FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1893-1895. 1641 
actually on exhibition, in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, 
subject to such regulation for the security of the revenue and for the 
collection of the import duties as the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
prescribe; and all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consump- 
tion in the United States, shall be subject to the duty, if any, imposed 
upon such article by the revenue laws in force at the date of importa- 
tion, and all penalties 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: And provided further, That medals, with 
appropriate devices, emblems, and inscriptions commemorative of said 
Cotton States and International 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 provisions of 
the fifty-second section of the coinage act of 1873, upon the payment 
of a sum not less than the cost thereof; and all the provisions, whether 
penal or otherwise, of said coinage act against the counterfeiting or 
imitating of coins of the United States shall apply to the medals struck 
and issued under this section. ; 
For taking down the Government main building erected for the - 
Government exhibit at the World’s Columbian Exposition and its trans- 
portation, or so much of the material thereof as may be available, and 
its reerection upon the site selected for the said Cotton States and Inter- 
national Exposition, including the purchase of such new materials as 
may be found necessary, $50,000, or so much thereof as may be neces- 
sary, to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, 
That if it be found impracticable to take down, transport, and re-erect 
said building for the sum herein appropriated, then the Secretary of 
the Treasury shall cause a new building to be erected upon said site 
of the Cotton States and International Exposition for the Government 
exhibit, at'a cost not to exceed $50,000, for which purpose the amount 
herein appropriated is hereby made available: Provided always, That 
the United States shall in no manner, and under no circumstances, be 
liable for any bond, debt, contract, expenditure, expense, or liability 
of any kind whatever of the said Cotton States and International 
Exposition, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, or incident to or 
growing out of said exposition, nor for any amount whatever in excess 
of the $150,000 and of the $50,000 herein authorized; and the heads of 
Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and National 
Museum, and the United States Fish Commission, and the board of 
management herein authorized, their officers, agents, servants, or 
employees shall in no manner and under no circumstances expend, 
or create any liability of any kind for, any sum in excess of the 
appropriations herein made, or create any deficiency. 
(Stat., XX VIII, 420.) 
