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 68.STAT.]

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PUBLIC LAW 595-AUG. 16, 1954

SEC, 2. Subsections (b), (c), and (d) of section 4 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for the discontinuance of the use as dwellings of buildings situated in alleys in the District of Columbia, and for the replatting and development of squares containing inhabited alleys, in the interest of public health, comfort, morals, safety, and welfare, and for other purposes", approved June 12, 1934 (48 Stat. 932), as amended (sec, 5-106, D. C, Code, 1951 edition), are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This Act shall take effect sixty days after approval or July 1, 1955, whichever is earlier. Approved August 16, 1954. Public Law 595

Effective date.

CHAPTER 740

AN ACT To amend the Tariff Act of 1930, so as to modify the duty on the importation of wood dowels, and for other purposes.

August 16, 1954 [H, R. 2763]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the owel United States of America in Congress ossembled^ That paragraph 401 Wood dduty. s. Import of the Tariff Act of 1930 (U.S.C. 1946 edition, title 19, sec. 1001, par. 46 Stat. 629. 401) is amended by changing the comma after "$1 per thousand feet, board measure" to a semicolon and inserting thereafter the words "dowels, if of fir, spruce, pine, hemlock, or larch, 25 cents per thousand feet board measure* SEC, 2. Paragraph 1803 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (U.S.C. 1946 edition, title 19, sec, 1201, par. 1803) is amended by inserting "dowels;" 46 Stat, 683. in subparagraph (1) between "grooved;" and "all the foregoing". SEC. 3. Section 3424 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended (U.S.C. 1946 edition, Supp. V, title 26, sec. 3424), is further 53 Stat. 415. amended by inserting after "board measure;" the following language "dowels made of fir, spruce, pine, hemlock, larch, or cedar (except cedar commercially known as Spanish cedar), 75 cents per thousand feet, board measure; dowels made of Japanese maple, Japanese white oak, teak, box, ebony, lancewood, or lignum vitae, $3 per thousand feet, board measure; dowels made of other wood, $1.50 per thousand feet, board measure;". SEC. 4. These amendments shall be effective as to dowels entered, or Effectivity. withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption on or after the day following the date of the enactment of this Act and shall apply also to any dowels entered or withdrawn before that day with respect to which the liquidation of the entry or withdrawal has not become final 46 Stat. 734. by reason of section 514, Tariff' Act of 1930, 19 USC 1514. D u t y - f r e e reSEC, 5, Paragraph 1615 (a) of the Tariff Act of 1930 is amended imports, by inserting before the period at the end thereof a semicolon and the 52 Stat. 1092. 19 USC 1201 par. following: "and articles, previously imported, with respect to which 1615. the duty was paid upon such previous importation, if (1) reimported, without having been advanced in value or improved in condition by any process of manufacture or other means, after having been exported under lease to a foreign manufacturer, and (2) reimported by or for the account of the person who imported them into, and exported them from, the United States", SEC, 6, The amendment made by this Act shall be effective as to Effective date. articles entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after the date of enactment of this Act. Approved August 16, 1954.

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