowered to accept, perform, and exercise such duties, powers, and authority as may be so delegated to it. DIVISION OF COOPERATIVE M A R K E T I N G TRANSFERRED

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SEC. 9. There is hereby transferred from the Farm Credit Administration to the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of Agriculture the Division of Cooperative Marketing (by whatever name now called) authorized and created under and by virtue of an Act of Congress of July 2, 1926 (Public, Numbered 450, Sixty-ninth Con-