An Act to amend the Judicial Code to permit Indian tribes to maintain civil actions in Federal district courts without regard to the $10,000 limitation, and for other purposes
PL 89-635 (S.1356), enacted 10/10/1966

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PUBLIC LAW 89-6S5-OCT. 10, 1966 
[80 STAT. 
heading to such part 6 the following: "Part 6 headnote: 
"1. No article shall be exempted from duty under item 870.30 
unless a Federal agency or agencies designated by the President deter-
mines that such article is visual or auditory material of an educational, 
scientific, or cultural character within the meaning of the Agreement 
for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory 
Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character. 
Whenever the President determines that there is or may be profit-
making exhibition or use of articles described in item 870.30 which 
interferes significantly (or threatens to interfere significantly) with 
domestic production of similar articles, he may prescribe regula-
tions imposing restrictions on the entry of such foreign articles to 
insure that they will be exhibited or used only for nonprofitmaking 
purposes." 
(2) Such part 6 is amended by adding at the end thereof tlie fol-
lowing new item: 
870.30 
Developed photographic fllm, including motion-picture film 
on which pictures or sound and pictures have been recorded; 
photographic slides; transparencies; sound recordings; re-
corded video-tape; models; charts; maps; globes; and post-
ers; all of the foregoing which are determined to be visual 
or auditory materials in accordance with headnote 1 of this 
part 
Free 
Free 
(b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with 
respect to articles, entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for con-
sumption, on or after the date proclaimed by the President pursuant 
to this subsection, which date shall be within the period of six months 
which begins with the day after the day on which the United States 
instrument of acceptance of the Agreement is deposited with the 
Secretary General of the United Nations. 
Approved October 8, 1966. 
October 10, 1966 
[S,1356] 
Public Law 89-635 
AN ACT 
To amend the Judicial Code to permit Indian tribes to maintain civil actions 
in Federal district courts without regard to the $10,000 limitation, and for 
other purposes. 
U.S. Courts. 
Indians, civil 
jurisdiction. 
62 Stat. 930. 
Be it enacted 5y the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That title 28, United 
States Code, is herebj?^ amended by inserting in chapter 85 thereof 
immediately after section 1361, a new section to be designated section 
1362, as follows: 
"§1362. Indian tribes 
"The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of all civil 
actions, brought by any Indian tribe or band with a governing body 
duly recognized by the Secretary of the Interior, wherein th^ matter 
in controversy arises under the Constitution, laws, or treaties of the 
United States." 
SEC. 2. The chapter analysis of chapter 85 of title 28 of the United 
States Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the following 
new item: 
"1362. Indian tribes." 
Approved October 10, 1966.