Volume 69
Public Law 84–54
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to pay indemnity for losses and expenses incurred during July 1954 in the destruction, treatment, or processing, under authority of law, of swine, swine carcasses, and products derived from swine carcasses, infected with vesicular exanthema.
Approved June 1, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to pay indemnity for losses and expenses incurred during July 1954 in the destruction, treatment, or processing, under authority of law, of swine, swine carcasses, and products derived from swine carcasses, infected with 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, but not exceeding the indemnity paid by the State in which such losses and expenses were incurred, of the losses and expenses incurred by all persons whose swine, swine carcasses, and products derived from swine carcasses were destroyed, treated, or processed, under authority of law, in July 1954, as a result of having been infected with or exposed to the contagious disease known as vesicular exanthema.
Sec. 2,
The payment of indemnities under the provisions of this Act shall be, limited, in the absence of Federal appraisal, to those losses and expenses where required proof of such losses and expenses has been made to the State in which Such losses and expenses were incurred and 50 per centum of such loss and expense has been paid by such State.
Sec. 3.
Payments made pureuant to the provisions of this Act shall be made from funds currently available to the Department of Agriculture.
Approved June 1, 1955.