An Act to amend section 28 of the Enabling Act for the State of Arizona relating to the terms of leases of State owned lands
PL 82-44 (S.108), enacted 06/02/1951

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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 vio-
lence: 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 asseits 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 advo-
cates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by force 
or violence: Provided fv/rther^ 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 light 
to strike against the Government of the United States, or who advo-
cates, 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 v/ages 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 sub-
stitution for, any other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 402. This Act may be cited as the "Fourth Supplemental 
Appropriation Act, 1951". 
Approved May 31, 1951. 
Affidavit. 
Penalty. 
Short title. 
Public Law 44 
CHAPTER 120 
AN ACT 
To amend section 28 of the Enabling Act for the State of Arizona relating 
terms of leases of State-owned lands. 
to the 
June 2,1951 
[S. 108] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the third para-
graph of section 28 of the Act entitled "An Act to enable tlie people 
of New Mexico to form a constitution and State government and be 
admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States; 
and to enable the people of Arizona to form a constitution and State 
government and be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with 
the original States", approved June 20, 1910, as amended, is amended 
to read as follows: 
"No mortgage or other encumbrance of the said lands, or any part 
thereof, shall be valid in favor of any person or for any purpose or 
under any circumstances whatsoever. 
Said lands shall not be sold 
or leased, in whole or in part, except to the highest and best bidder 
at a public auction to be held at the county seat of the county wherein 
the lands to be affected, or the major portion thereof, shall lie, notice 
of which public auction shal] first have been duly given by advertise-
ment, which shall set forth the nature, time, and place of the transac-
tion to be had, with a full description of the lands to be offered, and 
be published once each week for not less than ten successive weeks in 
a newspaper of general circulation published regularly at the State 
capital, and in that newspaper of like circulation which shall then 
be regularly published nearest to the location of the lauds so offered; 
Arizona. 
State-owned lands. 
36 Stat. 574. 
N o n v a l i d i t y 
mortgages. 
Sales and leases. 
of 
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Timber, etc. 
Grazing, etc. 
Oil, etc. 
nor shall any sale or contract for the sale of any timber or other 
natural product of such lands be made, save at the place, in the man-
ner, and after the notice by publication provided for sales and leases 
of the lands themselves. 
Nothing herein contained shall prevent: 
(1) the leasing of any of the lands referred to in this section, in such 
manner as the Legislature of the State of Arizona may prescribe, 
for grazing, agricultural, commercial, and homesite purposes, for a 
term of ten years or less; (2) the leasing of any of said lands, in such 
manner as the Legislature of the State of Arizona may prescribe, 
whether or not also leased for grazing and agricultural purposes, for 
mineral purposes, other than for the exploration, development, and 
production of oil, gas, and other hydrocarbon substances, for a term 
of twenty years or less; (3) the leasing of any of said lands, whether 
or not also leased for other purposes, for the exploration, develoj)-
ment, and production of oil, gas, and other hydrocarbon substances 
on, in, or under said lands for an initial term of twenty years or less 
and as long thereafter as oil, gas, or other hydrocarbon substance may 
be procured therefrom in paying quantities, the leases to be made in 
any manner, with or without advertisement, bidding, or appraisement, 
and under such terms and provisions as the Legislature of the State 
of Arizona may prescribe, the terms and provisions to include a reser-
vation of a royalty to said State of not less than 121/2 per centum of 
production; or (4) the Legislature of the State of Arizona from 
providing by proper laws for the protection of lessees of said lands, 
whereby such lessees shall be protected in their rights to their improve-
ments (including water rights) in such manner that in case of lease 
or sale of said lands to other parties the former lessee shall be paid 
by the succeeding lessee or purchaser the value of such improvements 
and rights placed thereon by such lessee." 
Approved June 2, 195L 
June 2, 1951 
[H. R. 3587] 
Public Law 45 
CHAPTER 121 
AN ACT 
Making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending 
and for other purposes. 
June 30, 1951, 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
Third suppiemen- United. States of Am^erica in Congress assembled. That the following 
tal Appropriation Act, 
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sums are appropriated, out oi any money m the Ireasury not other-
wise appropriated, to supply supplemental appropriations for the 
fiscal year ending June 30,1951, and for other purposes, namely: 
64 Stat. 347. 
CHAPTER 
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 
(Out of Revenues of the District of Columbia) 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
64 Stat. 348. 
OFFICE OF T H E CORPORATION COUNSEL 
For an additional amount for "Office of the Corporation Counsel", 
$5,000; and the limitation under this head in the District of Columbia 
Appropriation Act of 1951 on the amount available for the settlement 
of claims is increased from "$7,000" to "$12,000".