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Public Law 84–170
To amend the Act of August 24, 1912, to simplify the procedures governing the mailings of certain publications of churches and church organizations.
Approved July 26, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To amend the Act of August 24, 1912, to simplify the procedures governing the mailings of certain publications of churches and church organizations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the ninth paragraph under the heading “office of the third assistant postmaster general” contained in the first section of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes”, approved August 24, 1912 (39 U. S. C., sec. 229), is amended—
by inserting “or by a church or church organization,” immediately after “or by a regularly established State institution of learning supported in whole or in part by public taxation,”;
by inserting “or by churches and church organizations,” immediately after “and such periodical publications, issued by or under the auspices of benevolent or fraternal societies or orders or trades unions, or by strictly professional, literary, historical, or scientific societies,”;
by inserting “churches and church organizations,” immediately after “whether such matter pertains to such benevolent or fraternal societies or orders, trades unions, strictly professional, literary, historical, or scientific societies,”;
by inserting “churches and church organizations,” immediately after “to further the objects and purposes of such benevolent or fraternal societies or orders, trades unions,”; and
by inserting “or by churches and church organizations” immediately after “circulation through the mails of periodical publications issued by, or under the auspices of, benevolent or fraternal societies or orders, or trades unions, or by strictly professional, literary, historical, or scientific societies,”.
Sec. 2,
The amendments made by the first section of this Act shall
Effective date.
take effect on the first day of the second calendar month following the date of enactment of this Act.
Approved July 26, 1955.