Agricultural relief: Agricultural relief

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Identifikator:: 1831932415

Document type:: Multivolume work

Title:: Agricultural relief

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1831934884

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-232132

Document type:: Volume

Title:: Agricultural relief

Volume count:: Pt. 6

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher:: Gov. Pr. Off.

Year of publication:: 1928

Scope:: III S., S. 429 - 520

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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518 AGRICULTURAL RELIEF (b) All records and papers in connection with the existing regulatory power of the Federal Department of Agriculture shall be transferred to and become the records and papers of the Federal agricultural commission. Sec. 17. Fortaer Derains.—(a) The principal office of the Federal agricul- tural commission shall be at the National Capital, but it may meet at any other place within the Nation and exercise all of its powers, and may act through a representative in any part of the. Nation. (b) The commission shall possess a seal with the words, Federal agricultural commission, and on it an emblem. This seal shall be judicially noticed. (¢) Each board shall possess a seal, which shall be judically noted. (d) All of the expenses of the commission and of each organization in the home rule section of the Federal agricultural system, said expenses to include all necessary transportation, shall be evidenced by itemized vouchers approved by the appropriate organization. Sec. 18. Assistants.—(a) Each year the commission shall appoint a secretary to serve until his successor qualifies. The salary of the secretary shall be $— a year, payable monthly. (b) The commission is authorized to employ such other assistants as its duties require and for which funds have been appropriated. The commission shall enact a rule as to the extent which an assistant, including the assistant com- missioners, may be pecuniarily interested in an industry which he is helping to regulate. {¢) The merit system shall be applied within the commission and the Federal agricultural organizations except as to the secretary, and a clerk for each assistant commissioner, and to such of the officers of the Federal agricultural organi- zations as may be specified by the commissioner of agriculture. (d) The Federal agricultural commission shall name one of the assistant commissioners to cooperate with the United States Civil Service Commissioners in formulating the examinations in the eligible list, including the employees, for both the agricultural commission and the Federal agricultural organizations. A graded system of salaries and promotions shall be adopted. Ske. 22. ADDITIONAL PROCEDURE. —(a) Service of papers—The service of complaints by the Federal agricultural commission and by the Federal agri- cultural organizations, and other notices by them, may be by whoever they may authorize. (b) Service may be either (1) by delivering a copy . thereof to the person served, or to a member of a partnership to be served, or to the president, secre- tary, or other executive officer or director of the corporation to be served; or (2) by leaving a copy thereof at the principal office or place of business of such person, partnership, or corporation; or (3) by registering and mailing a copy thereof addressed to each person, partnership, or corporation at its principal office or place of business. The verified return by the person so serving said complaint, order, or other process setting forth the manner of said service shall be proof of the same, and the return post-office receipt for said complaint, order, or other process registered and mailed as aforesaid shall be proof of the service of the same. {(¢) Regulations.—The regulations to be issued by the commission, and by each Federal agricultural organization, shall include those for the gathering and compiling of information covering such parts of the field as may be deemed help- ful, and shall include a system of uniform accounting, also uniform revorts. to be verified under oath. id) Cooperation by Government departments.— Upon request by the commission or by a Federal agricultural organization to any department or bureau of the National Government, it shall supply a copy or other form of documentary evidence in its possession. Upon request by the Secretary of Agriculture to any department or bureau of the Government it shall detail such officials and em- ployees to the commission or Federal agricultural organization as he mav direct. subject to appeal to the President. Sec. 23. Law EnrorcEMENT—DAMAGES.—(a) Any person, firm, or other organization who shall suffer pecuniary loss because of the violation of this act x of a regulation issued by the commission or by a Federal agricultural organiza- Lon ow, sue the wrongdoer in any United States court of competent jurisdiction and shall recover twice the amount of such pecuniary loss. together with costs, including a reasonable attorney’s fee. in ®) A certified copy of the findings by the commission or by a Federal agricul of the rps ion i be admitted as evidence; as also shall be a certified copy of its examiners or other he agr! cultura parliament or any of its branches or any

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