Volume 68
Public Law 83–469
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to further extend certain charters of vessels to citizens of the Philippines, and for other purposes.
Approved July 1, 1954
Statutory text
JOINT RESOLUTION
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to further extend certain charters of vessels to citizens of the Philippines, and for other purposes.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That, notwithstanding any other provisions of existing law, the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to extend and continue the present charters of vessels to citizens of the Republic of the Philippines, which charters were made and entered into under the terms of section 306 (a) of the Act of April 30, 1946
(Public Law 370, Seventy-ninth Congress), and which charters were extended by the Secretary of Commerce under the terms of a joint
resolution, approved June 30, 1953 (Public Law 87, Eighty-third Congress). Such charters may be further extended for such periods of time and under such terms and conditions as the Secretary may, from time to time, determine to be required in the interest of the economy of the Philippines, but any such charter shall contain a provision requiring that the vessel shall be operated only in the inter-island commerce in the Philippines. No such vessel shall be continued under charter, as authorized herein, beyond the completion of the first voyage terminating after June 30, 1955.
Approved July 1, 1954.