An Act to amend section 201 (a) and 207 (a) of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act
PL 83-417 (H.R.6888), enacted 06/18/1954

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PUBLIC LiAW 417-JUNE 18, 1954 
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203 hereof, and all lands so conveyed by the Commission shall assume 
the status of the land for which it was exchanged. The limitations 
imposed by section 73 (1) of the Hawaiian Organic Act and the land 
laws of Hawaii as to the area and value of land that may be conveyed 
by way of exchange shall not apply to exchanges made pursuant hereto. 
No such exchange shall be made without the approval of the Com-
missioner of Public Lands and of two-thirds of the members of the 
Board of Public Lands." 
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
Approved June 18, 1954. 
48 u s e 697. 
42 Stat. 116. 
48 u s e 663 and 
notes. 
Public Law 416 
'CHAPTER 320 
AN ACT 
To authorize the commissioner of public lands of the Territory of Hawaii to 
exchange certain public lands for private lands of equal value required for 
school purposes. 
June 18, 1954 
[H. R. 5833] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That any limitations 
imposed by section 73 (1) of the Hawaiian Organic Act, as amended 
(48 U. S. C. 673), to the contrary notwithstanding, the commissioner 
of public lands, with the approval of the governor and two-thirds of 
the members of the board of public lands, is authorized to exchange 
public lands for private lands of equal value required by the city and 
county of Honolulu as school sites for the Kahala Elementary School, 
Waialae High School, and Koko Head Elementary School on the island 
of Oahu. 
SEO. 2. The lands received in the exchange authorized by section 1 
shall, except as otherwise provided, have the same status and be subject 
to the same laws as the lands given in the exchange. 
SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval. 
Approved June 18, 1954. 
Hawaii. 
E x c h a n g e 
lands. 
42 Stat. 116. 
of 
Public Law 417 
CHAPTER 321 
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June 18, 1954 
To amend sections 201 (a) and 207 (a) of the Hawaiian Homes Commission 
[H. R. 6888] 
Act. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That subsection (a) 
of section 207 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as 
amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: 
" (a) The Commission is authorized to lease to native Hawaiians the 
right to the use and occupancy of a tract or tracts of Hawaiian home 
lands within the following acreage limits per each lessee: (1) not less 
than one nor more than forty acres of agricultural lands; or (2) not 
less than one hundred nor more than five hundred acres of first-class 
pastoral lands; or (3) not less than two hundred and fifty nor more 
than one thousand acres of second-class pastoral lands; or (4) not less 
than forty nor more than one hundred acres of irrigated.pastoral 
lands; (5) not more than one acre of any class of land to be used as a 
lesidence lot: Provided^ however^ That in the case of any existing lease 
of a farm lot in the Kalanianaole Settlement on Molakai, a residence 
lot may exceed one acre but shall not exceed four acres in area, the 
location of such area to be selected by the lessee concerned: Provided 
further, That a lease granted to any lessee may include two detached 
Hawaiian h o m e 
lands. 
42 Stat. 110. 
48 u s e 701. 
Lease to natives.