Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tobacco bills accept the Supreme Court's dictum that crop control, if any, is a function for the states rather than for the Federal Government. The essence of the new scheme is that individual states operating by mutual arrangement under identical state laws shall impose penalties on farmers who grow more than their quotas. Such state control, however, does not eliminate the Federal Government from the picture. Says the Constitution: "No State shall, without the consent of Congress . . . enter into agreement or compact with another State." Last week's law was drafted to give the necessary Congressional consent...
Government of restrictions on tobacco production in Puerto Rico to match those being imposed by the states...
...Tobacco commissions from each state party to the compact shall sit together, estimate consumption for the type of tobacco in question, go home and allot quotas to each tobacco farm in each state, based on the quota system...
...farmer growing more than his quota would have to pay a penalty of 25% to 50% of gross value to get a state marketing certificate to make its sale legal. Either buying or selling tobacco contrary to the state law would be a misdemeanor and would subject the violator to civil penalties equal to three times the value of the tobacco...
...October, 10% of a state's tobacco producers can petition for a referendum. If one-third or more of the state's producers disapprove continuance, the restriction program for the next year would be dropped...