Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 69.djvu/725

 69

PUBLIC LAW 360-AUG. 11, 1955

STAT.]

ment is made by or under the authority of the United States, except where such damage, destruction, or loss results from the negligence of the United States, its permittees and licensees. SEC. 4. The owner of any unpatented mining claim located on land described in section 2 of this Act shall file for record in the United States district land office of the land district in which the claim is situated (1) within one year after the effective date of this Act, as to any or all locations heretofore made, or within sixty days of location as to locations hereafter made, a copy of the notice of location of the claim; (2) within sixty days after the expiration of any annual assessment year, a statement as to the assessment work done or improvements made during the previous assessment year. SEC. 5. Nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to limit or restrict the rights of the owner or owners of any valid mining claim located prior to the date of withdrawal or reservation: Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to limit or restrict the rights of the owner or owners of any mining claim who are diligently working to make a discovery of valuable minerals at the time any future withdrawal or reservation for power development is made. SEC. 6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, all mining claims and mill sites or mineral rights located under the terms of this Act or otherwise contained on the public lands as described in section 2 shall be used only for the purposes specified in section 2 and no facility or activity shall be erected or conducted thereon for other purposes. Approved August 11, 1955. Public Law 360

CHAPTER 798

AN ACT To amend Public Law 83, Eighty-third Congress.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the SmithLever Act, as amended (7 U.S.C. 341 and the following, supp. 1), is further amended as follows: i (a) By adding a new section, following section 7, to read as follows: "SEC. 8. (a) The Congress finds that there exists special circumstances in certain agricultural areas which cause such areas to be at a disadvantage insofar as agricultural development is concerned, which circumstances include the following: (1) There is concentration of farm families on farms either too small or too unproductive or both; (2) such farm operators because of limited productivity are unable to make adjustments and investments required to establish profitable operations; (3) the productive capacity of the existing farm unit does not permit profitable employment of available labor; (4) because of limited resources, many of these farm families are not able to make full use of current extension programs designed for families operating economic units nor are extension facilities adequate to provide the assistance needed to produce desirable results. "(b) In order to further the purposes of section 2 in such areas and to encourage complementary development essential to the welfare of such areas, there are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as the Congress from time to time shall determine to be necessary for payments to the States, Alaska, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico on the basis of special needs in such areas as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture. "(c) I n determining that the area has such special need, the Secretary shall find that it has a substantial number of disadvantaged farms

August 11, 1955 [S. 2098]

Smith-Lever Act amendments. 38 Stat. 372. 7 USC 341-343, 344*348. D i s a d vantage d farms.

Appropriation.

Assistance.

�