An Act to amend section 4421 of the Revised Statutes, in order to remove the requirement as to verifying under oath certain certificates of inspection, and for other purposes
PL 84-64 (H.R.4646), enacted 06/08/1955

PUBLIC LAW 64-JUNE 8, 1955 
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After such bonds and the interest thereon shall have been paid, said 
bridge shall thereafter be maintained and operated free of tolls. An 
accurate record of the expenditures for maintaining, repairing, and 
operating said bridge, and of the daily tolls collected, shall be avail-
able for the information of all persons interested. 
SEC. 2. The right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby 
expressly reserved. 
Approved June 8, 1955. 
June 8,1955 
l.H« R. 4646] 
Public Law 64 
CHAPTER 133 
AN ACT 
To amend section 4421 of the Revised Statutes, in order to remove the require-
ment as to verifying under oath certain certificates of inspection, and for 
other purposes. 
Vessels. 
Certificates 
of 
inspection. 
Temporary cer-
tificates. 
46 use 400. 
46 use 375. 
46 use 404. 
46 use 435. 
C ompletlon of 
voyage after ex-
piration. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 4421 of 
the Revised Statutes (46 IT. S. C. 399), is amended to read as follows: 
"4421. When the inspection of a steam vessel is completed and the 
Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating 
approves the vessel and her equipment throughout, he shall make and 
subscribe a certificate to that effect. He shall deliver such certificate 
to the master or owner of the vessel to which it relates, shall keep one 
copy thereof on file in his office, and shall deliver one copy to the 
official who is performing the duties of the collector or other chief 
officer of the customs of the district in which such inspection has been 
made, who shall keep the same on file in his office. If the Secretary 
refuses to grant a certificate of approval, he shall make a statement 
in writing and sign the same, giving the reasons for his disapproval. 
Upon such inspection and approval the Secretary shall also make and 
subscribe a temporary certificate, which shall set forth substantially 
the fact of such inspection and approval, and shall deliver the same 
to the master or owner of the vessel and shall keep a copy thereof 
on file in his office. The said temporary certificate shall be carried 
and exposed by vessels in the same manner as is provided in section 
4423 for the regular certificate, and the form thereof and the period 
during which it is to be in force shall be as prescribed under the author-
ity of section 4405. And such temporary certificate, during such 
period and prior to the delivery to the master or owner of the regular 
certificate, shall take the place of and be a substitute for the regular 
certificate of inspection, as required by this section and by section 4426, 
and for the purposes of said sections. 
Such temporary certificate 
shall also be subject to revocation in the manner and under the con-
ditions provided in section 4453. No vessel required to be inspected 
under the provisions of this title shall be navigated without 4iaving on 
board an unexpired regular certificate of such inspection or such tem-
porary certificate: Provided, however, That any such vessel operated 
upon a regularly established line from a port of the United States to 
a port of a foreign country not contiguous to the United States whose 
certificate of inspection expires at sea or while said vessel is in a 
foreign port or a port of Hawaii may lawfully complete her voyage 
without the regular certificate of inspection or the temporary certifi-
cate required by this section, and no liability for penalties imposed 
by this title for want of such certificate shall be incurred until her 
voyage shall have been completed: Provided, That said voyage shall 
be so completed within thirty days after the expiration of said certifi-
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cate or temporary certificate: Provided furthers That no such vessel 
whose certificate of inspection shall expire within fifteen days of the 
date of her sailing shall proceed upon her voyage to such port of a 
foreign country not contiguous to the United States without first hav-
ing procured a new certificate of inspection or the temporary certifi-
cate required by this section.'' 
Approved June 8, 1955. 
Restriction. 
Public Law 65 
CHAPTER 134 
AN ACT 
Relating to the payment of money orders. 
Junes, 1955 
[H. R. 4817] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the following 
Acts or parts of Acts are hereby repealed: 
(a) Section 4 of the Act of July 16,1894 (28 Stat. 107), as amended 
and codified in section 730 of title 39, United States Code. 
(b) That part of the Act of May 27,1908 (35 Stat. 416), as amended 
and codified in section 731 of title 39, United States Code. 
(c) Section 12 of the Act of June 26,1934 (48 Stat. 1229), as codified 
in section 725k of title 31, United States Code. 
(d) Section 5 of the Act of March 3, 1883, as amended and codified 
in section 718 of title 39, United States Code. 
SEC. 2. No money order heretofore or hereafter issued shall be paid 
after twenty years from the last day of the month of original issue. 
Claims for unpaid money orders shall be forever barred unless received 
by the Post Office Department within such twenty-year period. Any 
excess of funds accrued because of money orders remaining unpaid 
may be transferred to postal revenues at such times and in such 
amounts as the Postmaster General shall determine. The records of 
the Post Office Department shall serve as the basis for adjudicating 
claims for payment of money orders. 
SEC. 3. Section 2 of this Act shall take effect on the first day of the 
sixth calendar month beginning after the date of its enactment. 
Approved June 8, 1955. 
Postal Service. 
Money orders. 
Repeals. 
22 Stat. 528. 
C l a i m s for vin> 
paid orders. 
Effective date. 
Public Law 66 
CHAPTER 135 
AN ACT 
To continue until the close of June 30, 1956, the suspension of duties and import 
taxes on metal scrap, and for other purposes. 
June 8, 1955 
[H. R. 5223] 
Be it emiMed 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, 
1955" and inserting in lieu thereof "June 30, 1956": Provided^ That 
this Act shall not apply to lead scrap or zinc scrap. 
S E C 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 June 8, 1955. 
Afetal scrap. 
68 Stat. 882. 
19 u s e 
1001, 
par. 30 1 note. 
65 Stat. 44.