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
PL 83-678 (H.R.8155), enacted 08/27/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 678-AUG. 27, 1954 
[68 S T A T . 
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 ninety-
seven 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 pur-
pose which is detrimental to the Veterans' Administration for a period 
of twenty years. 
Approved August 27,1954. 
Public Law 678 
CHAPTER 1016 
August 27, 1954 
[H.R. 8155] 
Metal scrap. 
67 Stat. 487. 
19 u s e 
100 1, 
par. 301 note. 
65 Stat. 44. 
26 u s e 
3 4 2 5 
note. 
AN ACT 
August 27, 1954 
[H. R. 8634] 
Guam. 
D i s t r i c t Court 
procedure. 
48 u s e 1424. 
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 hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the first sen-
tence 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 
CHAPTER 1017 
AN ACT 
To amend section 22 of the Organic Act of Guam. 
Be it enacted hy 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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