An Act to amend the act of May 29, 1884, as amended, to provide for the control and eradication of scrapie and blue tongue in sheep, and incipient or potentially serious minor outbreaks of diseases of animals; and for other purposes
PL 83-227 (S.2055), enacted 08/08/1953

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ARTICLE XI 
This Compact may be terminated at any time by consent of a major-
ity of the compacting states and territories. 
Consent shall be mani-
fested by passage and signature in the usual manner of legislation 
expressing such consent oy the legislature and Governor of such 
terminating state. Any state or territory may at any time withdraw 
from this Compact by means of appropriate legislation to that end. 
Such withdrawal shall not become effective until two years after 
written notice thereof by the Governor of the withdrawing state or 
territory accompanied by a certified copy of the requisite legislative 
action is received by the Commission. 
Such withdrawal shall not 
relieve the withdrawing state or territory from its obligations here-
under accruing prior to the effective date of withdrawal. 
The with-
drawing state or territory may rescind its action of withdrawal at any 
time within the two-year period. 
Thereafter, the withdrawing state 
or territory may be reinstated by application to and the approval by 
a majority vote of the Commission. 
Termination. 
Withdrawal. 
ARTICLE XII 
If any compacting state or territory shall at any time default in the 
performance of any of its obligations assumed or imposed in accord-
ance with the provisions of this Compact, all rights, privileges and 
benefits conferred by this Compact or agreements hereunder shall be 
suspended from the effective date of such default as fixed by the 
Commission. 
Unless such default shall be remedied within a period of two years 
following the effective date of such default, this Compact may be 
terminated with respect to such defaulting state or territory by affirm-
ative vote of three-fourths of the other member states or territories. 
Any such defaulting state may be reinstated by: (a) perjfprming all 
acts and obligations upon which it has heretofore defaulted, and (b) 
application to and the approval by a majority vote of the Commission. 
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved August 8, 1953. 
Default in per-
formance of oblige* 
tions. 
Public Law 227 
CHAPTER 381 
AN ACT 
To amend the Act of May 29, 1884, as amended, to provide for the control and 
eradication of scx-apie and blue tongue in sheep, and incipient or potentially 
serious minor outbrealis of diseases of animals; and for other purposes. 
August 8, 1953 
[S.2055] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That section 11 of 
the Act of Congress approved May 29, 1884, entitled "An Act for the 
establishment of a Bureau of Animal Industry, to prevent the exporta-
tion of diseased cattle, and to provide means for the suppression and 
extirpation of pleuropneumonia and other contagious diseases among 
domestic animals" (21 U. S. C. 114a) is hereby amended to read as 
follows: 
"SEC. 11. The Secretary of Agriculture, either independently or in 
cooperation with States or political subdivisions thereof, farmers' 
associations and similar organizations, and individuals, is authorized 
to control and eradicate tuberculosis and paratuberculosis of animals, 
avian tuberculosis, brucellosis of domestic animals, southern cattle 
ticks, hog cholera and related swine diseases, scabies in sheep and 
Animal 
control. 
disease 
58 Stat. 734. 
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Scrapie and blue Cattle, douriiie ill hoFses, scrapie and blue tongue in sheep, incipient or 
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T outbreaks, potentially serious minor outbreaks of diseases of animals, and con-
tagious or infectious diseases of animals (such as foot-and-mouth 
disease, rinderpest, and contagious pleuropneumonia) which in the 
opinion of the Secretary constitute an emergency and threaten the 
livestock industry of the country, including the purchase and destruc-
tion of diseased or exposed animals (including poultry), or the 
destruction of such animals and the payment of indemnities therefor, 
in accordance with such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe. 
As used in this section, the term 'State' includes the District of 
Columbia and the Territories and possessions of the United States." 
Approved August 8, 1953. 
August 8, 1953 
[S.2434] 
Public Law 228 
CHAPTER 382 
AN ACT 
To amend the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1937. 
Effective date. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 2 of 
the Northern Pacific Halibut Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 325, 16 U. S. C. 
772) is amended as follows: 
Subsection (a) is amended by deleting the words "29th day of 
January 1937" and substituting in lieu thereof "2d day of March 
1953 and any other treaty or convention which modifies or replaces 
that Convention" and by deleting the words "of the International 
Fisheries Commission". 
Subsection (b) is amended by deleting the words "International 
Fisheries Commission provided for by article I I I of the Convention", 
and substituting in lieu thereof "Commission provided for in the 
Convention". 
This Act shall take effect on the date of entry into force of the 
Convention between the United States of America and Canada for 
the Preservation of the Halibut Fishery of the Northern Pacific 
Ocean and Bering Sea, signed at Ottawa, March 2, 1953. 
Approved August 8, 1953. 
August 8, 1953 
Public Law 229 
CHAPTER 383 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
[S. J. Res. 6] 
ffQ provide for a continuance of civil government for the Trust Territory of the 
Pacific Islands, 
61 Stat. 397. 
3 C F R, 
1 9 4 7 
Supp., p. 160. 
48 u s e note prec. 
1451. 
Wliereas, pursuant to the authority of Public Law 204, Eightieth 
Congress, of July 18, 1947, the President approved the trusteeship 
agreement for the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands between 
the United States and the United Nations, effective July 18, 1947; 
and 
Whereas responsibility for civil administration of the Trust Terri-
tory was vested in the Secretary of the Navy by Executive Order 
Numbered 9875 of July 18,1947; and 
Whereas responsibility for such civil administration was transferred 
to the Secretary of the Interior, effective July 1, 1951, by Executive 
Order Numbered 10265 of June 29,1951; and 
Whereas organic legislation for the Trust Territory is now pending 
before the Congress: It is hereby