An Act to amend the act entitled ""An Act to authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces to commemorate the life and perpetuate the ideals and teachings of Booker T. Washington,"" approved August 7, 1946
PL 82-151 (H.R.3176), enacted 09/21/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 151—SEPT. 21, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
Intrusting of mon-
eys. 
61 Stat. 495. 
5U.S.C.§ 171 note. 
Separability. 
pertaining to the National Guard, the Air National Guard or the 
Chief of the National Guard Bureau. 
SEO. 406. Under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Sec-
retary of the Air Force, officers of the Air Force accountable for 
public moneys may intrust moneys to other officers of the Air Force 
for the purpose of having them make disbursements as their agents, and 
the officer to whom the moneys are intrusted, as well as the officer who 
intrusts the moneys to him, shall be held pecuniarily responsible there-
for to the United States. 
SEC. 407. Except as provided in section 402 of this Act, nothing in 
this Act shall be construed as amending, repealing, limiting, enlarging, 
or in any way modifying any provision of the National Security Act 
of 1947, as amended. 
SEO. 408. If any provision of this Act or the application thereof to 
any person or circumstances be held invalid, the validity of the 
remainder of the Act and of the application of such provisions to other 
persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby. 
Approved September 19, 1951. 
September 21, 1951 
[H. R. 3176] 
Public Law 151 
CHAPTER 4 0 8 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act entitled "An Act to authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces 
to commemorate the life and perpetuate the ideals and teachings of Booker 
T. Washington", approved August 7, 1946. 
Booker T. Washing-
ton; George Washing-
ton Carver. 
Commemorative 
coins. 
60 Stat. 863. 
Expense of prepara-
tions. 
Issuance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States 
of America 
in Congress assembled, That the Act 
entitled "An Act to authorize the coinage of 50-cent pieces to com-
memorate the life and perpetuate the ideals and teachings of Booker 
T. Washington", approved August 7, 1946, is amended to read as 
follows: "That in order to commemorate the lives and perpetuate the 
ideals and teachings of Booker T. Washington and George Washing-
ton Carver, two great Americans, there shall be coined by the Director 
of the Mint (1) a number of silver 50-cent pieces equal to the number 
of 50-cent pieces authorized by the Act of August 7, 1946 (60 Stat. 
863), but not yet coined on the date of the enactment of this Act, plus 
(2) an additional number of silver 50-cent pieces equal to the number 
of 50-cent pieces coined under such Act of August 7,1946, and returned 
to the Treasury in accordance with section 5 of this Act. The silver 
50-cent pieces authorized by this section shall be of standard size, 
weight, and fineness, and of a special appropriate design to be fixed by 
the Director of the Mint with the approval of the Secretary of the 
Treasury; but the United States shall not be subject to the expense 
of making the models for master dies or other preparations for the 
coinage authorized by this section, or to the expense of making any 
changes in design which may be necessitated by reason of the enact-
ment of this Act, 
"SEC. 2, The coins authorized by the first section of this Act shall 
be issued at par, and only upon the request of the Booker T. Wash-
ington Birthplace Memorial (established at the birthplace of Booker 
T. Washington in Franklin County, Virginia) and the George Wash-
ington Carver National Monument Foundation (established at the 
birthplace of George Washington Carver in Diamond, Missouri). 
"SEC. 3. The coins authorized by the firet section of this Act shall 
be issued in such numbers, and at such times, as shall be requested by 
the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial and the George 
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Washington Carver National Monument Foundation, and upon pay-
ment to the United States of the face value of such coins, except that 
none of such coins shall be issued after August 7,1954. 
"SEC. 4. The coins authorized by the first section of this Act may 
be disposed of at par or at a premium b^ banks or trust companies 
selected by the Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial and the 
George Washingon Carver National Monument Foundation, and all 
proceeds therefrom shall be used, in the manner decided upon by the 
Booker T. Washington Birthplace Memorial and the George Wash-
ington Carver National Monument Foundation to oppose the spread 
of communism among Negroes in the interest of the national defense. 
"SEC. 5. (a) From and after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
no 50-cent pieces shall be coined under the Act of August 7, 1946. 
"(b) At the request of the Booker T. Washington Birthplace 
Memorial and the George Washington Carver National Monument Treasury! 
Foundation, any of the 50-cent pieces coined under the Act of August 
7, 1946, but on the date of the enactment of this Act not yet disposed 
of in accordance with such Act, shall be returned to or retained in 
the Treasury, and the Director of the Mint shall melt down such 
50-cent pieces and use the resulting metal and material for the coinage 
of silver 50-cent pieces under the first section of this Act. 
"SEC. 6. All laws in force on the date of the enactment of this Act, 
whether penal or otherwise, relating to the subsidiary silver coins of 
the United States and the coining or striking thereof, regulating and 
guarding the process of coinage, providing for the purchase of 
material and for the transportation, distribution, and redemption of 
coins, providing for the prevention of debasement and counterfeiting 
and for the security of the coin, or otherwise relating to coinage, 
shall, insofar as they are applicable, apply to the coinage authorized 
by this Act." 
Approved September 21, 1951. 
Disposal; use of pro-
ceeds. 
Restriction on coin-
Retention or return 
of certain coins to 
Applicability of 
coinage laws. 
Public Law^ 152 
CHAPTER 409 
AN ACT 
To prevent the entry of certain mollusks into the United States. 
September 22, 1951 
[H. R. 4443] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary 
Preve!ui™n°of"lntr 
of Agriculture shall establish such facilities for, and prescribe such into u. s. 
regulations governing, the inspection and treatment of produce, bag-
gage, salvaged war materials, and other goods entering the United 
States from areas infested with any terrestrial or fresh-water mollusk, 
as he considers necessary to prevent the entry of such mollusks into 
the United States. 
Whoever violates any such regulation or imports 
such a mollusk into the United States shall be fined not more than $500 
or imprisoned not more than one year, or both. 
The term "United 
States", as used in this Act in a territorial sense, means the forty-eight 
States, the District of Columbia, the possessions of the United States 
(except those which the Secretary of Agriculture finds are infested 
with such mollusks), and the Canal Zone. 
Approved September 22, 1951. 
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