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years at the date of importation, and all hydropgraphic charts, and 

 publications issued for their subscribers or exchanges, by scientific 

 and literary associations or academies, or publications of individuals 

 for gratuitous private circulation, and public documents issued by 

 foreign governments; ALSO, books, maps, music, photographs, 

 etchings, lithographic prints, and charts specially imported not more 

 than two copies in any one invoice, in good faith for the use and by 

 order of any society or institution incorporated or established solely 

 for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, 

 or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and by order 

 of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United 

 States, or any State or Public Library; ALSO, philosophical and 

 scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments, and preparations including 

 bottles and boxes containing the same, specially imported in good faith 

 for the use and by order of any society or institution incorporated 

 or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, 

 or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for 

 the use and by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of 

 learning in the L'nited States, or any State or Public Library; ALSO, 

 works of art, drawings, engravings, photographic pictures, and philo- 

 sophical and scientific apparatus, for use temporarily for exhibition 

 and in illustration, promotion and encouragement of art, science, or 

 industry in the United States ; ALSO, works of art, collections in illus- 

 tration of the progress of the arts, sciences, or manufactures, photo- 

 graphs, works in terra cotta, parian, pottery, or porcelain, antiquities 

 and artistic copies thereof in metal or other material, imported in 

 good faith for exhibition at a fixed place by any State or by any Society 

 or institution established for the encouragement of the arts, science, 

 or education, or for a municipal corporation, and all like articles im- 

 ported in good faith by any society or association, or for a municipal 

 corporation, for the purpose of erecting a public monument. Any 

 ancl all of the above imported in good faith only for the purposes 

 mentioned and not for sale, shall be admitted free of duty upon oath 

 from an authorized officer of the society, institution, college, academy, 

 school, seminary of learning, corporation, association, and without 

 bond, under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the 

 Treasury: PROVIDED, that the privileges of this and the preceding 

 section shall not be allowed to associations or corporations engaged 

 in or connected with business of a private or commercial character. 



