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FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1893-1895. 1635 
FREE EXCHANGE OF DOCUMENTS. 
August 14, 1893—Senate. 
Mr. J. H. Gauurncer introduced bill (8. 300,) to provide for the 
free exchange through the mails between the several States of the 
United States of America and between said States and foreign nations 
of public printed reports and documents of the several States of the 
United States. 
Referred to Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads. 
EXPOSITIONS. 
San Francisco Haposition. 
September 1, 1893. 
Whereas there will be held in the city and county of San Francisco, 
State of California, from and after January 1, 1894, an exposition to 
be known as the California Midwinter International Exposition, in 
which foreign nations and foreign exhibitors have been invited and 
have agreed to participate: Therefore, 
Be it enacted, etc., That all articles which 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 such regu- 
lations as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe, and all articles 
which have been imported from foreign countries and which are now 
on exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, upon 
which there is a tariff or customs duty, and which have been hereto- 
fore admitted free of payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, may, 
under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, be 
removed to the city of San Francisco, in the State of California, for 
the sole purpose of exhibition at said California Midwinter Interna- 
tional Exposition. 
Src. 2. That it shall be lawful at any time during such exposition 
to sell for delivery at the close of the exposition any of the goods or 
property imported for and actually on exhibition in the exposition 
buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regulations for the 
security of the revenue and for the colléction of the 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articles when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States 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 the importation; and all pen- 
alties prescribed by law shall be applied and enforced against such 
articles and against the persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale 
or withdrawal thereof. 
Src. 3. That all of the provisions of public resolution numbered 
thirty, entitled ‘‘ Joint resolution authorizing foreign exhibitors at 
