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PUBLIC LAW 86-165-AUG. 18, 1959

Not to exceed 5 per centum of any appropriation herein may be transferred to any other such appropriation, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be increased by more than 5 per centum by any such transfers, and any such transfers shall be reported promptly to the Appropriations Committees of the House and Senate. No part of any appropriation herein shall be used to confer a fellowship on any person who advocates or who is a member of an organization or party that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence or with respect to whom the Commission finds, upon investigation and report by the Civil Service Commission on the character, associations, and loyalty of whom, that reasonable grounds exist for belief that such person is disloyal to the Government of the United States: Provided, That any person who advocates or who is a member of an organization or party that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force or violence and accepts employment or a fellowship the salary, wages, stipend, grant, or expenses for which are paid from any appropriation contained herein 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 penal clause shall be in addition to, and not in substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. This Act may be cited as the "Atomic Energy Commission Appropriation Act, 1960". Approved August 18, 1959.

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Public Law 86-165 AN ACT August 18, 1959 To permit the processing of certain applications under the Small Tracts Act for [H. R. 3682] lands included in the Caribou and Targhee National Forests by the Act of August 14, 1958.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 4, sub- gjfe^^^N^aUoI^al section (a), of the Act of August 14, 1958 (72 Stat. 607,608), is hereby Forests, applied amended by substituting a comma for the period at the end thereof '^°"^" and adding the following: "nor to prejudice the sale or lease by the Secretary of the Interior under the Act of June 1, 1938 (52 Stat. 609), as amended, of lands for which applications under that Act 43 USC 682a. were pending on March 28, 1957, and of one additional tract, not exceeding five acres, in either the south half of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter, or the north half of the northeast quarter of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter, both of section 17, township 2 south, range 46 east, Boise meridian, if application for such additional tract be made not later than July 1, 1960, by an applicant whose application under R.S. 2455, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1171) for lands within the west half of the said section 17 was pending on March 28, 1957." SEC. 2. Section 1 of this Act shall be effective as of the date of the Effective date. Act which it amends. SEC. 3. The intent of the Congress in enacting this Act is that the applications identified in the amendment to section 4 of the Act of August 14, 1958, which is made by section 1 of this Act, shall be 72 Stat. 608. granted or rejected, in whole or in part, on the basis of the same standards which would have been applied in granting or rejecting them had the Act of August 14, 1958, not been enacted. Approved August 18, 1959.