An Act to authorize the establishment of the Fort Union National Monument, in the State of New Mexico, and for other purposes
PL 83-429 (H.R.1005), enacted 06/28/1954

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employee to one hundred and thirty-five, or a part thereof, full-time, 
part-time, and intermittent employees of the agency concerned: Pro-
vided^ That for purposes of this section employees shall be considered 
as engaged in personnel work if they spend half-time or more in 
personnel administration consisting of direction and administration 
of the personnel program; employment, placement, and separation; 
job evaluation and classification; employee relations and services; 
training; committees of expert examiners and boards of civil-service 
examiners; wage administration; and processing, recording, 
reporting. 
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
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SEC. 301. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation included 
in 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 
violence: Provided^ That for the purposes hereof an affidavit shall 
be considered prima facie evidence that the person making the affi-
davit 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 asserts 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 
advocates, the overthrow of the Government of the United States by 
force or violence: Provided further^ 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 right to strike against the Government of the United States, or 
who advocates, 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 wages 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 substitution for, any other provisions of existing law. 
SEC. 302. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, or 
of the funds available for expenditure by any corporation or agency 
included in this Act, shall be used for publicity or propaganda pur-
poses designed to support or defeat legislation pending before the 
Congress. 
SEC. 303. This Act may be cited as the "Independent Offices Appro-
priation Act, 1955." 
Approved June 24, 1954. 
Public Law 429 
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AN ACT 
June 28, 1954 
[H. R. 1005] 
To authorize the establishment of the Fort Union National Monument, in the 
State of New Mexico, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
tilnll Mo^numratl United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in order to 
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preserve and protect, in the public interest, the historic Old Fort 
Union, situated in the county of Mora, State of New Mexico, and to 
provide adequate public access thereto, the Secretary of the Interior 
is authorized to acquire on behalf of the United States by donation, 
or he may procure with donated funds, the site and remaining struc-
tures of Old Fort Union, together with such additional land, interests 
in land, and improvements thereon as the Secretary in his discretion 
may deem necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. 
Donated 
lands may be accepted subject to such reservations, terms, and con-
ditions as may be satisfactory to the Secretary, including right of 
reversion to donor, or its successors and assigns, upon abandonment as 
a national monument, and reservation of mineral rights subject to 
condition that surface of donated lands may not be used or disturbed 
in connection therewith, without the consent of the Secretary. 
SEC. 2. Upon a determination of the Secretary of the Interior that 
sufficient land and other property have been acquired by the United 
States for national-monument purposes, as provided in section 1 of 
this Act, such property shall be established as the "Fort Union 
National Monument" and thereafter shall be administered by the 
Secretary of the Interior in accordance with the laws and regulations 
applicable to national monuments. 
An order of the Secretary, con-
stituting notice of such establishment, shall be published in the 
Federal Register. 
Following establishment of the national monument, additional 
properties may be acquired as provided in section 1 hereof, which 
properties, upon acquisition of title thereto by the United States, shall 
become a part of the national monument: Provided^ That the total 
area of the national monument established pursuant to this Act shall 
not exceed one thousand acres, exclusive of such adjoining lands as 
may be covered by scenic easements. 
Approved June 28, 1954. 
P u b l i c ation in 
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Public Law 430 
CHAPTER 402 
AN ACT 
To authorize the transfer to the rej?ents of the University of California, for 
agricultural purposes, of certain real property in Napa County, California. 
June 28, 1954 
[H. R. 3097] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
of Agriculture is authorized and directed to transfer and convey to 
the regents of the University of California, upon acceptance by said 
regents, without cost, the real property comprising twenty acres, more 
or less, together with the buildings and improvements thereon, con-
stituting the United States Grape Field Station located near Oakville 
in the county of Napa, State of California. 
Such property shall be 
transferred upon the exj^ress condition that it shall be used by the 
regents of the University of California for the benefit of agriculture. 
In the event that the regents of the University of California shall at 
any time cease to use such property for such purposes, or attempt 
to alienate all or any part thereof, all right, title, and interest in and 
to the said property shall revert to the United States. 
Any con-
veyance of this property shall contain a reservation to the United 
States of all gas, oil, coal, and other minerals and all fissionable mate-
rials as may be found in such lands and the right to the use of the 
lands for extracting and removing same. 
Approved June 28, 1954. 
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California. 
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