Chapter 58.
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CHAP. 58.— Joint Resolution For the relief of States in the cotton belt that have given aid to cotton farmers forced from the fields in established nonproduction zones through efforts to eradicate the pink bollworm. August 9, 1921. [[S. J. Res. 72](/us/bill/67/sjres/72).] [[Pub. Res., No. 12](/us/bill/67/pubres/12).] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Pink bollworm of cotton. Compensation for losses by farmers for enforced nonproduction to eradicate.
Vol. 41, p. 1346. That when any State shall have enacted legislation and taken measures, including the establishment and enforcement of noncotton zones, adequate, in the opinion of the Secretary of Agriculture, to eradicate the pink bollworm in any area thereof actually infested, or threatened, by such pest, the said Secretary, under regulations to be prescribed by him, is authorized, out of the appropriation of $554,840 for “Eradication of pink bollworm” made by the Agricultural Appropriation Act of March 3, 1921, to utilize not to exceed $200,000 in reimbursing such States for expenses incurred by them in compensating any fanner for his loss due to the enforced nonproduction of cotton within said *Proviso*.
Restriction in reimbursement to States.zones: *Provided*, That such reimbursement of any State shall be based upon the actual and necessary loss suffered by the owner of said land; that such reimbursement shall not exceed one-third the amount actually paid by the State to any farmer, and, in no event, shall exceed $5 per acre; and that no reimbursement shall be made in respect of any farmer who has not complied in good faith with all quarantine and control regulations prescribed by said Secretary of Agriculture and such State relative to the pink bollworm.
Approved, August 9, 1921.