Food conser For increasing food production and eliminating waste vation demonand promoting conservation of food by educational and strations, etc. demonstrational methods, through county, district, and urban agents and others, $4,348,400. formation, preventing condition of central mar For gathering authoritative information in connection Gathering inwith the demand for, and the production, supply, dis- market news, tribution, and utilization of food, and otherwise carry- waste, etc. ing out the purpose of section two of this Act; extending and enlarging the market news service; and preventing waste of food in storage, in transit, or held for sale; advise concerning the market movement or distribution of Certifying perishable products; for enabling the Secretary of Agri- fruits, etc., at culture to investigate and certify to shippers the condi- kets. tion as to soundness of fruits, vegetables, and other food products, when received at such important central markets as the Secretary of Agriculture may from time to time designate and under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe: [275] Provided, That certificates issued by the authorized agents of the department shall tificates. be received in all courts as prima facie evidence of the truth of the statements therein contained; and otherwise carrying out the purpose of this Act, $2,522,000: Provided further, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall, so far as practicable, engage the services of women for the work herein provided for. Provisos. Women to be employed. items. For miscellaneous items, including the salaries of As- Miscellaneous sistant Secretaries appointed under this Act; special work in crop estimating; aiding agencies in the various States in supplying farm labor; enlarging the informational work of the Department of Agriculture; and printing and distributing emergency leaflets, posters, and other publications requiring quick issue or large editions, $650,000. Proviso. from military Provided, That the employment of any person under the provisions of this Act shall not exempt any such not exempt person from military service under the provisions of draft. the selective draft law approved May eighteenth, Lineteen hundred and seventeen. Ante, p. 76. penditures. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of Agriculture Report of exto submit to Congress at its regular session in December" of each year a detailed report of the expenditure of all moneys herein appropriated. SEC. 9. That the Act of August thirtieth, eighteen, Cattle antine, etc. hundred and ninety, entitled "An Act providing for an modified. Vol. 26. P inspection of meats for exportation, prohibiting the im- 414, amended. cattle for im ter may be imported. designated. 416, 417. portation of adulterated articles of food or drink, and authorizing the President to make proclamation in certain cases, and for other purposes" (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and fourteen), is Tick infested hereby amended so as to authorize the Secretary of Agmediate slaugh- riculture, within his discretion and under such joint regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Treasury, to permit the admission for immediate slaughter at ports of entry of tick-infested cattle which are otherwise free from disease and which have not been exposed to the infection of any other disease within sixty days next before their exportation from Mexico, South and CenPorts to be tral America, the islands of the Gulf of Mexico and the Vol. 26, pp. Caribbean Sea into those parts of the United States below the southern cattle quarantine line at such ports of entry as may be designed by said joint regulations and also subject to the provisions of sections seven, eight, nine, and ten of said Act of August thirtieth, Provisos. eighteen hundred and ninety: Provided, That the importation of tick-infested cattle from any country referred to in this section in which foot-and-mouth disease exists, which existence shall be determined by the SecMeat inspecretary of Agriculture, is prohibited: Provided, further, ments to gov That all cattle imported under the provisions of this section shall be slaughtered in accordance with the provisions of the Act of June thirtieth, nineteen hundred Vol. 34, PP. and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and seventy-four), commonly called the meat inspection amendment, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Secretary of Agriculture, Disposition and that their hides shall be disposed of under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of Agriculture. Countries ex cluded. tion require ern. 674, 1260. of hides. homesteads in Idaho. Vol. 36. p. out water for domestic Enlarged SEC. 10. That section six of the Act of Congress approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, 532, amended. “An Act to provide for an enlarged homestead,” be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: Lands with. "SEC. 6. That whenever the Secretary of the Interior use shall find any tracts of land in the State of Idaho, subject to entry under this Act, do not have upon them such a sufficient supply of water suitable for domestic purposes as would make continuous residence upon the lands possible he may, in his discretion, designate such tracts of land, not to exceed in the aggregate one million acres, to be desig. nated. A r e a creased. in Residence not required. be cultivated and thereafter they shall be subject to entry under this. Act without the necessity of residence upon the land entered: Provided, That the entryman shall in good faith cultivate not less than one-sixteenth of the entire Amount to area of [276] the entry which is susceptible of cultiva- reduced. tion during the first year of the entry, not less than one- Provisos. eighth during the second year, and not less than onefourth during the third year of the entry and until final State proof: Provided, further, That after six months from the date of entry and until final proof the entryman shall be a resident of the State of Idaho." resi dence required. act. Reclamation Suspension authorized. 389. Act to cease SEC. 11. That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to suspend during the con- of residence retinuance of this Act that provision of the Act known as quirement etc., the "Reclamation Act" requiring residence upon landsVol. 32, p. in private ownership or within: the neighborhood for securing water for the irrigation of the same, and he is authorized to permit the use of available water thereon upon such terms and conditions as he may deem proper. SEC. 12. That the provisions of this Act shall cease after war terto be in effect when the national emergency resulting minates. from the existing state of war shall have passed, the date of which shall be ascertained and proclaimed by the President; but the date when this Act shall cease to be in effect shall not be later than the beginning of the next fiscal year after the termination, as ascertained by the President, of the present war between the United States and Germany. "FOOD CONTROL ACT.” Date. August 10, 1917. [II. R. 4961.] [Public, No. 41.] ucts, fuel, etc. Measures for conserving sup nated necessi [276] CHAP. 53.-An Act To provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel. [Approved, August 10, 1917. 40 Stats. 276.] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa- Food prod tires of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That by reason of the existence of a state of ply of desigwar, it is essential to the national security and defense, ties during for the successful prosecution of the war, and for the authorized. support and maintenance of the Army and Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement, of foods, feeds, fuel including fuel oil and natural gas, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and 37639-18- 4 present war, scarcity, etc. To establish equipment required for the actual production of foods. feeds, and fuel, hereafter in this Act called necessaries; To prevent to prevent, locally or generally, scarcity, monopolization, hoarding, injurious speculation, manipulations, and private controls, affecting such supply, distribution, and governmental movement; and to establish and maintain governmental control. control of such necessaries during the war. For such created. purposes the instrumentalities, means, methods, powers. authorities, duties, obligations, and prohibitions hereinafter set forth are created, established, conferred, and Regulations prescribed. The President is authorized to make such be issued. regulations and to issue such orders as are essential effectively to carry out the provisions of this act.1 Means, etc.. and orders to vested Effective SEC. 2. That in carrying out the purposes of this Act Presi- the President is authorized to enter into any voluntary powers in the dent. Government agents, etc. contracts. etc.. if pecuniarily therein. arrangements or agreements, to create and use any agency or agencies, to accept the services of any person without compensation, to cooperate with any agency or person. to utilize any department or agency of the Government, and to coordinate their activities so as to avoid any preventable loss or duplication of effort or funds. SEC. 3. That no person acting either as a voluntary or Inducing paid agent or employee of the United States in any caby, forbidden, pacity, including an advisory capacity, shall solicit, ininterested duce, or attempt to induce any person or officer authorized to execute or to direct the execution of contracts on behalf of the United States to make any contract or give any order for the furnishing to the United States of work, labor, or services, or of materials, supplies, or If party other property of any kind or [277] character, if such thereto, etc. agent or employee has any pecuniary interest in such Interest contracts rec to be disclosed. contract or order, or if he or any firm of which he is a member, or corporation, joint-stock company, or association of which he is an officer or stockholder, or in the in pecuniary profits of which he is directly or indirectly ommended by interested, shall be a party thereto. Nor shall any agent or employee make, or permit any committee or other body of which he is a member to make, or participate in making, any recommendation concerning such contract or order to any council, board, or commission of the United States, or any member or subordinate thereof, without making to the best of his knowledge and belief a full and complete disclosure in writing to such council, 1 See Executive Order No. 2681, August 14, 1917 [p. 174]; No. 2690, August 23, 1917 [p. 177]. Awarding such contracts board, commission, or subordinate of any and every pecuniary interest which he may have in such contract or order and of his interest in any firm, corporation, company, or association being a party thereto. Nor shall he participate in the awarding of such contract or giving forbidden. such order. Any willful violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $10,000, or by imprisonment of not more than for violations. five years, or both: Provided, That the provisions of this Criminal Punishment Proviso. Code not modi section shall not change, alter or repeal section forty-one fed. Vol. 35, p. of chapter three hundred and twenty-one, Thirty-fifth 1097." Statutes at Large. Enhancing strict supply. necessaries. un Offenses SEC. 4. That it is hereby made unlawful for any per- price to reson willfully to destroy any necessaries for the purpose wasting. etc., of enhancing the price or restricting the supply thereof; lawful. knowingly to commit waste or willfully to permit pre specified. ventable deterioration of any necessaries in or in connection with their production, manufacture, or distribution; to hoard, as defined in section six of this Act, any necessaries; to monopolize or attempt to monopolize, either locally or generally, any necessaries; to engage in any discriminatory and unfair, or any deceptive or wasteful practice or device, or to make any unjust or unreasonable rate or charge, in handling or dealing in or with any necessaries; to conspire, combine, agree. or ar- Conspiracies, range with any other person, (a) to limit the facilities etc. to accom for transporting, producing, harvesting, manufacturing, acts. supplying, storing, or dealing in. any necessaries; (b) to restrict the supply of any necessaries; (c) to restrict distribution of any necessaries; (d) to prevent, limit, or lessen the manufacture or production of any necessaries in order to enhance the price thereof, or (e) to exact excessive prices for any necessaries; or to aid or abet the doing of any act made unlawful by this section. combinations, plish unlawful Licenses. specified busi ness in neces forbidden. Proclama SEC. 5. That, from time to time, whenever the President shall find it essential to license the importation, manufacture, storage, mining, or distribution of any re saries without. necessaries, in order to carry into effect any of the pur- tions, pp. 45, poses of this Act, and shall publicly so announce, no per- 52. son shall, after a date fixed in the announcement, engage in or carry on any such business specified in the announcement of importation, manufacture, storage, mining. or distribution of any necessaries as set forth in such announcement, unless he shall secure and hold a |