Volume 71
Public Law 85–28
To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to price support for extra long staple cotton.
Approved April 25, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 with respect to price support for extra long staple cotton.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the first sentence of section 101 (f) of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended, is amended to read as follows:
“The provisions of this Act relating to price support for cotton shall apply severally to (1) American upland cotton and (2) extra long staple cotton described in subsection (a) and ginned as required by subsection (e) of section 347 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act
66 Stat. 759.
of 1938, as amended, except that, notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of section 101 of this Act, the level of support to cooperators for the 1957 and each subsequent crop of extra long staple cotton, if producers have not disapproved marketing quotas therefor, shall be the same per centum of the parity price as for the 1956 crop.”
Approved April 25, 1957.