An Act to grant leaves of absence to homestead entrymen and to permit suspension of cultivation and improvement operations on homestead and desert land entries, and for other purposes
PL 84-834 (S.3458), enacted 07/30/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 8 3 4 - J U L Y 30, 1956 
716 
Whereas the cost of holding an assembly in the United States would 
exceed the amount provided in the budget of the World Health Or-
ganization for holding an assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, the 
headquarters of the Organization: Therefore be it 
Resolved hy the Senate aTid House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assenibled, That there is authorized to He^th*^8««nWy! 
be appropriated to the Department of State, out of any money in the i9S8. 
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of $400,000 for the 
Appropriation, 
purpose of defraying the expenses incident to organizing and holding 
the Eleventh World Health Assembly in the United States. 
Funds 
appropriated pursuant to this authorization shall be available for 
advance contribution to the World Health Organization for addi-
tional costs incurred by the Organization in holding the Eleventh 
World Health Assembly outside the Organization's headquarters at 
Geneva, Switzerland; and shall be available for expenses incurred by 
the Department of State, on behalf of the United States as host gov-
ernment, including personal services without regard to civil-service 
and classification laws; employment of aliens; travel expenses with-
out regard to the Standardized Government Travel Regulations and 
to the rates of per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence expenses under 
the Travel Ejjpense Act of 1949; rent of quarters by contract or other- 
5 ulcfVasnote. 
wise; and hire of passenger motor vehicles. 
Approved July 30, 1966. 
Public Law 833 
CHAPTER 777 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
j„,y 30, i^g 
Authorizing an appropriation for expenses of tlie Pan American games to be held 
[s. J. Res. 186]_ 
in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1959. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That there is hereby author- gam^,"^!™!// *
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ized to be appropriated out of moneys in the Treasury not otherwise 
Appropriation, 
appropriated the sum of $5,000,000 for I I I Pan American Games 
(1959). The said appropriation shall be available for the purpose of 
promoting and insuring the success of the Pan American games to be 
held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1959 and shall be expended in the discre-
tion of the organization sponsoring said games, subject to such audit 
as may be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States. 
Approved July 30, 1956. 
Public Law 834 
CHAPTER 778 
^^ ACT 
jujy 30, 1956 
To grant leaves of absence to homestead entrymen and to permit suspeusioa of 
[s. 3458] 
cultivation and improvement operations on homestead and desert land entries, 
and for otther purposes. 
Be it enobcted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That any person ^^me«t««dento^ 
who holds a homestead entry on public lands which was allowed and 
subsisting on March 1, 1956, or which, based on an application on file 
on March 1, 1956, was allowed and subsisting on the date of approval 
of this Act, is hereby granted leave of absence from the lands until 
March 1, 1959, and any person who holds a homestead or desert land 
entry which was allowed and subsisting on March 1, 1956, or which, 
based on an application on file on March 1, 1956, was allowed and 
L e a v e of ab-
sence. 
P r o t e c t i o n of 
rights. 
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PUBLIC LAW 834-JULY 30, 1956 
[70 STAT. 
subsisting on the date of approval of this Act, is hereby granted per-
mission to suspend until March 1, 1959, further operations looking to 
the cultivation and improvement of the lands: Proinded^ That such 
entryman shall forfeit no rights and shall not otherwise be excused 
from full compliance with the applicable public land laws by reason 
of such absence or of such suspension of cultivation and improvement 
operations: And provided further^ That the rights of such entrymen 
shall not be protected by this Act unless they file with the land office 
having jurisdiction over the area in which the land is located, (a) a 
notice of their intention to absent themselves from the land or to 
suspend cultivation and improvement operations and accompanying 
such notice information as to location and extent of present cultivation 
or improvement placed on the entry, and (b) a grant to the United 
States, for itself and for its lessees, licensees, and permittees, of a 
right to enter upon and occupy the lands which have not been prepared 
for cultivation or which have not had improvements placed on them, 
without recourse, for any purpose authorized by the public land laws, 
except that such grant need not include a right to construct permanent 
improvements on the land or to permit a substantial change in its 
character. 
SEC. 2. Any person who on March 1,1956, had on file a homestead 
or desert land application which application shall be allowed on its 
merits subsequent to enactment of this Act and prior to March 1, 
1959, shall not be required to enter upon the lands and commence 
residence thereon, or cultivate and improve the lands prior to 
March 1, 1959: Provided^ That said person files with the land offices 
having jurisdiction over the area in which the land is located, (a) 
within sixty days after the date of allowance of his entry, a notice of 
his intention to delay initiation of his residence, cultivation, or 
improvements, and (b) at least ninety days prior to initiation of his 
residence, cultivation, or improvements, a notice of his intention to 
initiate said activity. 
For the purposes of the homestead and desert 
land laws, March 1, 1959, may be treated as the date of the entry, if 
an actual entry has not been made prior to that date. If an actual 
entry is made prior to March 1, 1959, the date of such actual entry 
shall be the date of entry for the purposes of the homestead and desert 
land laws. Until an actual entry by a person subject to the provisions 
of this section has been made, or until March 1, 1959, whichever first 
occurs, the United States, for itself and for its lessees, permittees, and 
licensees, shall retain the right to enter upon, and occupy the lands in 
each such entry, without recourse, for any purpose authorized by the 
public land laws: Provided^ That the United States, its lessees, per-
mittees, and licensees, shall not construct permanent improvements 
on the lands or otherwise substantially change such lands in their 
character. 
SEO. 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of the desert land laws, 
the property right prior to issuance of patent to the lands in his 
desert land entry of an entryman who elects to suspend cultivation and 
improvement operations in accordance with section 1 of this Act and 
of an entryman whose entry is allowed in accordance with section 2 
of this Act shall be a personal right, inheritable but not assignable. 
SEC. 4. This Act shall apply only to applications filed for, or entries 
made on, public lands in the continental United States, exclusive of 
Alaska, pursuant to the Act of May 20,1862 (12 Stat. 392; 43 U. S. C , 
ch. 7), as amended and supplemented, and pursuant to Act of March 
3,1877 (19 Stat. 377; 43 V. S. (I, ch. 9), as amended and supplemented. 
Nothing in this Act shall apply to applications filed for, or entries 
made on, public lands i^ursuant to the Act of June 17,1902 (32 Stat. 
43USC37inote. 388; 43 U. S. C , ch. 12), as amended and supplemented. 
Approved July 30, 1956.