An Act to amend the Agricultural Act of 1949
PL 82-78 (S.984), enacted 07/12/1951

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lands and products thereof, and no use of the surface of the claim or 
the resources therefrom not reasonably required for carrying on 
mining or prospecting shall be allowed except under the rules, and 
regulations of the Department of Agriculture or the Department of 
the Interior, respectively. 
SEO. 3. That valid mining claims within the said lands, existing 
on the date of the enactment of this Act, and thereafter maintained in 
compliance with the law under which they were initiated and the laws 
of the State of Arizona, may be perfected under this Act, or under 
the laws under which they were initiated, as the claimant may desire. 
Approved July 12, 1951. 
Valid mining claims. 
Public Law 78 
CHAPTER 2 2 3 
AN ACT 
To amwid the Agricultural Act of 1949. 
July 12,1951 
[S. 984] 
Agricultural Act, 
1949, amendment. 
63 Stat. 1061. 
7 U. S. C. i 1421 note. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hoibse of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Agricul-
tural Act of 1949 is amended by adding at the end thereof a new title 
to read as follows: 
"TITLE V—AGRICULTURAL WORKERS 
"SEC. 501. For the purpose of assisting in such production of agri- 
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cultural commodities and products as the Secretary of Agriculture 
deems necessary, by supplying agricultural workers from the Republic 
of Mexico (pursuant to arrangements between the United States and 
the Republic of Mexico), the Secretary of Labor is authorized— 
"(1) to recruit such workers (including any such workers who 
have resided in the United States for the preceding five years, or 
who are temporarily in the United States under legal entry) ; 
"(2) to establish and operate reception centers at or near the 
places of actual entry of such workers into the continental United 
States for the purpose of receiving and housing such workers 
while arrangements are being made for their employment in, or 
departure from, the continental United States; 
"(3) to provid^ transportation for such workers from recruit-
ment centers outside the continental United States to such recep-
tion centers and transportation from such reception centers to 
such recruitment centers after termination of employment; 
"(4) to provide such workers with such subsistence, emergency 
medical care, and burial expenses (not exceeding $150 burial 
expenses in any one case) as may be or become necessary during 
transportation authorized by paragraph (3) and while such work-
ers are at reception centers; 
"(5) to assist such workers and employers in negotiating con-
tracts for agricultural employment (such workers being free to 
accept or decline agricultural employment with any eligible 
employer and to choose the type of agricultural employment they 
desire, and eligible employers being free to offer agricultural 
employment to any workers of their choice not under contract to 
other employers); 
"(6) to guarantee the performance by employers of provisions 
of such contracts relating to the payment of wages or the fur-
nishing of transportation. 
"SEC. 502. No worker.s shall be made available under this title to any em^^yer and u.^!^'' 
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E m p l o y m e n t re 
strietions. 
Admission of alien 
workers to U. S. 
64 Stat. 512. 
42U.S. C. §417. 
Ante, p. 119. 
53 Stat. 177. 
26U.S.C.§ 1426(b) 
(1). 
Ante, p. 119. 
39 Stat. 875. 
employer unless such employer enters into an agreement with the 
United States— 
" (1) to indemnify the United States against loss by reason of its 
guaranty of such employer's contracts; 
"(2) to reimburse the United States for essential expenses, not 
including salaries or expenses of regular department or agency 
personnel, incurred by it for the transportation and subsistence 
of workers under this title in amounts not to exceed $16 per 
worker; and 
" (3) to pay to the United States, in any case in which a worker 
is not returned to the reception center in accordance with the 
contract entered into under section 501 (5), an amount deter-
mined by the Secretary of Labor to be equivalent to the normal 
cost to the employer of returning other workers from the place of 
employment to such reception center, less any portion thereof 
required to be paid by other employers. 
"SEC. 503. No workers recruited under this title shall be available 
for employment in any area unless the Secretary of Labor has deter-
mined and certified that (1) sufficient domestic workers who are able, 
willing, and qualified are not available at the time and place needed 
to perform the work for which such workers are to be employed, 
(2) the employment of such workers will not adversely affect the 
wages and working conditions of domestic agricultural workers simi-
larly employed, and (3) reasonable efforts have been made to attract 
domestic workers for such employment at wages and standard hours 
of work comparable to those offered to foreign workers. 
"SEC. 504. Workers recruited under this title who are not citizens 
of the United States shall be admitted to the United States subject 
to the immigration laws (or if already in, for not less than the pre-
ceding five years or by virtue of legal entry, and otherwise eligible 
for admission to, the United States may, pursuant to arrangements 
between the United States and the Eepublic of Mexico, be permitted 
to remain therein) for such time and under such conditions as may 
be specified by the Attorney General but, notwithstanding any other 
provision of law or regulation, no penalty bond shall be required 
which imposes liability upon any person for the failure of any such 
worker to depart from the United States upon termination of employ-
ment: Provided, That no workers shall be made available under this 
title to, nor shall any workers made available under this title be 
permitted to remain in the employ of, any employer w^ho has in his 
employ any Mexican alien when such employer knows or has reason-
able grounds to believe or suspect or by reasonable inquiry could have 
ascertained that such Mexican alien is not lawfully within the United 
States. 
"SEC. 505. (a) Section 210 (a) (1) of the Social Security Act, as 
amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subparagraph 
as follows: 
"'(C) 
Service performed by foreign agricultural workers 
under contracts entered into in accordance with title V of the 
Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended.' 
"(b) Section 1426 (b) 
(1) of the Internal Eevenue Code, as 
amended, is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subparagraph 
as follows: 
"'(C) Service performed by foreign agricultural workers under 
contracts entered into in accordance with title V of the Agricul-
tural Act of 1949, as amended.' 
"(c) Workers recruited under the provisions of this title shall not be 
subject to the head tax levied under section 2 of the Immigration Act 
ofl9l7(8U.S.C.,sec.l32). 
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121 
"SEC. 506. For the purposes of this title, the Secretary of Labor is 
authorized— 
"(1) to enter into agreements with Federal and State agencies; 
to utilize (pursuant to such agreements) the facilities and services 
of such agencies; and to allocate or transfer funds or otherwise 
to pay or reimburse such agencies for expenses in connection 
therewith; 
"(2) to accept and utilize voluntary and uncompensated serv-
ices ; and 
"(H) when necessary to supplement the domestic agricultural 
labor force, to cooperate with the Secretary of State in negotiating 
and carrying out agreements or arrangements relating to the em-
ployment in the United States, subject to the immigration laws, 
of agricultural workers from the Republic of Mexico. 
"SEC. 507. For the purposes of this title— 
"(1) The term 'agricultural employment' includes services or 
activities included within the provisions of section 3 (f) of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, or section 1426 
(h) of the Internal Revenue Code,, as amended, horticultural 
employment, cotton ginning, compressing and storing, crushing 
of oil seeds, and the packing, canning, freezing, drying, or other 
processin.o: of perishable or seasonable agricultural products. 
"(2) The term 'employer' shall include an association, or other 
group, of employers, but only if (A) those of its members for 
whom workers are being obtained are bound, in the event of its 
defavdt, to carry out the obligations undertaken by it pursuant 
to section 502, or (B) the Secretary determines that such indi-
vidual liability is not necessary to assure performance of such 
obligations. 
"SEC. 508. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as limiting the 
authority of the Attorney General, pursuant to the general immigra-
tion laws, to permit the importation of aliens of any nationality for 
agricultural employment as defined in section 507, or to permit any 
such alien who entered the United States legally to remain for the 
purpose of engaging in such agricultural employment under such 
conditions and for such time as he, the Attorney General, shall specify. 
"SEC. 509. No Avorkers will be made available under this title for 
employment after December 31. 1953." 
Approved July 12, 1951. 
Authority of Secre-
tary of Labor. 
Definitions. 
52 Stat. 1060. 
29 U. S. C. §203 (f). 
53 Stat. 1386. 
26 U.S.C.§ 1426(h). 
ArUe, p. 119. 
Authority of Attor-
ney General. 
Termination of pro-
gram. 
Public Law 79 
CHAPTER 226 
AN ACT 
To amend title 18 of the United States Code, entitled •'Crimes and Criminal 
Procedure", to provide basic autliority for certain activities of tiie United 
States Secret Service, and for otiier puriM)ses. 
July 16,1951 
[H. R. 2395] 
62 Stat. 700. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 331 of aiJendrnwits!' ^' 
title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"§ 331. Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins 
"Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, dimin-
ishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints 
of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made 
current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United 
States; or 
"Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, 
or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United