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[68 Stat. 200]
PRIVATE LAW 000—MMMM. DD, 1954
[68 Stat. 200]

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PRIVATE LAW 783-AUG. 24, 1954

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vided, That this exemption shall apply only to a ground for exclusion of which the Department of State or the Department of Justice had knowledge prior to the enactment of this Act. Approved August 24, 1954. Private Law 783 August 24, 1954 [H. R. 8239]

Fung Ping Wah and wife. 66 Stat. 163. 8 USC 1101 note.

Quota deductions.

AN ACT For the relief of Fung Ping Wah (also known as Reginald Ping Wah Fung) and his wife, Fung Wai-Yin Li (also known as Doris Fung).

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, for the purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Fung Ping Wah (also known as Reginald Ping Wah Fung) and his wife, F u n g Wai-Yin Li (also known as Doris F u n g), shall be held and considered to have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence as of the date of the enactment of this Act, upon payment of the required visa fees. Upon the granting of permanent residence to such aliens as provided for in this Act, the Secretary of State shall instruct the proper quota-control officer to deduct the required numbers from the appropriate quota or quotas for the first year that such quota or quotas are available. Approved August 24, 1954. Private Law 784

August 24, 1954 [H. R. 8501]

A m e r i c u s and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce, Ga. Conveyance.

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CHAPTER 931

AN ACT To provide for the conveyance of certain land in Sumter County, Georgia, to the Americus and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Administrator of General Services is hereby authorized and directed to convey to the Americus and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce, a corporation, all right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the land described in section 2 in consideration of $1. The Americus and Sumter County Chamber of Commerce paid the owner of said land the reasonable value thereof in 1947, in return for the owner transferring said lands to the United States in consideration of $1, the intent of said Chamber of Commerce being that said land be donated to the United States for the construction thereon of a Veterans' Administration hospital. Such hospital has not been constructed, and said land has been declared surplus by the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs. SEC. 2. The land referred to in the first section of this Act is the land transferred to the United States on August 29, 1947, by a deed recorded in deed book numbered 36, pages 39-41, on August 29, 1947, in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Sumter County, Georgia. Said land is described in such deed as follows: All that certain tract or parcel of land situate, lying and being in land lot numbered 125 in the Twenty-seventh District of Sumter County, Georgia, and lying partly within the city limits of the city of Americus, said county, and more particularly described as follows: Beginning at the northeast corner of the intersection of United States Highway Numbered 19 and Lester Avenue, thence east along the north boundary of Lester Avenue eight hundred and thirty feet