An Act to amend the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to the importation of the feathers of wild birds, and for other purposes.
PL 82-580 (H.R.7594), enacted 07/17/1952

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SEC. 4. Miscellaneous revenues accruing pursuant to subsections I 
and J of section 4 of the Act of December 5, 1924, on behalf of those 
who have contracted with the United States pursuant to this Act shall 
be deposited in a special deposit account in the Treasury Department, 
and such revenues may be expended, as in such contracts provided, 
for the replacement of the project works operated and maintained by 
the United States and to supplement funds advanced by the water 
users to meet annual costs of operation and maintenance of such works. 
SEC. 5. This Act is declared to be a part of the Federal reclamation 
laws as these are defined in the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 
Stat. 1187). 
SEC. 6. No extension, enlargement, or addition of any hydroelectric 
plant, transmission line, or accompanying works on the Gering and 
Fort Laramie Irrigation District, the Goshen Irrigation District, the 
Pathfinder Irrigation District, or Northport Irrigation District shall 
be built or contracted for until such extension, enlargement, or addi-
tion have been authorized by Congress. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
Deposit of reve-
nues. 
43 u s e 485k. 
H y d r o e l e c trie 
plants, etc. 
Public Law 579 
CHAPTER 927 
AN ACT 
To extend the duration of the Water Pollution Control Act. 
July 17, 1952 
[H.R. 6856] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the words "each 
of the five fiscal years during the period beginning July 1, 1948, and 
ending June 30, 1953" where they occur in section 7 and subsections 
(a), (c), (d), and (e) of section 8 of the Water Pollution Control Act 
(Public Law 845, Eightieth Congress), are hereby amended to read 
"each of the eight fiscal years during the period beginning July 1,1948, 
and ending June 30, 1956". 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
62 Stat. 1159. 
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Public Law 580 
CHAPTER 928 
AN ACT 
To amend the Tariff Act of 1930 with respect to the importation of the feathers of 
wild birds, and for other purposes. 
July 17, 1952 
[H. R. 7594] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That paragraph 
1518 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U. S. C, sec. 1001, par. 1518) is 
hereby amended by inserting " ( a ) " after "1518."; and by striking 
out the two provisos at the end of the first subparagraph and all the 
second subparagraph, and inserting in lieu thereof the following new 
subparagraphs: 
"(b) Except as provided in subparagraphs (c) and (d), the im-
portation of the feathers or skin of any bird is hereby prohibited. 
Such prohibition shall apply to the feathers or skin of any bird— 
" (1) whether raw or processed ; 
" (2) whether the whole plumage or skin or any part of either-
"(3) whether or not attached to a whole bird or any part 
thereof; and 
" (4) whether or not forming part of another article. 
"(c) Subparagraph (b) shall not apply— 
T a r i f f A c t of 
1930, amendment. 
46 Stat. 661. 
I m p o r t a tion of 
feathers. 
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"(1) in respect of any of the following birds (other than any-
such bird which, whether or not raised in captivity, is a wild 
bird) : chickens (including hens and roosters), turkeys, guinea 
fowl, geese, ducks, pigeons, ostriches, rheas, English ring-necked 
pheasants, and pea fowl; 
" (2) to any importation for scientific or educational purposes; 
"(3) to the importation of fully-manufactured artificial flies 
used for fishing; 
; 
"(4) to the importation of birds which are classifiable under 
paragraph 1682; and 
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" (5) to the importation of live birds. 
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"(d) Notwithstanding subparagraph (b), there may be entered, or 
withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption in each calendar year 
the following quotas of skins bearing feathers: 
"(1) For use in the manufacture of artificial flies used for 
fishing: 
(A) not more than 5,000 skins of grey jungle fowl 
(Gallus sonneratii), and (B) not more than 1,000 skins of man-
darin duck (Dendronessa galericulata) ; and 
"(2) For use in the manufacture of artificial flies used for 
fishing, or for millinery purposes, not more than 45,000 skins, in 
the aggregate, of the following species of pheasant: Lady Amherst 
pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae), golden pheasant (Chrys-
olophus pictus), silver pheasant (Lophura nycthemera), Reeves 
pheasant (Syrmaticus reevesii), blue-eared pheasant (Crossop-
tilon auritum), and brown-eared pheasant (Crossoptilon man-
tchuricum). 
For the purposes of this subparagraph any part of a skin which has 
been severed shall be considered to be a whole skin. 
"(e) No article specified in subparagraph (d) shall be entered, 
or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption except under a permit 
issued by the Secretary of the Interior. The Secretary of the Interior 
' 
shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to carry out the 
purposes and provisions of subparagraph (d) (including regulations 
providing for equitable allocation among qualified applicants of the 
import quotas established by such subparagraph). 
Whenever the 
Secretary of the Interior finds that the wild supply of any species 
mentioned in subparagraph (d) is threatened with serious reduction 
or with extinction, he shall prescribe regulations which provide (to 
such extent and for such period as he deems necessary to meet such 
threat) — 
"(1) in the case of grey jungle fowl or mandarin duck, for the 
reduction of the applicable import quota; or 
; 
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"(2) in the case of any species of pheasant, for the reduction 
of the import quota established for pheasants, for the establish-
ment of a subquota for such species of pheasant, or for the 
elimination of such species from the import quota for pheasants, 
or any combination thereof. 
The authority granted to the Secretary of the Interior by the preced-
ing sentence to reduce any import quota shall include authority to 
eliminate such quota. 
"(f) Any article of a kind the importation of which is prohibited 
or subjected to a quota by subparagraphs (b), (c), and (d) and which 
is in the United States shall be presumed for the purposes of seizure 
and forfeiture to have been imported in violation of law and shall be 
seized and forfeited under the customs laws unless such presumption 
is satisfactorily rebutted; except that such presumption shall not 
apply to articles in actual use for personal adornment or for scientific 
or educational purposes. Any article so forfeited may (in the discre-
tion of the Secretary of the Treasury and under such regulations as 
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he may prescribe) (1) be placed with any agency of the Federal 
Government or of any State government, or any society or museum, 
for exhibition or scientific or educational purposes, or (2) be 
destroyed." 
SEC. 2. Such paragraph 1518 is further amended by striking out 
"That nothing in this Act" at the beginning of the third subparagraph 
thereof and inserting in lieu thereof " (g) Nothing in this Act". 
SEC. 3. Paragraph 1535 of such Act is hereby amended by striking 
out the proviso at the end thereof. 
SEC. 4. The amendments made by this Act shall take effect at the 
close of the thirtieth day after the day on which this Act is enacted. 
For the period beginning on the thirty-first day after the day on which 
this Act is enacted and ending on December 31,1952, the import quotas 
established by paragraph 1518 (d) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 
amended by this Act, shall be the import quotas specified in such 
paragraph 1518 (d) for a full calendar year. 
SEC. 5. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed 
to admit free of duty a certain carillon of twenty-three bells to be 
imported for The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina. 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
19 U S C 100 I 
par. 15 18. 
19 U S C 100 1 
par. 1535. 
T h e 
C i t a d e l , 
Charleston, S. C. 
Public Law 581 
CHAPTER 929 
AN ACT 
To provide for terms of court to be held at West Palm Beach, and at Fort Myers, 
in the southern district of Florida. 
Jvily 17, 1952 
[H. R. 948] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assenvbled, That the second 
sentence of section 89 (b) of title 28, United States Code, is hereby 
amended to read as follows: "Court for the southern district shall be 
held at Fernandina, Fort Myers, Fort Pierce, Jacksonville, Key West, 
Miami, Ocala, Orlando, Tampa, and West Palm Beach." 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
62 Stat. 876. 
Public Law 582 
CHAPTER 930 
AN ACT 
July 17, 1952 
To amend section 1498 of title 28, United States Code, so as to permit a joint 
[H.R. 3975] 
patentee to bring suit on a patent in the Court of Claims in certain cases 
where one or more of his copatentees is barred from doing so. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hou^e of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the fourth 
paragraph of section 1498 of title 28, United States Code, is amended 
by substituting the following therefor: 
"A Government employee shall have the right to bring suit against 
the Government under this section except where he was in a position 
to order, influence, or induce use of the invention by the Government. 
This section shall not confer a right of action on any patentee or any 
assignee of such patentee with respect to any invention discovered or 
invented by a person while in the employment or service of the United 
States, where the invention was related to the official functions of the 
employee, in cases in which such functions included research and 
development, or in the making of which Government time, materials 
or facilities were used.'* 
Approved July 17, 1952. 
Patent 
62 Stat 
Stat. 727 
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