Volume 68
Public Law 83–686
To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
Approved August 28, 1954
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for a temporary increase in the public debt limit.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on June 30, 1955, the public debt limit set forth in the first sentence of section 21 of the Second Liberty Bond Act, as amended, shall be temporarily
increased by $6,000,000,000.
Approved August 28, 1954.