Volume 68 · 264
Public Law 83–417
To amend sections 201 (a) and 207 (a) of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
Approved June 18, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend sections 201 (a) and 207 (a) of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That subsection (a)
Hawaiian home lands.
of section 207 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act, 1920, as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows:
“(a) The Commission is authorized to lease to native Hawaiians the
Lease to natives.
right to the use and occupancy of a tract or tracts of Hawaiian home lands within the following acreage limits per each lessee: (1) not less than one nor more than forty acres of agricultural lands; or (2) not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred acres of first-class pastoral lands; or (3) not less than two hundred and fifty nor more than one thousand acres of second-class pastoral lands; or (4) not less than forty nor more than one hundred acres of irrigated pastoral lands; (5) not more than one acre of any class of land to be used as a residence lot: Provided, however, That in the case of any existing lease of a farm lot in the Kalanianaole Settlement on Molakai, a residence lot may exceed one acre but shall not exceed four acres in area, the location of such area to be selected by the lessee concerned: Provided further, That a lease granted to any lessee may include two detached farm lots located on the same island and within a reasonable distance of each other, one of which, to be designated by the Commission, shall be occupied by the lessee as his home, the gross acreage of both lots not to exceed the maximum acreage of an agricultural or pastoral lot, as the case may be, as provided in this section.”
Sec. 2.
Subsection (a) of section 201 of the Hawaiian Homes Commission
Act, 1920, is hereby amended by adding a paragraph (8) to read as follows:
“(8) The term ‘irrigated pastoral land’ means land not in the description of agricultural land but which, through irrigation, is capable of carrying more livestock the year through than first-class pastoral land.”
Sec. 3.
This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
Approved June 18, 1954.