Joint resolution to permit articles imported from foreign countries for the purpose of exhibition at the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes
PL 83-481 (H.J.Res.256), enacted 07/10/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 481-JULY 10, 1954 
[68 ST A T . 
July 10, 1954 
[H. J. Res 256] 
Public Law 481 
CHAPTER 470 
JOINT RESOLUTION 
To permit articles imported from foreign countries for tlie purpose of exhibition 
at the First International Instrument Congress and Exposition, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, to be admitted without payment of tariff, and for other purposes-
First 
I n t e r n a -
tional I n s t rument 
Congress and Ei^ 
position, Philadel-
phia, Pa. 
Free entry of ex-
hibits. 
Sale, etc. 
Marking require-
lents. 
Abandoned arti-
cles, etc. 
Transfers. 
In s t r u ment So-
ciety of America. 
Payment of cus-
toms charges, etc. 
Resolved hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the United 
States of America in Congress assembled, That any article which is 
imported from a foreign country for the purpose of exhibition at the 
First International Instrument Congress and Exposition, to be held at 
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from September 13 to September 25,1954, 
inclusive, by the Instrument Society of America, a corporation, or for 
use in constructing, installing, or maintaining foreign exhibits at such 
exposition, upon which there is a tariff or customs duty, shall be admit-
ted without payment of such tariff or customs duty or any fees or 
charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
prescribe. 
SEC. 2. It shall be lawful at any time during or within three months 
after the close of such exposition to sell within the area of the exposi-
tion any articles provided for herein, subject to such regulations for 
the security of the revenue and for the collection of import duties as 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe. All such articles, when 
withdrawn for consumption or use in the United States, shall be subject 
to the duties, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue laws 
in force at the date of their withdrawal; and on such articles which 
shall have suffered diminution or deterioration from incidental han-
dling or exposure, the duties, if payable, shall be assessed according to 
the appraised value at the time of withdrawal from entry hereunder 
for consumption or entry under the general tariff law. 
SEC. 3. Imported articles provided for herein shall not be subject 
to any marking requirements of the general tariff laws, except when 
such articles are withdrawn for consumption or use in the United 
States, in which case they shall not be released from customs custody 
until properly marked, but no additional duty shall be assessed because 
such articles were not sufficiently marked when imported into the 
United States. 
SEC. 4. At any time within three months after the close of the 
exposition, any article entered hereunder may be abandoned to the 
United States or destroyed under customs supervision, whereupon 
any duties on such article shall be remitted. 
SEC. 5. Articles which have been admitted without payment of duty 
for exhibition under any tariff law and which have remained in con-
tinuous customs custody or under a customs exhibition bond and 
imported articles in bonded warehouses under the general tariff law 
may be accorded the privilege of transfer to and entry for exhibition 
at such exposition, under such regulations as the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall prescribe. 
SEC. 6. The Instrument Society of America, a corporation, shall be 
deemed, for customs purposes only, to be the sole consignee of all 
merchandise imported under the provisions of this Act. The actual 
and necessary customs charges for labor, services, and other expenses in 
connection with the entry, examination, appraisement, release, or cus-
tody, together with the necessary charge for salaries of customs officers 
and employees in connection with the supervision, custody of, and 
accounting for, articles imported under the provisions of this Act, shall 
be reimbursed by the Instrument Society of America, a corporation, 
to the United States, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury. Receipts from such reimbursements shall be 
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deposited as refunds to the appropriation from which paid, in the 
manner provided for in section 524 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended (19 U. S. C , sec. 1524). 
Approved July 10, 1954. 
52 Stat. 1087. 
Public Law 482 
CHAPTER 471 
AN ACT 
Tuly 12 1954 
To amend the hospital survey and construction provisions of the Public Health 
[H. R. &149] 
Service Act to provide assistance to the States for surveying the need for 
diagnostic or treatment centers, for hospitals for the chronically ill and 
impaired, for rehabilitation facilities, and for nursing homes, and to provide 
assistance in the construction of such facilities through grants to public and 
nonprofit agencies, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That this Act may ti^^sif^ey^and 
be cited as the "Medical Facilities Survey and Construction Act of construction Act 
1954". 
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SEC. 2. Title VI of the Public Health Service Act is amended bv 
l%u&c->V\ty^Q^r. 
adding immediately after part D thereof the following new parts: 
"PART E—DECLARATION OF PURPOSE W I T H RESPECT TO DIAGNOSTIC OR 
TREAT3IENT CENTERS, CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITALS, 
REHABILITATION 
FACILITIES, AND NURSING HOMES 
SEC. 641. The purpose of parts F and G of this title is— 
"(a) to assist the several States (1) to inventory their existing 
diagnostic or treatment centers, hospitals for the chronically ill 
and impaired, rehabilitation facilities, and nursing homes, (2) 
to survey the need for the construction of facilities of the types 
referred to in clause (1), and (3) to develop programs for the 
construction of such public and other nonprofit facilities of the 
types referred to in clause (1) as will, in conjunction with existing 
facilities, afford the necessary physical facilities for furnishing 
to all their people adequate services of the kinds which may be 
supplied by facilities of the types referred to in clause (1); and 
"(b) to assist in the construction, in accordance with such pro-
grams, of public and other nonprofit facilities of the types 
referred to in subsection (a). 
"PART F—SURVEYS AND PLANNING W I T H RESPECT TO DIAGNOSTIC OR 
TREATMENT CENTERS, CHRONIC DISEASE HOSPITALS, 
REHABILITATION 
FACILITIES, AND NURSING HOMES 
(( 
AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATION 
"SEC. 646. In order to assist the States in carrying out the purposes 
of section 641 (a) there is hereby authorized to be appropriated the 
sum of $2,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
The sums ap-
propriated under this section shall be used for making payments to 
States which have submitted, and had approved by the Surgeon Gen-
eral, State applications for funds for carrying out such purposes. 
(( 
STATE APPLICATIONS 
"SEC. 647. The Surgeon General shall approve a State application 
for funds for carrying out the purposes of section 641 (a) which— 
"(1) designates as the sole agency for carrying out such pur-
poses, or for supervising the carrying out of sucn purposes, the 
State agency designated in accordance with section 623 (a) (1); 
^2 use 29if.