Joint resolution to permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the Washington State Fifth International Trade Fair, Seattle, Washington, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes
PL 84-462 (H.J.Res.464), enacted 04/02/1956

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District of Columbia for real estate taxes assessed against it upon 
land designated as parcel 22/73 in the District of Columbia for the 
period from July 1,1953, to December 31,1954. 
TITLE VI—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
66 Stat. 824. 
D. C. Code 1 app. 
SEC. 001. REGULATIONS.—The Commissioners of the District of 
Columbia are authorized to make rules and regulations to carry out 
the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 602. SEPARABILITY CLATTSE.—If any provision of this Act or 
the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, 
the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to 
other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. 
SEC. 603. Wherever any officer or agency of the District, other than 
the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, is mentioned in this 
Act, such officer or agency shall be deemed to be the officer or agency 
so mentioned, or the officer, officers, agency or agencies succeeding to 
the functions of the officer or agency so mentioned, pursuant to 
Reorganization Plan Numbered 5 of 1952. 
Approved March 31, 1956. 
April 2, 1956 
[S. J. Res. 95] 
Public Law 461 
CHAPTER 
155 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To authorize the Amevk-aw Battle Monniuents Commission to prepare plaus and 
estimates for the erection of a suitable memorial to General .John .J. Pershing. 
G e n . 
J o hn 
Pershing. 
Memorial. 
Resolved by the Senate and IIovHe of Repfesentatire-s of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled. That the American Battle 
Monimients C!lommission, whose former Chairman was the late John 
J. Pershing, General of the Armies of the United States, is authorized 
and directed to prepare plans and estimates for the erection of a suit-
able memorial to General John J. Pershing, together with recom-
mendations with respect to site, design, and materials, for submission 
to the Congress at as early a date as practicable. Such plans- shall, 
prior to submission to the Congress, be approved by the National 
Commission of Fine Arts with respect to the design and materials 
to be used. 
Approved April 2, 1956. 
April 2, 1956 
[H. J. Rea. 464] 
Public Law 462 
CHAPTER 
156 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition 
at the Washington State Fifth International Trade Fair, Seattle, Washington, 
to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes. 
Washington State 
Fifth International 
Trade Fair. 
F r e e entry for 
exhibits. 
Resolved by the Senate and Hovse of Representatives 
of the United. 
States of America in Congress assembled^ That all articles which shall 
be imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at 
the Washington State Fifth International Trade Fair, to be held 
at Seattle, Washington, from May 4 to May 13, 1956, inclusive, by 
the International Trade Fair, Incorporated, a corporation, or for use 
in constructing, installing, or maintaining foreign exhibits at the said 
trade fair, upon which articles there shall be a tariff or customs duty, 
shall be admitted without payment of such tariff, customs duty, fees, 
or charges under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury 
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shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any time during or within 
three months after the close of the said trade fair to sell within the 
area of the trade fair any articles provided for herein, subject to such 
regulations for the security of the revenue and for the collection of 
import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Pro-
vided^ That all such articles when withdrawn for consumption or use 
in the United States, shall be subject to the duties, if any, imposed 
upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of their 
withdrawal; and on such articles which shall have suffered diminu-
tion 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 suffi-
ciently marked when imported into the United States: Provided 
further^ That at any time during or within three months after the close 
of the trade fair, any article entered hereunder may be abandoned to 
the Government or destroyed under customs supervision, whereupon 
any duties on such article shall be remitted: Provided further^ That 
articles which have been admitted without payment of duty for exhibi-
tion 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 an entry for exhibition at the 
said trade fair under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall prescribe: And provided further^ That the International Trade 
Fair, Incorporated, a corporation, shall be deemed, for customs pur-
poses only, to be the sole consignee of all merchandise imported under 
the provisions of this joint resolution, and that the actual and neces-
sary customs charges for labor, services, and other expenses in con-
nection 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 Fair, 
Incorporated, a corporation, to the Government of the United States 
under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
and that receipts from such reimbursements shall be deposited as 
refunds to the appropriation from which paid, in the manner provided 
for in section 524, Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (U. S. C. 1946 
edition, title 19, sec. 1524). 
Approved April 2, 1956. 
Sale, etc» 
Marking require-
ments. 
Abandonment 
articles. 
Transfers. 
of 
I n t e r n a t i o n a l 
Trade Fair, Inc. 
Payment of cus-
toms charges, etc. 
52 Stat. 1087. 
Public Law 463 
CHAPTER 157 
AN ACT 
AprU 2, 1956 
To exempt from duty the importation of certain handwoven fabrics when used — [ H . R. 4376] 
in the making of religious vestments. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That title I I of the HM!"'^'^''*'' 
Tariff Act of 1930 (relating to the free list) is amended by adding 
46*stat. 672. 
at the end thereof the following new paragraph: 
fab-
19 u s e 
120 1 
pars. 1601-1818.