Chapter 240. To amend section 304 of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in livestock, livestock products, dairy products, poultry, poultry products, and eggs, and for other purposes,” approved August 15, 1921
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CHAP. 240.— An Act To amend section 304 of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in livestock, livestock products, dairy products, poultry, poultry products, and eggs, and for other purposes,” approved August 15, 1921.May 5, 1926.[[H. R. 7818](/us/bill/69/hr/7818).][[Public, No. 180](/us/pl/69/180).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Packers and Stock-yards Act, 1921.Vol. 42, p. 164, amended.
That section 304 of the Act entitled “An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in livestock, livestock products, dairy products, poultry, poultry products, and eggs, and for other purposes,” approved August 15, 1921, be, and is hereby, amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 304. It shall be the duty of every stockyard owner andServices to be furnished without discrimination. market agency to furnish upon reasonable request, without discrimination, reasonable stockyard services at such stockyard: *Provided*, That in any State where the weighing of livestock at*Proviso*.Weighing livestock by a State department may be registered as a market agency. a stockyard is conducted by a duly authorized department or agency of the State, the Secretary, upon application of such department or agency, may register it as a market agency for the weighing of livestock received in such stockyard, and upon such registration such department or agency and the members thereof shall be amenable to all the requirements of this Act; and upon failure of suchRevocation on failure to comply with orders. department or agency or the members thereof to comply with the orders of the Secretary under this Act he is authorized to revoke the registration of such department or agency and to enforce such revocation as provided in section 315 of this Act.”Vol. 42, p. 167.
" Approved, May 5, 1926.