(21) Act of May 19, 1921 (42 Stat. 5);

(22) Joint resolution of December 27, 1922 (42 Stat. 1065);

(23) Act of May 26, 1924 (43 Stat. 153);

(24) Act of February 25, 1925 (43 Stat. 976; 8 U.S.C. 202 (i));

(25) The last proviso to the paragraph headed "Bureau of Immigration" in title IV of the Act of February 27, 1925 (43 Stat. 1049; 8 U.S.C. 110);

(26) Section 7(d) of the Act of May 20, 1920 (44 Stat. 572; 49 U.S.C. 177 (d));

(27) Act of May 26, 1926 (44 Stat. 657; 8 U.S.C. 231); (28) Act of May 26, 1926 (44 Stat. 654; 8 U.S.C. 241246);

(29) Act of April 2, 1928 (45 Stat. 401; 8 U.S.C. 226a);

(30) Act of March 4, 1929 (45 Stat. 1551; 8 U.S.C. 180-180d);

(31) Act of February 18, 1931 (46 Stat. 1171; 8 U.S.C. 156a);

(32) Act of March 17, 1932 (47 Stat. 67; 8 U.S.C. 137b-d);

(33) Section 7 of Act of May 25, 1932 (47 Stat. 166; 8 U.S.C. 181);

(34) Act of July 2, 1932 (47 Stat. 571; 8 U.S.C. 368b); (35) Sections 8 and 14 of the Act of March 24, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 462; 48 U.S.C. 1238; 48 Stat. 464; 48 U.S.C. 1244);

(36) Section 3 of the Act of May 14, 1937 (50 Stat. 165; 8 U.S.C. 213a);

(37) Act of August 19, 1937 (50 Stat. 696, ch. 698); (38) Act of July 27, 1939 (53 Stat. 1133; 48 U.S.C. 1251-1257);

(39) Title III of Act of June 28, 1940 (54 Stat. 673; 8 U.S.C. 451-460);

(40) Act of July 2, 1940 (54 Stat. 715–716);

(41) Section 2 of Act of August 16, 1940 (54 Stat. 788);

(42) Act of October 14, 1940 (54 Stat. 1137);

(43) Act of June 20, 1941 (55 Stat. 252; 22 U.S.C. 228, 229);

(44) Section 2 of the Act of December 17, 1943 (57 Stat. 601; 8 U.S.C. 212a);

(45) Sections 4 and 5 of Act of July 2, 1946 (60 Stat. 417; 8 U.S.C. 212b, 212c);

(46) Section 5 of the Act of May 31, 1947 (61 Stat. 122; 8 U.S.C. 732a);

(47) The paragraph headed "General provisions— Department of Justice" in Chapter III of the Supplemental Appropriation Act, 1951 (Public Law 843, Eighty-first Congress);

(48) The Act of March 28, 1951 (Public Law 14, Eighty-second Congress, first session).

2 U.S.C. 1101, note.

(b) Except as otherwise provided in section 405, all other laws, or parts of laws, in conflict or inconsistent with this Act are, to the extent of such conflict or inconsistency, repealed.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 404. There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act.

8 U.S.C. 1101. note.

SAVINGS CLAUSES

SEC. 405. (a) Nothing contained in this Act, unless otherwise specifically provided therein, shall be construed to affect the validity of any declaration of intention, petition for naturalization, certificate of naturalization, certificate of citizenship, warrant of arrest, order or warrant of deportation, order of exclusion, or other document or proceeding which shall be valid at the time this Act shall take effect; or to affect any prosecution, suit, action, or proceedings, civil or criminal, brought, or any status, condition, right in process of acquisition, act, thing, liability, obligation, or matter, civil or criminal, done or existing, at the time this Act shall take effect; but as to all such prosecutions, suits, actions, proceedings, statutes, conditions, rights, acts, things, liabilities, obligations, or matters the statutes or parts of statutes repealed by this Act are, unless otherwise specifically provided therein, hereby continued in force and effect. When an immigrant, in possession of an unexpired immigrant visa issued prior to the effective date of this Act, makes application for admission, his admissibility shall be determined under the provisions of law in effect on the date of the issuance of such visa. An application for suspension of deportation under section 19 of the Immigration Act of 1917, as amended, or for adjustment of status under section 4 of the Displaced Persons Act of 1948, as amended, which is pending on the date of enactment of this Act, shall be regarded as a proceeding within the meaning of this subsection.

(b) Except as otherwise specifically provided in title III, any petition for naturalization heretofore filed which may be pending at the time this Act shall take effect shall be heard and determined in accordance with the requirements of law in effect when such petition was filed.

(c) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, the repeal of any statute by this Act shall not terminate nationality heretofore lawfully acquired nor restore nationality heretofore lost under any law of the United States or any treaty to which the United States may have been a party.

(d) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this Act, or any amendment thereto, fees, charges and prices for purposes specified in title V of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1952 (Public Law 137, Eighty-second Congress, approved August 31, 1951), may be fixed and established in the manner and by the head of any Federal Agency as specified in that Act.

(e) This Act shall not be construed to repeal, alter, or amend section 231 (a) of the Act of April 30, 1946 (60 Stat. 148; 22 U.S.C. 1281 (a)), the Act of June 20, 1949 (Public Law 110, section 8, Eighty-first Congress, first session; 63 Stat. 208), the Act of June 5, 1950 (Public Law 535, Eighty-first Congress, second session), nor title V of the Agricultural Act of 1949, as amended (Public Law 78, Eighty-second Congress, first session).

SEPARABILITY

note.

SEC. 406. If any particular provision of this Act, or the 8 U.S.C. 1101, application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.

EFFECTIVE DATE

note.

SEC. 407. Except as provided in subsection (k) of sec- 8 U.s.C. 1101, tion 401, this Act shall take effect at 12:01 ante meridian United States Eastern Standard Time on the one hundred eightieth day immediately following the date of its

enactment.

APPENDIX

1. AGRICULTURAL ACT OF 1949

(as amended)

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Agricultural Act of 1949."

TITLE V-AGRICULTURAL WORKERS

1468.

SEC. 501. For the purpose of assisting in such produc- 7U.S.C. 1461– tion of agricultural commodities and products as the Secretary of Agriculture deems necessary, by supplying agricultural workers from the Republic of Mexico (pursuant to arrangements between the United States and the Republic of Mexico or after every practicable effort has been made by the United States to negotiate and reach agreement on such arrangements), the Secretary of Labor is authorized—

(1) to recruit such workers (including any such workers who have resided in the United States for the preceding five years or who are temporarily in the United States under legal entry);

(2) to establish and operate reception centers at or near the places of actual entry of such workers into the continental United States for the purpose of receiving and housing such workers while arrangements are being made for their employment in, or departure from, the continental United States;

(3) to provide transportation for such workers. from recruitment centers outside the continental United States to such reception centers and transportation from such reception centers to such recruitment centers after termination of employment;

(4) to provide such workers with such subsistence, emergency medical care, and burial expenses (not exceeding $150 burial expenses in any one case) as may be or become necessary during transportation authorized by paragraph (3) and while such workers are at reception centers:

(5) to assist such workers and employers in negotiating contracts for agricultural employment (such