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he may prescribe)(1) be placed with any agency of the Federal Government or of any State government, or any society or museum, for exhibition or scientific or educational purposes, or (2) be destroyed." SEC. 2. Such paragraph 1518 is further amended by striking out "That nothing in this Act" at the beginning of the third subparagraph thereof and inserting in lieu thereof " (g) Nothing in this Act". SEC. 3. Paragraph 1535 of such Act is hereby amended by striking out the proviso at the end thereof. SEC. 4. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect at the close of the thirtieth day after the day on which this Act is enacted. For the period beginning on the thirty-first day after the day on which this Act is enacted and ending on December 31, 1952, the import quotas established by paragraph 1518 (d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended by this Act, shall be the import quotas specified in such paragraph 1518 (d) for a full calendar year. SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to admit free of duty a certain carillon of twenty-three bells to be imported for The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina. Approved July 17, 1952.

Public Law 581

19 U S C 1 0 0 1 par. 1535.

The Citadel, Charleston, S. C.

CHAPTER 929

AN ACT To provide for terms of court to be held at West Palm Beach, and at Fort Myers, in the southern district of Florida.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the second sentence of section 89(b) of title 28, United States Code, is hereby amended to read as follows: "Court for the southern district shall be held at Fernandina, Fort Myers, Fort Pierce, Jacksonville, Key West, Miami, Ocala, Orlando, Tampa, and West Palm Beach." Approved July 17, 1952.

Public Law 582

19 U S C 100 I par. 15 18.

Jvily 17, 1952 [H. R. 948]

62 Stat. 876.

CHAPTER 930

AN ACT To amend section 1498 of title 28, United States Code, so as to permit a joint patentee to bring suit on a patent in the Court of Claims in certain cases where one or more of his copatentees is barred from doing so.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth paragraph of section 1498 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by substituting the following therefor: "A Government employee shall have the right to bring suit against the Government under this section except where he was in a position to order, influence, or induce use of the invention by the Government. This section shall not confer a right of action on any patentee or any assignee of such patentee with respect to any invention discovered or invented by a person while in the employment or service of the United States, where the invention was related to the official functions of the employee, in cases in which such functions included research and development, or in the making of which Government time, materials or facilities were used.'* Approved July 17, 1952.

July 17, 1952 [H.R. 3975]

Patent c a s e s. 62 Stat. 941; 65 Stat. 727

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