FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS, 1893-1895. 16438 
r Paris Exposition. 
August 23, 1894. 
Deficiency act for 1894, ete. 
For International Exposition at Paris in 1889, $4.66. [To cover 
claim reported in Senate Executive Document 164, Fifty-third Con- 
gress, second session. | 
(Stat., XXVIII, 486.) 
Portland Exposition. 
January 8, 1895. 
Whereas there will be held in the city of Portland and county of 
Multnomah, State of Oregon, from and after December 1, 1894, an 
exposition to be known as the Portland Universal Exposition, in 
which foreign nations and foreign exhibitors have been invited and 
have agreed to participate: Therefore, 
Be tt 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 regula- 
tions as the Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; and all articles 
which have been imported from foreign countries and which have been 
on exhibition at the World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago, or 
which have been on exhibition at the California Midwinter International 
Exposition, or at the Interstate Fair at Tacoma, Washington, upon 
which there is a tariff or customs duty, and which have been hereto- 
fore admitted free of the payment of duty, customs fees, or charges, 
may, under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
be transferred to the city of Portland, in the State of Oregon, for the 
sole purpose of exhibition at said 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 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sold or withdrawn for consumption in the United States shall be sub- 
ject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such articles by the revenue 
laws in force at the date of sale; and all penalties prescribed by law 
shall be enforced and applied against such articles and against the 
persons who may be guilty of any illegal sale or withdrawal thereof. 
Suc. 3. That all of the provisions of public resolution numbered 30, 
entitled ‘* Joint resolution authorizing foreign exhibitors at the World’s 
Columbian Exposition to bring to this country foreign laborers from 
their respective countries for the purpose of preparing for and making 
their exhibits,” approved August 5, 1892, are hereby extended to and 
