An Act to provide for boundary adjustments of the Badlands National Monument in the State of South Dakota, and for other purposes
PL 82-328 (H.R.3540), enacted 05/07/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 328-MAY 7, 1952 
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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. 
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E x c h a n g e s of 
land. 
33 u s e 733 and 
note. 
7 u s e 1011(c). 
vided further^ That any disposition of any such lands formerly set 
apart and reserved from the public domain shall be evidenced by 
patents issued by the Secretary of the Interior, 
SEC. 4. In order that exchanges of land may be effectuated for the 
purposes of this Act, the Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in 
his discretion and in accordance with the provisions of section 355 
of the Revised Statutes, to accept, on behalf of the United States, 
title to any land or interests in land within the exterior boundaries 
of the Badlands National Monument as revised pursuant to this Act, 
and, in exchange therefor, with the approval and concurrence of the 
Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of the Interior may patent 
lands of approximately equal value which were formerly set apart 
and reserved from the public domain within the Badlands Fall River 
soil conservation project, SD-LU-1. In effectuating such exchanges, 
in lieu of conveyances by the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary 
of Agriculture may convey lands of approximately equal value within 
said project which have been acquired heretofore by the United States. 
All such exchanges shall, in all other respects, be considered as 
exchanges under the provisions of section 32c, title III, of the Bank-
head-Jones Farm Tenant Act and shall otherwise be in accordance with 
provisions of said Act, except that, upon acceptance of title to any 
lands so acquired by the United States under this section, such lands 
and any other lands acquired otherwise by the United States within 
the monument boundaries shall be a part of that area. In consummat-
ing land exchanges hereunder upon an equitable basis, patents and 
instruments of conveyance may be issued, and property may be 
accepted, by the United States, subject to such reservations as may be 
necessary or in the public interest. 
Approved May 7, 1952. 
May 8, 1952 
[H.R.6101] 
Public Law 329 
CHAPTER 245 
AN ACT 
To extend the provisions of tlie Federal Credit Union Act, as amended, to tlie 
Virgin Islands. 
60 Stat. 745. 
12 u s e 1772. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 22 of 
the Federal Credit Union Act, as amended, is hereby amended to read 
as follows: 
"SEC. 22. The provisions of this Act shall be extended to and include 
the Panama Canal Zone and the Virgin Islands." 
Approved May 8, 1952. 
May 8, 1952 
[H.R.5609] 
Public Law 330 
CHAPTER 246 
AN ACT 
To amend section 1716 of title 18, United States Code, to permit the transmission 
of poisons in the mails to persons or concerns having scientific use therefor, 
and for other purposes. 
T i t l e 18, U.S. 
eode, amendment. 
62 Stat. 781. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 1716 
of title 18, United States Code, is hereby amended by inserting after 
the paragraph reading: 
"The transmission in the mails of poisonous drugs and medicines 
may be limited by the Postmaster General to shipments of such articles