An Act to amend the mineral leasing laws with respect to their application in the case of pipelines passing through the public domain
PL 83-253 (S.2220), enacted 08/12/1953

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PUBLIC LAW 253-AUG. 12, 1953 
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ARTICLE 
XV 
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING SAFEGUARDED 
1. This compact is not designed and shall not be construed to limit 
in any way any rights granted or derived from any other statute or 
any rule of law for employees to organize in labor organizations, to 
bargain collectively and to act in any other way individually, col-
lectively, and through labor organizations or other representatives 
of their own choosing. Without limiting the generality of the fore-
going, nothing contained in this compact shall be construed to limit 
in any way the right of employees to strike. 
2. This compact is not designed and shall not be construed to limit 
in any way any rights of longshoremen, hiring agents, pier super-
intendents or port watchmen or their employers to bargain collectively 
and agree upon any method for the selection of such employees by 
way of seniority, experience, regular gangs or otherwise; provided^ 
that such employees shall be licensed or registered hereunder and 
such longshoremen and port watchmen shall be hired only through the 
employment information centers established hereunder and that all 
other provisions of this compact be observed. 
ARTICLE 
X V I 
AMENDMENTS; CONSTRUCTION; SHORT TITLE 
1. Amendments and supplements to this compact to implement the 
purposes thereof may be adopted by the action of the Legislature of 
either State concurred in by the Legislature of the other. 
2. If any part or provision of this compact or the application 
thereof to any person or circumstances be adjudged invalid by any 
court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in 
its operation to the part, provision or application directly involved 
in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered 
and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this 
compact or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances 
and the two States hereby declare that they would have entered into 
this compact or the remainder thereof had the invalidity of such 
provision or application thereof been apparent. 
3. In accordance with the ordinary rules for construction of inter-
state compacts this compact shall be liberally construed to eliminate 
the evils described therein and to effectuate the purposes thereof. 
4. This compact shall be known and may be cited as the "Waterfront 
Commission Compact." 
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved August 12, 1953. 
Short titie. 
Public Law 253 
CHAPTER 408 
AN ACT 
To amend the mineral leasing laws with respect to their application in the case 
of pipelines passing through the public domain. 
August 12, 1953 
[S. 2220] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 28 of the I^MV"*^ *'"' ^^^*" 
Act entitled "An Act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil. 
Rights-of-way. 
oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain", approved February 
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PUBUC LAW 254-AUG. 12, 1953 
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49 Stat. 678. 
52 Stat. 821. 
15 u s e 717w. 
25, 1920, as amended (30 U. S. C, sec. 185), is amended by inserting 
after '"''Prcyoided^'' the following: "That the common carrier provisions 
of this section shall not apply to any natural gas pipeline operated by 
any person subject to regulation under the Natural Gas Act or by any 
public utility subject to regulation by a State or municipal regulatory 
agency having jurisdiction to regulate the rates and charges for the 
sale of natural gas to consumers within the State or municipality: 
Provided 
further^''. 
Approved August 12, 1953. 
August 12, 1953 
[H.-R. 1383] 
Public Law 254 
CHAPTER 409 
AN ACT 
To provide for disti'ibution of moneys of deceased restricted members of the 
Five Civilized Tribes not exceeding $500, and for other purposes. 
F i v e 
Civilized 
Tribes, Old a. 
Payment to heirs, 
etc. 
61 Stat, 733. 
25 u s e 355 note. 
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 hereby granted authority to disburse to the heirs 
or legatees of deceased members of the Five Civilized Tribes any sum 
of money on deposit to the credit of such deceased Indian or Indians, 
not exceeding $500, where said decedent died seized of no lands or the 
lands have since been lawfully alienated. 
Said funds shall be dis-
bursed on proof of death and heirship or bequest satisfactory to the 
Secretary of the Interior and his finding thereon shall be final and con-
clusive : Provided, That such transfer of funds so disbursed shall not 
be taxable. 
SEC. 2. The first sentence of subsection (e) of section 6 of the Act 
of August 4, 1947 (61 Stat. 731), is hereby amended to read as fol-
lows : "On or before the 1st day of January of each year the Secretary 
of the Interior shall cause to be filed with the county treasurer of each 
county in the State of Oklahoma where restricted lands of members 
of the Five Civilized Tribes are situated a list of the nontaxable lands 
that have been sold during the preceding year." 
Approved August 12, 1953. 
August 13, 1953 
[S.1152] 
Public Law 255 
CHAPTER 425 
AN ACT 
To extend for a period of five years the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture 
to malse loans to fur farmers. 
Fur farmers. 
Loans. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the authority 
of the Secretary of Agriculture under section 1 (a) (1) of the Act of 
April 6,1949 (63 Stat. 43; 12 U. S. C. 1148a-l) to make loans to bona 
fide fur farmers in accordance with the last proviso in the paragraph 
headed "Kegional Agricultural Credit Corporation" in title I I of the 
Government Corporations Appropriation Act, 1949 (62 Stat. 1192), 
is hereby extended for the five-year period ending on June 30, 1958, 
for the purpose only of making necessary supplementary advances to 
fur farmers now indebted for loans made under the foregoing 
authority. 
Approved August 13, 1953.