LII ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



ment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such reguhitions as the 

 Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any 

 time during the exhibition to sell, for delivery at the close thereof, any 

 goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exhi- 

 bition Ijuilding, or on the grounds, 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 arti- 

 cles when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States shall 

 be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles bv the reve- 

 nue laws in force at the date of importation; and all penalties pre- 

 scribed by the law shall be applied and enforced against the persons 

 who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal. 



Sec. 3. That for the purpose of enabling the collection in foreign 

 markets of samples of merchandise of the character in favor and 

 demand therein, of illustrating the manner in w^hich merchandise for 

 such markets should be prepared and packed, together with necessary 

 business data concerning said samples to be displayed at the said ex- 

 position for the instruction and benefit of American manufacturers 

 and merchants, and thereby laying the foundation of a great system 

 of national commercial education, there is hereb}' appropriated, out of 

 an}- money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the board 

 of trustees of the Philadelphia Museums the sum of fifty thousand 

 dollars: Proi'ided^ That this sum shall be expended only for the pur- 

 poses set forth in this sec'tion, and the samples of merchandise so col- 

 lected shall become the property of said Philadelphia Museums. The 

 Department of State is hereby dii-ected to cooperate in this work, 

 through the consular service of the United States, in such a manner as 

 may be agreed upon by conference between the Secretary of State and 

 the trustees and officers of the exposition association. 



Sec. 4. That to aid in providing buildings necessary for the purposes 

 of the exposition (said buildings to be erected on lands set aside by the 

 cit}^ of Philadelphia for the board of trustees of the Philadelphia 

 Museums, and after the close of the exposition to be available for one 

 or more of the various purposes of the Philadelphia Museums corpora- 

 tion, as set forth in its charter), and for the pui'pose of collecting, 

 installing, and caring for such an exhibit by the United States Govern- 

 ment as may be found expedient and desirable, there is herebj^ appro- 

 priated, out of any money not otherwise appropriated, to the said Phil- 

 adelphia Exposition Association the sum of three hundred thousand 

 dollars: Provided^ That no liability against the Government shall be 

 incurred, and no payments of money under this section shall be made, 

 until the officers of said exposition shall have furnished the Secretary 

 of the Treasury proofs to his satisfaction that there have been obtained 

 by said board of trustees of the Philadelphia Museums and said Phila- 

 delphia Exposition Association, in good faith, subscriptions, contril)u- 



