An Act to amend further section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920
PL 90-474 (H.R.18254), enacted 08/11/1968

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PUBLIC LAW 90-474-AUG. 11, 1968 
[82 STAT. 
74 Stat. 23; 
79 Stat. 242. 
Restriction. 
Short title. 
SEC. 15. Except as otherwise provided herein, limitations and legisla-
tive provisions contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1961, shall be continued for the fiscal year 1969: Provided^ That 
the limitation for "Construction Services, Department of Buildings 
and Grounds" contained in the District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1961, as amended by the District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 
1966, which increased to 8 per centum of appropriations for construc-
tion projects in excess of $500,000 and to 10 per centum of appropria-
tions for construction projects under $500,000 shall be further amended 
to 10 per centum of aj>proj)riations for all construction projects. 
SEC. 16. Appropriations in this Act shall not be used for the assign-
ment or transportation of students to public schools in the District of 
Columbia in order to overcome racial imbalance. 
SEC. 17. The cost-of-living allowance annualized in the appropria-
tion for the Department of Welfare shall be limited to the "net pay-
ment" in computing the assistance payments for recipients in the five 
regular categories of public assistance. 
SEC. 18. No part of any anj appropriation contained in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
This Act may be cited as the "District of Columbia Appropriation 
Act, 1969". 
Approved August 10, 1968. 
August 11, 1968 
[H.R. 18254] 
Public Law 90-474 
AN ACT 
To amend further section 27 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1920. 
Vessels. 
Empty cargo 
vans. 
79 Stat. 823-
67 Stat. 516. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the last proviso 
to section 27, Merchant Marine Act, 1920, as amended (46 U.S.C. 
883), is amended to read as follows: '•'•Provided furtJier^ That upon 
such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Treasury by regula-
tion may prescribe, and, if the transporting vessel is of foreign reg-
istry, upon a finding by the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to 
information obtained and furnished by the Secretary of State, that 
the government of the nation of registry extends reciprocal privileges 
to vessels of the United States, this section shall not apply to the 
transportation by vessels of the United States not qualified to engage 
in the coastwise trade, or by vessels of f o r e i ^ registry, of (a) empty 
cargo vans, empty lift vans, and empty shipping tanks, (b) equipment 
for use with cargo vans, lift vans, or shipping tanks, (c) empty barges 
specifically designed for carriage aboard a vessel, and (d) any empty 
instrument for international traffic exempted from application of the 
customs laws by the Secretary of the Treasury pursuant to the pro-
visions of section 322(a), Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1322(a)), 
if the articles described in clauses (a) through (d) are owned or 
leased by the owner or operator of the transporting vessel and are 
transported for his use in handling his cargo in foreign trade; and (e) 
stevedoring equipment and material, if such equipment and material 
is owned or leased by the owner or operator of the transporting vessel, 
or is owned or leased by the stevedoring company contracting for the 
lading or unlading of that vessel, and is transported without charge 
for use in the handling of cargo in foreign trade." 
Approved August 11, 1968.