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Volume 63

Public Law 81–220

To amend section 102 (a) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out operations to combat the citrus blackfly, white-fringed beetle, and the Hall scale.

Approved June 17, 1949

Statutory text

AN ACT

To amend section 102 (a) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out operations to combat the citrus blackfly, white-fringed beetle, and the Hall scale.

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

That section 102 (a) of the Department of Agriculture Organic Act of 1944 (Act of September 21, 1944, 58 Stat. 735; 7 U. S. C. 147a (a)) be amended by deleting the word “and” immediately following the word “borer”; by adding a comma and the words “citrus blackfly, white–fringed beetle, wheat-stem sawfly, Oriental fruitfly, and Hall scale” between the word “weevil” and the immediately following colon; and by adding the words “citrus blackfly” immediately following the comma after the word “fruitflies” in the proviso.

Approved June 17, 1949.

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