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PUBLIC LAW 770-SEPT. 3, 1954

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SEC. 7. This Act shall not be construed as restricting authority benemt"'°^"'^ under any other provision of law to deny or withhold benefits authorized by law. SEC. 8. The President may drop from the rolls any member of the R J m o v a i^frim ^ Armed Forces, including the Regular and Reserve components thereof, rolls, the Fleet Reserve, and the Fleet Marine Corps Reserve, and any member of the Coast and Geodetic Survey or of the Public Health Service, who is deprived of retired pay under the provisions of this Act. SEC. 9. If any provision of this Act, or the application of such pro- separability, vision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid, the remainder of this Act, or the application of such provision to persons or circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not be affected therebv. SEC. 10. (a) Section 3282 of title 18 of the United States Code is tauons!^ °* *'™' amended by striking out "three"' and inserting in lieu thereof "five". 62 Stat. 828. (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be effective with respect to offenses (1) committed on or after the date of enactment of this Act, or (2) committed prior to such date, if on such date prosecution therefor is not barred by provisions of law in effect prior to such date. Approved September 1, 1954. Public Law 770

CHAPTER ^^

1254

ACT

To provide relief for the sheep-raising industry by making special nonquota immigrant visas available to certain skilled alien sheepherders.

September 3, 1954

[S. 2862]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Alien United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for a period of herders. s h e e p one year after the effective date of this Act, in any case in which the V i s a s. Attorney General, under the authority of section 204 of the Immigra179. tion and Nationality Act, grants permission for the importation of a 66 uStat. 1154. 8 se skilled alien sheepherder into the United States and the investigation of the application for such importation discloses that— (1) the employment offered such skilled alien sheepherder is permanent; and (2) no immigration quota number of the quota to which such skilled alien sheepherder is chargeable under section 202 of the |\f|*c*ii5l* Immigration and Nationality Act is then available, a special nonquota immigrant visa may be issued to such skilled alien sheepherder as provided in this Act: Provided, That such skilled alien sheepherder is otherwise eligible to receive an immigrant visa under the immigration laws. SEC. 2. The Attorney General shall certify to the Secretary of State the name and address of every skilled alien sheepherder for which an application for importation under section 204 has been approved. ^ "^^ ^^^*' If a quota number is not then available for such skilled alien sheepherder, the proper consular officer may issue a special nonquota immigrant visa to such skilled alien sheepherder. SEC. 3. (a) There shall not be issued more than three hundred and Limitation. eighty-five special nonquota immigrant 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. SEC. 4. Any alien who is excludable because of the conviction of a convicuon"^"** misdemeanor classifiable as a petty offense under the provisions of ° * ^° '

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