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74ri u CON GRESS . SESS. I. CHS. 31, 32. MARCH 15, 18, 1935 .

45 and employees of the United States, and to make such other expendi- l,e Xpenditures author- tures, includ ing nec essary t ravel e xpenses , and e xpenditu res for printi ng and binding , as it deems n ecessar y . The Commission is tionuiriescds a ~' . ina- also hereby authorized to have access to, upon demand, for the pur- poses of examination, and the right to copy, any books, papers, cor- respondence, memoranda, and other records of any person, partner- ship, company , or ot her orga nizatio n being invest igated, whether such b ooks, p apers, correspo ndence, memora nda, or records are in the possession of the company under investigation or are in the pos- session of other persons, firms, or corporations ; to require by sub- pena the attendance and testimony of witnesses and the production of books, papers, correspondence, memoranda, and other records which the Commission deems relevant or material to the inquiry, at any designated place of hearing within the United States

to admin-

ister oaths and affirmations, to require persons, partnerships, com- panies, or other organizations to submit to the Commission in writing reports and answers to specific questions, furnishing such informa- tion as the Commission may require relative to the inquiry . Such sworn statements . report s and a nswers shall be made u nder oa th or o therwise as the Commission may prescribe and shall be filed with the Commission within such reasonable period as the Commission may prescribe, unless additional time be granted in any case by the Commission . In eas e of co ntumacy or the refusal to obe y any s ubpena o r other order issued hereund er, the Commiss ion may invoke the aid of any compel testimony. Cour t

to court of the United States, within the jurisdiction of which such inquiry is carried on, or where such party guilty of contumacy or refusal to obey resides or has his place of business, in requiring obedience to such subpena or other order and any such court of the United States shall have jurisdiction to issue its order enforcing such subpena or other order of the Commission in whole or in part ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by such court as a contempt thereof . All process in such cases may be served wherever the defendant may be found . SEc . 6. There is hereby appro riated, out of any money in the Appropriation . Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $750,000, to be post, p.1602. made immediately available to the Federal Communications Com- mission for the purposes of the investigation and report herein authorized and directed, and the Commission shall make special reports to Congress on its progress and its findings in this investi- gation . Approved, March 15, 1935 . {CHAPTER 32 .] AN ACT March 18, 193 5. To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act with res pect to rice, and for other [II . R.6221.] purposes .

IP ubl ic, No.20.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the of United States o f America in Congress assembled, That subsection (a) met Ac` amia section 9 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, as amended, is m- no 48, pp .35,676. further amended by striking out the comma after the words " except P roc essi ng tag on »

r ic e ; rental or benefit that in the second sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the follow- payments . ing : "(1)" ; and by striking out the period at the end of said second sentence and inserting a comma and the following : "and (2) in the case of rice, the Secretary of Agriculture shall, before April 1, 1935, EScetivo date, proclaim that rental or benefit payments are to be made with respect thereto , and the processi ng tax s hall be i n effect on and af ter Apri l 1, 1935 ."