Volume 49 · 665
Public Law 74–578
To amend an act entitled “An Act providing for the ratification of Joint Resolution Numbered 59 of the Legislature of Puerto Rico, approved by the Governor May 5, 1930, imposing an import duty on coffee imported into Puerto Rico”, approved June 18, 1934.
Approved August 20, 1935
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To amend an act entitled “An Act providing for the ratification of Joint Resolution Numbered 59 of the Legislature of Puerto Rico, approved by the Governor May 5, 1930, imposing an import duty on coffee imported into Puerto Rico”, approved June 18, 1934.
Puerto Rico.
Preamble.
Whereas in enacting the Act approved June 18, 1934, ratifying the taxes and duties imposed by Joint Resolution Numbered 59 enacted by the Legislature of Puerto Rico, and approved by the Governor of Puerto Rico May 5, 1930, the Congress understood and intended in ratifying such Joint Resolution Numbered 59 of the Legislature of Puerto Rico that the “import duty” thereby and by subsequent acts of the Legislature of Puerto Rico “levied on all coffee imported into Puerto Rico” included and was intended to be levied upon all coffee brought into Puerto Rico whether from a foreign country or from any State, Territory, district, or possession of the United States, or other place subject to its jurisdiction: Therefore be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the Act of
Legislative resolution imposing import duty on coffee.
Vol. 46, p. 696; U. S. C., p. 873.
Vol. 48, p. 1017.
Congress entitled “An Act providing for the ratification of Joint Resolution Numbered 59 of the Legislature of Puerto Rico, approved by the Governor May 5, 1930, imposing an import duty on coffee imported into Puerto Rico”, approved June 18, 1934, be, and it is hereby, amended so as to read as follows:
“That the taxes and duties imposed by the Legislature of Puerto
Taxes and duties imposed under, legalized and ratified.
Rico by Joint Resolution Numbered 59 approved by the Governor of Puerto Rico May 5, 1930, and by Act Numbered 77 approved by the Governor of Puerto Rico May 5, 1931, as amended by Act Numbered 7 approved by the Governor April 9, 1934, including therein such taxes and duties on coffee heretofore or hereafter brought into Puerto Rico from any State or Territory or district or possession of the United States, or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, are legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such taxes and duties made under or by authority of either of said acts of the Puerto Rican Legislature, including such taxes and duties on coffee heretofore or hereafter brought into Puerto Rico from any State, Territory, district, or possession of the United States, or other place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, is legalized, ratified, and confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had, by prior Act of Congress, been specifically authorized and directed.”
Approved, August 20, 1935.