An Act to amend title 18 of the United States Code, entitled ""Crimes and Criminal Procedure,"" to provide basic authority for certain activities of the United States Secret Service, and for other purposes
PL 82-79 (H.R.2395), enacted 07/16/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 79—JULY 16, 1951 
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"SEC. 506. For the purposes of this title, the Secretary of Labor is 
authorized— 
"(1) to enter into agreements with Federal and State agencies; 
to utilize (pursuant to such agreements) the facilities and services 
of such agencies; and to allocate or transfer funds or otherwise 
to pay or reimburse such agencies for expenses in connection 
therewith; 
"(2) to accept and utilize voluntary and uncompensated serv-
ices ; and 
"(H) when necessary to supplement the domestic agricultural 
labor force, to cooperate with the Secretary of State in negotiating 
and carrying out agreements or arrangements relating to the em-
ployment in the United States, subject to the immigration laws, 
of agricultural workers from the Republic of Mexico. 
"SEC. 507. For the purposes of this title— 
"(1) The term 'agricultural employment' includes services or 
activities included within the provisions of section 3 (f) of the 
Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, or section 1426 
(h) of the Internal Revenue Code,, as amended, horticultural 
employment, cotton ginning, compressing and storing, crushing 
of oil seeds, and the packing, canning, freezing, drying, or other 
processin.o: of perishable or seasonable agricultural products. 
"(2) The term 'employer' shall include an association, or other 
group, of employers, but only if (A) those of its members for 
whom workers are being obtained are bound, in the event of its 
defavdt, to carry out the obligations undertaken by it pursuant 
to section 502, or (B) the Secretary determines that such indi-
vidual liability is not necessary to assure performance of such 
obligations. 
"SEC. 508. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as limiting the 
authority of the Attorney General, pursuant to the general immigra-
tion laws, to permit the importation of aliens of any nationality for 
agricultural employment as defined in section 507, or to permit any 
such alien who entered the United States legally to remain for the 
purpose of engaging in such agricultural employment under such 
conditions and for such time as he, the Attorney General, shall specify. 
"SEC. 509. No Avorkers will be made available under this title for 
employment after December 31. 1953." 
Approved July 12, 1951. 
Authority of Secre-
tary of Labor. 
Definitions. 
52 Stat. 1060. 
29 U. S. C. §203 (f). 
53 Stat. 1386. 
26 U.S.C.§ 1426(h). 
ArUe, p. 119. 
Authority of Attor-
ney General. 
Termination of pro-
gram. 
Public Law 79 
CHAPTER 226 
AN ACT 
To amend title 18 of the United States Code, entitled •'Crimes and Criminal 
Procedure", to provide basic autliority for certain activities of tiie United 
States Secret Service, and for otiier puriM)ses. 
July 16,1951 
[H. R. 2395] 
62 Stat. 700. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 331 of aiJendrnwits!' ^' 
title 18, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
"§ 331. Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins 
"Whoever fraudulently alters, defaces, mutilates, impairs, dimin-
ishes, falsifies, scales, or lightens any of the coins coined at the mints 
of the United States, or any foreign coins which are by law made 
current or are in actual use or circulation as money within the United 
States; or 
"Whoever fraudulently possesses, passes, utters, publishes, or sells, 
or attempts to pass, utter, publish, or sell, or brings into the United 
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States, any such coin, knowing the same to be altered, defaced, muti-
lated, impaired, diminished, falsified, scaled, or lightened— 
"Shall be fined not more than $2,000 or imprisoned not more than 
five years, or both." 
62 Stat. 706. 
SEO. 2. Section 475 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
"§ 475. Imitating obligations or securities; advertisements 
"Whoever designs, engraves, prints, makes, or executes, or utters, 
issues, distributes, circulates, or uses any business or professional card, 
notice, placard, circular, handbill, or advertisement in the likeness or 
similitude of any obligation or security of the United States issued 
under or authorized by any Act of Congress or writes, prints, or other-
wise impresses upon or attaches to any such instrument, obligation, 
or security, or any coin of the United States, any business or pro-
fessional card, notice, or advertisement, or any notice or advertise-
ment whatever, shall be fined not more than $500." 
62 Stat. 709. 
§£0. 3. Sectiou 489 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
"§ 489. Making or possessing likeness of coins 
"Whoever, within the United States, makes or brings therein from 
any foreign country, or possesses with intent to sell, give away, or in 
any other manner uses the same, except under authority of the Sec-
retary of the Treasury or other proper officer of the United States, 
any token, disk, or device in the likeness or similitude as to design, 
color, or the inscription thereon of any of the coins of the United 
States or of any foreign country issued as money, either under the 
authority of the United States or under the authority of any foreign 
government shall be fined not more than $100." 
62 Stat. 818. 
SEC. 4. Section 3056 of title 18, United States Code, is amended to 
read as follows: 
"§ 3056. Secret Service powers 
"Subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, the 
United States Secret Service, Treasury Department, is authorized to 
protect the person of the President of the United Stales and members 
of his immediate family, the President-elect, and the Vice President 
at his request; detect and arrest any person committing any offense 
against the laws of the United States relating to coins, obligations, and 
securities of the United States and of foreign governments; detect 
and arrest any person violating any of the provisions of sections 508 
and 509 of this title and, insofar as the Federal Deposit Insurance 
Corporation, Federal land banks, joint-stock land banks and national 
farm loan associations are concerned, of sections 218,221,433,493, 657, 
62Stat.69^792. 
709, 1006, 1007, 1011, 1013, 1014, 1907, and 1909 of this title; detect 
and arrest any person violating any laws of the United States directly 
concerning official matters administered by and under the direct con-
trol of the Treasury Department; execute warrants issued under the 
authority of the United States; carry firearms; offer and pay rewards 
for services or information looking toward the apprehension of 
criminals; and perform such other functions and duties as are author-
ized by law." 
SEO. 5. (a) Section 201 of title 3, United States Code, is hereby 
repealed. 
(b) The analysis of chapter 3 of title 3, United States Code, is 
amended by striking out the item "201. Protection of President and 
family authorized.". 
(c) The analysis of chapter 25 of title 18, United States Code, 
immediately preceding section 471 of such title, is amended by striking 
out the words "; publisher's illustrations excepted" in item 489. 
Approved July 16, 1951. 
62 
Stat. 715. 
62 
Stat. 
680. 
62 
Stat. 705.