An Act to provide relief for the sheep-raising industry by making special non-quota immigrant visas available to certain skilled alien sheepherders
PL 83-770 (S.2862), enacted 09/03/1954

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SEC. 7. This Act shall not be construed as restricting authority benemt"'''°''^"'^ 
under any other provision of law to deny or withhold benefits author-
ized by law. 
SEC. 8. The President may drop from the rolls any member of the 
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Armed Forces, including the Regular and Reserve components thereof, rolls, 
the Fleet Reserve, and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, and any 
member of the Coast and Geodetic Survey or of the Public Health 
Service, who is deprived of retired pay under the provisions of this 
Act. 
SEC. 9. If any provision of this Act, or the application of such pro- 
separability, 
vision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remain-
der of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or 
circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall 
not be affected therebv. 
SEC. 10. (a) Section 3282 of title 18 of the United States Code is tauons!^ °* *'™' 
amended by striking out "three"' and inserting in lieu thereof "five". 
62 stat. 828. 
(b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be effective with 
respect to offenses (1) committed on or after the date of enactment of 
this Act, or (2) committed prior to such date, if on such date prose-
cution therefor is not barred by provisions of law in effect prior to 
such date. 
Approved September 1, 1954. 
Public Law 770 
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September 3, 1954 
To provide relief for tiie sheep-raising industry by making special nonquota 
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immigrant visas available to certain skilled alien sheepherders. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for a period of 
one year after the effective date of this Act, in any case in which the 
Attorney General, under the authority of section 204 of the Immigra-
tion and Nationality Act, grants permission for the importation of a 
skilled alien sheepherder into the United States and the investigation 
of the application for such importation discloses that— 
(1) the employment offered such skilled alien sheepherder is 
permanent; and 
(2) no immigration quota number of the quota to which such 
skilled alien sheepherder is chargeable under section 202 of the 
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Immigration and Nationality Act is then available, a special 
nonquota immigrant visa may be issued to such skilled alien sheep-
herder as provided in this Act: Provided, That such skilled alien 
sheepherder is otherwise eligible to receive an immigrant visa 
under the immigration laws. 
SEC. 2. The Attorney General shall certify to the Secretary of State 
the name and address of every skilled alien sheepherder for which 
an application for importation under section 204 has been approved. 
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If a quota number is not then available for such skilled alien sheep-
herder, the proper consular officer may issue a special nonquota immi-
grant visa to such skilled alien sheepherder. 
SEC. 3. (a) There shall not be issued more than three hundred and 
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eighty-five special nonquota immigrant visas under this Act. 
(b) Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as increasing 
the immigration quota of any country or of altering the requirements 
for admission of aliens into the United States. 
SEC. 4. Any alien who is excludable because of the conviction of a convicuon"^"** 
misdemeanor classifiable as a petty offense under the provisions of 
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section 1 (3) of title 18, United States Code, by reason of the punish-
ment actually imposed, or who is excludable as one who admits the 
commission of such misdemeanor, may hereafter he granted a visa and 
admitted to the United States, if otherwise admissible: Provided^ 
That the alien has committed only one such offense. 
Approved September 3, 1954. 
September 3, 1954 
[H. R. 12S4] 
Public Law 771 
CHAPTER 1255 
AN ACT 
To provide authorization for certain uses of public lands. 
Public lands. 
Permits, leases, 
etc. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the head of 
any department or agency of the Government of the United States 
having jurisdiction over public lands and national forests, except 
national parks and monuments, of the United States is hereby author-
ized to grant permits, leases, or easements, in return for the payment 
of a price representing the fair market value of such permit, lease, 
or easement, to be fixed by such head of such department or agency 
through appraisal, for a period not to exceed thirty years from the 
date of any such permit, lease, or easement to States, counties, cities, 
towns, townships, municipal corporations, or other public agencies 
for the purpose of constructing and maintaining on such lands public 
buildings or other public works. 
In the event such lands cease to be 
used for the purpose for which such permit, lease, or easement was 
granted, the same shall thereupon terminate. 
SEC. 2. The authority conferred by this Act shall be in addition to, 
and not in derogation of any authority heretofore conferred upon the 
head of any department or agency of the Government of the United 
States to grant permits, leases, easements, or rights-of-way. 
Approved September 3,1954. 
September 3, 1954 
[H. R. 7130] 
Public Law 772 
CHAPTER 1256 
AN ACT 
To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for the loss of 
nationality of persons convicted of certain crimes. 
Expatriation Act 
of 1954. 
62 Stat. 808. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That this Act may 
be cited as the "Expatriation Act of 1954". 
SEC. 2. Paragraph (9) of subsection (a) of section 349 of the 
Immigration and Nationality Act (66 Stat. 163, 268; 8 U. S. C. 1481 
(a) (9)) is amended to read as follows: 
"(9) committing any act of treason against, or attempting by 
force to overthrow, or bearing arms against, the United States, 
violating or conspiring to violate any of the provisions of section 
2383 of title 18, United States Code, or willfully performing any 
act in violation of section 2385 of title 18, United States Code, 
or violating section 2384 of said title by engaging in a conspiracy 
to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government 
of the United States, or to levy war against them, if and when 
he is convicted thereof by a court martial or by a court of com-
petent jurisdiction; or". 
Approved September 3, 1954. 
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