APPENDIX. 

 [Public— No. 184.] 



AN ACT to encourage the holding of a Pan-American Exposition on the Niagara frontier, within the 

 comity of Erie or Niagara, in the State of New York, in the year nineteen hundred and one. 



Whereas it is desirable to encourage the holding of a Pan-American Exposition on 

 the Niagara frontier, within the county of Erie or Niagara, in the State of New York, 

 in the year nineteen hundred and one, to fittingly illustrate the marvelous develop- 

 ment of the Western Hemisphere during the nineteenth century, by a display of the 

 arts, industries, manufactures, anil products of the soil, mines, and sea; and 



Whereas the proposed Pan-American Exposition, being confined to the Western 

 Hemisphere, and being held in the near vicinity of the great Niagara cataract, within 

 a day's journey of which reside forty million people, would unquestionably be of vast 

 benefit to the commercial interests, not only of this country, but of the entire hemi- 

 sphere, and should therefore have the sanction of the Congress of the United States; 

 and 



Whereas satisfactory assurances have already been given by the diplomatic repre- 

 sentatives of Canada, Mexico, the Central and South American Republics, and most 

 of the States of the United States that these countries and States will make unique, 

 interesting, and instructive exhibits peculiarly illustrative of their material progress 

 during the century aboul to close; and 



Whereas no exposition of a similar character as that proposed has ever been held 

 in the great State of New York; and 



Whereas the Pan-American Exposition Company has undertaken to hold such 

 exposition, beginning on the first day of May, nineteen hundred and one, and closing 

 on the first day of November, nineteen hundred and one: Therefore, 



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represi ntatives of the United Slates of America 

 in Congress assembled, That all articles that shall be imported from foreign countries 

 for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition upon which there shall be a 

 tariff or customs duty .shall he admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or 

 charges, under such regulation as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but 

 it shall be lawful at any time during the exposition to sell for delivery at the close 

 thereof any goods or property imported for or actually on exhibition in the exposi- 

 tion buildings, or on the grouuds, subject to such regulation for the security of the 

 revenue and for the collection of import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall 

 prescribe: Provided, That all such articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption 

 in the United States shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles 

 by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all penalties prescribed 

 by law shall be applied and enforced against the persons who may be guilty of any 

 illegal sale or withdrawal: And provided further, That all necessary expenses incurred 

 in carrying out the provisionsof this section including salaries of customs officials in 

 charge of imported articles, shall be paid to the Treasury of the United States by the 

 Pan-American Exposition Company, under regulations to be prescribed by the Sec- 

 retary of the Treasury. 



Sec. 2. That there shall be exhibited at said exposition by the < rovernment of the 

 United States, from its Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and 



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