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customs duty, shall he adniitteil free of payment of duty, customs fees, or cliarges 

 under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall 

 be lawful at any time during the exhibition to sell for delivei'y at the close of the 

 exposition any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the 

 exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regulations for the security 

 of the revenue and for the collection of the 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 Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That all such articles when sold or withdrawn 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 dutj', if any, imposed 

 upon such articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, and all 

 penalties prescribed by law shall he applied and enforced against such articles, and 

 against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal. 



Sec. 12. That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be 

 necessary, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the 

 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the remainder of the present fiscal year 

 and for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, to 

 be exi>euded under the direction of the Secretary of tlie Treasury for purposes con- 

 nected with the admission of foreign goods to said ex\iibition. 



Sec. 13. That it shall be the duty of the commission to make report from time to 

 time, to the President of the Ignited States of the progress of the work, and, in a 

 final report, present a full exhibit of the results of the exposition. 



Sec. 14. That the commission herel)y authorized shall exist no longer than until 

 the first daj' of Januarj^, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. 



Sec. 15. That the United States shall not in any manner, nor under any circum- 

 stances, be liable for any of the acts, doings, proceedings or representations of the 

 said corporation organized under the laws of the State of Illinois, its ofticers, 

 agents, servants, or employes, or any of them, or for the service, salaries, labor, or 

 wages of said officers, agents, servants, or employes, or any of them, or for anj' sub- 

 scriptions to the capital stock, or for any certificates of stock, bonds, mortgages, or 

 obligations of any kind issued by said corporation or for any debts, liabilities, or 

 expenses of any kind whatever attending such corporation or accruing by reason of 

 the same. 



Sec. 16. That there shall be exhibited at said exposition by the Government of 

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

 the United States Fish Commission, and the National Museum, such articles and 

 materials as illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government 

 in time of peace and its resources as a war power, tending to demonstrate the 

 nature of our institutions and their adaptation to the wants of the people; and to 

 secure a complete and harmonious arrangement of such a Government exhibit, a 

 board shall be created to be charged with the selection, preparation, arrangement, 

 safe-keeping, ^nd exhibition of such articles and materials as the heads of the sev- 

 eral Departments and the directors of the Smithsonian Institution and National 

 Museum may respectively decide shall be euibraced in said Government exhibit. 

 The President may also desiguate additional articles for exhi1)ition. Such board 

 shall be composed of one person to be named by the head of each Executive Depart- 

 ment, and one by the directors of the Smithsonian Institution and National 

 Museum, and one by the Fish Commission, such selections to be approved by the 

 President of the United States. The .President shall name the chairman of said 

 board, and the board itself shall select such other officers as it may deem necessary. 



That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to place on 

 exhibition, upon such grounds as shall be allotted for the purpose, one of the life- 

 saving stations authorized to be constructed on the coast of the United States by 

 existing law, and to cause the same to be fully equipped with all apparatus, furni- 

 ture, and appliances now in use in all life-saving stations in the I'nited States, said 

 building and apparatus to be removed at the close of the exhibition and re-erected 

 at the place now authorized by law. 



