Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 52.djvu/876

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52 STAT.] 75TH CONG. , 3D SESS. -CHS. 562-564-JUNE 21, 22, 1938 the fiscal year in which the obligation was incurred: Provided, That there shall be a sufficient sum available under such appropriation to settle such claims which may be found allowable; otherwise, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, a sufficient sum of money to meet the difference. SEC. 2. In case there has been heretofore withheld or deducted from any amounts otherwise payable out of Government funds to any per- son hereinabove named any amount on account of any item paid or allowed for transportation charges in connection with the transfer and assignment hereinabove referred to, the Comptroller. General of the United States is authorized and directed to pay, in accordance with the same provisions as outlined in section 1, to such person a sum equal to the amount so withheld or deducted. SEC. 3 . Each person affected by section 1 of this Act is hereby released from any liability to refund or pay to the Government, or otherwise discharge, any item paid or allowed for transportation charges in connection with the transfer and assignment referred to in such section, and no deductions on account of any such item shall be made from any amount due or payable out of Government funds to any such person. Approved, June 21, 1938. [CHAPTER 563] AN ACT To amend the Federal Crop Insurance Act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 508 (a) of the Federal Crop Insurance Act (title V of Public, Numbered 430, Seventy-fifth Congress), approved February 16, 1938, is hereby amended by striking out the period at the end of the first sentence thereof and inserting in lieu thereof a colon and the following: "Provided further, That the Corporation may, upon such terms and conditions as it shall determine, accept payments from producers in any year to be applied toward premiums on their insurance contracts for the current and next succeeding year." Approved, June 22, 1938. 835 Proviso. Funds available. Refund of amounts withheld or deducted. Release of liability. June 22, 138 [S. 4076] [Public, No. 691] Federal Crop In- surance Act, amend- ment. Ante, p. 74. Acceptance of pay- ments toward premi- ums for current and next succeeding year. [CHAPTER 564] AN ACT To authorize the addition of certain lands to the Modoc, Shasta, and Lassen [uneR. 722] National Forests, California. [Public, No. 692] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the lnited States of America in Congress assembled, That within the following-described areas any lands not in Government ownership, which are found by the Secretary of Agriculture to be chiefly val- uable for national-forest purposes, may be offered in exchange under the provisions of the Act of March 20, 1922 (Public, Numbered 173; 42 Stat. L . 465), as amended by the Act of February 28, 1925 (Public, Numbered 513), upon notice as therein provided and upon acceptance of title, shall become parts of the said national forests; and any of such described areas in Government ownership, found by the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior to be chiefly valuable for national-forest purposes and not now parts of any national forest, may be added to said national forests as herein pro- vided by proclamation of the President, subject to all valid claims National forests, California. Additions to desig nated, for forest pur- poses, authorized. 42 Stat. 46; 43 Stat. 1090. 16U.a.0. ai 406 4s. Inclusion of areas in Government owns- ship.