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PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 30-FEB. 16, 1938 Regulations. Court jurisdiction. Subtitle D-Miscel- laneous provisions and appropriations. Part I-Miscellane- ous. Cotton price adjust- ment payments, 1937 crop. 50 Stat. 762. Post, pp . 204, 745. 50 Stat. 754 . 49 Stat. 163 , 1148 . 16 U. S. C., Supp. IIl. §§ 590a-590q. Ante, p. 57. Producer Innocently exceeding his allot- ment. In cases of crop fail- ure, etc. Status of cotton not sold prior to July 1, 1938. Filing of applica- tions for payment, time limitation. the farm is in excess of the farm acreage allotment for such com- modity for the farm, the committee shall file with the State com- mittee a written report stating the total acreage on the farm in cultivation and the acreage planted to such commodity. REGULATIONS SEC. 375. (a) The Secretary shall provide by regulations for the identification, wherever necessary, of corn, wheat, cotton, rice, or tobacco so as to afford aid in discovering and identifying such amounts of the commodities as are subject to and such amounts thereof as are not subject to marketing restrictions in effect under this title. (b) The Secretary shall prescribe such regulations as are necessary for the enforcement of this title. COURT JURISDICTION SEC. 376. The several district courts of the United States are hereby vested with jurisdiction specifically to enforce the provisions of this title. If and when the Secretary shall so request, it shall be the duty of the several district attorneys in their respective districts, under the direction of the Attorney General, to institute proceedings to collect the penalties provided in this title. The remedies and pen- alties provided for herein shall be in addition to, and not exclusive of, any of the remedies or penalties under existing law. SUBTITLE D--MICELLANEOUS PROVISIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS PART I-MISCELLANEOUS COTroN PRICE ADJUSTMENT PAYMENTS SEC. 381. (a) For the purposes of the provisions (relating to cot- ton price adjustment payments with respect to the 1937 cotton crop) of the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, a pro- ducer shall be deemed to have complied with the provisions of the 1938 agricultural adjustment program formulated under the legis- lation contemplated by Senate Joint Resolution Numbered 207, Seventy-fifth Congress, if his acreage planted to cotton in 1938 does not exceed his farm acreage allotment for 1938 under the Soil Con- servation and Domestic Allotment Act, as amended (including the amendments made by this Act), or under section 344 of this Act, whichever is the lesser. For the purposes of this subsection a pro- ducer shall not be deemed to have exceeded his farm acreage allot- ment unless such producer knowingly exceeded his farm acreage allotment. Such compliance shall not be required in any case where the producer is not engaged in cotton production in 1938. In cases where in 1937 a total or partial crop failure resulted from hail, drought, flood, or boll-weevil infestation, if the producer is otherwise eligible for payment, payment shall be made at the rate of 3 cents per pound on the same percentage of the producer's normal base production established by the Secretary as in the case of other pro- ducers. For the purpose of such provisions of the Third Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1937, cotton not sold prior to July 1, 1938, shall be held and considered to have been sold on June 30, 1938, and all applications for price adjustment payments shall be filed with the Secretary not later than July 15, 1938. Such payments shall be made at the earliest practicable time. Application for pay- ment may be made by the 1937 operator of a farm on behalf of all persons engaged in cotton production on the farm in 1937 and need be signed only by such operator, but payment shall be made directly 66 [52 STAT.