Volume 68 · 563
Public Law 83–535
To indemnify against loss all persons whose swine were destroyed in July 1952 as a result of having been infected with or exposed to the contagious disease, vesicular exanthema.
Approved July 27, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To indemnify against loss all persons whose swine were destroyed in July 1952 as a result of having been infected with or exposed to the contagious disease, vesicular exanthema.
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 and directed to indemnify in an amount equal to 50 per centum of their loss, but not exceeding the indemnity paid by the State, all persons whose swine were destroyed under authority of law in July 1952 as a result of having been infected with or exposed to the contagious disease vesicular exanthema.
Sec. 2.
The payment of indemnities under the provisions of this
Limitation.
Act shall be limited, in the absence of Federal appraisal, to those losses where required proof of such losses has been made to the State and 50 per centum of said loss has been paid by such State.
Sec. 3.
Payments made pursuant to the provisions of this Act shall
Funds.
lie made from funds currently available to the Department of Agriculture.
Approved July 27, 1954.