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tion of the same, setting forth the time at which the exhibition will 

 open, and the place at which it will be held, and such board of man- 

 agement shall communicate to the diplomatic representatives of all 

 nations copies of the same and a copy of this act, together with such 

 regulations as may be adopted by said board of management, for 

 publication in their respective countries. 



Sec. 9. That the President be requested to send, in the name of the 

 United States, invitations to the governments of other nations to be 

 represented and take part in said World^s Industrial and Cotton Cen- 

 tennial Exposition, to be held in some city of the United States to be 

 hereafter selected as aforesaid. 



Sec. 10. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscrip- 

 tions, commemorative of said World's Industrial and Cotton Centen- 

 nial Exposition and of the awards to be made to exhibitors thereat, be 

 prepared at some mint of the United States for the said board of man- 

 agement, subject to the provisions of the fiftj-second section of the 

 coinage act of 1873, upon the pa3'ment of a sum not less than the cost 

 thereof; and all the provisions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coin- 

 age act against the counterfeiting or imitating of coins of the United 

 States shall apply to the medals struck and issued under this act. 



Sec. 11. That all articles which shall be imported for the sole pur- 

 pose of exhibition at the said World's Industrial and Cotton Centen- 

 nial Exposition, to be held in the year 188-1, shall be admitted without 

 the payment of duty or of customs fees or charges, under such regu- 

 lations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided^ 

 That all such articles as shall be sold in the United States or with- 

 drawn for consumption therein at any time after such importation 

 shall be subject to the duties, if any are imposed on like articles by 

 the revenue laws in force at the date of importation: And ly^'ovided 

 further^ That in case an}' articles imported under the provisions of 

 this act shall be withdrawn for consumption, or shall be sold without 

 pa3"ment of duty as required b}' law, all penalties prescribed by the 

 revenue laws shall be applied and enforced against such articles and 

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



(Stat., XXII, 413.) 

 September 10, 1883. 

 Proclamation. 



Whereas b}' the eighth section of an act entitled "An act to encour- 

 age the holding of a World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposi- 

 tion in the year 1884," approved February 10, 1883, it was enacted as 

 follows: 



"That whenever the President shall be informed by the said board 

 of management that provision has been made for suitable buildings, or 

 the erection of the same, for the purposes of said exhibition, the Presi- 

 dent shall, through the Department of State, make proclamation of the 

 same, setting forth the time at which the exhibition will open, and the 



