72d CONGRESS. SESS. I. CHS. 507-509. JULY 19,1932.
the purchase of other desirable and unacquired land within the park 
boundaries in Tennessee, or, if deemed more advantageous, may be 
exchanged for such unacquired lands within the park area.
Approved, July 19, 1932.
[CHAPTER 508.]
AN ACT
To extend the provisions of the National Bank Act to the Virgin Islands of the 
United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembledThat the National 
Bank Act, as amended, and all other Acts of Congress relating to 
national banks, shall, in so far as not locally inapplicable hereafter, 
apply to the Virgin Islands of the United States.
Approved, July 19, 1932.
[CHAPTER 509.]
AN ACT
To protect the copyrights and patents of foreign exhibitors at A Century of 
Progress (Chicago World’s Fair Centennial Celebration), to be held at Chicago. 
Illinois, in 1933.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the Librarian 
of Congress and the Commissioner of Patents are hereby authorized 
and directed to establish branch offices under the direction of the 
Register of Copyrights and the Commissioner of Patents, respec-
tively, in suitable quarters on the grounds of the exposition to be 
held at Chicago, Illinois, under the direction of A Century of 
Progress, an Illinois corporation, said quarters to be furnished free 
of charge by said corporation, said offices to be established at such 
time as may, upon sixty days’ advance notice, in writing, to the 
Register of Copyrights and the Commissioner of Patents, respec-
tively, be requested by said A Century of Progress but not earlier 
than January 1, 1933, and to be maintained until the close to the 
general public of said exposition; and the proprietor of any foreign 
copyright, or any certificate of trade-mark registration, or letters 
patent of invention, design, or utility model issued by any foreign 
government protecting any trade-mark, apparatus, device, machine, 
process, method, composition of matter, design, or manufactured 
article imported for exhibition and exhibited at said exposition may 
upon presentation of proof of such proprietorship, satisfactory to 
the Register of Copyrights or the Commissioner of Patents, as the 
case may be, obtain without charge and without prior examination 
as to novelty, a certificate from such branch office, which shall be 
prima facie evidence in the Federal courts of such proprietorship, 
the novelty of the subject matter covered by any such certificate to 
be determined by a Federal court in case an action or suit is brought 
based thereon; and said branch offices shall keep registers of all such 
certificates issued by them, which shall be open to public inspection.
At the close of said A Century of Progress Exposition the register 
of certificates of the copyright registrations aforesaid shall be 
deposited in the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress at 
Washington, District of Columbia, and the register of all other 
certificates of registration aforesaid shall be deposited in the United 
States Patent Office at Washington, District of Columbia, and there
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July 19, 1932. 
[S. 4574.]
[Public, No. 293.]
National Bank Ac
Vol. 13, p. 99; Vol. 1 
p. 123.
U. S. C., p. 258.
Provisions of, e 
tended to Virgin 1 
lands.
July 19, 1932.
[S. 4912.]
[Public, No. 294.]
Chicago World’s Fa 
Centennial Celebri 
tion.
Copyrights and pa 
ents of foreign exhit 
tors.
Branch offices t 
Exposition authorize!
Certificates of pr< 
prietorship to be issuec
Registers to be kepi
Deposit, at close c 
exposition.