Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 45 Part 1.djvu/785

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734 Designated lands ex- empt from taxation while title in the Indian, etc . Exemption period limited . Not ov er 160 acres exempt . May 24, 1828 . [H. R. 12632.] [Pu blic, No . 505.] European corn borer. Amount au th ori zed for methods of eradi- cation . Ante, p. 568. Post, pp . 1208, 1216 . Cooperation of States, etc. Provisos . Purchase of new ma, chinery restricted . Services, etc ., in the District and elsewhere . No expe nditure unti l St ates affe cted prov ide regulatory leg isl ati on and money be contrib- uted by and authorized . Fa rm clean-up ex- penditures . No pay for corn, etc ., destroyed. Moneys received from States to he de- posited into the Treas- ury . SEVENTIETH CONGRESS . SEss . I. CHs. 733, 734 . 1928 . by the Secr etar y of the Int erio r ; and, wh en approved by the Secre- tary of the Interior, shall be recorded in the office of the Superin- tendent for the Five Civilized Tribes, and in the county records of the county in which the land is situated ; and said lands, designated and described in the approved certificates so recorded, shall remain exempt from taxation while the title remains in the Indian designated in such approved and recorded certificate, or in any full-blood Indian heir or devisee of the land : Provided, That the tax exemption shall not extend beyond the period of restrictions provided for in this Act : And provided further, That the tax-exempt land of any such Indian allottee, heir, or devisee shall not at any time exceed one hundred and sixty acres ." Approved, May 24, 1928 . CHAP. 734 .-An Act To provide for the eradication or control of the European corn borer . Be it enacted by the Senate and House o f Representatives o f the United States o f America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to apply such methods of eradication or control of the European corn borer over such area or areas as in his judgment may be necessary, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and all other neces- sary expenses, the sum of $7,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appro- priated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro- priated, to be expended in cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals as the Secretary may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes : Provided, That no part of the appropriation herein authorized shall be expended for the purchase of new machinery unless the Secretary of Agriculture deems such expenditure necessary by reason of an emergency, and in such case an amount not to exceed 1 per centum may be so expended : Provided further, That an amount not to exceed 9 per centum of the appropriation herein authorized may be expended for the employ- ment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and all other necessary expenses other than necessary expenses for farm clean-up incidental to such eradication or control : Provided further, That in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture no expenditure shall be made hereunder until the States wherein the European corn borer exists shall have provided necessary regulatory legislation and until a sum or sums adequate to State cooperation shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by States, county, or local authorities or individuals or organizations : Pro- vided further, That expenditures from the appropriation herein authorized for any necessary farm clean-up incidental to such eradi- cation or control shall include only such as are, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, additional to those normal and usual in farm operations, and shall not exceed 90 per centum

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vided further, That no part of the appropriation herein authorized shall be used to pay the cost or value of corn or other farm crops or other property injured or destroyed : And provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture may receive, and shall cover into the Treas ury as miscel laneous receip ts, any and a ll moneys aut horized by the law of any State to be paid to the United States out of amoun ts assessed a gainst and col lected from a ny owner of p remises who refuses or neglects to carry out State-control requirements when such moneys represent expenditures made on such premises by the United States under the provisions of this Act . Approved, May 24, 1928 .