Volume 67
Public Law 83–169
To continue in effect certain provisions of section 6 of the Act of February 4, 1887, as amended, relating to military traffic in time of war or threatened war, for the duration of the national emergency proclaimed December 16, 1950, and six months thereafter, or until such earlier date as may be established by concurrent resolution of Congress.
Approved July 31, 1953
Statutory text
AN ACT
To continue in effect certain provisions of section 6 of the Act of February 4, 1887, as amended, relating to military traffic in time of war or threatened war, for the duration of the national emergency proclaimed December 16, 1950, and six months thereafter, or until such earlier date as may be established by concurrent resolution of Congress.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the provisions of the eighth paragraph (designated “Military traffic in time of war”) of section 6 of the Act of February 4, 1887 (ch. 104, 24 Stat. 380), as that section was amended by section 2 of the Act of June 29, 1906 (ch. 3591, 34 Stat. 586), as mended, and as extended by section 1 (a) (24), Emergency Powers Continuation Act (Public Law 450,
64 Stat. A454.
50 USC app. note prec. 1.
Eighty-second Congress) shall remain in full force arid effect until six months after the termination of the national emergency proclaimed by the President on December 16, 1950 (Proclamation 2914, 3 C. F. R. 71), or until such earlier date as the Congress by concurrent resolution declares that it is no longer necessary to exercise the powers continued in force and effect by this Act, notwithstanding any limitation by reference to war or threatened war of the time during which the powers and authorization therein granted exercised.
Approved July 31, 1953.