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63 STAT.] 81ST CONG. , 1ST SESS.-CHS. 696, 697-OCT. 18, 19, 1949 of the Department of the Treasury designated by the Secretary of the Treasury." SEC. 3 . Subsection (c) of such section is amended to read: "(c) All expenses (including travel, per diem or subsistence, and salaries of officers or employees of the United States) in connection with the destruction provided for in subsection (a) of this section and the supervision of the relabeling or other action authorized under the provisions of subsection (b) of this section, the amount of such expenses to be determined in accordance with regulations, and all expenses in connection with the storage, cartage, or labor with respect to any article refused admission under subsection (a) of this section, shall be paid by the owner or consignee and, in default of such pay- ment, shall constitute a lien against any future importations made by such owner or consignee." Approved October 18, 1949. [CHAPTER 697] AN ACT To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to extend financial assistance to homestead entrymen, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make a loan or loans for any purpose authorized by and in accordance with the terms of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, or the Act of August 28, 1937, as amended, to any person eligible for assistance under said Acts who has made or makes a homestead entry on public land or who has contracted for or contracts for the purchase of other land of the United States in a reclamation project pursuant to the applicable provisions of the homestead and reclamation laws. Any such loans required by the Secretary of Agriculture or by law to be secured by a real-estate mortgage may be secured by a mortgage contract which shall create a lien against the land in favor of the United States acting through the Secretary of Agriculture and any patent thereafter issued shall recite the existence of such lien. The first installment for the repay- ment of any such loan or any other loan made under the Bankhead- Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended, or the Act of August 28, 1937, as amended, to the owner of a newly irrigated farm in a reclaumation project, may be deferred for a period of not to exceed two years from the date of the first advance under such loan. SEC. 2. Any entry or purchase contract land with respect to which a loan is made under the authority of this Act shall be subject to can- cellation by the Secretary of the Interior as provided by existing law or upon request of the Secretary of Agriculture whenever default occurs in the terms, conditions, covenants, or obligations contained in the mortgage. After cancellation or relinquishment of an entry or purchase contract, land on which there is a mortgage lien, pursuant to the provisions of this Act, shall thereafter, except as hereinafter provided, only be open to entry or resale to persons eligible for both an original entry or purchase contract and an original loan. Such entry or resale shall be subject to the outstanding balance of any amounts due the United States with respect to such land or such portion thereof as may be determined by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior, or their delegates, to be within the entryman's or purchaser's ability to pay on the basis of the long- time earning capacity of the land. If no entry or purchase is made within one year after the cancellation or relinquishment of a prior entry or purchase of land on which there is such a mortgage lien, the 883 52 Stat. 1058 . 21 U.S. . § 381(c). Expenses. Ante, p. 882. Ante, p. 882. Lien. October 19, 1949 [H. R . 2514] [Public Law 3611 Homesteadentry- men. Financial assist- ance. 50 Stat. 522, 881. 7U.S.C. §1000- 1029, 343f , 343g; Supp. II, § 1001 et seq. Mortgage contract. Repayment. Canoellatlon of con- tract. Resale. Disposition of land by Secretary of Agri- culture.