4 Miscellaneous Circular 20, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Regulation 4.—These regulations may be amended at any time by order of the 
Secretary of Agriculture. t 
Regulation 5.—The Chief of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics shall de- 
liver a copy of these regulations, copies of such amendments thereto as may be 
made from time to time, and copies of sections 123 and 124 of the act of March 
4, 1909 (35 Stat. 1110), to every officer or employee of the Department of 
Agriculture, or person acting in any capacity under or by virtue of the authority 
of the Department of Agriculture, who, by virtue of the office, employment, or 
position held by him, may become possessed of any information concerning the 
acreages, conditions, yields, farm reserves, or quality, or any other information 
which might exert an influence upon or affect the market value of any products 
of the soil dealt with by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics and specified in 
regulation 1, and take his receipt therefor. Every such copy shall contain 
an accurate description of these regulations, of sections 123 and 124 of the act 
of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. 1110), or of amendments to those regulations, as the 
case may be, and shall be recorded and filed in the office of the Chief of the 
Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 
Henry C. WALLACE, 
Secretary of Agriculture. 
EXTRACT FROM THE PENAL LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES, APPROVED MARCH 
4, 1909. 
““SEcTIon 123. Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States or a 
person acting for or on behalf of the United States, in any capacity under or by 
virtue of the authority of any department or office thereof, and while holding 
such office, employment, or position shall, by virtue of the office, employment, or 
position held by him, become possessed of any information which might exert 
an influence upon or affect the market value of any product of the soil grown 
within the United States, which information is by law or by the rules of the 
department or office required to be withheld from publication until a fixed time, 
and shall willfully impart, directly or indirectly, such information, or any part 
thereof, to any person not entitled under the law or the rules of the department 
or office to receive the same; or shall, before such information is made public 
through regular official channels, directly or indirectly speculate in any such 
product respecting which he has thus become possessed of such information, by 
buying or selling the same in any quantity, shall be fined not more than $10,000 
or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both: Provided, That no person shall 
be deemed guilty of a violation of any such rule unless prior to such alleged viola- 
tion he shall have had actual knowledge thereof. 
““SEcTION 124. Whoever, being an officer or employee of the United States and 
whose duties require the compilation or report of statistics or information rela- 
tive to the soil, shall knowingly compile for issuance, or issue, any false statis- 
tics or information as a report of the United States shall be fined not more than 
$5,000 or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.” 
WPeertiy tist DAVE tilis 2) ee eee ORY OL > 2 eee , 1924, 
received two copies of the foregoing “Regulations of the Department of Agri- 
culture Governing the Publication of Reports and the Information Utilized in 
the Compilation of Reports, Prepared by the Bureau of Agricultural Economies, 
Concerning the Acreages, Conditions, Yields, Farm Reserves, or Quality of 
Products of the Soil Grown within the United States,’ and the above-quoted 
sections 123 and 124 of the act of March 4, 1909 (35 Stat. 1110). I have read 
and retained a copy of said regulations and law, and this copy I return signed 
by me as acknowledgment of receipt. 
WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE : 1923 
