FORTY-FOURTH CONGRESS, 1875-1877. 745 



April 17, 1876. 



Be it enacted^ etc., That the sum of $40,000 be, and the same is 

 hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 

 appropriated, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of 

 the Treasury, for the purpose of examination and appraisement and 

 for the incidental expenses connected with the admission of foreign 

 goods to the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. 



(Stat, XIX, 34.) 



May 1, 1876. 



Deficiency act for 1876, etc. 



For the purpose of paying the expenses of transportation, care, and 

 custody, arranging and exhibiting, and safe return of articles belong- 

 ing to the United States, to be presented and exhibited in the United 

 States building at the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia, during 

 the year 1876, in pursuance of an act of Congress approved March 3, 

 1875, the following sums are hereby appropriated, namely: * 

 for the Smithsonian Institution, $21,000: * * * Provided, That 

 for contingent expenses any surplus arising from appropriations made 

 to either of said Departments by act of March 3, 1875, is hereby 

 authorized to be used for the purposes herein mentioned. 



(Stat, XIX, 45.) 



July 20, 1876. 



Be it resolved, etc. , That the act approved June 18, 1874, entitled 

 "An act to admit free of duty articles intended for the International 

 Exhibition of 1876," be, and the same is hereby, so amended as to per- 

 mit the sale and delivery, during the exhibition, of goods, wares, and 

 merchandise heretofore imported and now in the exhibition buildings, 

 subject to such additional regulations for the security of the revenue 

 and the collection of duties thereon as the Secretary of the Treasury 

 may in his discretion prescribe. 



SEC. 2. That the entire stock of each exhibitor, consisting of goods, 

 wares, and merchandise imported by him and now in said buildings, is 

 hereby declared liable for the payment of duties accruing on any por- 

 tion thereof, in case of the removal of such portion from said build- 

 ings without payment of the lawful duties thereon. 



SEC. 3. That the penalties prescribed by and the provisions con- 

 tained in section 3082 of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed and 

 held to apply in the case of any goods, wares, or merchandise now in 

 said buildings sold, delivered, or removed without payment of duties, 

 in the same manner as if such goods, wares, or merchandise had been 

 imported contrary to law; and the article or articles so sold, delivered, 

 or removed shall be deemed and held to have been so imported with 

 the knowledge of the parties, respectively, concerned in such sale, deliv- 

 ery, or removal. 



(Stat, XIX, 214.) 



