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Public Law 83–499

To suspend for two years the duty on crude bauxite and on certain calcined bauxite and to remit the duty on certain bells to be imported for addition to the carillon of The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.

Approved July 15, 1954

Statutory text

AN ACT

To suspend for two years the duty on crude bauxite and on certain calcined bauxite and to remit the duty on certain bells to be imported for addition to the carillon of The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

That, effective only

Bauxite.

Suspension of duty.

with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption during the two-year period which begins on the day following the date of the enactment of this Act, no duty shall be imposed upon bauxite, crude, not refined or otherwise advanced in condition in any manner, or upon calcined bauxite when imported for use in the manufacture of firebrick or other refractories under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe.

Sec. 2.

The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to admit free of duty twenty-four bells imported for addition to the carillon possessed by The Citadel, an educational institution situated in Charleston, South Carolina.

Approved July 15, 1954.

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