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72d CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 274, 275. JUNE 23, 24, 1932. thence right along said one-minute curve a distance of one hundred and forty-nine and two-tenths feet; thence south fifty degrees five minutes east a distance of eight hundred and ninety and seven-tenths feet to a steel pin in the west boundary line of Patrick Sharkey’s property; thence along said west boundary line north thirty degrees fifty-two minutes east a distance of thirty feet to the point of be- ginning, and being a strip of land required for the sixty-foot right of way of the Leestown and Frankfort Road, as shown on map of said road by the Kentucky State Highway Department. Approved, June 23, 1932. [CHAPTER 275.] AN ACT To enable the collection of import duties on foreign-made goods entering the Virgin Islands through parcel-post mail. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 4 of an Act entitled “An Act to provide a temporary government for the West Indian Islands acquired by the United States from Denmark by the convention entered into between said countries on the 4th day of August, 1916, and ratified by the Senate of the United States on the 7th day of September, 1916, and for other purposes,” approved March 3,1917 (39 Stat. 1134; U. S. C., title 48, sec. 1395), as amended by the Act of February 25, 1927 (44 Stat. 1235; U. S. C., Supp. V, title 48, sec. 1395), be, and the same is hereby, amended to read as follows: “ Sec . 4. That until Congress shall otherwise provide all laws now imposing taxes in the said West Indian Islands, including the cus- toms laws and regulations, shall, in so far as compatible with the changed sovereignty and not otherwise herein provided, continue in force and effect, except that articles the growth, product, or manu- facture of the United States shall be admitted there free of duty: Provided, That upon exportation of sugar to any foreign country, or the shipment thereof to the United States or any of its possessions, there shall be levied, collected, and paid thereon an export duty of $6 per ton of two thousand pounds, irrespective of polariscope test, in lieu of any export tax now required by law: Provided further, That the internal revenue taxes levied by the Colonial Council of Saint Croix^ or by the Colonial Council of Saint Thomas and Saint John, in pursuance of the authority granted by this Act on articles, goods, wares, or merchandise may be levied and collected as the Colonial Council of Saint Croix, or as the Colonial Council of Saint Thomas and Saint John, may direct, on the articles subject to said tax, as soon as the same are manufactured, sold, used, or brought into the island: And provided further, That no discrimination be made between the articles imported from the United States or foreign countries and similar articles produced or manufactured in the municipality of Saint Croix, or in the municipalitv of Saint Thomas and Saint John, respectively. The officials of the Customs and Postal Services of the United States are hereby directed to assist the appro- priate officials of the municipality of Saint Croix, or of the munici- pality of Saint Thomas and Saint John, in the collection of these taxes.” Approved, June 24, 1932. 333 June 24, 1932. [S. 4367.] [Public, No. 193.] Virgin Islands. Collection of import duties. Vol. 39, p. 1133; Vol. 44, p. 1235, amended. U. S. C„ p. 1643; Supp. V, p. 690, amend- ed. Continuance of local tax laws. Articles of United States. Provisos. Export duty on sugar. Local levy of internal revenue taxes permit- ted. No discrimination against imports. United States cus- toms and postal serv- ices to assist.