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 PUBLIC LAW 4 8 7 - J U L Y 14, 1954

470

Marking requirementSa

A b and o ned articles, etc.

Transfers.

Payment of c u s toms charges, e t c.

52 Stat. 1087.

Public Law 487

P a i d postal savings certificates. Claims.

STAT.

withdrawal; and on any articles which shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental handling or exposure, the duties, if payable, shall be assessed according to the appraised value at the time of withdrawal from entry hereunder for consumption or entry under the general tariff law: Provided further, That imported articles provided for herein shall not be subject to any marking requirements of the general tariff laws, except when such articles are withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, in which case they shall not be released from customs custody until properly marked, but no additional duty shall be assessed because such articles were not sufficiently marked when imported into the United States: Provided further, That at any time during or within three months after the close of such fair, any article entered hereunder may be abandoned to the Government or destroyed under customs supervision, whereupon any duties on such articles shall be remitted: Provided further, That articles which have been admitted without payment of duty for exhibition under any tariff law and which have remained in continuous customs custody or under a customs exhibition bond and imported articles in bonded warehouses under the general tariff law may be accorded the privilege of transfer to and entry for exhibition at such fair under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: And "provided further, That the International Trade-Sample Fair shall be deemed, for customs purposes only, to be the sole consignee of all merchandise imported under the provisions of this joint resolution, and the actual and necessary customs charges for labor, services, and other expenses in connection with the entry, examination, appraisement, release, or custody, together with the necessary charges for salaries of customs officers and employees in connection with the supervision, custody of, and accounting for, articles imported under the provisions of this joint resolution, shall be reimbursed by the International Trade-Sample Fair to the Government of the United States under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury; and receipts from such reimbursements shall be deposited as refunds to the appropriation from which paid, in the manner provided for in section 524 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (19 U.S.C. sec. 1524). Approved July 14, 1964.

July 14, 1954 [H. R. 7371]

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r?. CHAPTER 476

AN ACT To provide for the disposal of paid postal-savings certificates.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) all claims for payment oi any postal-savings certificate, or other evidence of deposit in the postal-savings depository system, including duplicates, which certificate or evidence of deposit, including duplicates, are shown by the records of the Post Office Department to have been duly paid, shall be barred if not presented to the Postmaster General within six years from the date on which such records show that they were paid. (b) Final determination as to whether payment properly has been made on postal-savings certificates or other evidences of deposit in the postal-savings depository system, including duplicates, shall be based upon the official records of the Post Office Department.

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