An Act to provide relief for the sheep raising industry by making special quota immigration visas available to certain alien sheepherders
PL 82-307 (S.2549), enacted 04/09/1952

PUBLIC LAW 306-APR. 9, 1952 
[66 ST A T , 
Central Bank for Cooperatives" after the word "Development"; by 
inserting "either of said banks" in lieu of the words "said bank"; by 
inserting "at any one time" after the words "no association shall"; by 
deleting "at any one time" after the word "exceeding"; and by insert-
ing ", w^ith respect to each issuer," after the word "amount"; so that 
said sentence shall read as follows: "The limitations and restrictions 
herein contained as to dealing in and underw riting investment securi-
ties shall not apply to obligations issued by the International Bank for 
Reconstruction and Development or the Central Bank for Coopera-
tives which are at the time eligible for purchase by a national bank for 
its own account: Provided^ That no association shall at any one time 
hold obligations issued by either of said banks as a result of under-
writing, dealing, or purchasing for its own account (and for this pur-
pose obligations as to which it is under commitment shall be deemed 
to be held by it) in a total amount, with respect to each issuer, exceed-
ing 10 per centum of its capital stock actually paid in and unimpaired 
and 10 per centum of its unimpaired surplus fund." 
Approved April 9, 1952. 
April 9, 1952 
[S. 2266] 
Public Law 306 
CHAPTER 170 
AN ACT 
To authorize and validate payments of periodic pay increases for temporary 
indefinite employees of the Department of the Navy within the period of March 
17,1947, to July 1,1948. 
N a v y 
D e p a r t -
ment. 
Certain p a y in-
creases. 
Refunds. 
C r e d i t in ac-
counts. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That (a) all persons 
who were awarded administrative pay increases as temporary indef-
inite ungraded employees of the Department of the Navy within the 
period March 17, 1947, to July 1, 1948, through administrative error, 
are hereby relieved of all liability to repay to the United States the 
amounts of such unauthorized pay increases. 
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, 
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the 
persons described in subsection (a) such amounts as have been paid by 
them, or deducted from their salaries, on account of overpayments of 
compensation occasioned by such unauthorized pay increases. 
(c) All disbursing officers, or other responsible officers, who made 
or authorized the pay increases to the persons described in subsection 
(a) are relieved of all liability for any such overpayments and their 
accounts shall be credited with the amounts erroneously overpaid. 
Approved April 9, 1952. 
April 9, 1952 
[S. 2549] 
Public Law 307 
CHAPTER 171 
AN ACT 
To provide relief for the sheep-raising industry by making special quota immi-
gration visas available to certain alien sheepherders. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representati'ves 
of the 
United States of America in Congress ossemMed^ That, for a period 
i^'" i gration of oiic year after the effective date of this Act, in any case in which 
the Attorney General, under the authority of the fourth proviso to 
section 8 of the Immigration Act of 1917 (U. S. C , title 8, sec. 1H6), 
grants permission for the importation of a skilled sheepherder into 
the United States and the investigation of the application for such 
importation discloses that— 
Alien 
s h e e p -
herders 
39 Stat. 875. 
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(1) the employment offered such skilled sheepherder is perma-
nent; and 
(2) no immigration quota number of the country of which such 
alien sheepherder is a national is then available, a special immi-
gration visa may be issued to such alien sheepherder as provided 
in this Act: Provided^ That such alien sheepherder is otherwise 
admissible into the United States for permanent residence. 
SEC. 2. The Attorney General shall certify to the Secretary of State Auorn"y*'Gln°e"rai*.'' 
the name and address of every skilled sheepherder for which an appli-
cation for importation under the fourth proviso to section 3 of the 
Immigration Act of 1917 has been approved. If a quota number is 
not then available for such alien sheepherder, the proper consular 
officer may issue a special quota immigration visa to such alien sheep-
herder. Upon the issuance of such visa the proper quota-control offi-
cer shall deduct one number from the appropriate quota for the first 
year that such quota is available: Provided^ That not more than 50 
per centum of any quota shall be deducted under the provisions of 
this Act in any given fiscal year. 
SEC. 3. (a) There shall not be issued more than five hundred special 
quota immigration visas under this Act. 
(b) Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as increasing 
the immigration quota of any country or of altering the requirements 
for admission of aliens into the United States. 
Approved April 9, 1952. 
Quota deduction. 
Restrictions. 
Public Law 308 
CHAPTER 172 
AN ACT 
Tf) restore to seventy pounds and one hundred inches in girtli and length com-
bined the maximum weight and size limitations for appliances, or parts thereof, 
for the blind sent through the mails. 
April 9, 1952 
[S. 2677] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representativen 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, in the case of 
App*i 1 anceV^for 
reproducers for sound-reproduction records for the blind, or parts wind, 
thereof, and of Braille writers and other appliances for the blind, or 
parts thereof, when mailed under the provisions of the fourth and 
fifth paragraphs of the Act of October 14, 1941, as amended (Public 
Law 270, Seventy-seventh Congress; 39 U. S. C, sec. 331), the maxi-
mum limit in weight shall be seventy pounds and the maximum limit 
of size shall be one hundred inches in girth and length combined. 
SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect ten days after the date of its 
enactment. 
Approved April 9, 1952. 
55 Stat. 737. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 309 
CHAPTER 173 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
April 9, 1952 
To permit the Federal National Mortgage Association to make commitments 
[s.J. Res. i40] 
to purchase certain mortgages. 
April 9, 1952 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That subparagraph (G) 
of section 301 (a) (1) of the National Housing Act, as amended, is 3^64 stat. 57; 
hereby amended oy striking out of the proviso: "commitments made 
12 use' 1716. 
by the association on or after the effective date of this proviso and 
prior to December 31,1951, which do not exceed $200,000,000 outstand-
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