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said Government exhibit, and for the employment of proper persons as 

 officers and assistants by the board of management created by this Act 

 and for their expenses, and for the maintenance of the building herein- 

 before provided for, and for other contingent expenses incidental to the 

 Government exhibit, to be approved b}" the chairman of the board of 

 management, or in the event of his absence or disability b}^ such other 

 officer as the board may designate, upon itemized accounts and vouch- 

 ers, there is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury 

 not otherwise appropriated, the sum of three hundred thousand dol- 

 lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be disbursed by the 

 board of management hereinbefore created, of which not exceeding 

 the sum of ten thousand dollars shall be expended for clerical service: 

 Provided^ That no liability against the Government shall l)e incurred 

 and no expenditure of money under this Act shall be made until the 

 officers of said exposition" shall have furnished the Secretar}^ of the 

 Treasuiy proofs to his satisfaction that there has been obtained ))y 

 said exposition corporation subscriptions of stock in good faith, con- 

 tributions, donations, or appropriations from all sources for the pur- 

 pose of said exposition, a sum aggregating not less than five hundred 

 thousand dollars, nor until the State of Ohio shall by legislative 

 enactment have appropriated a sum of money equal to that herein 

 appropriated. 



Sec. tt. That all articles which shall be imported from foreign coun- 

 tries for the sole purpose of exhibition at said exposition upon which 

 there shall be a tariff or customs duty shall be admitted free of pay- 

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

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

 time during the exhi])ition to sell, for delivery at the close of the expo- 

 sition, anj" goods or property imported for and actuall}^ on exhibition 

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

 tions 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 all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United 

 States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles 

 by the revenue laws in force at the date of iniportation, and all penal- 

 ties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against such arti- 

 cles and against the persons who may be guilty of any ill(\gal sale or 

 withdrawal: Andjjroinded further^ That all necessary expenses incurred 

 in carrying out the provisions of this section, including salaries of 

 customs officials in charge of imported articles, shall be paid to the 

 Treasury of the United States by the Ohio Centennial Company, under 

 regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury. 



Sec. 5. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscrip- 

 tions commemorative of said Ohio Centennial and Northwest Territory 

 Exposition and of the awards to be niade to exhibitors thereat be pre- 



