1750 CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. 
there shall be a tariff or customs duty, shall-be admitted free of pay- 
ment of duty, customs fees, or charges, under such regulations as the 
Secretary of the Treasury shall prescribe; but it shall be lawful at any 
time during the exhibition to sell, for delivery at the close of the expo- 
sition, any goods or property imported for and actually on exhibition 
in the exposition buildings or on its grounds, subject to such regula- 
tions 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That all such articles, when sold or withdrawn for consumption in the 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 subject to the duty, if any, imposed upon such 
articles by the revenue laws in force at the date of importation, 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. 
Src. 5. That medals with appropriate devices, emblems, and inserip- 
tions commemorative of said Tennessee Centennial 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 1893, upon the 
payment by the Tennessee Centennial Exposition Company 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 imitat- 
ing of coins of the United States shall apply to the medals struck and 
issued under this act. 
Src. 6. 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 Tennessee Cen- 
tennial Exposition Company, its officers, agents, servants, or employees, 
or incident to or growing out of said exposition, nor for any amount 
whatever in excess of the $130,000 herein authorized; and the heads 
of the Executive Departments, the Smithsonian Institution and 
National Museum, and the United States Fish Commission, and the 
board of management herein authorized, their officers, agents, sery- 
ants, 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. 
Sec. 7. That the appropriation herein made shall take effect when 
the Secretary of the Treasury shall be satisfied that the solvent appro- 
priations made by the State of Tennessee, its counties and cities, and 
by individuals or companies to said centennial exposition, together 
with solvent subscriptions to the stock of the Centennial Company 
made by the State, its counties and cities, and by private corporations 
and by individuals, shall amount to at least the sum of one-half mil- 
lion of dollars. | 
(Stat., XXIX, 477.) 
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