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AGRICULTURAL RELIEF 
(d) The Federal agricultural boards shall be coordinated into federations or 
other forms for cooperation, so as to enable the boards to equitably and inexpen- 
sively solve the problems which may arise, such as the relations between pro- 
ducers and manufacturers. 
(¢) Each Federal agricultural board may provide districts, each to be in two 
or more States. 
(f) The Federal agricultural commission shall establish the agricultural 
boards and maintain them, using its judgment, and report annually to Congress. 
(9) The Federal agricultural commission shall possess power to veto proposed 
action by a board, and power to initiate policies. 
(h) For each regulation that is installed by the commission it shall mail a copy 
to each Member of the two Houses of Congress and the President, and the regu- 
lation shall be subject to the approval of Congress, as specified in section 3; also 
each regulation shall be published in the United States Daily, or be referred to. 
SEc. 6. (a) In applying nation-wide self-regulation in agriculture and in con- 
nection with interstate and foreign trade, by the will of the majority of the citi- 
zens who are most vitally affected, on the basis of equal rights to all citizens, 
thereby to prescribe nation-wide planes of competition and methods of distribu- 
tion, there may be included: 
(1) Profit-sharing as between capital and the workers; 
(2) A minimum wage and maximum hours; together with 
(3) Other regulations, such as a combination of cooperative marketing and 
private marketing in a product; and 
(4) To regulate the voluntary organizations, such as wage workers and em- 
ployers, by requiring the filing with the board of the agreements which take 
place within the voluntary organizations and pertaining to one or more elements 
in production or distribution. Such parts of a regulation as the Federal agricul- 
tural board accepts without a public hearing shall become operative in 40 days 
after filing: Provided, That the power of the Federal agricultural board shall be 
limited to regulations affecting interstate or foreign commerce until such time as 
a constitutional amendment shall authorize the use of nation-wide regulations in 
agriculture regardless of State lines. 
(b) Emergency.—In an emergency, which shall be described in a regulation 
by a voluntary organization, the regulation may be placed in operation subject 
to the approval of the appropriate Federal board. i 
(c) Procedure.—A regulation by private interests that has been approved by 
a Federal board may be disapproved. Wherever a regulation by private inter- 
ests is not approved promptly by unanimous vote of the Federal board, there shall 
bs % Auika dos public hearing, and all of the parties shall be notified. and public 
notice shall be given. 
(d) Plenary powers.—Each Federal agricultural board is authorized to install 
further details for securing notice to it of regulations by private interests affect- 
ing interstate or foreign commerce; and each Federal agricultural board is directed 
to install such further regulations as may in its judgment be helpful in installing 
and maintaining equal rights in interstate and foreign commerce. - ) 
Sec. 7. FurTHER PowERrs.—(a) To regulate properly the Nation’s produc- 
tion and distribution as called for in the Federal trade act, section 1, the Federal 
agricultural boards and the Federal Agricultural Commission shall use their 
utmost powers, and are directed to do whatever is reasonably required, to include: 
(b) Authority to collect an equalization fee to provide for the cooperative 
carrying over of a surplus, while the cost of stimulating the export of surplus 
abroad for the maintenance of the prescribed equilibrium between the vocations 
should be by means of an export bounty, payable by the Nation. 
{c) The acreage in any crop may be limited and be apportioned on the basis of 
the acreage of the preceding year, with a right in each grower to exchange or sell 
his acreage right. An affirmation or oath may be called for, the penaltv for 
falsity to be as hereinafter prescribed. 
(d) For the maintenance of the equilibrium of prices in interstate commerce 
ig the crop year 1927-28, as decided upon by the national board on equilibrium 
> : Dies) the AGEL al commission is directed to provide the necessary export 
Y On agrien tural products by drawing upon the United States Treasury to 
the extent of $250,000,000. The said amount is hereby authorized to be appro- 
priated by the Secretary of the Treasury as needed. y Co 
due or the lowering of the cost of living and to help raise prices to the pro 
trade board p oted by the Federal agricultural boards, and Federal 
il Gar0s, nd by the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal agricultural 
in en, V hus! of cooperative wholesale .and retail marketing in 
gn commerce, to include the right to buy and sell.