Joint resolution to permit the Federal National Mortgage Association to make commitments to purchase certain mortgages
PL 82-309 (S.J.Res.140), enacted 04/09/1952

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PUBLIC LAW 309-APR. 9, 1952 
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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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PUBLIC LAW 310-APR. 9, 1952 
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ins: 
65 Stat. 699. 
12 u s e 1716-1. 
63 Stat. 570. 
12 u s e 
174 8-
1748h. 
at any one time, if such commitments" and inserting in lieu 
thereof: " (i) commitments made pursuant to Public Law 243, Eighty-
second Congress, or (ii) commitments made by the association on or 
after September 1,1951, which do not exceed $252,000,000 outstanding 
at any one time, if applications for such commitments were received 
by the association prior to December 28, 1951, or, in the case of title 
VIII mortgages, if the Federal Housing Commissioner issued his 
commitment to insure prior to December 31, 1951, but subsequent to 
December 27, 1951, and if such commitments of the association". 
Approved April 9, 1952. 
April 9, 1952 
[S.J. Res. 147] 
Public Law 310 
CHAPTER 174 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
Designating April 9,1952, as Bataan Day. 
Bataan Day. 
Whereas April 9 of this year marks the tenth anniversary of the end 
of the epic struggle of American and Filipino forces on Bataan j and 
Whereas this common sacrifice more solidly forged the traditional 
friendship of the United States and the Philippines and between 
the peoples of the two countries; and 
Whereas Bataan symbolizes the spirit which moves men of different 
races and different creeds to fight shoulder to shoulder for their 
freedom; and 
Whereas the rallying of the people of the Philippines to the side of 
the United States and the other United Nations in the current 
struggle in Korea is a further expression of American-Filipino 
unity; and 
Whereas the people of the Philippines have demonstrated to all other 
nations in the Asian sphere the fact that mutual friendship and 
mutual security are common goals and the role of the United States 
in Asia is that of a friend of peoples, regardless of race; and 
Whereas President Elpidio Quirino has designated April 9 as Bataan 
Day in the Philippines: Therefore be it 
Resolved hy the SeTiate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That April 9, the tenth 
anniversary of the fall of Bataan, should be observed as Bataan Day 
and that the Congress recommends that on that day the flags of the 
LTnited States and the Republic of the Philippines be flown, and that 
encouragement be given to the holding of appropriate services in 
schools and churches and in other gatherings. 
Approved April 9, 1952. 
April 9, 1952 
[fl. R. 1216] 
Public Law 311 
CHAPTER 175 
AN ACT 
To authorize the President to convey and assign all equipment contained in or 
appertaining to the United States Army Provisional Philippine Scout Hospital 
at Fort McKinley, Philippines, to the Republic of the Philippines and to assist 
by grants-in-aid the Republic of the Philippines in providing medical care and 
treatment for certain Philippine Scouts hospitalized therein. 
Philippines. 
Conveyance. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of ATnerica in Congress assembled, That the President 
is authorized, subject to such terms as may be prescribed in an agree-
ment between the United States of America and the Republic of the 
Philippines, to convey and assign, without cost to the Republic of the