An Act to suspend certain import taxes on copper
PL 82-38 (H.R.3336), enacted 05/22/1951

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PUBLIC LAW 37—MAY 21, 1951 
[65 STAT. 
hereby amended by substituting a colon for the period at the end 
thereof and adding the following: "'Provided further^ That until 
and unless the Veterans' Administration has received from the insured 
a request in writing for payment in cash, any dividend accumulations 
and unpaid dividends shall be applied in payment of premiums becom-
ing due on insurance subsequent to the date the dividend is payable 
after January 1, 1952." 
Approved May 18, 1951. 
Public Law 37 
CHAPTER 102 
May 21, 1951 
-'^^ ACT 
[H- R- 3297] 
XQ authorize the Commissioners of the District of Columbia to appoint a 
member of the Metropolitan Police Department or a member of the Fire 
Department of the District of Columbia as Director of the District Office of 
Civil Defense, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
ci?n Defense^^.'c."* United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the Cominis-
Appointment. 
sioners of the District of (Columbia are authorized to appoint a mem-
ber of the Metropolitan Police Department or a member of the Fire 
Department of the District of Columbia to the position of Director 
of the Office of Civil Defense for the District of Columbia with the 
pay and salary provided by law for that position chargeable to the 
appropriation for the Office of Civil Defense for the District of 
Columbia: Provided^ That during the tenure of his appointment such 
member so appointed shall be deemed to be a member of such Police 
Department or such Fire Department, as the case may be, for all 
purj^oses of rank, seniority, allowances, privileges, and benefits, 
inchiding retirement and disability benefits under the provisions of 
section 2 of the Act approved September 1, 1916 (38 Stat. 718), as 
amended, to the same extent as though the appointment had not been 
made, and at the termination of such appointment he shall be entitled 
to resume his status within the Metropolitan Police Department or 
the Fire Department, as the case may be, which shall include any 
promotion in rank to which he may have become entitled: Provided 
further^ That retirement and disability benefits and salary deductions 
shall be based on the salary of the rank or position held in the Metro-
politan Police Department or the Fire Department, as the case may 
be, prior to his appointment as Director of the Office of Civil Defense 
or the salary of the position or rank he would have attained in the 
Metropolitan Police Department or in the Fire Department, had his 
appointment as Director of the Office of Civil Defense not been made, 
whichever is greater. 
Approved May 21, 1951. 
Public Law 38 
CHAPTER 108 
May 22, 1
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[H. R. 3336] 
To suspend certain import taxes on copper. 
Be it enxicted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
i u l c ^ s u p IV United States of America in Congress assembled^ That the import 
i3425 note. ' 
tax imposed under section 3425 of the Internal Revenue Code shall 
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not apply with respect to articles (other than co]>per sulfate and 
other than composition metal provided for in paragraph 1657 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, whicii is suitable both in its compo-
sition and shape, without further refining or alloying, for processing 
into castings, not including as castings ingots or similar cast forms) 
entered for consumption or withdrawn from warehouse for consump-
tion during the period beginning April 1, 1951, and ending with the 
close of February 15, 1953, or the termination of the national emer-
gency proclaimed by the President on December 16, 1950, whichever 
is earlier: Provided^ That when, for aU}'^ one calendar month during 
such period, the average market price of electrolytic copper for that 
month, in standard shapes and sizes, delivered Connecticut Valley, 
has been below 24 cents per pound, the Tariff Conmiission, within 
fifteen days after the conclusion of such calendar month, shall so 
advise the President, and the President shall, by proclamation, not 
later than twenty daj^s after he has been so advised by the Tariff' 
Commission, revoke such suspension of the import tax imposed under 
section 3425 of the Internal Revenue Code. 
In determining the average market price of electrolytic copper for 
each calendar month, the Tariff Commission is hereby authorized and 
directed to base its findings upon sources commonly resorted to by 
the buyers of copper in the usual channels of conmierce, including, 
but not limited to, quotations of the market price for electrolytic 
copper, in standard shapes and sizes, delivered Connecticut Valley, 
reported by the Engineering and Mining Journal's "Metal and 
Mineral Markets". 
Approved May 22, 1951. 
46 Stat. 676. 
19 U. S. C. § 1201, 
par. 1657. 
SOU. S. C S u p . I V 
app., note prec. § 2. 
Basis of findings. 
Public Law 39 
CHAPTER 112 
AN ACT 
To authorize the Administrator of Veterans' Affjiirs to leconvey to Tuskegee 
Institute a tract of land in Macon County, Alabama. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assernhled^ That the Adminis-
trator of Veterans' Affairs is authorized to reconvey by quitclaim deed 
to Tuskegee Institute, foimerly known as Tuskegee Normal and 
Industrial Institute, without monetary consideration, the following-
described tract of land in Macon County, Alabama : 
All of that land owned by the United States of America, and being 
a part of the reservation of the Veterans' Administration Hospital, 
Tuskegee, Alabama, lying west' of a line running from north to south 
through the center of section 23, township 17, range 23, Macon County, 
Alabama, containing one hundred acres, more or less, being all of the 
lands west of the aforesaid line conveyed to the United States of 
America by deed dated February 23, 1922, from the Tuskegee Normal 
and Industrial Institute, recorded among the land records of Macon 
County, Alabama, in volume 19 of deeds at page 404. 
SEC. 2. The conveyance shall contain such additional terms, reser-
vations, restrictions, and conditions as may be determined by the 
Administrator of Veteians" Affairs to be necessary to safeguard the 
interests of the United States, 
Approved ^ a y 25, 1951. 
May 25, 1951 
[H. R. 2686] 
Tuskegrie Institute. 
Conveyance.