An Act relating to the administrative jurisdiction of certain public lands in the State of Oregon, and for other purposes
PL 83-426 (S.2225), enacted 06/24/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 425-JUNE 22, 1954 
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Columbia or in any of the States or Territories of the United States. 
After an offender has been convicted of the violation of the provisions 
of section 2 of this Act, but prior to pronouncement of sentence, the 
court shall be advised by the United States attorney whether the 
conviction is the offender's first or a subsequent offense. If it is not 
a first offense, the United States attorney shall file an information 
setting forth the prior conviction or convictions. The offender shall 
have the opportunity in open court to affirm or deny that he is identical 
with the person previously convicted. 
If he denies the identity, 
sentence shall be postponed for such time as to permit a trial before 
a jury on the sole issue of the offender's identity with the person 
previously convicted. If the offender is found by the jury to be the 
person previously convicted, or if he acknowledges that he is such 
person, he shall be sentenced as prescribed in subsection (b) of this 
section." 
Approved June 22, 1954. 
Jiine 22, 1954 
[S. 3050] 
Public Law 425 
CHAPTER 339 
AN ACT 
To amend the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended. 
Tobaccoi 
Excess market-
ing. 
60 Stat. 21. 
7 u s e 1314. 
Effective date. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assen/ibled^ That the first sen-
tence of section 314 (a) of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, 
as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows: "The marketing 
of any kind of tobacco in excess of the marketing quota for the farm on 
which the tobacco is produced shall be subject to a penalty of 50 per 
centum of the average market price (calculated to the nearest whole 
cent) for such kind of tobacco for the immediately preceding 
marketing year." 
This amendment shall become effective October 1, 1954, except that 
in the case of flue-cured tobacco such amendment shall become effective 
July 1,1955. 
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Approved June 22, 1954. 
June 24, 1954 
[S.2225] 
Public Law 426 
CHAPTER 357 
AN ACT 
Relating to the administrative jurisdiction of certain public lands in the State of 
Oregon, and for other purposes. 
Ore gon p u b l i c 
land jurisdiction. 
Revested D r e e , 
and C a l i f . 
R.R. 
grant. 
National-f o r e s t 
lands. 
2 7 S t a t . 
1027; 
28 Stat. 1243; 34 
Stat. 3239, 3270, 
3280, 3300. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) those 
unselected and unpatented odd-numbered sections within the indem-
nity limits of the Oregon and California Railroad land grant author-
ized by the Act of July 25,1866 (14 Stat. 239), as amended by the Act 
of April 10, 1869 (16 Stat. 47), and for which payment was made by 
the United States to such railroad or its successors in interest under the 
Act of June 9, 1916 (39 Stat. 218), pursuant to the decree in the case 
of United States against Oregon and California R. R. Co. (8 F. (2d) 
645), which were included within the boundaries of national forests by 
proclamations of the President of the United States issued under the 
dates of June 17, 1892, September 28, 1893, October 5, 1906, January 
25, 1907, March 1, 1907, and March 2, 1907, are hereby declared to be 
revested Oregon and California railroad grant lands; and said lands 
shall continue to be administered as national-forest lands by the Secre-
tary of Agriculture subject to all laws, rules, and regulations applicable 
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to the national forests: Provided^ That all revenues hereafter derived 
from said lands and those revenues heretofore derived from such lands 
and placed in special deposit by agreement between the Secretary of 
Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior shall be disposed of in 
accordance with the provisions of title I I of the Act approved August 
28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874) as hereby amended, and said lands shall not 
hereafter be subject to the provisions of any other laws or parts of laws 
which otherwise prescribe the disposal or distribution of receipts from 
lands of the United States, except that none of the provisions of this 
Act shall affect revenues heretofore distributed. 
No part of said lands 
or the resources thereof shall be subject to exchange under the provi-
sions of this or any other law applicable to national-forest lands or 
otherwise. 
(b) Subsection (a) of title I I of the Act approved August 28,1937 
(50 Stat. 874), is amended by adding at the end thereof the following 
proviso: ": Provided^ however^ That for the purposes of this sub-
section the portion of the said revested Oregon and California railroad 
grant lands in each of said counties which was not assessed for the 
year 1915 shall be deemed to have been assessed at the average assessed 
value of the grant lands in said county"'. 
SEC. 2. The Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agri-
culture are authorized and directed, within two years after the enact-
ment of this Act, to exchange administrative jurisdiction of revested 
Oregon and California railroad grant lands lymg within the bound-
aries of any national forest or within two miles of such boundaries, 
and national-forest lands of approximately equal aggregate value, 
when by such exchange the administration of the lands will be facili-
tated. 
Such exchanges shall be made subject to outstanding con-
tracts, permits or other existing rights: Provided^ That the said 
national-forest lands, administrative jurisdiction of which is trans-
ferred to the Secretary of the Interior, shall be excluded from the 
national forest and shall become subject to administration under the 
same provisions of law as the revested lands in exchange for which 
they were transferred, and the revested lands, administrative juris-
diction of which is transferred to the Secretary of Agriculture, shall 
become a part of the national forests subject to administration under 
the laws applicable to national forests: Provided 
further^ 
That 
subject to the requirement of approximate equal aggregate value for 
the overall exchange, the revested lands and the national-forest lands, 
administrative jurisdiction of which is exchanged in any county, 
shall be approximately equal in area unless otherwise agreed to by the 
counties concerned. 
The exchanges provided for herein shall in each 
case be evidenced by an order signed by the Secretary of the Interior 
and the Secretary of Agriculture and such orders shall be transmitted 
to the Division of the Federal Register for filing and publication. 
SEC. 3. For the purpose of consolidating and thereby facilitating 
administration and accounting the Secretary of Agriculture is author-
ized to designate in the several counties in which the lands described 
in section 1 of this Act are situated (such designation to be published 
in the Federal Register), an area of national-forest land of a value 
substantially equal to the value of the lands in such county from which 
all revenues shall be disposed of in accordance with the provisions of 
title I I of the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874), and upon such 
designation the provisions of that Act shall be applicable to the lands 
so designated in lieu of the lands described in section 1 of this Act: 
Provided^ however^ That such designation shall not become effective 
until approved by the county court of the county in which the lands 
are located. 
Revenues. 
SO Stat. 875. 
43 u s e 118 If. 
C o u n t y p a y -
ments. 
Administr a t ive 
exchanges. 
Equal value. 
Publi c a t i o n in 
FR. 
Lands in lieu of 
c e r t a i n national 
forest land. 
Publi c a t i o n in 
FR. 
43 use llSlf. 
^ p r o v a l . 
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PUBLIC L(AW 427-JUNE 24, 1954 
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Appropriations. 
SEC. 4. FoF the purpose of carrying out the provisions of sections 
2 and 3 of this Act there are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
such sums as the Congress may from time to time determine to be 
necessary. 
Approved June 24, 1954. 
Public Law 427 
CHAPTER 358 
June 24, 1954 
^^ 
ACT 
[S. 1004] 
TQ amend section 86, Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the 
District of Columbia, as amended. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
District of Co- United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 86, 
"Employment of Revised Statutes of the United States relating to the District of 
parolees, etc. 
ColumMa, as amended (sec. 1-316, D. C. Code, 1951 edition), is 
amended (a) by striking therefrom the words "person convicted of 
bribery, perjury, or other infamous crime, nor any", and (b) by 
adding at the end thereof the following: "Except upon the written 
approval of the Commissioners, or of an official or officials of the 
District acting pursuant to rules and regulations issued by the Com-
missioners, no person who has been convicted of a felony in the District 
of Columbia or of an offense in any other jurisdiction which, if com-
mitted in the District, would be a felony, shall be employed in or by 
the government of the District of Columbia or any agency thereof." 
Approved June 24, 1954. 
Public Law 428 
CHAPTER 359 
June 24, 1954 
[H. R. 8583] 
Independent Of-
f i c e s Appropria-
tion Act, 1955. 
AN ACT 
Making appropriations for'the Executive Office and sundry independent execu-
tive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and offices, for the 
fiscal year ending June 30, 1955, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not other-
wise appropriated, for the Executive Office and sundry independent 
executive bureaus, boards, commissions, corporations, agencies, and 
offices, for the fiscal year ending June 30,1955, namely: 
TITLE I 
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF T H E PRESIDENT 
COMPENSATION OF THE PRESIDENT 
For compensation of the President, including an expense allowance 
at the rate of $50,000 per annum, as authorized by the Act of January 
63 Stat. 4. 
19,1949 (3 U. S. C. 102), $150,000. 
; 
T H E WHITE HOUSE OFFICE 
Salaries and expenses: For expenses necessary for The White 
House Office, including not to exceed $215,000 for services as author-
60 Stat. 810. 
ized by section 15 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (5 U. S. C. 55a), at 
such per diem rates for individuals as the President may specify, and