An Act to repeal certain obsolete provisions of law relating to the mints and assay offices, and for other purposes
PL 87-534 (S.2130), enacted 07/11/1962

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PUBLIC LAW 87-534-JULY 11, 1962 
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(b) The chapter analysis of chapter 639 of title 10, United States 
Code, is amended by striking out the following items: 
"7391. Hydrographic Office: establishment and duties. 
"7392. Hydrograpliic Office: maps, cliarts. and books. 
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"7393. Hydrographic Office: pilot charts." 
and inserting the following item in place thereof: 
"7S91. tJnited States Naval Oceanographic Office : establishment and duties. 
"7392. United States Naval Oceanographic Office: maps, charts, and books. 
"7393. United States Naval Oceanographic Office: pilot charts." 
SEC. 2. The analyses of subtitle C and part IV of subtitle C of title 
10, United States Code, are each amended by striking out the following 
7OA stat. 276, 
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10 u s e 5001, 
"639. Hydr(«raphic Office and Naval Observatory 
7391" ^^^^• 
and inserting the following item in place thereof: 
"t>39. United States Naval Oceanographic Office and Naval Observatory— 7391". 
Approved July 10, 1962. 
Public Law 87-534 
AN ACT 
July 11,1962 
To repeal certain obsolete provisions of law relating to the mints and assay 
[S. 2130] 
offices, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Rep^'esentatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 3495 
Mints, assay 
of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 261), is amended to °f^^'=^^- , ^ 
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Repeal of ob-
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solete statutes. 
"SEC. 3495. Tlie different mints and assay offices shall be— 
"First. The mint of the United States at Philadelphia. 
"Second. The mint of the United States at Denver. 
"Third. The United States assay office at New York. 
"Fourth. The United States assay office at San Francisco." 
SEC. 2. Section 3558 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
283), is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 5658. The business of the United States assay office at San 
Francisco shall be in all respects similar to that of the assay office at 
New York, except that no gold or silver shall be refined. The Officer 
in Charge shall be allowed the amount of necessary and bona fide 
wastage as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury but not to 
exceed that provided for the melter and refiner in section 3542 of this 
title, for wastage incurred in the casting of fine gold and silver bars. 
31 use 355. 
Such wastage allowance shall not appljr to deposit operations." 
SEC. 3. The following obsolete provisions of law are lepealed: 
(a) Section 344 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 252). 
(b) Section 3497 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
264). 
(c) Section 3498 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
265). 
(d) Section 3499 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
268). 
(e) Section 3500 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 269). 
(f) Section 3502 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 254, 271). 
(g) Section 3504 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
266, 272). 
(h) Section 3556 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
280). 
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(i) Section 8557 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.G. 
282). 
(j) Section 3559 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
284). 
(k) Section 3560 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
285). 
(1) Section 3561 of the Revised Statutes, as amended (31 U.S.C. 
286). 
(m) Act of February 20, 1895 (ch. 105, 28 Stat. 673; 31 U.S.C. 
262,283). 
Approved July 11, 1962. 
July 13, 1962 
[H. R. 12154] 
Public Law 87-535 
AN ACT 
To amend and extend the provisions of tlie Sugar Act of 1948, as amended. 
Sugar Act Amend-
ments of 1962. 
Post, p. 169. 
Annual consump-
tion estimate. 
61 Stat. 923. 
7 u s e 1111. 
"Parity index." 
7 u s e 1301. 
Quotas, estab-
lishment or re-
vision. 
65 Stat. 318. 
7 u s e 1112. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may 
be cited as the "Sugar Act Amendments of 1962". 
SEC. 2. Section 201 of the Sugar Act of 1948, as amended, is amended 
as follows: by striking out the last sentence thereof, all of the lan-
guage following the phrase "in addition to the consumption, inven-
tory, population, and demand factors above specified and the level and 
trend of consumer purchasing power," and by adding after such phrase 
the following language: "shall take into consideration the relationship 
between the price for raw sugar that he estimates would result from 
such determination and the parity index, as compared with the rela-
tionship between the average price of raw sugar during the three-year 
period 1957, 1958, and 1959, and the average of the parity indexes 
during such three years, with the view to attaining generally stable 
domestic sugar prices that will carry out over the long term the price 
objective previously set forth in this section; and in order that the 
regulation of commerce provided by this Act shall not result in exces-
sive prices to consumers, the Secretary shall make such additional 
allowances as he deems necessary in the amount of sugar determined 
to be needed to meet requirements of consumers. The term 'parity 
index' as used herein shall mean such index as determined under 
section 301 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, as amended, 
and as published monthly by the United States Department of 
Agriculture." 
SEC. 3. Section 202 of such Act is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 202. Whenever a determination is made, pursuant to section 
201, of the amount of sugar needed to meet the requirements of con-
sumers, the Secretary shall establish quotas, or revise existing quotas—