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[CITE: 7USC423]

 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
                    CHAPTER 17--MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
 
Sec. 423. Cotton; investigation of new uses; cooperation with 
        State and other agencies
        
    The Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of Commerce are 
authorized to engage in technical and scientific research in American-
grown cotton and its byproducts and their present and potential uses, 
including new and additional commercial and scientific uses for cotton 
and its byproducts, and to diffuse such information among the people of 
the United States; and the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secretary of 
Commerce or their duly authorized representatives may cooperate with any 
department or agency of the Government, any State, Territory, District, 
or possession or department, agency, or political subdivision thereof, 
or any person in carrying out the purposes of this section in the 
District of Columbia and elsewhere.

(Apr. 12, 1928, ch. 362, 45 Stat. 426.)
