Volume 69
Public Law 84–311
To make corn meal aim Wheat flour available to needy persons.
Approved August 9, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To make corn meal aim Wheat flour available to needy persons.
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 hereby authorized upon specific request of the Governor of any State during the period commencing with the date of this Act and ending June 30, 1957, to make available, pursuant to clause (2) of section 32 of the Act approved August 24, 1935 (7
U. S. C. 612c) for distribution by State agencies, other than institutions and schools, directly to families and persons determined by appropriate State or local public welfare agencies to be in need, wheat flour and corn meal in such quantities as the Secretary of Agriculture determines can be effectively distributed and utilized within such period without regard to the requirement contained in said section 32, that such funds be devoted principally to perishable nonbasic agricultural commodities and their products, but not more than $15,000,000 of such funds shall be devoted in any fiscal year to carrying out this Act. Such flour and meal shall lie made available by the Secretary upon such conditions as he deems to be in the public interest, to such State agency or agencies as may be designated by the proper State authority and approved by the Secretary, and at one or more central locations in such State.
Approved August 9, 1955.