7 U.S.C. § 473b — Market supply, demand, condition and prices; collection and publication of information

submitted 99 years ago by ch. 337 to r/title-7-AGRICULTURE · 73 words · no verdicts yet

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The Secretary of Agriculture must collect and share timely cotton market information. This covers supply, demand, location, condition, and prices, by telegraph, radio, mail, or other means. Price lists for different cotton grades get posted at gins, post offices, and other public spots.

The Secretary of Agriculture must collect, verify, publish, and share timely information about the cotton market -- covering supply, demand, location, condition, and prices -- using telegraph, radio, mail, or any other method. The Secretary must also arrange for regular reports on prices for the different grades and staple lengths of cotton, and have them posted where people in cotton-growing communities can see them, such as at cotton gins, post offices, or other public places.

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The Secretary of Agriculture is also authorized and directed to collect, authenticate, publish, and distribute, by telegraph, radio, mail, or otherwise, timely information on the market supply, demand, location, condition, and market prices for cotton, and to cause to be prepared regularly and distributed for posting at gins, in post offices, or in other public or conspicuous places in cotton-growing communities, information on prices for the various grades and staple lengths of cotton.

Source credit: (Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 337, § 3b, as added Apr. 13, 1937, ch. 75, 50 Stat. 62.)

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1927Enacted · Act of Mar. 3, 1927, ch. 337 · 50 Stat. 62

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