CUSTOMS

(T. D. 53993)

Foreign currencies-Rates of exchange

Rates of exchange certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Federal

Reserve Bank of New York

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

OFFICE OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS,

Washington, D. C., January 3, 1956.

To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned:

The appended table of the values of certain foreign currencies as certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under the provisions of section 522 (c), Tariff Act of 1930, during the period from December 23 to 29, 1955, inclusive, is published for the information of collectors of customs and others concerned. (342.211)

C. A. EMERICK,

Acting Assistant Commissioner of Customs.

Values of foreign currencies certified to the Secretary of the Treasury by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York under provisions of section 522 (c), Tariff Act of 1930

PERIOD DECEMBER 23 TO 29, 1955, INCLUSIVE

(T. D. 53994)

Ports of entry-Customs Regulations amended

Extension of limits of various Customs Ports of Entry. Section 1.1 (c), Customs Regulations, amended

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., December 28, 1955.

To Collectors of Customs and Others Concerned:

TITLE 19-CUSTOMS DUTIES

CHAPTER I-BUREAU OF CUSTOMS

PART 1-CUSTOMS DISTRICTS AND PORTS

By virtue of the authority vested in the President by section 1 of the act of August 1, 1914, 38 Stat. 623 (19 U. S. C. 2), and delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury by the President by Executive Order No. 10289, September 17, 1951 (3 CFR, 1951 Supp., Ch. II), the limits of the customs ports of entry of Charleston, South Carolina, Key West, Florida, and St. Petersburg, Florida, are hereby extended to include the additional territory described herein, effective upon the date of publication of this Treasury Decision in the Federal Register:

1. The limits of the customs port of entry of Charleston, South Carolina, the headquarters port of Customs Collection District No. 16 (South Carolina), are redefined to include: (1) the territory within the corporate limits of the city of Charleston; (2) all points in Charleston Harbor; and (3) all points on the Ashley and Cooper Rivers, and their tributaries, and all the territory lying between those rivers, and the Cooper and Wando Rivers, in Charleston, Dorchester, and Berkely Counties, State of South Carolina, bounded on the north by Ashley Phosphate Road, Southern Railway right-of-way, Goose Creek, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad right-of-way, State Highway No. 9, and the Seaboard Airline Railway right-of-way, and bounded on the east by the West Branch of the Cooper River, East Branch of the Cooper River, French Quarter Creek, Clements Ferry Road, and the Wando River. Executive Order No. 8335, January 31, 1940 (5 F. R. 429), is modified accordingly.

2. The limits of the customs port of entry of Key West, Florida, in Customs Collection District No. 18 (Florida), comprising the territory within the corporate limits of that city, are extended to include the territory embracing Stock Island, Monroe County, State of Florida.

3. The limits of the customs port of entry of St. Petersburg, Florida, in Customs Collection District No. 18 (Florida), comprising the territory within the corporate limits of that city, are extended to include the territory lying between Roosevelt Boulevard and Old Tampa Bay (in which the Pinellas County Airport is located), and the territory lying between Gandy Boulevard and Old Tampa Bay, Pinellas County, State of Florida.