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PUBLIC LAW 678-AUG. 27, 1954

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Beginning at a stake on the bank of the Cape Fear River, the same being the southeast corner of the tract of which this is a part, and running thence with the southern line of the said tract, south eighty-eight degrees no minutes two thousand two hundred and ninetyseven feet to a stake in the old canal; thence with the said old canal north twenty-five degrees forty-one minutes east one thousand six hundred and fourteen feet to a stake in said canal, also in the northern line of the tract of which this is a part; thence with the northern line of said tract south seventy-eight degrees fifty-five minutes east one thousand six hundred and forty-three feet to a stake on the bank of the Cape Fear River, the northeast corner of the tract of which this is a part; thence with the Cape Fear River, a calculated course, south thirty minutes east one thousand one hundred and twenty-two feet to the beginning, containing fifty-seven and eight-tenths acres more or less, being the eastern part of a tract of land described in a deed from Alexander E. Cook and wife, Frances W. Cook, to the United States of America, dated December 31, 1938, recorded in Book 409, page 300, in the office of the Register of Deeds for Cumberland County, North Carolina. SEC. 2. The property herein described shall not be used for any purpose which is detrimental to the Veterans' Administration for a period of twenty years. Approved August 27, 1954. Public Law 678 August 27, 1954 [ H. R. 8155]

Metal scrap.

67 Stat. 487. 19 USC 1 0 0 1, par. 301 note.

65 Stat. 44. 26 USC 3 4 2 5 note.

AN ACT To continue until the close of June 30, 1955, the suspension of duties and import taxes on metal scrap, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the first sentence of section 2 of the Act of September 30, 1950 (Public Law 869, Eighty-first Congress), is hereby amended by striking out "June 30, 1954" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1955": Provided, That this Act shall not apply to lead scrap or zinc scrap (other than zinc scrap purchased under a written contract entered into before July 1, 1954). SEC. 2. The amendment made by the first section of this Act shall not be construed to affect in any way the application of Public Law 38, Eighty-second Congress, to copper scrap. Approved August 27, 1964. Public Law 679

August 27, 1954 [H. R. 8634]

Guam. District Court procedure. 48 USC 1424.

CHAPTER 1016

CHAPTER 1017

AN ACT To amend section 22 of the Organic Act of Guam.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That subsection (b) of section 22 of the Organic Act of Guam (64 Stat. 389), is amended by striking out the period at the end of such subsection and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "; except that no provisions of any such rules which authorize or require trial by jury or the prosecution of offenses by indictment by a grand jury instead of by information shall be applicable to the District Court of Guam unless and until made so applicable by laws enacted by the Legislature of Guam, and except

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