ACTS OF COKGEESS. 269 



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

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

 imported for the sole purpose of exhibition at the Southern Exposition 

 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 sold in the United States, or withdrawn for consumption therein, at auy 

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

 Ijosed oil like articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of impor- 

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

 the provision of this act shall be withdrawn for consumption, or shall 

 be sold Avithout 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 int^^crip- 

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

 to be made to exhibitors thereat, be prepared at s. me mint of the United 

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

 the fifty-second section of the coinage act of eighteen hundred and 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 

 6ha\l apply to the medals struck and issued under this act. 



Sec. 3. That with the approval of the director of the National Mu- 

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

 Southern Exposition, permission to remove the same irom the ^National 

 Museum being herebj' granted: Provided, That said removal can be 

 made Avithout loss or expense to the Government. -And 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 appropriation act, March 3, 1883. 

 Statutes, xxtl, pp. 481, 482.) 



LOISDON FISHERY EXHIBITION. 



[No. 49.] JoiXT Resolution concerning an International Fishery Exhibition to be 

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



Whereas the Government of the United States has received official 



