AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
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Sec. 24. LAW ENFORCEMENT—SPECIAL ORDERs.—(a) The Federal agricul- 
tural commission and any Federal agricultural organization may issue complaint 
against a person, firm, or other organization, stating that claim has been made 
that he or they are violating a law or regulation the enforcement of which is 
confided to the said organization. At the hearing if the claim is substantiated 
the said organization may issue a special order against the wrongdoer enjoining 
him from doing the things which are declared to be unlawful. 
b) Where the commission or any of the other organizations above described 
of its own initiative issues, a complaint, no suit by any person, firm, or other 
organization for damages will lie for acts done before the issuance of the said 
complaint. 
SEc. 25. PENALTIES.—(a) Any person who shall neglect or refuse to attend 
and testify, or to answer any lawful inquiry, or to produce documentary evidence, 
if in his power to do so, in obedience to the request and lawful requirements of 
the commission or of a Federal agricultural organization, shall be guilty of an 
offense and upon conviction thereof under the procedure provided in this act, 
shall be punished by a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $5,000, or by im- 
prisonment for not more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment. 
(b) Any person who shall willfully make, or cause to be made, and false entry 
or statement of fact in a report required to be made under this act; or who shall 
willfully make or cause to be made, any false entry in any account, record, 
or memorandum kept by the corporation, firm or person subject to this act; 
or who shall willfully neglect or fail to make, or cause to be made, full, true, and 
correct entries in such accounts, records, or memorandum of all facts and tran- 
sactions appertaining to the business of the corporation, firm, or person; or who 
shall willfully remove out of the jurisdiction of the commission or other organiza- 
tion, or willfully shall mutilate, alter, or by any other means falsif y any documen- 
tary evidence of such corporation, firm, or person; or who shall willfully refuse 
to submit to the commission or other organization or to any of their authorized 
agents for the purpose of inspection and taking copy, any documentary evidence 
of such corporation, firm, or person, in his possession, or within his control, shall 
be deemed guilty of an offense against the Nation, and shall be subject, upon 
conviction thereof under the procedure in this act, to a fine of not less than $50 
nor more than $5,000, or to imprisonment for a term of not more than three years, 
or to both such fine and imprisonment. 
(c) If any corporation, firm, or person required by this act to file an annual 
or special report shall fail to do so within the time fixed by the commission or 
other organization, and such failure shall continue for 30 days after notice of 
such default, the corporation, firm, or person shall forfeit to the United States 
the sum of $50 for each and every day of the continuance or failure, which 
forfeiture shall be payable to the Federal Treasury and shall be recoverable in 
a civil suit in the name of the Government, and be brought in the United States 
District Court in the State where the corporation, firm, or person is doing busi- 
ness. The duty of the Federal prosecuting attorneys shall be to prosecute for 
the recovery of forfeitures. The cost and expenses of such prosecution shall be 
paid out of the appropriation for the expenses of district courts. 
(d) Any officer or employee of the commission or of a Federal agricultural 
organization who shall make public any information obtained by the commis- 
sion or other organization without its authorization, unless directed to do so by 
a court, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof 
in a Federal court shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000 or by imprison- 
ment not exceeding one year, or by both fine and imprisonment. 
¢) If any cooperative organization that is being regulated by this act shall 
willfully fail to obey a regulation lawfully in force, it shall be guilty of an offense 
against the people, and shall be subject upon conviction thereof under the pro- 
cedure of this act to a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $5,000, or by im- 
prisonment of its chief executive officer not exceeding one vear, or by both fine 
and imprisonment. 
J) If any person shall willfully swear falsely or affirm falsely in connection 
with the administration of this act, he shall be guilty of an offense against the 
people, and shall be subject upon conviction thereof under the procedure of this 
act,-to a fine of not less than $500 nor more than $5,000, or by imprisonment not 
exceeding one vear. or by both fine and imprisonment 
DEFINITIONS 
Sec. 26. As used in this act— 
(1) The term ‘agricultural products’ include the products of farmers, plant- 
ers, ranchers, dairymen. and nut and fruit growers.