Chapter 734. To provide for the eradication or control of the European corn borer

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Chap. 734: To provide for the eradication or control of the European corn borer. Chapter 734 45 Stat. 734 1928-05-24 United States Government Publishing Office text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Digitization Vendor 2025-01-24 70 1 public Chapter 734.— An Act To provide for the eradication or control of the European corn borer. May 24, 1928.[[H. R. 12632](/us/bill/70/hr/12632).][[Public, No. 505](/us/pl/70/505).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That to enable the European corn borer.Amount authorized for methods of eradication.*Ante,* p. 568.*Post,* pp. 1208, 1216.Secretary of Agriculture to apply such methods of eradication or control of the European com borer over such area or areas as in his judgment may be necessary, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and all other necessary expenses, the sum of $7,000,000 is hereby authorized to be appropriated, Cooperation of States, etc.*Provisos.*Purchase of new machinery restricted.out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be expended in cooperation with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations, or individuals as the Secretary may deem necessary to accomplish such purposes: *Provided,* That no part of the appropriation herein authorized shall be expended for the purchase of new machinery unless the Secretary of Agriculture deems such expenditure necessary by reason of an emergency, and in such case an amount not to exceed 1 per centum may be so expended:

Services, etc., in the District and elsewhere.*Provided further,* That an amount not to exceed 9 per centum of the appropriation herein authorized may be expended tor the employment of persons and mean in the District of Columbia and elsewhere and all other necessary expenses other than necessary expenses for farm clean-up incidental to such eradication or control: *Provided further,* No expenditure until States affected provide regulatory legislation and money be contributed by and authorized.That in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture no expenditure shall be made hereunder until the States wherein the European corn borer exists shall have provided necessary regulatory legislation and until a sum or sums adequate to State cooperation shall have been appropriated, subscribed, or contributed by States, Farm clean-up expenditures.county, or local authorities or individuals or organizations: *Provided further,* That expenditures from the appropriation herein authorized for any necessary farm clean-up incidental to such eradication or control shall include only such as are, in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture, additional to those normal and usual in farm operations, and shall not exceed 90 per centum: *Provided further,* That no part of the appropriation herein authorized shall be used to pay the cost or value of corn or other farm crops or No pay for corn, etc., destroyed.Moneys received from States to be deposited into the Treasury.other property injured or destroyed: *And provided further,* That the Secretary of Agriculture may receive, and shall cover into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, any and all moneys authorized by the law of any State to be paid to the United States out of amounts assessed against and collected from any owner of premises who refuses or neglects to carry out State-control requirements when such moneys represent expenditures made on such premises by the United States under the provisions of this Act.

Approved, May 24, 1928.

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