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transferred to and vested in the Farm Loan Commissioner, subject to the jurisdiction and control of the Farm Credit Administration as herein provided.

(5) There are transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Farm Credit Administration:

(a) The Federal Farm Loan Bureau and the functions thereof; together with the functions of the Federal Farm Loan Board, including the functions of the Farm Loan Commissioner:

(b) The functions of the Treasury Department and the Department of Agriculture, and the Secretaries thereof, under Executive Authorizations to give aid to farmers, dated July 26, 1918, and any extensions or amendments thereof;

(c) The functions of the Secretary of Agriculture under all provisions of law relating to the making of advances or loans to farmers, fruit growers, producers and owners of livestock and crops, and to individuals for the purpose of assisting in forming or increasing the capital stock of agricultural-credit corporations, livestock-loan companies, or like organizations, except Public Resolution No. 74, Seventieth Congress, approved December 21, 1928, providing for the Porto Rican Hurricane Relief Commission;

(d) The Crop Production Loan Office and the Seed Loan Office of the Department of Agriculture, and the functions thereof; (e) The functions of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and its board of directors relating to the appointment of officers and agents to manage regional agricultural credit corporations formed under section 201 (e) of the Emergency Relief and Construction Act of 1932; relating to the establishment of rules and regulations for such management; and relating to the approval of loans and advances made by such corporations and of the terms and conditions thereof.

(6) The functions vested in the Federal Farm Board by section 9 of the Agricultural Marketing Act are abolished, except that such functions shall continue to be exercised to such extent and for such time as may be necessary to permit the orderly winding up of the activities of stabilization corporations heretofore recognized under authority of such section, and the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration shall take appropriate action for winding up at the earliest practicable date the activities of such corporations and all affairs related to the exercise of such functions.

(7) The records, property (including office equipment), and personnel used and employed in the execution of the functions hereinbefore transferred are transferred to the jurisdiction and control of the Farm Credit Administration.

(8) The sum of $2,000,000 of the unexpended balances of appropriations made to the Federal Farm Board by Public Resolutions No. 43 and No. 51 of the Seventy-second Congress shall be impounded and returned to the Treasury, which sum shall be in addition to the other savings to be effected by the Farm Credit Administration as a result of this order.

(9) The unexpended balances of appropriations to the Secretary of Agriculture, the Federal Farm Loan Bureau, and the Federal Farm

Board for salaries, expenses, and all other administrative expenditures in the execution of the functions herein vested in the Farm Credit Administration shall be transferred to and vested in the Farm Credit Administration as a single fund for its use for salaries, expenses, and all other administrative expenditures for the execution. of any or all of such functions without restriction as to the particular functions for the execution of which the same were originally appropriated. All other appropriations, allotments, and other funds available for use in connection with the functions and executive agencies hereby transferred and consolidated are hereby transferred to and vested in the Farm Credit Administration, and shall be available for use by it, for the same purposes as if the Farm Credit Administration were named in the law or authority providing such appropriations, allotments, or other funds.

(10) All power, authority, and duties conferred by law upon any officer, executive agency, or head thereof, from which or from whom transfer is hereinbefore made, in relation to the executive agency or function transferred, are transferred to and vested in the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration.

(11) The Governor of the Farm Credit Administration is directed to dismiss, furlough, transfer, or make other appropriate disposition of such of the officers and employees under his jurisdiction and control as are not required for the proper execution of the functions of the Farm Credit Administration.

(12) The Governor of the Farm Credit Administration is authorized to execute any and all functions and perform any and all duties vested in him through such persons as he shall by order designate or employ.

(13) The Governor of the Farm Credit Administration, by order or rules and regulations, may consolidate, regroup, and transfer offices, bureaus, activities, and functions in the Farm Credit Administration, so far as may be required to carry out the purposes to which this order is directed, and may fix or change the names of such offices, bureaus, and activities and the duties, powers, and titles of their executive heads.

This order shall take effect upon the sixty-first calendar day after its transmission to Congress unless otherwise determined in accordance with the provisions of section 407 of the act cited above, as amended. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT.

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638-1. Farm Credit Administration; provisions relating to organization. The Governor of the Farm Credit Administration is authorized, in carrying out the powers and duties now or hereafter vested in him or the Farm Credit Administration by law or under any Executive order made under title IV of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act of 1933, as amended, to establish, and to fix the powers and duties of, such divisions, agencies, corporations, and instrumentalities as he may deem necessary to the efficient functioning of the Farm Credit Administration and the successful execution of the powers and duties so vested in the Governor and the Farm Credit Administration. This

section shall not be construed to restrict the authority of the President under title IV of such Act, as amended: Provided, That no salary or compensation shall be paid to any officer, agent, or other person employed under this section in excess of $10,000 per annum. (May 12, 1933, sec. 40, 48 Stat. 51; 12 U. S. C., sec. 636.)

638-2. Land Bank Commissioner; functions under Executive Orders.If and when any executive order heretofore transmitted to the Congress pursuant to title IV of part II of the Legislative Appropriation Act of 1933, as amended, shall become effective, all functions, powers, authority, and duties conferred upon or vested in the Land Bank Commissioner by this title shall be held and exercised by him subject to all the terms and conditions in any such Executive order the same as if such functions, powers, authority, and duties were specifically named in such Executive order or orders. (May 12, 1933, sec. 39, 48 Stat. 50; June 16, 1933, sec. 80 (a), 48 Stat. 273; 12 U. S. C., sec. 637.)

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638-3. Commissioners in Farm Credit Administration; designation; appointment; salaries and expenses.-Land Bank Commissioner. After the date of the enactment of this Act, the office of Farm Loan Commissioner shall be known as the Office of the Land Bank Commissioner and the Farm Loan Commissioner shall be known as the Land Bank Commissioner. The provisions of section 3 of the Federal Farm Loan Act, as amended (U. S. C., Title 12, sec. 653), prescribing a term of office of eight years shall not apply to incumbents hereafter appointed to the office of Land Bank Commissioner.

Production Credit Commissioner; Cooperative Bank Commissioner; Intermediate Credit Commissioner. (b) There shall be in the Farm Credit Administration three commissioners who shall be known, respectively, as the Production Credit Commissioner, the Cooperative Bank Commissioner, and the Intermediate Credit Commissioner. Such commissioners shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. They shall receive an annual salary of $10,000, payable monthly, together with actual necessary traveling expenses. Such commissioners shall perform such duties as may be assigned to them by law or by the governor of the Farm Credit Administration. (June 16, 1933, sec. 80, 48 Stat. 273; 12 U. S. C., sec. 638, 638 note.)

638-4. Governor of Farm Credit Administration; supplementary grant of powers. The authority and powers conferred upon the governor under this Act shall not be construed to be in substitution for authority and powers conferred upon him under existing law but shall be construed to be supplementary to such authority and powers. (June 16, 1933, sec. 82, 48 Stat. 273; 12 U. S. C., sec. 639.)

638-5. Seal of Farm Credit Administration.-The Farm Credit Administration shall have a seal, as adopted by the governor, which shall be judicially noticed. (June 16, 1933, sec. 85, 48 Stat. 273;

12 U. S. Č., sec. 640.)

638-6. Farm credit districts created.-(a) There shall be twelve districts in the continental United States, excluding Alaska, which shall be known as farm credit districts, and may be designated by number. The boundaries of the twelve Federal land bank districts existing as of the date of enactment of this Act shall be the boundaries of the respective farm credit districts. Such boundaries may be readjusted

from time to time in the discretion of the Farm Credit Administration, provided that said districts shall be apportioned with due regard to the farm credit needs of the country and no such district shall contain a fractional part of any State. The designations "Federal land bank district" and "land bank district" wherever used in the Federal Farm Loan Act, or in any Act amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, are changed to "farm credit district" and shall hereafter be deemed to refer to the farm credit districts provided for in this section.

Farm credit boards; members. (b) There shall be in each farm credit district a farm credit board, which shall be selected as hereinafter specified and shall be composed of seven members. Each farm credit board shall include in its title the name of the city in which the Federal land bank, Federal intermediate credit bank, production credit corporation, and regional bank for cooperatives of the district are located. Three of the members of said board shall be known as elected directors of whom one shall be chosen by national farm loan associations and borrowers through agencies, one shall be chosen by production credit associations of the district, and one shall be chosen by cooperatives which are stockholders or subscribers to the guaranty fund of the regional bank for cooperatives in the district. Three of the seven members shall be known as district directors, of whom two shall be appointed by the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration and one, who shall be known as the third district director, shall be chosen as hereafter in this section provided. The seventh member of such board shall be known as director at large and shall be appointed by the Governor of the Farm Credit Adminis

tration.

Same; initial board to be composed of Federal land bank directors; successors. (c) The directors of the Federal land bank of each district who are in office on the date of enactment of this Act shall constitute the farm credit board of the district and shall serve as members thereof for the remaining portions of the terms for which they were respectively elected or appointed as directors of the bank. Except as otherwise provided by this Act, the successor to each original member of the farm credit board shall be selected in the manner in which such member was selected as a director of the Federal land bank.

Same; selection of third district director. (d) Each third district director shall be selected as follows: Each national farm loan association and borrower through agencies in the district shall nominate, in the manner provided herein for the nomination of candidates for elected directors, one candidate for such director, and from the three persons having the greatest number of votes as nominees the Governor of the Farm Credit Administration shall appoint such director. No third district director who is removed from office pursuant to section 17 (h) of the Federal Farm Loan Act may be nominated to succeed himself.

Same; nomination of elected directors. (e) At least two months before an election of an elected director the Farm Credit Administration shall cause notice in writing to be sent to those entitled to nominate candidates for such elected director. In the case of an election of a director by national farm loan associations and borrowers through

agencies, such notice shall be sent to all national farm loan associations and borrowers through agencies in the district; in the case of an election by production credit associations, such notice shall be sent to all production credit associations in the district; and in the case of an election by cooperatives which are stockholders or subscribers to the guaranty fund of the bank for cooperatives of the district, such notice shall be sent to all cooperatives which are stockholders or subscribers to the guaranty fund at the time of sending notice. After receipt of such notice those entitled to nominate the director shall forward nominations of residents of the district to the Farm Credit Administration. The Farm Credit Administration shall, from the nominations received within thirty days after the sending of such notice, prepare a list of candidates for such elected director consisting of the ten nominees receiving the highest number of votes.

Same; election of elected directors. (f) At least one month before the election of an elected director the Farm Credit Administration shall mail to each person or organization entitled to elect the elected director the list of the ten candidates nominated in accordance with the preceding paragraph of this section. In the case of an election of a director by national farm loan associations and borrowers through agencies, the directors of each farm loan association shall cast the vote of such association for one of the candidates on the list. In voting under this section each such association shall be entitled to cast a number of votes equal to the number of stockholders of such association and each borrower through agencies shall be entitled to cast one vote. In voting under this section each production credit association shall be entitled to cast a number of votes equal to the number of class B stockholders of such association. In voting under this section each cooperative which is a holder of stock in, or a subscriber to the guaranty fund of, the bank for cooperatives shall be entitled to cast one vote. The votes shall be forwarded to the Farm Credit Administration and no vote shall be counted unless received by it within thirty days after the sending of such list of candidates. In case of a tie the Farm Credit Administration shall determine the choice. The nominations from which the list of candidates is prepared, and the votes of the respective voters, as counted, shall be tabulated and preserved and shall be subject to examination by any candidate for at least one year after the result of the election is announced.

Same; term of office; vacancies. (g) The terms of office of all directors shall be three years. Any vacancies that may occur in the farm credit board shall be filled for the unexpired term in the manner provided herein for the original selection of such directors.

Same; general qualifications of members. (h) Members of each farm credit board shall have been, for at least two years, residents of the district for which they are appointed or elected. From and after the date of enactment of this Act, no person shall be eligible for election or appointment as a member of any district farm credit board, and no person hereafter elected or appointed as a member of any district farm credit board shall be eligible to continue to serve as such, if in either case said person is an officer or employee of any Federal land bank, Federal intermediate credit bank, production credit corporation, or bank for cooperatives. No district director, excepting any third district director selected as hereinabove specified, shall, during

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