ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS <»F CONGRESS. LXIII 



commission, subject, however, to the approval of said company. Said 

 board of lady managers may, in the discretion of said commission and 

 corporation, appoint one member of all committees authorized to 

 award prizes for such exhibits as may have been produced in whole or 

 in part by female labor. 



Sec. 7. That after the plans for said exposition shall be prepared 

 by said company and approved by said commission the rules and regu- 

 lations of said corporation governing rates for entrance and admission 

 fees or otherwise affecting the rights, privileges, or interests of the 

 exhibitors, or of the public, shall be fixed or established by said com- 

 pany, subject, however, to the modification or approval of said com- 

 mission. 



Sec. 8. That said commission shall provide for the dedication of 

 the building-.s of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, in said city of Saint 

 Louis, not later than the thirtieth day of April, nineteen hundred and 

 three, with appropriate ceremonies, and thereafter said exposition 

 shall be opened to visitors at such time as may be designated by said 

 company, subject to the approval of said commission, not later than 

 the first day of May. nineteen hundred and three, and shall be closed 

 at such time as the national commission may determine, subject to the 

 approval of said company, but not later than the first day of December 

 thereafter. 



Sec. 9. That whenever the President of the United States shall be 

 notified by the national commission that provision has been made for 

 grounds and buildings for the uses herein provided for, he shall be 

 authorized to make proclamation of the same, through the Depart- 

 ment of State, setting forth the time at which said exposition will be 

 held, and the purpose thereof; and he shall communicate to the diplo- 

 matic representatives of foreign nations copies thereof, together with 

 such regulations as may be adopted by the commission, for publication 

 in their respective countries; and he shall, in behalf of the Govern- 

 ment and the people, invite foreign nations to take part in the said 

 exposition and to appoint representatives thereto. 



Sec. 10. That all articles which 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 be admitted free of 

 payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations 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 and actually on exhibition 

 in the exposition buildings or on the grounds, subject to such regula- 

 tions for the securit}' 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 



