An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to grant a preference right to users of withdrawn public lands for grazing purposes when the lands are restored from the withdrawal
PL 83-375 (H.R.6186), enacted 05/28/1954

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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. 
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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. 
Strikes or over-
throw of Govern-
ment. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Public Law 375 
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. 
May 28, 1954 
[H. R. 6186] 
Be it enacted hy 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. 
Grazing lands. 
P r e f e r e nc e 
rights. 
49 Stat. 1978. 
43 use 31Sm.