LIV ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF CONGRESS. 



granted by the Philadelphia Exposition Association of Pennsylvania 

 in connection with such exposition: Provided, JiOirercr, That no alien 

 shall l)y virtue of this Act enter the United States under contract to 

 perform labor except by express permission, naniino- .such alien, of 

 the Secretary of the Treasury; and any such alien who may remain in 

 the United States for more than three months after the close of the 

 exposition shall thereafter be subject to all the processes and penalties 

 applicable to aliens coming- in violation of the alien contract-labor law 

 aforesaid. 



(Approved, March 1, 1899. Statutes, XXX, 1390.) 



PAN-AMERICAX EXPOSITION. 



AN ACT to encourage the holding of a Paii-AineriLan Exposition on the Niagara 

 frontier, within the county of Erie or Niagara, in the State of New York, in the 

 year nineteen liundred and one. 



AVhereas it is desirable to encourage the holding of a Pan-Ameri- 

 can Exposition on the Niagara frontier, within the county of Erie or 

 Niagara, in the State of New York, in the year nineteen hundred and 

 one, to fittingly illustrate the marvelous development of the Western 

 Hemisphere during the nineteenth century, by a display of the arts, 

 industries, manufactures, and products of the soil, mines, and sea; and 



Whereas the proposed Pan-American Exposition, being confined to 

 the AYestern Hemisphere, and being held in the near vicinity of the 

 great Niagara cataract, within a day's journey of which reside fort}^ 

 million people, would unquestionably be of vast benefit to the com- 

 mercial interests, not only of this country, but of the entire hemis- 

 phere, and should therefore have- the sanction of the Congress of the 

 United States; and 



Whereas satisfactory assurances have already' been given by the 

 diplomatic representatives of Canada, Mexico, the Central and South 

 American Republics, and most of the States of the United States that 

 these countries and States will make unique, interesting, and instruc- 

 tive exhibits peculiar Iv illustrative of their material progress during 

 the centur}^ about to close; and 



Whereas no exposition of a similar character as that proposed has 

 ever been held in the great State of New York; and 



Whereas the Pan-American Exposition Company has undertaken to 

 hold such e'xposition, beginning on the first da}' of May, nineteen 

 hundred and one, and closing on the first day of November, nineteen 

 hundred and one: Therefore, 



Be it enacted hy the Seriate and Souse of Representatives of the United 

 States of America in Congress assemhled, That all articles that 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 



