Volume 71
Public Law 85–92
Relating to marketing quotas and price supports for fire-cured, dark air-cured, and Virginia sun-cured tobacco.
Approved July 10, 1957
Statutory text
AN ACT
Relating to marketing quotas and price supports for fire-cured, dark air-cured, and Virginia sun-cured tobacco.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 301 (b) (15) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, is amended by adding the following new proviso at the end thereof: “Provided further, That with respect to the 1958 and subsequent crops, type 21 (Virginia) fire-cured tobacco shall be treated as a ‘kind of tobacco’ for the purposes of all of the provisions of this title, except that for
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the purposes of section 312 (c) of this title, types 21, 22, and 23, fire-cured tobacco shall be treated as one ‘kind of tobacco’.”
Sec. 2.
Section 2 of the Act of July 28, 1945 ( 59 Stat. 506), is
amended by adding the following proviso: “Provided, That, beginning with the 1958 crop, the levels of support for such kinds of tobacco shall not exceed the higher of (a) the level applicable to the 1957 crop or (b) 90 per centum of the parity price.”
Approved July 10, 1957.