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During the second session of the 74th Congress, the U.S. Congressional session amended the Soil Conservation Act of 1935 by passing Pub. L. 74–461 and renaming the legislation the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act with the express purpose of encouraging the use of soil resources in such a manner as to preserve and improve fertility ...
Allotment may refer to: Allotment (Dawes Act), an area of land held by the US Government for the benefit of an individual Native American, under the Dawes Act of 1887; Allotment (finance), a method by which a company allocates over-subscribed shares; Allotment (gardening), an area of land rented out for non-commercial gardening or farming
Originally, the allotment system was the name for a system used to pay servants of the state, like officers and clergy. It was introduced because of an often felt shortage of money, and the allotment system tried to solve this by localising taxes; meaning that payment consisted of an individual's right to collect certain taxes.
To provide small parcels of land for people to grow their own vegetables and fruits, Parliament passed the Local Government (Allotments and Land Cultivation) (Ireland) Act 1917. Finally the Labourers (Ireland) Act 1919 ( 9 & 10 Geo. 5 .
An allotment garden in Petsamo, Tampere, Finland. The Luxembourg-based Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux, representing three million European allotment gardeners since 1926, describes the socio-cultural and economic functions of allotment gardens as offering an improved quality of life, an enjoyable and profitable hobby, relaxation, and contact with nature.
It granted loans to farmers; purchased farm products from farmers and processors; administered land allotment and marketing quota programs; shared the cost of resource conservation and environmental protection measures with farmers and ranchers; and supervised civil defense activities relating to food.
Burke Act; Other short titles: General Allotment Act Amendment of 1906: Long title: An Act to amend section six of an act approved February eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled "An Act to provide for the allotment of lands in severalty to Indians on the various reservations, and to extend the protection of the laws of the United States and the Territories over the Indians, and ...
The Allotments Act 1950 (14 Geo. 6. c. 31) was an Act of Parliament [1] passed in the United Kingdom by the Labour government of Clement Attlee. It improved provisions for compensation and tenancy rights, [2] and abolished contract-restraints on keeping rabbits and hens on allotment gardens. [3]