An Act to permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the International Photographic Exposition, to be held at Washington, D. C., to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes.
PL 84-513 (H.R.8959), enacted 05/09/1956

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PUBLIC LAW 513-MAY 9, 1956 
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Public Law 513 
CHAPTER 242 
AN ACT 
To permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exliibition 
at tlie International Photographic Exposition, to be held at Washington, Dis-
trict of Columbia, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other 
purposes. 
May 9, 1956 
[H. R. 8959] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of RepreHentatives of the 
United States of America in (Jongress assembled^ That any article 
which is imported from a foreign country for the purpose of exhibition 
at the International Photographic Exposition (hereinafter in this Act 
referred to as the "exposition'), to be held at Washington, District of 
Columbia, from March 18 to April 4, 1957, inclusive, by the Master 
Photo Dealers and Finishers Association, a nonprofit membership 
corporation (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "association"), 
or for use in constructing, installing, or maintaining foreign exhibits 
at the exposition, upon which article there is a tariff or customs duty, 
shall be admitted without payment of such tariff or customs duty or 
any fees or charges under such regulations as the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall prescribe. 
SEC. 2. It shall be hiwful at any time during or within three months 
after the close of the exposition to sell within the area of the exposition 
any articles provided for in this Act, 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. 
All such articles, when 
withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, shall be sub-
ject to the duties, if anj', imposed upon such articles by the revenue 
laws in force at the date of their withdrawal; and on such articles 
which shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental 
handling or exposure, the duties, if payable, shall be assessed accord-
ing to the appraised value at the time of withdrawal from entry under 
this Act for consumption or entry under the general tariff law. 
SEC. 8. Imported articles provided for in this Act shall not be sub-
ject 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. 
SEC. 4. At any time during or within three months after the close of 
the exposition, any article entered under this Act may be abandoned to 
the United States or destroyed under customs supervision, whereupon 
any duties on such articles shall be remitted. 
SEC. 5. Articles which have been admitted without payment of duty 
for exhibition under any tariff law and which have remained in contin-
uous customs custody or under a customs exliibition 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 the 
exposition under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall prescribe. 
SEC. 6. The association shall be deemed, for customs purposes only, 
to be the sole consignee of all merchandise imported under this Act. 
The actual and necessary customs charges for labor, services, and 
other expenses in connection with the entry, examination, appraise-
ment, release, or custody, together with the necessary charges for 
salaries of customs officers and employees in connection with the super-
vision, custody of, and accounting for, articles imported under this 
Act, shall be reimbursed by the association to the United States under 
Int er n a t i o n a l 
Photo g r a p h i c 
Expo sition. 
F r e e entry for 
exhibits. 
S(»ie, etc. 
Marking require-
ments. 
Abandonment of 
articles. 
Transfers. 
P a y m e n t 
of 
customs charges, 
etc. 
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PUBLIC LAW 514-MAY 9, 1956 
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46 Stat. 471; 52 
Stat. 1087. 
regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 
Receipts from such reimbursement 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. 1524). 
Approved May 9, 1956. 
May 9,1956 
[H. R. 9078] 
Public Law 514 
CHAPTER 243 
AN ACT 
To pr<ivide that the authorized strength of the Metropolitan Police force of the 
District of Columbia shall be not less than two thousand five hundred oflScers 
and members. 
D. C. 
P o l i c e 
Department. 
Increase to 2,500 
members. 
31 Stat. 819. 
39 Stat. 720. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph 3 
of the first section of the Act entitled "An Act relating to the Metro-
politan Police of the District of Columbia", approved February 28, 
1901 (D. C. Code, sec. 4-106), is amended by adding at the end thereof 
the following new sentence: "The Metropolitan Police force shall con-
sist of not less than two thousand five hundred officers and members, 
in addition to the persons appointed as surgeons for the Metropolitan 
Police force, appointed as police matrons, or appointed as special 
privates pursuant to sections 378 and 379 of the Revised Statutes of 
the United States relating to the District of Columbia, approved June 
22,1874 (D. C. Code, sec. 4-133), and in addition to any retired officer 
or member of the Metropolitan Police force called back into service 
pursuant to section 12 of the Act entitled 'An Act making appropria-
tions to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of 
Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred 
and seventeen, and for other purposes', approved September 1, 1916 
(D.C. Code, sec. 4-514)." 
Approved May 9, 1956. 
May 10. 1956 
[H. R. 4118] 
Public Law 515 
CHAPTER 247 
AN A c t 
To amend section 606 (5) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1036, relating to the 
computation of the 10-year recapture period. 
Merchant Marine 
Act, amendment. 
49 StaU 2004. 
R e c a p t u r 
e 
period. 
46 u s e 1177. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That subdivision (5) 
of section 606 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936, as amended (46 
U. S. C. 1176), is amended to read as follows: 
"(5) that when at the end of any ten-year period during which 
an operating-differential subsidy has been paid under a contract 
or consecutive contracts (such period to be computed from the end 
of the operator's last completed recapture period regardless of its 
duration, or from the beginning of subsidized operations if the 
operator has not previously comx^leted a recapture period), or 
when prior to the end of such ten-year period subsidized opera-
tions shall be finally terminated, if the net profit of the contractor 
on his subsidized vessels and services incident thereto during such 
period or time (w^ithout regard to capital gains and capital losses), 
after deduction of depreciation charges based upon a life 
expectancy of the subsidized A'essels determined as j)rovided in 
section 607 (b), has averaged more than 10 per centum per annum 
upon the contractor's capital investment necessarily employed in