Joint resolution to fiive the Secretary of Commerce the authority to extend further certain charters of vessels to citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, and for other purposes
PL 82-327 (S.J.Res.144), enacted 04/30/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 328-MAY 7, 1952 
65 
Public Law 327 
CHAPTER 242 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To fiive the Secretary of Commerce the authority to extend further certain 
charters of vessels to citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, and for 
other purposes. 
April 30, 1952 
[S. J. Res. 144] 
Resolved hy the Senate and Houae of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwithstanding any 
other provisions of existing law, the Secretary of Commerce is author-
ized to extend further and continue the present charters of vessels 
to citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, which charters were 
made and entered into under the terms of section 306 (a) of the Act 
of April 30, 1946 (Public Law 370, Seventy-ninth Congress), and 
w^ere authorized to be extended under the provisions of the joint 
resolution approved April 28, 1951 (Public Law 25, Blighty-second 
Congress). Such charters may be further extended for such periods 
of time and under such terms and conditions as the Secretary may, 
from time to time, determine to be required in the interest of the 
economy of the Philippines, but any such charter shall contain a 
provision requiring that the vessel shall be operated only in the inter-
island commerce in the Philippines. No such vessel shall be continued 
under charter, as authorized herein, beyond the completion of the first 
voyage terminating after June 30,1953. 
Approved April 30, 1952. 
Philippines. 
Charters of ves-
sels. 
60 Stat. 137. 
50 u s e 1786. 
65 Stat. 39. 
Public Law 328 
CHAPTER 244 
M
a
y 7, 1952 
To provide for boundary adjustments of the Badlands National Monument, in 
[H. R.3540] 
the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That in order to 
establish a more appropriate boundary for the Badlands National 
Monument and to consolidate Federal land ownership therein, the 
Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion, is authorized to adjust and 
redefine the exterior boundaries of the national monument by appro-
priate reductions or additions of land: Provided^ That the total acre-
age of the national monument, as revised pursuant to this Act, shall 
not exceed its present area of approximately one hundred 
fifty-four 
thousand one hundred and nineteen acres. 
SEC. 2. The revision of boundaries of the national monument, as 
authorized in sections 1 and 5 of this Act, shall be accomplished by the 
issuance, by the Secretary of the Interior, of an appropriate order, 
or orders, such order or orders to be effective upon publication in the 
Federal Register: Provided, That federally owned land under the 
administrative jurisdiction of any other department or agency of the 
Federal Government shall be included within the monument only 
with the approval of the head of such department or agency. 
SEC. 3. Administrative jurisdiction over all Federal lands elimi-
nated from the monument, by the issuance of an order or orders of 
the Secretary of the Interior, is hereby transferred to the Secretary 
of Agriculture for use, administration, and disposition in accordance 
with the provisions of title III of the Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant 
Act and the related provisions of title IV thereof: Provided, That all 
of such lands formerly set apart and reserved from the public domain 
shall be subject to the mining and minerals-leasing laws: And pro-
B a d l a n d s Na-
tional Monument, 
S. Dak. 
R e v i s i o n 
boundarie s. 
of 
Transfer of juris-
diction. 
50 Stat. 525. 
7 u s e 1010-1029.