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Public Law 62–135

Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to issue certain reports relating to cotton.

Approved May 27, 1912

Statutory text

An Act

Authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to issue certain reports relating to cotton.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That the Secretary of Agriculture be directed to cause the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture to issue a report, on or about the first Monday in July of each year, showing by States and in total the number of acres of cotton then in cultivation in the United States.

Sec. 2.

That the Secretary of Agriculture shall cause the Bureau of

Estimate of total production to be issued.

Statistics of the Department of Agriculture to issue each year, immediately following the publication of the ginning report of the Census Bureau of December first, an estimate of the total production of cotton in the United States for the current crop year.

Sec. 3.

That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the foregoing

Inconsistent laws repealed.

provisions be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approved, May 27, 1912.

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