Public Law 83–425

That the first sentence of section 314 (a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: “The marketing of any kind of tobacco in excess of the marketing quota for the farm on which the tobacco is produced shall be subject to a penalty of 50 per centum of the average market price (calculated to the nearest whole cent) for such kind of tobacco for the immediately preceding marketing year.”

Effective date.

This amendment shall become effective October 1, 1954, except that in the case of flue-cured tobacco such amendment shall become effective July 1, 1955.