ACTS OF CONGRESS. 269 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bepresentatiies of the United 

 States of America in Congress assembled, That all articles which shall be 

 imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at the Soutlieru Expositioa 

 at Louisville, Kentucky, to be held in the year eighteen hundred and 

 eighty-three, shall be admitted without the payment of duty, or of cus- 

 toms fees or charges, under such regulations as the Secretary of the 

 Treasury shall prescribe : Provided, That all such articles as shall be 

 sold in the United States, or withdrawn for consumption thereiu, at any 

 time after such importation, shall be subject to the duties, if any, im- 

 posed ou like articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of impor- 

 tation: And provided further, That in case any articles imported uuder 

 the provision of this act shall be withdrawn for consumption, or shall 

 be sold without payment of duty as required by law, all penalties pre- 

 scribed by the revenue laws shall be applied and enforced against 

 such articles, and against the persons who may be guilty of such with- 

 drawal or sale. 



Sec. 2. That medals, with appropriate device, emblems, and inscrip- 

 tions, commemorative of said Southern Exposition, aud of the awards 

 to be made to exhibitors thereat, be prep,ared at s me miut of the United 

 Slates, for the board of directors thereof, subject to the provisions of 

 the fifty-second section of the coinage act of eighteen hundred aud sev- 

 enty three, upon the payment of a sum not less than the cost thereof; 

 and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage act 

 against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States 

 shall apply to the medals struck aud issued under this act. 



Sec. 3. That with the approval of the director of the !N^ational Mu- 

 seum, any portion of the collections thereof may be exhibited at said 

 Southern Exposition, permission to remove the same from the JS^ational 

 Museum being hereby ^granted : Provided, That said removal can be 

 made without loss or expense to the Government. Aud upon the same 

 conditions permission is also granted for the exhibition of articles in 

 charge of other Bureaus and Departments of the Government. 



Sec. 4. That upon the passage cf this act the Secretary of State 

 shall notify the consuls, consular agents, and other representatives of 

 our Government in foreign countries of the time and place of holding 

 said Southern Exposition, together with the fact that all articles in- 

 tended therefor will be admitted free of duty, as provided herein. 



(Legislative, executive, and judicial approiiriation act, March 3, 1883. 

 Statutes, xxfl, pp. 481,482.) 



LONDON FISHERY EXHIBITION. 



[No. 49.] Joint Resolution concerning an International Fishery Exliibitiou to bo 

 held at London, iu May, eighteen hundred and eighty-three. 



Whereas the Goverumeut of the United States has received official 



