An Act to provide for the redemption of District of Columbia tax stamps
PL 83-382 (H.R.4940), enacted 06/03/1954

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aggravated, in active service (1) during World War I or World 
War I I as each is defined by laws providing service-connected com-
pensation or pension benefits for veterans of World War I and World 
War I I and their dependents, or (2) on or after June 27, 1950, and 
prior to such date as shall thereafter be determined by Presidential 
proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress under the joint 
resolution entitled 'Joint resolution to provide certain benefits for 
certain persons who shall have served in the Armed Forces of the 
United States on and after June 27, 1950', approved May 11, 1951 
(38U.S. C.,sec.745)"_. 
SEC. 2. (a) Subsection (b) of the first section of the Act entitled 
"An Act to amend laws relating to the United States Military Acad-
emy and the United States Naval Academy, and for other purposes", 
approved June 30, 1950 (10 U. S. C , sec. 1092a), is amended in the 
following respects: 
(1) By inserting " (1)" immediately before "during World War I''; 
and 
(2) By inserting immediately before the colon preceding the first 
proviso of such subsection the following: ", or (2) on or after June 27, 
1950, and prior to such date as shall thereafter be determined by 
Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress 
under the joint resolution entitled 'Joint resolution to provide certain 
benefits for certain persons AVIIO shall have served in the Armed Forces 
of the United States on and after June 27, 1950', approved May 11, 
1951 (38U. S. C.,sec. 745)"'. 
(b) This section shall apply to the Air Force Academy. 
Approved June 3, 1954. 
65 Stat. 40. 
64 Stat. 303. 
65 Stat. 40, 
Applicability. 
Public Law 382 
CHAPTER 252 
AN ACT 
To provide for the redemption of District of Columbia tax stamps. 
June 3,1954 
[H. R. 4940] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, where any 
cigarette or alcoholic-beverage tax stamps issued under District of 
Columbia tax laws have been spoiled, destroyed, or rendered useless or 
unfit for the purpose intended, or for which the owner may have no 
use, the amount paid for such stamps may be refunded within the limit 
of appropriations therefor, or allowed as a credit on the purchase of 
new stamps. No such refund or allowance shall be made unless the 
owner of such stamps shall file a written claim therefor with the 
Commissioners of the District of Columbia or their designated agent 
within the time prescribed in this Act and unless the Commissioners 
or their designated agent upon receipt of satisfactory evidence of the 
facts, and subject to regulations prescribed by the Commissioners, 
certify that such refund or allowance is just and equitable. 
SEC. 2. No refund or allowance shall be made in any case (1) until 
the stamps so spoiled or rendered useless shall have been returned to 
the Commissioners or their designated agent, or (2) until satisfactory 
proof lias been made to the Commissioners or their designated agent 
showing the reason why the same cannot be returned, or (3), if so 
required by the Commissioners or their designated agent, unless the 
person presenting the same can satisfactorily trace the history of said 
stamps from their issuance to *he filing of his claim as aforesaid: 
Provided^ That no refund shall be made in those cases where the owner 
may be made whole by allowing him a credit on the purchase of new 
D. C. tax stands 
Redenq^tion. 
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stamps: And provided fv/rther, That no claim for a refund, or allow-
ance for such stamps, shall be allowed unless presented within six 
months after the stamps have been spoiled, destroyed, or rendered 
useless or unfit for the purpose intended, or, in the case of stamps for 
which the owner may have no use, within six months from the date of 
purchase thereof, except that as to stamps which have been spoiled, 
destroyed, or rendered useless or unfit for the purpose intended, or for 
which the owner may have no use, prior to the effective date of this 
Act, a claim for a refund or allowance for credit may be filed within 
six months after the .effective date of this Act. 
Approved June 3, 1954. 
Tune 3,1954 
[H. R. 7 3 " ' 
Public Law 383 
CHAPTER 253 
AN ACT 
'''308] 
To repeal section 307 of title III of the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. as 
amended. 
Extension. 
64StaU 1254. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseinhled, That section 307 of 
the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950, as amended (50 U. S. C. App. 
2297), is amended by striking out the date "June 30,1954" and insert-
ing in lieu thereof the date "June 30,1958''. 
Approved June 3, 1954. 
June 3,1954 
[H. R ; 7541] 
Public Law 384 
CHAPTER 254 
AN ACT 
To promote the national defense l»y including a representative of the Department 
of Defense as a member of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. 
62 Stat. 266. 
50 u s e 151. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That Public Law 
271, Sixty-third Congress, approved March 3, 1915 (38 Stat. 930; 
50 IT, S. C. 151a), as amended, be amended by striking out "the chair-
man of the Research and Development Board of the Department of 
Defense'" and inserting in lieu thereof "one Department of Defense 
representative who is acquainted witli the needs of aeronautical 
research and development". 
Approved June 3, 1954. 
June 4,1954 
[H.R. 116] 
Public Law 385 
CHAPTER 261 
AN ACT 
To amend title 18, United States Code, so as to prohibit the transportation of 
fireworks into any State in which the sale or use of such fireworks is 
prohibited. 
Fireworks trans-
portation. 
62 Stat. 738. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That chapter 39 
of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
thereof the following new section: 
"§ 836. Transportation of fireworks into State prohibiting 
sale 
or use 
"Whoever, otherwise than in the course of continuous interstate 
transportation through any State, transports fireworks into any State,