Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 58 Part 1.djvu/35

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78TH CONG. , 2D SESS.--CI 16-FEB. 14, 1944 States under this title shall not be subject to deduction or withholding under section 143 (b) of the Internal Revenue Code. (c) For the purpose of this title- (1) the term "State" includes Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico; (2) the term "worker" includes nationals of the United States and aliens; (3) the term "agricultural labor" includes any services or activities included within the provisions of section 3 (f) of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 or section 1426 (h) of the Internal Revenue Code. (d) Effective July 1, 1943, notwithstanding section 3 of the Act of June 29, 1936 (U. S . C ., title 40, sec. 433), receipts derived for the account of the United States from the use and occupancy of agricul- tural labor supply centers, including camps and facilities heretofore used by or under the control of the Farm Security Administration, shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: Provided, That all receipts derived from the furnishing of subsistence to workers shall be credited to the appropriation in section 1 and be available for expenditure by the Administrator for the replenish- ment of subsistence supplies and for expenses incident to the furnish- ing of such subsistence. (e) The former Civilian Conservation Corps camps shall be trans- ferred without charge to the Administrator, to the extent that he deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this title: Provided, That no such camp which is being utilized by any other agency of the Government, or which has been transferred to any State, county, municipality, or nonprofit organization, shall be transferred to the Administrator under this subsection without the consent of such agency State, county, municipality, or organization. (f) Notwithstanding provisions of title I of the Social Security Act, as amended (relating to grants to States for old-age assistance), and of appropriations for payments thereunder, in any case in which any State pays old-age assistance to any individual at a rate not in excess of the rate of old-age assistance paid to such individual during the month of July 1943, any failure to take into consideration any income and resources of such individual arising from agricultural labor performed by him as an employee, or from labor otherwise per- formed by him in connection with the raising or harvesting of agri- cultural commodities, after the date of enactment of this Act and prior to the seventh calendar month occurring after the termination of hostilities in the present war, as proclaimed by the President shall not be a basis of excluding payments made to such individual in com- puting payments made to States under section 3 of such title, of refusing to approve a State plan under section 2 of such title, or of withholding certification pursuant to section 4 of such title. (g) In order to facilitate the employment by agricultural employers in the United States of native-born residents of North America, South America, and Central America, and the islands adjacent thereto, desiring to perform agricultural labor in the United States, during continuation of hostilities in the present war, any such resident desiring to enter the United States for that purpose shall be exempt from the payment of head tax required by section 2 of the Immigration Act of February 5, 1917, and from other admission charges, and shall be exempt from those excluding pro- visions of section 3 of such Act which relate to contract laborers, the requirements of literacy, and the payment of passage by cor- porations, foreign government, or others; and any wh resident 53 Stat. 61 . 26 U. 8. 0., Supp. III. 143 (b). Post, p . 50. " State." "Worker." " Agricultural labor." 52 Stat. 1060 . 29 U. B. C. §203 (f). 63 Stat. 1386 . 26U. . c. 1426(h). 49 Stat. 2036 . Receipts from use of supply centers. Transfer of former COO camps. Old-age assistance. 49 Stat. 620 . 42U..C.. 301- 306. Importation of workers from North South, and Cetral America. Exemptions. 39 Stat. 875. 8U.S.C.§ 132,3. Post, p. 746. Refadtmas 15 58 STAT.]