An Act to permit a first preference for former owners of certain dwellings being sold under Lanham War Housing Act
PL 83-305 (H.R.6130), enacted 03/10/1954

PUBLIC LAW 305-MAR. 10, 1964 
[68 ST A T , 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
•9 i;. 'f < I 
engages in a strike against the (Toverinnent 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 
violence: 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 TJnited 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 pei-son who engages in a strike 
against the Government of the United States or wlio 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 jvho 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 or any other 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 March 6, 1954. 
March 10, 1954 
Public Law 305 
A
N
f ACT 
CHAPTER 61 
[H. R. 6130] 
rfQ permit a first preference for former owners of certain dwellings being sold 
under lianham War jHousing Act. 
War housing. 
Purchase p r e f-
erence. 
64 Stat. 70. 
42 u s e 1587(b). 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled, That section 607 (b) 
of the Act entitled "An Act to expedite the provision of housing in 
connection with national defense, and for other purposes", approved 
October 14, 1940, as amended, is amended by inserting after the first 
sentence of the last paragraph of that subsection the following sen-
tence : "In the disposition of any dwellings under this section which 
were acquired by the United States from persons occupying the dwell-
ings at the time of such acquisition, the Administrator may, notwith-
standing the order of preference provided in this section, grant a first 
preference to such persons in the purchase of any of these dwellings 
for such period and under such conditions as he may determine to be 
api)ropriate and in the public interest." 
Approved March 10, 1964. 
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March 12,1954 
[S. 1160] 
Public Law 306 
CHAPTER 78 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land to the city of 
Tucson, Arizona, and to accept other land in exchange therefor. 
Tucson, Ariz. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of the Interior is authorized and directed to convey by quitclaim deed 
to the city of Tucson, Arizona, a municipal corporation, all right, title,