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PUBLIC LAW 376-MAY 28, 1954
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SEC. 301. This title may be cited as the Export-Import Bank of Washington, and Reconstruction Finance Corporation Appropriation Act, 1955.
Citation of titlen
TITLE IV—GENEEAL PROVISIONS SEC. 401. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be used to pay the salary or wages of any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or A-iolence: Provided, That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affidavit has not contrary to the provisions of this section engaged in a strike against the Government of the United States, is not a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or that such person does not advocate, and is not a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence: Provided further, That any person who engages in a strike against the Government of the United States or who is a member of an organization of Government employees that asserts the right to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advocates, or who is a member of an organization that advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment the salary or wages for which are paid from any appropriation or fund contained in this Act shall be guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both: Provided further, That the above penalty clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. Approved May 28, 1954. Public Law 375
Strikes or overt h r o w of Government.
Affidavit.
Penalty.
CHAPTER 243
AN ACT To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant a preference right to users of withdrawn public lands for grazing purposes when the lands are restored from the withdrawal.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 15 of the Taylor Grazing Act (43 U.S.C. 1946 edition, sec. 315 (m)) is amended by adding the following proviso: 'Provided further, That when public lands are restored from a withdrawal, the Secretary may grant an appropriate preference right for a grazing lease, license, or permit to users of the land for grazing purposes under authority of the agency which had jurisdiction over the lands immediately prior to the time of their restoration." SEC. 2. The first sentence of section 1 of the Act of June 28, 1934 (48 Stat. 1269), as amended by the Act of June 26, 1936 (49 Stat. 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1946 edition, sec. 315), is further amended by striking out the following language: "not exceeding in the aggregate an area of one hundred and forty-two million acres". Approved May 28, 1954.
May 28, 1954 [H. R. 6186]
Grazing lands. P r e f e r e nc e rights. 49 Stat. 1978. 43 USC 31Sm.
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