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Title 7, AgricultureRelease 119-102

§7643 Distribution of Farmers’ Bulletins

Title 7 › CHAPTER 103 — AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH, EXTENSION, AND EDUCATION REFORM › SUBCHAPTER III — MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS › Part A — Miscellaneous › § 7643

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Agriculture Department must make farmers’ bulletins fit the interests of different parts of the country. Four-fifths of the copies must be sent using the free, addressed mail privileges given to Senators, Representatives, and Delegates. That four-fifths is split equally among those members and sent where they direct. The Secretary of Agriculture must tell each Senator, Representative, and Delegate the title and type of each bulletin and how many copies they can distribute. Each envelope that holds bulletins must have the title of every bulletin printed on the front.

Full Legal Text

Title 7, §7643

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In the distribution of farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as such Senators, Representatives, or Delegates shall direct: Provided, That the Secretary of Agriculture shall notify Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress of the title and character of each such bulletin, with the total number to which each Senator, Representative, and Delegate may be entitled for such distribution; and on the face of the envelope inclosing said bulletins shall be printed the title of each bulletin contained therein.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was formerly classified to section 417 of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section. Section was enacted as part of act June 30, 1906, ch. 3913, and not as part of the Agricultural Research, Extension, and Education Reform Act of 1998, which in part comprises this chapter. Section is derived from an Appropriation Act for the Department of Agriculture, 1907. The last proviso of section relating to farmers’ bulletins not called for in quotas of Senators and Representatives was omitted from the Code as obsolete in view of Attorney General’s opinion, 27 Op. Atty. Gen. 288.

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Citation

7 U.S.C. § 7643

Title 7, Agriculture

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102