PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 516 --JULY 22, 1942 49 Stat. 781. Payment of claims. Provisos. Basis of appraise- ments. Eradication of Eu- ropean fowl pest, etc. 43 Stat. 682. Total; personal serv- ices. Post, p. 1001. 43 Stat. 243. Investigation of fruits, etc. Act approved August 24, 1935 (7 U. S . C. 851-855), entitled "An Act to amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act, and for other pur- poses", including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere. In all, salaries and expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $12,688,387. ERADICATION OF FOOT-AND-MOUTH AND OTHER CONTAGIOUS DISEASES OF ANIMALS In case of an emergency arising out of the existence of foot-and- mouth disease, rinderpest, contagious pleuropneumonia, or other con- tagious or infectious diseases of animals, which, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, threatens the livestock industry of the country, he may expend in the city of Washington or elsewhere any unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made for this pur- pose, not to exceed $305,000, in the arrest and eradication of any such disease, including the payment of claims growing out of past and future purchases and destruction, in cooperation with the States, of animals affected by or exposed to, or of materials contaminated by or exposed to, any such disease, wherever found and irrespective of ownership, under like or substantially similar circumstances, when such owner has complied with all lawful quarantine regulations: Provided, That the payment for animals hereafter purchased may be made on appraisement based on the meat, dairy, or breeding value, but in case of appraisement based on breeding value no appraise- ment of any animal shall exceed three times its meat or dairy value. and, except in case of an extraordinary emergency, to be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture, the payment by the United States Government for any animals shall not exceed one-half of any such appraisements: Providedfurther, That the sum of $5,000 of the unex- pended balance of the appropriation of $3,500,000 contained in the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1924, approved December 5, 1924, for the eradication of the foot-and-mouth disease and other contagious or infectious diseases of animals, is hereby made available during the fiscal year for which appropriations are herein made to enable the Secretary of Agriculture to control and eradicate the European fowl pest and similar diseases in poultry. Total, Bureau of Animal Industry, $12,688,387, of which amount not to exceed $645,000 may be expended for departmental personal services in the District of Columbia. BUREAU OF DAIRY INDUSTRY Salaries and expenses: For necessary expenses, including not to exceed $377,400 for personal services in the District of Columbia, of the Bureau of Dairy Industry in carrying out the provisions of the Act of May 29, 1924 (7 U. S . C. 401-404), including investigations, experiments, and demonstrations in dairy industry, cooperative investigations of the dairy industry in the various States, inspection of renovated-butter factories, repairs to buildings, and not to exceed $5,000 for the construction of buildings, $764,757. BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY SALARIES AND EXPENSES For the investigation of fruits, fruit trees, grain, cotton, tobacco, vegetables, grasses, forage, drug, medicinal, poisonous, fiber, and other plants and plant industries, and of soils and soil-plant relation- ships, in cooperation with other branches of the Department, the 676 [56 STAT.
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