An Act to repeal certain acts relating to cooperative agricultural extension work and to amend the Smith-Lever Act of May 8, 1914, to provide for cooperative agricultural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States, Territories, and possessions receiving the benefits of An Act of Congress approved July 2,1862, and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States Department of Agriculture
PL 83-83 (S.1679), enacted 06/26/1953

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purpose intended, then title thereto shall immediately revert to the 
United States, and, in addition, all improvements made by the city of 
Cincinnati, Ohio, during its occupancy shall vest in the United States 
without payment of compensation therefor: Provided, That there shall 
be reserved to the United States all minerals, including oil and gas, in 
the lands authorized for conveyance by section 1. 
Approved June 26, 1953. 
Public Law 82 
CHAPTER 155 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of October 11, 1951, authorizing the President to proclaim 
regulations for preventing collisions at sea, and for other purposes. 
June 26, 1953 
[H. R. 2456] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That rule 9 (e) of 
section 6 of the Act of October 11,1951 (65 Stat. 406), is amended by 
striking out the word "traveling" in the first line and inserting in lieu 
thereof the word "trawling". 
SEC. 2. Rule 11 (c) of section 6 of the Act of October 11,1951 (65 
Stat. 406), is amended by striking out the wcwd "been" in the second 
line and inserting in lieu thereof me word "be". 
Approved June 26, 1953. 
65 Stat. 413. 
33 u s e 145g(e). 
65 Stat. 414. 
33 u s e 145i(c). 
Public Law 83 
CHAPTER 157 
AN ACT 
To repeal certain Acts relating to cooperative agricultural extension work and to 
amend the Smith-Lever Act of May 8, 1914, to provide for cooperative agricul-
tural extension work between the agricultural colleges in the several States, 
Territories, and possessions receiving the benefits of an Act of Congress 
approved July 2,1862, and of Acts supplementary thereto, and the United States 
Department of Agriculture. 
June 26, 1953 
CS.1679] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseTnhled, That the Act of 
May 8,1914 (38 Stat. 372), is hereby amended to read as follows: 
"SECTION 1. In order to aid in diffusing among the people of the 
United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to 
agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of 
the same, there may be continued or inaugurated in connection with the 
college or colleges in each State, Territory, or possession, now receiv-
ing, or which may hereafter receive, the benefits of the Act of Congress 
approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, entitled 'An 
Act donating public lands to the several States and Territories which 
may provide colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic 
arts' (Twelfth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and three), and 
of the Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred 
and ninety (Twenty-sixth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and 
seventeen and chapter eight hundred and forty-one), agricultural 
extension work which shall be carried on in cooperation with the 
United States Department of Agriculture: Provided, 
That in any 
State, Territory, or possession in which two or more such colleges have 
been or hereafter may be established, the appropriations hereinafter 
made to such State, Territory, or possession shall be administered by 
such college or colleges as the legislature of such State, Territory, or 
possession may direct. 
Agricultural ex> 
tension work. 
7 u s e 341-348. 
College coopera-
tion. 
7 u s e 301-308. 
7 u s e 321-328. 
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Instruction, etc. 
Appropriation. 
Distribution 
sums. 
of 
7 
u s e 
343d-3. 
34 3d^2, 
"SEC. 2. Cooperative agricultural extension work shall consist of 
the giving of instruction and practical demonstrations in agriculture 
and home economics and subjects relating thereto to persons not 
attending or resident in said colleges in the several communities, and 
imparting information on said subjects through demonstrations, pub-
lications, and otherwise and for the necessary printing and distribu-
tion of information in connection with the foregoing; and this work 
shall be carried on in such manner as may be mutually agreed upon 
by the Secretary of Agriculture and the State agricultural college or 
colleges receiving the benefits of this Act. 
"SEC. 3. (a) There are hereby authorized to be appropriated for 
the purposes of this Act such sums as Congress may from time to time 
determine to be necessary. 
"(b) Out of such sums, each State, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, 
and the Federal Extension Service shall be entitled to receive annually 
a sum of money equal to the sums received from Federal cooperative 
extension funds for the fiscal year 1953, and such sums shall be subject 
to the same requirements as to furnishing of equivalent sums by the 
State, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico as existed immediately prior 
to the passage of this Act, except that amounts heretofore made avail-
able to the Secretary for allotment on the basis of special needs shall 
continue available for use on the same basis: Provided^ That, in addi-
tion, Puerto Rico shall be authorized to receive the total initial amount 
set by the provisions of the Act of October 26, 1949 (63 Stat. 926), 
and this amount shall be increased each succeeding fiscal year in 
accordance with such provisions until the total sum ^ a l l include the 
maximum amount set by the provisions of the Ac^ of October 26, 
1949, and Puerto Rico shall be entitled to receive such amount 
annually thereafter. 
"(c) Any sums made available by the Congress for further devel-
opment of cooperative extension work in addition to those referred to 
in subsection (b) hereof shall be distributed as follows: 
"1. Four per centum of the sum so appropriated for each fiscal 
year shall be allotted among the States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto 
Rico by the Secretary of Agriculture on the basis of special needs as 
determined by the Secretary. 
"2. Fifty per centum of the remainder of the sum so appropriated 
for each fiscal year shall be paid to the several States, Alaska, Hawaii, 
and Puerto Rico in the proportion that the rural population of each 
bears to the total rural population of the several States, Alaska, 
Hawaii, and Puerto Rico, as determined by the census, and the re-
mainder shall be paid to the several States, Alaska, Hawaii, and 
Puerto Rico in the proportion that the farm population of each bears 
to the total farm population of the several States, Alaska, Hawaii, 
and Puerto Rico, as determined by the census: Provided^ That pay-
ments out of the additional appropriations for further development 
of extension work authorized herein may be made subject to the 
making available of such sums of public funds by the States, Alaska, 
Hawaii, and Puerto Rico from non-Federal funds for the maintenance 
of cooperative agricultural extension work provided for in this Act, 
as may be provided by the Congress at the time such additional appro-
priations are made: Provided further^ That any appropriation made 
hereunder shall be allotted in the first and succeeding years on the 
basis of the decennial census current at the time such appropriation 
is first made, and as to any increase, on the basis of decennial census 
current at the time such increase is first appropriated. 
"(d) The Federal Extension Service shall receive such amounts as 
Congress shall determine for administration, technical, and other 
services and for coordinating the extension work of the Department 
and the several States, Territories, and possessions. 
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"SEC. 4. On or about the first day of July in each year after the 
passage of this Act, the Secretary of Agriculture shall ascertain as to 
each State, Territory, or possession whether it is entitled to receive its 
share of the annual appropriation for cooperative agricultural exten-
sion work under this Act and the amount which it is entitled to receive. 
Before the funds herein provided shall become available to any college 
for any fiscal year, plans for the work to be carried on under this Act 
shall be submitted by the proper officials of each college and approved 
by the Secretary of Agriculture. 
Such sums shall be paid in equal 
semiannual payments on the first day of January and July of each 
year to the treasurer or other officer of the State, Territory, or pos-
session duly authorized by the laws of the State, Territory, or posses-
sion to receive the same, and such officer shall be required to report to 
the Secretary of Agriculture on or about the first day of January of 
each year, a detailed statement of the amount so received during the 
E
revious fiscal year and its disbursement, on forms prescribed by the 
ecretary of Agriculture. 
"SEC. 5. If any portion of the moneys received by the designated 
officer of any State, Territory, or possession, for the support and main-
tenance of cooperative agricultural extension work, as provided in this 
Act, shall by any action or contingency be diminished or lost or be 
misapplied, it shall be replaced by said State, Territory, or possession, 
and until so replaced no subsequent appropriation shall be apportioned 
or paid to said State, Territory, or possession. 
No portion of said 
moneys shall be applied, directly or indirectly, to the purchase, erec-
tion, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings, or the pur-
chase or rental of land, or in college-course teaching, lectures in college, 
or any other purpose not specified in this Act. 
It shall be the duty of 
said colleges, annually, on or about the first day of January, to make 
to the Governor of the State, Territory, or possession in which it is 
located a full and detailed report of its operations in extension work 
as defined in this Act, including a detailed statement of receipts and 
expenditures from all sources for this purpose, a copy of which report 
shall be sent to the Secretary of Agriculture. 
"SEC. 6. If the Secretary of Agriculture finds that a State, Territory, 
or possession is not entitled to receive its share of the annual appro-
priation, the facts and reasons therefor shall be reported to the Presi-
dent, and the amount involved shall be kept separate in the Treasury 
until the expiration of the Congress next succeeding a session of the 
legislature of the State, Territory, or possession from which funds 
have been withheld in order that the State, Territory, or possession 
may, if it should so desire, appeal to Congress from the determination 
of the Secretary of Agriculture. 
If the next Congress shall not direct 
such sum to be paid, it shall be covered into the Treasury. 
"SEC. 7. The Secretary of Agriculture shall make an annual report 
to Congress of the receipts, expenditures, and results of the coopera-
tive agricultural extension work in all of the States, Territories, or 
possessions receiving the benefits of this Act, and also whether the 
appropriation of any State, Territory, or possession has been with-
held, and, if so, the reason therefor. 
"SEC. 8. The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to make such 
rules and regulations as may be necessary for carrying out the pro-
visions of this Act." 
SEC. 2. The Acts or parts thereof enumerated below are hereby 
repealed: 
The Capper-Ketcham Act of May 22, 1928 (45 Stat. 711), as 
amended by the Act of March 10, 1930 (46 Stat. 83). 
Section 21 of the Bankhead-Jones Act of June 29, 1935 (49 Stat. 
438), as amended by section 2 of the Act of June 6,1945 (59 Stat. 233). 
Entitlement. 
Report to Secre-
tary of Agriculture. 
Mi s a p p l i e d 
money. 
Replacement. 
R e p ort to Gov-
ernor. 
No nentitle ment. 
Report to Presi-
dent. 
Appeal. 
Report t o C o n-
gress. 
Rules and regu-
lations. 
Repeals. 
7 u s e 
3 4 3 a , 
343b. 
7 u s e 343e. 
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63 Stat. 926. 
7 use 343d«lto 
343d-3. 
7 use 343f,343g. 
7 use 343C-1. 
63 Stat. 939. 
7 use 3 4 3-d-4, 
343cl>5. 
7 use 386-386b. 
7 use 386c. 
7 use 386d-386£. 
Section 23 of the Bankhead-Jones Act as added by the Act of June 
6, 1945 (59 Stat. 231), and as amended by the Act of October 26, 
1949 (Public Law 406, Eighty-first Congress). 
The Act of August 28,1937 (50 Stat. 881). 
The Act of April 24, 1939 (53 Stat. 589), as amended by section 
707 of the Act of September 21,1944 (58 Stat. 742). 
The Act of October 27, 1949 (Public t a w 417, Eighty-first 
Congress). 
The Act of May 16, 1928 (45 Stat. 571), insofar as it relates to 
extension work. 
The Act of February 23,1929 (45 Stat. 1256), insofar as it relates 
to extension work. 
The Act of March 4, 1931 (46 Stat. 1520), insofar as it relates to 
extension work. 
Approved June 26, 1953. 
June 29. 1953 
[H. R. 4495] 
Public Law 84 
CHAPTER 158 
AN ACT 
To amend the Universal Military Training and Service Act, as amended, so as to 
provide for special registration, classification, and induction of certain medical, 
dental, and allied specialist categories, and for other purposes. 
Medical, etc., 
specialists. 
5 0 u s e 
app. 
454 (i). 
"Active duty", 
etc. 
50 use 901. 
54 Stat. 889. 
5 0 u s e app. 
305(g). 
Service credit. 
Exceptions. 
50 use 901. 
Be it eriacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection 4 (i) 
of the Universal Military Training and Service Act (64 Stat. 826), 
as amended, is further amended by adding at the end thereof the fol-
lowing new paragraphs: 
"(4) As used in this subsection, the term 'active duty' and 'active 
service' shall include (A) active dutv, as defined in subsection 101 (b) 
of the Armed Forces Eeserve Act of 1952 (66 Stat. 481); (B) active 
service subsequent to September 16, 1940, in the Army, Navy, Air 
Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, or the United States Public Health 
Service, including the reserve components thereof; (C) service in the 
national health, safety, or interest performed pursuant to subsection 
6 (j) of this Act and work of national importance performed pursuant 
to subsection 5 (g) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940; 
(D) prior to September 2,1945, equivalent service in the armed forces 
of any country allied with the United States in World War II, while 
so allied; and (E) service performed as physicians or dentists by 
United States citizens employed by the Panama Canal Health Depart-
ment between September 16,1940, and September 2, 1945. 
"(5) For the purposes of computation of the periods of active duty 
or active service referred to in this subsection, credit shall be given for 
all periods of one day or more performed under competent orders 
except that no credit shall be allowed for— 
"•(A) periods in which the duty or service consisted solely of 
training under the Army specialized training program, the Army 
Air Corps college training program, or any similar program under 
the jurisdiction of the Navy, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard; 
"(B) periods spent in intern training, residency training, other 
postgraduate training, or in senior student programs prior to 
receipt of the appropriate professional degree; 
"(C) periods of active service performed for the sole purpose 
of undergoing a physical examination; 
«. . 
"(D) periods of active duty for training entered into subse-
quent to the enactment of this subparagraph, as defined in sub-
section 101 (c), Armed Forces Eeserve Act of 1952 (66 Stat. 481) ; 
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