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sole purpose of exhibition at the Southern Exposition at Louisville, 

 Kentucky, to be held in the year 1883, shall be admitted without the 

 payment of duty, or of customs fees or charges, under such regula- 

 tions as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe: Provided, That 

 all such articles as shall be sold in the United States, or withdrawn 

 for consumption therein, at any time after such importation, shall be 

 subject to the duties, if any, imposed on like articles by the revenue 

 laws in force at the date of importation: And provided further, That 

 in case any articles imported under the provisions of this act shall be 

 withdrawn for consumption, or shall be sold without payment of duty 

 as required by 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. 



SEC. 2. That medals, with appropriate devices, emblems, and inscrip- 

 tions, commemorative of said Southern Exposition, and of the awards 

 to be made to exhibitors thereat, be prepared at some mint of the 

 United States, for the board of directors thereof, subject to the pro- 

 visions of the fifty -second section of the coinage act of 1873, upon the 

 pa} T ment of a sum not less than the cost thereof; and all the provi- 

 sions, whether penal or otherwise, of said coinage act against the coun- 

 terfeiting or imitating of coins of the United States shall apply to the 

 medals struck and issued under this act. 



SEC. 3. That with the approval of the director of the National 

 Museum, any portion of the collections thereof may be exhibited at 

 said Southern Exposition, permission to remove the same from the 

 National Museum being hereby granted: Provided, That said removal 

 can be made without loss or expense to the Government. And upon 

 the same conditions permission is also granted for the exhibition of 

 articles in charge of other Bureaus and Departments of the Govern- 

 ment. 



SEC. 4. That upon the passage of this act the Secretary of State 

 shall notify the consuls, consular agents, and other representatives of 

 our Government in foreign countries of the time and place of holding 

 said Southern Exposition, together with the fact that all articles 

 intended therefor will be admitted free of duty as provided herein. 



'(Stat, XXH, 481.) 



FIREPROOFING SMITHSONIAN BUILDING. 



March 15, 1882 House. 

 The SPEAKER (Mr. J. WARREN KEIFER) laid before the House a 



letter from Prof. Spencer F. Baird. 



SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 



Washington, D. C., March IS, 1883. 

 Hon. J. W. KEIFER, 



Speaker of the House of Representatives. 



SIR: By instruction of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, I 1 

 the honor to transmit to Congress the following resolution adopted at the last meet- 

 ing of the board, January 11, 1882, and, in doing so, beg that it be referred to the 



