Section 1
SECTION 1. Any provisions of existing laws to the contrary notwithstanding, the performance of annual assessment work or improvements, by locators, holders, or operators of unpatented mining claims acquired under the Act of Congress of July one, nineteen hundred and two, as amended, or mining leases granted under the Mining Act, are hereby waived for a period of two years beginning January one, nineteen hundred and fifty-one to December thirty-one, nineteen hundred and fifty-two inclusive.