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or wages of said officers, agents, servants, or employees, or any of tlieui, 

 or for any subscriptions to tlie capital stock, or for any certiticates of 

 stock, bonds, mortgages, or obligations of any kind issued by said cor- 

 poration, or for any debts, liabilities, or expenses incidental to the 

 exposition : Frovided, hoicevcr, Tliat all articles wliicli shall be imported 

 from foreign countries for the sole puri)ose of exhibition at said exposi- 

 tion, uj)on which there shall be a tarifl" or customs duty, shall be admit- 

 ted free 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 of the ex]30- 

 sition, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition, 

 in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regulation 

 for the security of the revenue and for the collection of the import duties 

 as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; and all such articles, 

 when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States, shall be 

 subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such article by the revenue 

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

 law shall be applied and enforced against such articles and against 

 the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal: And 

 provided fiirihey, That medals, with appropriate devices, emblems, and 

 inscriptions commemorative of said Cotton States and International 

 Exposition, and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be pre- 

 pared at some mint of the United States for the board of directors 

 thereof, subject to the provisions of the tifty-second section of the coin- 

 age act of eighteen hundred and seventy-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 thie United States shall apply to the medals struck and issued 

 under this section. 



For taking down the Government main building erected for the Gov- 

 ernment exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition and its transpor- 

 tation, or so much of the material thereof as nuiy be available, and its 

 reerection upon the site selected for the said Cotton States and Inter- 

 national Exposition, including the purchase of such new materials as 

 may be found necessary, fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as 

 maybe necessary, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Treasury: 

 Provided, That if it be found impracticable to take down, transport, 

 and reerect said building for the sum herein appropriated, then the 

 Secretary of the Treasury shall cause a new building to be erected 

 upon said site of the Cotton States and International Exposition for 

 the Government exhibit, at a cost not to exceed tifty thousand dollars, 

 for which i)urpose the amount herein appropriated is hereby made 

 available: Provided always, That the United States shall in no maimer, 

 and under no circumstances, be liable for any bond, debt, contract, 

 expenditure, expense, or liability of any kind Avhatever of the said 

 Cotton States and International Exposition, its officers, agents, serv- 

 ants, or employees, or incident to or growing out of said exposition, 

 nor for any amount whatever in excess of the one hundred and filty 

 thousand dollars and of the tifty thousand dollars herein authorized; 

 and the heads of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution and National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission, 

 and the board of management herein authorized, their officers, agents, 

 servants, or employees shall in no manner and under no circumstances 

 expend, or create any liability of any kind for, any sum in excess of the 

 appropriations herein made, or create any dehciency. (Sundry civil 

 appropriation act, approved August 18, 1894; Statutes at Large, vol. 

 28, p. 120.) 



