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61 STAT.] 80TH CONG. , 1 ST SESS.-CHS. 441 , 442 , 445-AUG. 1, 1947 the Army on account of loss or deficiency of Government funds, vouchers, records, or papers in their charge', approved December 13, 1944 (58 Stat. 800; U. S. C., title 31, sec. 95a). Approved August 1, 1947. [CHAPTER 442] AN ACT To amend the District of Columbia rent control law so as to provide that schools and universities may recover possession of housing accommodations in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (b) of section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate rents in the Dis- trict of Columbia, and for other purposes", approved December 2, 1941, as amended, is amended by (1) striking out the period at the end of paragraph (5) and inserting in lieu thereof a comma and the word "or", and (2) adding at the end thereof a new paragraph as follows: "(6) The landlord, being a recognized school or an accredited non- profit university, has a bona fide need for the premises for educational, research, administrative, or dormitory use." Approved August 1, 1947. [CHAPTER 445] ANi' APCT 721 August 1, 1947 IS 1590] [Public Law 322] D. 0. Emergency Rent Act, amend- ment. Ante, p. 713. 66 Stat. 759. D. C . Code, Supp. V, § 45-1605 (b). School or university. August 1, 1947 To amend the peanut marketing quota provisions of the Agricultural Adjustment [H. R. 4124] Act of 1938, as amended. [Public Law 323] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 358 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (U. S . C ., title 7, sec. 1358), is amended by striking the last sentence of subsection (d) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The amount of the mar- keting quota for each farm shall be the actual production of the farm acreage allotment, and no peanuts shall be marketed under the quota for any farm other than peanuts actually produced on the farn.' SEC. 2 . Section 359 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended (U. S . C., title 7, sec. 1359), is amended as follows: (1) By changing the first sentence of subsection (a) to read as follows: "The marketing of any peanuts in excess of the marketing quota for the farm on which such peanuts are produced, or the mar- keting of peanuts from any farm for which no acreage allotment was determined, shall be subject to a penalty at a rate equal to 50 per centum of the basic rate of the loan (calculated to the nearest tenth of a cent) for farm marketing quota peanuts for the marketing year August 1-July 31." (2) By striking out the last sentence of subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "Peanuts produced in a calendar year in which marketing quotas are in effect for the marketing year begin- ning therein shall be subject to such quotas even though the peanuts are marketed prior to the date on which such marketing year begins. If any producer falsely identifies or fails to account for the disposition of any peanuts, an amount of peanuts equal to the normal yield of the number of acres harvested in excess of the farm acreage allotment shall be deemed to have been marketed in excess of the marketing quota for the farm, and the penalty in respect thereof shall be paid and remitted by the producer. If any amount of peanuts produced on one farm is falsely identified by a representation that such peanuts 96347°-4 8-pt. 1- -46 Marketing quotas for peanuts. 55 Stat.88. 55 Stat. 90 . Marketing penal- ties.