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# 7 U.S.C. § 954 - Grades and standards for classification

## Text

The Secretary is authorized to establish and promulgate grades and standards for the classification of peanuts, whenever in his discretion he may see fit.

(June 24, 1936, ch. 745, § 4, 49 Stat. 1899.)