§ 1387. Photographic reproductions and maps.-The Secretary may furnish reproductions of such aerial or other photographs, mosaics, and maps as have been obtained in connection with the authorized work of the Department to farmers and governmental agencies at the estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions, and to persons other than farmers at such prices (not less than estimated cost of furnishing such reproductions) as the Secretary may determine, the money received from such sales to be deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation charged with the cost of making such reproductions. This section shall not affect the power of the Secretary to make other disposition of such or similar materials under any other provisions of existing law. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title II, § 387, 52 Stat. 68.)

§ 1388. Utilization of local agencies.-(a) The provisions of section 590h (b) and section 590k of Title 16, as amended, relating to the utilization of State, county, local committees, the extension service, and other approved agencies, and to recognition and encouragement of cooperative associations, shall apply in the administration of this chapter; and the Secretary shall, for such purposes, utilize the same local, county, and State committees as are utilized under sections 590g-590q of Title 16, as amended. The local administrative areas designated under section 590h (b) of Title 16, as amended, for the administration of programs under sections 590a-590q of Title 16, and the local administrative areas designated for the administration of this chapter shall be the same.

(b) The Secretary is authorized and directed, from any funds made available for the purposes of the Acts in connection with which county committees are utilized, to make payments to county committees of farmers to cover the estimated administrative expenses incurred or to be incurred by them in cooperating in carrying out the provisions of such Acts. All or part of such estimated administrative expenses of any such committee may be deducted pro rata from the payments under sections 590a-590q of Title 16, parity payments, or loans, or other payments under such Acts, made unless payment of such expenses is otherwise provided by law. The Secretary may make such payments to such committees in advance of determination of performance by farmers. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title III, § 388, 52 Stat. 68.)

§ 1389. Personnel. The Secretary is authorized and directed to provide for the execution by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration of such of the powers conferred upon him by this chapter as he deemes may be appropriately exercised by such Administration; and for such purposes the provisions of law applicable to appointment and compensation of persons employed by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration shall apply. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title III, § 389, 52 Stat. 69.)

TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS

Agricultural Adjustment Administration consolidated with other agencies into Agricultural Conservation and Adjustment Administration for duration of war, see Ex. Ord. No. 9069, set out in note under section 601 of Appendix to Title 50, War.

§ 1390. Separability clause.-If any provision of this chapter, or the application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the chapter and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, and the provisions of sections 590a-590q of Title 16, shall not be affected thereby. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, if any provision of this chapter should be held not to be within the power of the Congress to regulate interstate and foreign commerce, such provision shall not be held invalid if it is within the power of the Congress to provide for the general welfare or any other power of the Congress. If any provision of this chapter for marketing quotas with respect to any commodity should be held invalid, no provision of this chapter for marketing quotas with respect to any other commodity shall be affected thereby. If the application of any provision for a referendum should be held invalid, the application of other provsions shall not be affected thereby. If by reason of any provision for a referendum the application of any such other provision to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the application of such other provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title III, § 390, 52 Stat. 69.)

PART II.-APPROPRIATIONS AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES

§ 1391. Appropriations; loans from Commodity Credit Corporation. (a) Beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year for the administration of this chapter and for the making of soil conservation and other payments such sums as Congress may determine, in addition to any amount made available pursuant to section 5900 of Title 16, as amended.

(b) For the administration of this chapter (and the provisions of sections 1501-1518 of this title) during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938, there is hereby authorized to be made available from the funds appropriated for such fiscal year for carrying out the purposes of sections 590g-590q of Title 16, as amended, a sum not to exceed $5,000,000.

(c) During each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1941, the Commodity Credit Corporation is authorized and directed to loan to the Secretary such sums, not to exceed $50,000,000, as he estimates will be required during such fiscal year, to make crop insurance premium advances and to make advances pursuant to the applicable provisions of sections 590h and 590l of Title 16, in connection with programs applicable to crops harvested in the calendar year in which such fiscal year ends, and to pay the administrative expenses of county agricultural conservation associations for the calendar year in which such fiscal year ends. The sums so loaned during any fiscal year shall be transferred to the current appropriation available for carrying out sections 590g, 590h, 590i, 590j-590q of Title 16 and shall be repaid, with interest at a rate to be determined by the Secretary but not less than the cost of money to the Commodity Credit Corporation for a comparable period, during the succeeding fiscal year from the appropriation available for that year or

from any unobligated balance of the appropriation for any other year. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title III, § 391, 52 Stat. 69; July 2, 1940, ch. 521, § 8, 54 Stat. 728.)

§ 1392. Administrative expenses; posting names and compensation of local employees.-(a) The Secretary is authorized and directed to make such expenditures as he deems necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter and sections 590g, 590h, 590i, 590j-590q of Title 16, including personal services and rents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; traveling expenses; supplies and equipment; lawbooks, books of reference, directors, periodicals, and newspapers; and the preparation and display of exhibits, including such displays at community, county, State, interstate, and international fairs within the United States. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed upon the request of the Secretary to establish one or more separate appropriation accounts into which there shall be transferred from the respective funds available for the purposes of this chapter and sections 590g, 590h, 590i, 590j-590q of Title 16, in connection with which personnel or other facilities of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration are utilized, proportionate amounts estimated by the Secretary to be required by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration for administrative expenses in carrying out or cooperating in carrying out any of the provisions of this chapter and sections 590g, 590h, 590i, 590j590q of Title 16.

(b) In the administration of sections 1301-1393 of this title and sections 590g, 590h, 590i, 590j-590q of Title 16, the aggregate amount expended in any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia, including regional offices, and in the several States (not including the expenses of county and local committees) shall not exceed 3 per centum of the total amount available for such fiscal year for carrying out the purposes of sections 1301-1393 of this title and sections 590a-590h, 590i, 590j590q of Title 16. In the administration of section 612c of this title, and sections 601, 602, 608a-608e, 610, 612, 614, 624, 671-674 of this title, the aggregate amount expended in any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942, for administrative expenses in the District of Columbia, including regional offices, and in the several States (not including the expenses of county and local committees) shall not exceed 4 per centum of the total amount available for such fiscal year for carrying out the purposes of said sections. In the event any administrative expenses of any county or local committee are deducted in any fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, from Soil Conservation Act payments, parity payments, or loans, each farmer receiving benefits under such provisions shall be apprised of the amount or percentage deducted from such benefit payment or loan on account of such administrative expenses. The names and addresses of the members and employees of any county or local committee, and the amount of such compensation received by each of them, shall be posted annually in a conspicuous place in the area within which they are employed. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3

p. m., ch. 30, title III, § 392, 52 Stat. 69; Jan. 31, 1942, ch. 32, 56 Stat. 41.)

AMENDMENTS

1942-Act Jan. 31, 1942, cited to text, amended section generally.

EFFECTIVE DATE

Amendment of subsecs. (a) and (b) of this section by act Jan. 31, 1942, cited to text, was made "effective for the fiscal year 1942 and subsequent fiscal years" by said act.

REFERENCES IN TEXT

Words "Soil Conservation Act" set out in subsec. (b) mean Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, set out as sections 590a-590h, 590i, 590j-590q of Title 16, Conservation.

§ 1393. Allotment of appropriations.-All funds for carrying out the provisions of this chapter shall be available for allotment to bureaus and offices of the Department, and for transfer to such other agencies of the Federal Government, and to such State agencies, as the Secretary may request to cooperate or assist in carrying out the provisions of this chapter. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title III, § 393, 52 Stat. 70.)

SUBCHAPTER III.-COTTON POOL PARTICIPATION TRUST
CERTIFICATES

§ 1401. Appropriation.-There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, from any moneys in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $1,800,000, or so much thereof as may be required by the Secretary to accomplish the purposes hereinafter declared and authorized. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay to, or upon the order of, the Secretary, such a part or all of the sum hereby authorized to be appropriated at the request of the Secretary. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title IV, § 401, 52 Stat. 70.)

SETTLEMENT OF CERTAIN CLAIMS AND ACCOUNTS

Act June 5, 1942, ch. 349, §§ 2, 3, 56 Stat. 324, authorized Comptroller General to relieve disbursing and certifying officers from liability for payments made under sections 1401-1404, 1405-1407 of this title, upon certificate of Secretary of Agriculture that such payments were made in good faith, and also provided that no action should be taken to recover such excess payments, if the Secretary of Agriculture should further certify that, in view of the good faith of the parties or other circumstances of the case, such attempt to recover them would be inadvisable or inequitable.

§ 1402. Deposit of appropriation to credit of Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary is hereby authorized to draw from the Treasury of the United States any part or all of the sum hereby authorized to be appropriated, and to deposit same to his credit with the Treasurer of the United States, under special symbol number, to be available for disbursement for the purposes hereinafter stated. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title IV, § 402, 52 Stat. 70.)

§ 1403. Allotment of funds to manager of cotton pool for purchase of certificates.-The Secretary is hereby authorized to make available, from the sum hereby authorized to be appropriated, to the manager of the cotton pool, such sum or sums as may

be necessary to enable the manager to purchase, take up, and cancel, subject to the restrictions hereinafter reserved, pool participation trust certificates, form C-5-I, where such certificates shall be tendered to the manager, cotton pool, by the person or persons shown by the records of the Department to have been the lawful holder and owner thereof on or before May 1, 1938, the purchase price to be paid for the certificates so purchased to be at the rate of $1 per five-hundred-pound bale for every bale or fractional part thereof represented by the certificates C-5-I. The Secretary is further authorized to pay directly, or to advance to, the manager of the cotton pool, to enable him to pay costs and expenses incident to the purchase of certificates as aforesaid, and any balance remaining to the credit of the Secretary, or the manager, cotton pool, not required for the purchase of these certificates in accordance with provisions of this chapter, shall, at the expiration of the purchase period, be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title IV, § 403, 52 Stat. 70; Apr. 7, 1938, ch. 107, § 13, 52 Stat. 204.)

CROSS REFERENCE

Delegation of regulatory functions of Secretary of Agriculture, see section 516a et seq. of Title 5, Executive Departments and Government Officers and Employees.

§ 1404. Purchase of outstanding pool participation certificates; time limit; rules and regulations. The authority of the manager, cotton pool, to purchase and pay for certificates hereunder shall extend to and include the 31st day of July 1938: Provided, That after expiration of the said limit, the purchase may be consummated of any certificates tendered to the manager, cotton pool, on or before July 31, 1938, but where for any reason the purchase price shall not have been paid by the manager, cotton pool. The Secretary is authorized to promulgate such rules, regulations, and requirements as in his discretion are proper to effectuate the general purposes of sections 1401-1407 of this title, which purpose is here stated to be specifically to authorize the purchase of outstanding pool participation trust certificates, form C-5-I, for a purchase price to be determined at the rate of $1 per bale, or twenty one-hundredths cent per pound, for the cotton evidenced by the said certificates, provided such certificates be tendered by holders thereof in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary not later than the 31st day of July 1938, and provided such certificates may not be purchased from persons other than those shown by the records of the Department to have been holders thereof on or before the 1st day of May 1938. (Feb. 16, 1938, 3 p. m., ch. 30, title IV, § 404, 52 Stat. 71; Apr. 7, 1938, ch. 107, § 14, 52 Stat. 204.)

§ 1404a. Same; extension of time limit.—The authority of the manager, cotton pool, to purchase and pay for participation trust certificates, Form C-5-I, shall extend to and include the 30th day of September 1939, but after the expiration of said limit the purchase may be consummated of any such certificates tendered to the manager, cotton pool, on or before September 30, 1939, but where for any reason the purchase price shall not have